we made two: mobile and pay pal. there was no choice about making sure both of those were successful. in hindsight both have turned out as well or better than i could have guessed. >> charlie: pay pal was disruptive when it came on. some people worried that pay pal is vulnerable to being disrupted by square or something else. do you worry about that? >> sure. i worry about disruption every day. are you kidding me? i mean if you're a tech... >> charlie: you get up every morning... >> if you're a techy you're constantly, i don't care who you are, founder or not founder you're worried about disruption. that's what spurs you to do innovation, that what is what spurs you to consistently make change. the biggest change with pay pal is driven by the mobile device. what's happening in the world of retail and payments is that mobile device has blurred if not obliterated between online and off line between what used to be called e commercial and what's now called retail. >> charlie: eliminate the e from e commerce. >> we call

mobile bank or real estate office? >> there is no clear process to permit those for items like retail, merchandise sold out of a vehicle they are specifically prohibited and it is a legal gray area for anything else service related that is not mobile food. >> i did not mean to interrupt and i saw the things on there and this is interesting. >> so, if you could continue with the presentation, please. >> specifically in san francisco, like i said, limited occurrences so far. items that we have seen first-hand are this creative use here it is a mobile show room and it is adapable to the configurations depending on the needs. this evening, they have configured it to be a mobile art gallery a collection from a local artist and brought it out to the event to try to support that artist getting outside of his traditional area, which i believe was in the richmond? and elsewhere, at that same event, i can see a line up here of a variety of different mobile retailers, most of them are clothing boutiques there is one specialty ani

we made two: mobile and pay pal. there was no choice about making sure both of those were successful. in hindsight both have turned out as well or better than i could have guessed. >> charlie: pay pal was disruptive when it came on. some people worried that pay pal is vulnerable to being disrupted by square or something else. do you worry about that? >> sure. i worry about disruption every day. are you kidding me? i mean if you're a tech... >> charlie: you get up every morning... >> if you're a techy you're constantly, i don't care who you are, founder or not founder, you're worried about disruption. that's what spurs you to do innovation, that what is what spurs you to consistently make change. the biggest change with pay pal is driven by the mobile device. what's happening in the world of retail and payments is that mobile device has blurred if not obliterated between online and off line between what used to be called e commercial and what's now called retail. >> charlie: eliminate the e from e commerce. >> we call

and fly out of mobile? carnival officials say because the air sport much bigger in new orleans they have more charter options and so... the people who are going to be utilizing those flights will overnight in new orleans. however those meeting families in mobile carnival is offering to put them up in hotels we're watching that ambulance pulling away. >> we're watching with you. >> from the port. >> we're watching with you. >> and -- yae. we don't know who is being treated inside. it looks like in -- an elderly female. we don't know what she's being treated for. but she is being carried away by the ambulance presumably heading towards a hospital here in mobile alabama. >> and you mentioned another passenger had a stroke. we know conditions were horrible foremost of the time these people have been stuck aboard but we did hear from a couple passengers saying the crew tried to make sure people had water and some food and they did their best but of course being without necessities for four days and no air condit

-- air transportation from mobile? answer to that is, when we had our logistics expert look at what the air charter requirements were going to be and the number of people we're going to move and the size of the aircraft that we were going to need, it was not feasible for us to do it here in mobile. the new orleans airport was the best facility for us to arrange that. and to make that happen and it was not feasible here in mobile. here in mobile, we will have a lot of ongoing commerce for the city in the sense that we're going to have hotel needs for our crew, we're going to have suppliers and other things that will be needed to be accommodated here in mobile. there will be commerce related to this operation for mobile. it was not logistically feasible for us to do the air charter operation from mobile. >> so has there been any injuries or fatalities on board? there you one report of a fatality on board the ship. is that true? >> there has not been any fatalities aboard the ship. >> injury? >> illnesses aboard the ship?

who decided on mobile, alabama? i understand they've never handled a ship this big before. >> the port of mobile has handled ships this large. this may have been the largest cruise ship that's come in. i think as recently as 2011 the fall of 2011, mobile was a cruise ship destination port. so they've handled that. it's probably -- it's definitely a carnival decision as far as what the easiest is as far as logistics to move people back through. what's the nearest safe haven. in this case mobile probably met those needs. >> commander, what kind of communication took place between the coast guard cutters and the disabled ship? i mean what kind of conversations were going back about the passengers? are we doing the right thing? should we get them off the ship? take us down that road. >> one individual was taken off on monday for a dialysis issue. one individual was medically evacuated from the cruise ship. as the cruise ship was inbound today, we were notified from them of an individual. she apparently was suffering fro

all right, our martin savage has been here in mobile for days.nd as of now, just a couple of hours of the ship coming in. >> we hope, yes. >> but there was a medical emergency. tell me what you know about that. >> this was an emergency -- first of all, it should be pointed out, it's amazing, really, given all of what has taken place, they've only had two emergencies, medically. this particular circumstances, it was a woman who was airlifted off, medevaced, flown to dauphin island. this is a result that she had indications of possibly a stroke. so erring on the side of caution, you want to make sure you get that person seen. that person is now in a hospital. there was a previous person taken off shortly after this all began. this was a person that needed dialysis and knew that couldn't be provided the in any way on board ship. so that person taken off ship. so two we know of so far. >> but we don't know if there are other people who are sick or anything like that. >> and that's a huge concern. i'm sure sanjay can talk more about that, but that is

the triumph docked in mobile. she gives us her exclusive story tonight. >> sabrina said she is really tired and ready to get off that vote. this was supposed to be a fine college reunion. she was meeting friends from all over the world on the ship, but it has turned out to be anything but fun. tonight, sabrina tells us things on the carnival triumph have gone from bad to worse. she could not be more ready to get on dry land. >> i will not be on a body of water any time soon. >> she said a few bathrooms work, sometimes. sabrina's says many people are just resorting to doing their business in biohazard bags. she says the cruise line has done a poor job rationing food and medicine. she said the worst thing are the employees. a few are nice, but many have turned testy. >> at the same time, they are customer service. they are supposed to help us. >> she said the fire affected the floor her captain was on more than others, so she has been sleeping where she can. >> i spent the first three night in lawn chairs. >> despit

they will be housed here in mobile.hey are there or also get on buses and begin to head to the final destinations. then the aircraft have been chartered and they will go to new orleans. they want to be reunite and get their loved one in their arms. a lot of them seem to be saying we don't want to put them through that. we top the get them into a shower and get a hot meal. it is valentine's day and the romance is blooming as well. >> happy valentine's day who are on or off board on the ship. i wanted to point out one tweet. we have been watching the carnival cruise line twitter. the update on the triumph tug line broke. when we come back, as promised, we will talk to the loved ones stuck on land waiting for the other half. we have reunions for you live and other stories percolating on this thursday. target is in sight. yes, dad, i see him. now pour some chloroform into a white rag and.... no. hi. i understand you're looking for a hotel with a pool. with priceline express deals, you can save big and get exactly what you n

there are two new and popular elements of the mobile recreation program. on saturdays the rock climbing wall, skateboard ramps and bmx bikes go to neighborhoods across to san francisco for free drop and use from 10:30 generally to 2:00 in the afternoon. on wednesdays, this equipment is used by staff to provide an enriching outdoor activity for youth in rec and park department after-school programs. to-date that has generally included kayaking trips on the san francisco bay and the pictures you see are youth from our potrero hill program at the indian basin. so the equipment that's been very busy this school year. the mobile rec equipment through the school year will make about 50 visit as round san francisco and staff estimated nearly 1200 youth have climb up the rock wall so far this year. the second part of the grant will go to fund trail improvements in golden gate park. this is in the northeast corner of golden gate park, runs along fulton street from 6th avenue to down to stanyan street. this portion of the grant includes an in-kind donation of approx

it is not as pervasive as mobile food has become. but there is growing interest. we think that it is good that there is interest but it is not widespread because it gives you a chance to get ahead as a city and develop regulation and prepare a proper response whatever that might be as we work through the process. these groups are not just a rag tag bunch they are organizing, the west coast mobile retail association is the main group that we are aware of. they have members from seattle down to san diego and everywhere in between. so, you may be wondering at

port in mobile.of problems. that little tugboat you see at the front is moving. is moving this ship all the way. so it's obviously a very, very significant situation. ed buck is one of the passengers aboard this ship, the carnival "triumph." he's joining us us on the phone right now. ed, thanks very much for calling in. what's it like right now? what can you tell us? >> i just had a crab sandwich with lobster for lunch because they are finishing off all the food. life is good. people are very excited right now. we're getting back. you know, i think the media's made a lot of -- made it sound real bad. it's not quite as bad as everybody says. it was kind of like everybody gets together. the carnival did us right. they fed us pretty well the whole time. lines were long. the big problem that we had was the bathrooms but we had water most of the trip and they've been doing everything they can possibly to take care of us. they've offered us all our money back, vouchers for another cruise, and $500 cash. >>

they figured out global and mobile.obal obviously but mobile is the question. >> that's not really the question. as bill just pointed out, facebook has a billion users. they didn't really focus on making money off those users until after they came public. they just started mobile a few quarters ago, just got into gifting and got them into e-commerce. we know how big that can be with amazon and started social search and we know how big that is thanks to google. you won't get off facebook. if your friends are on facebook, you're staying there. and it has an ad revenue stream like google and amazon in the early days. >> you heard them make their cases as well. if you had to pick between one stock, which one would it be? >> i'd pick facebook and because i actually own facebook for all the reasons the guys highlighted. i do see potential for facebook. you want to look at crazy things, obviously they both look extreme. i think in front of them now facebook has a much better opportunity to potentially double, to merv's point.

the ceo of the company is here in mobile.re's going to be a press conference happening 15, 20 feet from where i'm standing right now. we're going to let you listen to that live. it's a pretty desperate situation on board their ship the triumph, which is approaching the dock where i'm standing right now in alabama. a lot of passengers have got to be holding their breath about what's going to happen and where they're going to go from here. i'm erin burnett in tonight for piers morgan. joining me now tonight is the mayor of mobile. this is the biggest cruise ship to come into the port. is mobile ready for this? >> oh, yes. the cruise ship came here until october of 2011. since that time, we keep the terminals staffed so that the terminal. we got word of this monday, so -- >> you had time to prepared? >> by wednesday we were ready. and one of the things that happens during crisis like this, sometimes there are a lot of communication breakdowns, we bridged all that, and we're prepared. >> you're prepared. one thing i don't really

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plenty more to come from world mobile congress. kelly is there for the next couple of days. >>> now, as far as futures are concerned, we are indicated a little higher. right now, the s&p, which snapped that seven-week winning start to the year last week, right now it's caught up, what, just under seven points higher. the nasdaq is around about 16 points higher and the dow currently is called up from 48 points. european stocks by .large have been firmer. building on some of the gains we saw on friday. the bounceback from losses on thursday help the stronger ifo numbers. the ftse 100 up 0.6%. it's still up despite the moody's downgrade. the cac 40 is up 1.3% and the ibex is up 1.5%, as well. >>> here is a recap of some of the ideas expressed by our guests on cnbc today. >> you've got to be looking at the euro, i would say probably eu euro/yen. eye stallan bond yields are probably not priced in. the election risk is higher than we would expect euro/yen to come down to. >> it's difficult to find yields, the corporate bond so, you know,

the boat is expected to reach mobile, alabama on thursday. but not soon enough for those people. >> no kidding. >>> petaluma bar pilot whose container ship struck the bay bridge in 2007 is suing to get his license back. a federal investigation said john cota failed to disclose he was on prescription medications which may have been a factor in the crash. the accident spilled 53,000 gallons of oil, killing almost 7,000 birds. >>> a maritime safety group may adopt new rules on thursday limiting ships in sailing under the -- from sailing under the bay bridge in fog. this follows an accident last month when a tanker called the overseas reymar struck the base of the tower. a group with the harbor safety committee recommends barring ships from sailing north under the beige bridge when visibility is a half mile or less -- the bay bridge when visibility is a half mile or less. >>> the countdown to the opening of the new bay bridge span is on. kpix 5 is the official television station for the opening ceremonies in september. 202 days and counting until

the most important one is mobile.huge concern in the market that mobile internet usage was going to undermine google's economics and seeing cpc trends and traffic acquisition cost trends both work positively for google. if that happens, that overhang removes the shares can go higher. >> how about the thought mentioned in the note, the other one i mentioned this morning, the google cut. do you think that was a sizable part of the story as people were fleeing apple, going into google? >> i think. >> that could -- i think those kind of flows have happened across a good number of high growth tech stocks. google, amazon, ebay, series of -- facebook too, they have all benefitted from the apple flows. the google story stands on its own. not only is it still the dominant search player. yahoo! so far behind google at this point. there are also new growth areas for google. this youtube asset, as tv ad budget assets migrate online, there is an enterprise play at google which we think the market severely underappreciates if they

that's it for me here from mobile world today in barcelona, ross.l still be plenty more to come. stay tuned especially for q-tell later in closing bell. >> and is we're all going to become transient roamers. are you going to do a bit of that while you're there? >> transient roam sg exactly what i'm doing here. in that case, i'm going to be transient roaming for some lunch in just a bit. >> kel, great. are you back with me tomorrow or is it thursday? friday. >> it might be thursday, but there might be a few other little morsels from mobile world that we speed out over air tomorrow. stay tuned. >> thanks, kelly. good stuff. thank you for that. we have a comment out from bank of england policymaker david miles who says risks of things going badly wrong in the eurozone are crystallizing. and with that, i'll remind you on of what's in the headlines today. stocks fall as italian banks plunge and peripherals surge in trade the as political gridlock in italy looms. also today, ben bernanke might be shedding some light on the fed's qe program. he goes to the

we're told that this is going to be the largest cruise ship to come into mobile, alabama. officials believe that this facility can handle the ship, but it's going to-- it's going to be dealing with much larger numbers of people than it's used to. as far as navigating that channel, yes, it's been a very cumbersome process. we're told that the tow line broke on one tugboat. they repaired it, there was a replacement tugboat and then the line on that boat broke and they repaired that and the ship resumed its slow crawl towards mobile bay, but it delayed it by about an hour. so, really, a difficult and cumbersome process with many bumps along the way, greta. >> all right, no power on this ship and these people want to-- i mean, they're exhausted and they've been living in hell for five days. their families waiting four or five hours to get off that ship for many of them. tell me, obviously, any idea how many floors there are of cabins? a lots of people have to do a lot of walking in one direction. >> yeah, and in fact. my producer just handed me a note the ship is about one mil

again, a live look at the port in mobile, alabama. the majority of those passengers we're told at this hour are still on the ship. we're told that now the task of getting them to de bark will begin. that's expected to take several hours. as you would imagine, the folks who have first priority are going to be the elderly and the sir, those who need to get off. we are hearing that right now the beginning of the de- embarkation process. and lesli, i was aboard this ship in 2004 so i will tell you just as a personal anecdote, it is a massive ship. as you can imagine, people are still very anxious but there has to be some kind of order for these folks to get off this ship. we're going keep a very close eye on this and on all of the developments out of mobile. i want to know what you think. follow this story on twitter. kenw usa 9 is my handle. >> the difference back when you rode, you probably didn't want to get off. these folks can't wait to get off and they've got hours to go. kenny, we'll check with you in just a bit. >>> in other news,

retail is very excited about mobile all along the way.data are very, very compelling for retailers. what we think really occurred is some categories of advertisers got a little bit ahead of themselves and late in the quarter, either decided to reallocate it back to where they would have traditionally spent it, spent a little bit less with us than they were indicating earlier in the quarter and so, yeah, for us, you know, i think we're in a competitive business with large players, but it's been that way for a good long time. >> i know in the mobile world, a google could come in and say, listen, we'll take care -- i know this millennial, they know mobile. but we know desktop. we know everything, and we'll do a sweep, whereas they can do one thing. what is the comeback? what is the objection to that that you give customers? >> first, you have to look at the customer set, and so google has done a phenomenal job over many years of connecting local businesses and direct marketers and doing business with hundreds of thousands of advertisers. mil

chamber of commerce amsterdam is known as an element of innovative approach to connectivity and mobility. he is strong and establishing unique partnership to create groundbreaking solutions. he started a task force formability management for employers and employees to reduce car trafficked by 10%. -- he started a task force for mobility management for employers and employees to reduce traffic by 10%. >> i will give you the perspective of the business community in amsterdam. athis is the region of amsterda. this is the inner city of amsterdam, and the rest of the city are the suburbs. the whole city, there are 2.2 million people, but the real city of amsterdam, there are less than 800,000, which i think is about the same as san francisco. i will also pass around a few sheets. the important thing is that amsterdam is one of the five major economic central's -- economic centers in europe, and we want to stay that way, and we are an attractive city for international business, like the american and asian companies that like to have business in amsterdam. it is a real nice place to stay. exper

everything provisioned to the mobile.so when you think about this sentiment analysis coming from social, social media analysis. budweiser now is going to get feedback. who's buying what? how is my commercial doing? >> it's instant, right? >> it's instantaneous. now they know what demographic they're winning with, what messages are working, what messages aren't working, so they can precision retail their offering to their constituents. change the game. >> absolutely. absolutely. this is it. bill, we had facebook's earnings last night. it was an interesting theme, and the stock was flat. but what they're basically saying is, listen, we've got to spend like heck, so forget the earnings. you guys spend like heck because you have to, but you care about the earnings. you strike the balance. >> yeah. well, absolutely. we have to grow profitably, jim. >> right. >> if you look at our revenues, we report in euros, but i'll give you round numbers in dollars. we're over a $20 billion u.s. software company. we're delivering much more

and mobile is a great example.the fact that ebay's been such a successful mobile app has helped generate paypal's moment payments volume and now mobile payments is growing by paypal off of ebay as well as on. we'll do $20 billion of both and you wouldn't have been as successful on either one if they weren't together. that's what consumers like and what merchants like. >> from a mobile payment standpoint, how do you view some of the startup cheaps that are out there? for example, a square, and i'll give you a quick anecdote. i get out of a cab last night at this hotel, i give the guy the credit card and he does it all by square, i say, can i have the receipt, he said, no, i'll e-mail it to you. you would rather me use paypal, or some sense, to do that, so, does that key you up at night? >> well, innovation always keeps me up at night. but look. payments is an enormous field. and there hasn't been a lot of innovation in the past 10 to 20 years and mobile technologies is going to enable a lot of innovation and payment