union pacific should benefit as the economy recovers.they're still allowed to put up plants. the epa makes it difficult to put up new coal plants. timber should give them a nice boost as we are on track to build at least a million homes this year. you know from listening to lennar's conference call, and what toll had to say, a million could be too low. now, union pacific, they have the big port connections. coal shipments account for 26% of the company's revenues. nsc is in the east and most of norfolk southern's business is doing very well. in the last two quarters a 14% drop in coal shipments has caused them to decline by about 1%. in other words the horrible weakness in coal has been offsetting strength everywhere else, especially in intermodal freight which accounts for 50% of the norfolk southern business. you can stick the intermodals on the train and unload them in the back of the truck. lately we started to see some evidence that they're starting to stem the bleeding. norfolk southern's coal traffic is down just 2.5% now. that's

i think it's union pacific and heckmann and that's what you should do.'s go to brandon in texas. brandon? >> boo-yah, jim! >> boo-yah, brandon. >> thanks for being informative and entertaining. >> when you're up this many days you hope people start catching on and maybe it's a good thing, go ahead. >> i have a question about the potential decision about the agriculture department buying the sugar up and artificially raise the price. how will it affect companies like hersheys and nestle? >> hershey, the wrapper costs more than the chocolate. nestle's shipping costs more. the sugar issue is not an issue. ethanol, by the way, i sat down with my friend dan dicker and did a video this morning for the street. ethanol is what we keep buying. the government is insisting that we use it. the bulls are seeing quite a run, but remember, the bull gets tired. i should know, i used to have one and when they lie down to rest, maybe they go down a little, jump on them and strap yourself in. "mad money" will be right back. >>> coming up, flight path, the airlines have bee

union pacific. you have flow serve. and then dover corp. talk to us about why you like these names which are all up double digit percentage points. >> they all share the same thing. you know? they're focused on old-fashioned industrial america whether it's valves, whether it's large pipes, whether it's oil field services where ge is making acquisitions. it's moving old-fashioned industrial goods and food stuffs and certain commodities like union pacific. it's in dover's case another diversified industrial company focusing on electronics and old field service so these businesses, you know, if you look at it from a big gdp context, appear very small. but that doesn't mean that they can't be wonderful stocks and a market that may or may not be all that exciting. but there's going to be this opportunity to invest in segments of the economy that are after a long period of time, we talk about a decade, after a long period of time, are finally getting some traction. >> ron, appreciate it very much. thanks so much. ron sloan for you there. >>> guys

the trailer ended up on the tracks and the train, a union pacific train was coming around the corner, didn't have enough time to stop, ran right into the trailer. [ horn beeps ] and we have another angle of this crash also caught by a cell phone camera. it's much further away, but you can see the moment of impact. you can hear just a crashing of the metal. >> yeah. >> crazy that this stuff happens as much as it does. maybe you don't have enough time, if it's right around the corner, but -- we see this a lot. >> i agree. >> and we believe that that's the case in this instance, that there just wasn't enough time. the people who caught them on their cell phone cameras happened to be sitting at the red light that turned red because the train was coming. 's they couldn't make it under the clearance and, therefore, couldn't get out of the way of the train. >> now they have a multimillion dollar mess. officials are still investigating. no injuries were reported as a result of this crash. >>> we're all animal lovers here. these next two videos are going to be really tough for us to watch. two

a competing idea extends it from the richmond bart station to the union pacific railroad corridor on the bay shore. amy hollyfield will have more in a live report next half hour. >> santa clara city leaders will sign off on a plan to offer millions in concessions to the nfl in exchange for posting the 201 super bowl. the city council is willing to wave the 9.5 percent hotel tax for the to teams and the employees that will play and will wave a 10 percent surcharge on game tickets that would have raised $6 million and a $4.54 city fee on packing spaces near the stadium. if santa clara wins the bind the super bowl will be played in the 49ers' new stadium now under construction that will generate hundreds of millions in activity activity but a last it is in san francisco the official host city. the nfl will choose the 2016 super bowl host city on may 22. >> a new poll finds support for same-sex marriage is at a new high. the washington post/abc news poll finds 58 percent of americans now say gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry a significant increase from 44 percent just three ye

union. >> pacific steel is a good example of terms of if you don't have immigration reform, and you do employment verge fiction what. are you achieving. >> the saying what happened is a lot of undocumented people became unemployed. very few left the country. >> advocates say it has to come with a road map to legal slaigs. -- legalization. >> in 2007 a study was done that found that 4.1% of eligible workers were misidentified. 4% doesn't sound like a big number unless you're thinking about making it mandatory, then that is 6 million people. >> u.s. senate has a republican supporter of same-sex marriage. ohio senator rob portman is a high-ranking republican. he voted in favor of the defense of marriage act in 1996 but today, portman said views began to change when his son told him he is gay. >> get married to have the joy and stability of marriage i've had over 26 years i want our kids to have it, including our son who is gay. >> portman says he no longer backs the federal ban but favors states rights to decide the issue. >> mitt romney told conservative activists he promises to work shoulder to sh

railroad and the union pacific railroad. stanford is made president of the central pacific railroad, and they begin to build this snakelike train track up the sierra mountains over into utah, or i should say, rather, 25,000 chinese immigrants begin to build this snakelike train track. their story is an extraordinary one that my book doesn't have time to tell. stanford, meanwhile, has gone into politics. he's a republican. this is the anti-slavery party, and concomitant with the breakout of the civil war, the republicans in california who had previously been in the minority suddenly experience this kind of patriotic surge of support. stanford is elected to the governor's mansion. he becomes the governor and the president of the new railroad enterprise at the same time. talk about self-dealing. within a few years, there's a vast river of money flowing to these four men, the so-called associates. they're regarded as heroes in california because they have completed this impossible project of linking the west to the east. as we al

leader going, you can go in and pretty much buy everything from toll brothers to travelers to union pacific and johnson mills. seeing berkshire hathaway on the new high list is like embracing motherhood, apple tie and dilly ba bars. warren buffett does own dairy queen. and i follow him everywhere. next leader boeing. yes, boeing. can you believe it? can we count just for a moment. humor me. can we count the ways this shouldn't be anywhere near the new high list? you got the exploding batteries on the dreamliner, the labor strike that's unbelievable, a strong dollar giving airbus a big leg up, you got the sequester. and boeing's a huge defense department sup le can't. this shouldn't be on the new high list, they should be on the new low list. there it is like a stone wall. up $2 today. which division will follow boeing? how about travel and leash krer? if airlines need planes, there must be plenty of people using them, like travelers. and how about defense stocks? something tells me things can't be all that bad in defense land. then there's honeywell. i follow general dave cody into battle a

where is burlington northern, where is csx, where is union pacific in terms of the seriousness with which they're addressing locomotive engines for natural gas? >> i think it's very serious. it's been no secret, we're also working with cn rail, another one of the big players, and with the announcement with caterpillar and their emd division last june, it's no secret that everybody is really excited about the opportunity, and frankly, i don't think it's going to be years away. you can see everybody's moving now. they have to move. whether we get the entire rail industry converted over the next decade is another question. but people are moving now. it's really exciting. >> couldn't you just tell me what it looks like? here's what i'm thinking, you tell me. there's a train and behind it are some tanks, and because they carry the stuff, they could have tank after tank. do today really need to stop and get filled up all the time? >> no, it's one of the beauties of what's going on. i'm sure you've seen that we're moving a lot of oil by rail these days. well, we're starting to move natural gas b

union. >> pacific steel is a really good example in terms of if you don't have immigration reform and youo employment verification, what are you achieving? >>reporter: former director of immigration policy at uc berkeley earl warren institute what happened is up documented people became unemployed and undocumented and very few if any left the country. >> what advocate say if you are going to have im employment verification has to come with a road map to legalization. you can't just have one without the other. >>reporter: in 2007 there was a study done of e verify. found that 4.1% of eligible workers were miss identified. 4 percent doesn't sound lick big number unless expanding the program nationwide and making it mandatory. then 4 percent of the total work force is 6 million people. if san leandr leandro, abc 7 news. >> the fate of city college of san francisco now in the hand of the accrediting commission. school had until today to turn in its report proving it could balance its book or face closure. inspectors will visit the school in april to verify the school claims. decision on the s

union pacific officials say every train engine missing a horn has to be taken out of service and fixedey say hartman's actions cost the railroad half a million dollars. >> who is buying those? berman, for your office? >> i need souvenirs like that. >>> look at this video. adventure seekers getting too close for comfort with great white sharks off the coast of south africa. take a look. this is like a scene out of "jaws." >> whoa! [ beep ] >> the tourist thought they were safe inside that cage as the great white sharks checked out the bait. but one shark skipped that, tries to go right for the divers. his entire head went inside the cage, narrowly mised two divers. as horrific as this looks, nobody got hurt. i think their hearts stopped for a moment. the man that shot that incredible video is going to join us in our 8:00 a.m. hour live on "starting point." >> you heard the bleeps version. the unbleeped version has the most creative language i have ever heard in my life. when a shark is attacking you, the things you'll say. coming up, a tiny country with a huge impact worldwide. why wall

union pacific west line, carrying hand held nuclear detection devices which picked up a reading for nuclear activity, here at the oglivie station they detained this train and searched for the bag in threat. the bag turns out to be clean but there's still a signal of something nuclear somewhere on the train. >> they were in charge and they weren't going to let that train go out until they knew it was safe. >> reporter: jerry jones, a chicago lawyer, was heading home on that train, he's the passenger in the blue shirt. they narrowed it down to the people right around you on the train. >> yes they did. >> reporter: the entire time you're sitting there thinking i wonder what they're looking for. >> i had no idea if i was the center of the activity. >> reporter: jones says the security must have picked up on him, a nuclear stress test he took earlier in the day sent off silent alarms and sent security scurrying. >> probably 15 minutes. >> reporter: 15 minutes they're buzzing around looking for this bag or person. >> yes. >> reporter: the tsa team passed by him several times before ending uhm on

a union pacific freight train hauling auto parks, crashed into the train on the track next to t no word california, here is something you don't see every day. a cadillac on the roof of a home in suburban los angeles. turns out the elderly driver lost control while making a turn and drove through the front yard and on the roof of a home next door. and neighbors came running. drivers and passenger not hurt and the home owner shocked it find a home on his garage, but otherwise fine. arizona an experience some high school students will likely never forget, learning what it's like to be disabled. one student charging $15 for able bodied people to compete in a series of events all in wheelchairs. one veteran thrilled to see young kids clearing up misconceptions about disabilities. i don't mind talking to kids because it seems like that's the best way to hit the next generation with it's okay being, you know, disabled. >> harris: all the money raised will help the veteran in the national wheelchair games in florida. that's a fox watch across america. for the first time since superstorm sandy h

they're not as independent on union pacific moving their goods today as those companies were back in the 1970s, let's say. >> jeff, what do you think? you're worried about what's happened to the transports this week. >> well, i think that what i like about the transports index is just kind of the opposite of what robert said. it actually is a fundamental and a technical indicator and it tells the us, as we saw with the results from caterpillar and from fedex, of economic weakness. now, we can use to disregard that if we like to, but i would still like to believe that fundamentals do matter. and we did see that transport index come off somewhat. my takeaway from it is it's showing you that this rally is a little bit overheated. it's not supported by some of the fundamentals out there and we really need to kind of rethink whether we could be finally getting to that point where this market catches its breath. >> well, i mean, where are you going to put the money? are you saying that you want to get out of the way because the transports have broken down and raise cash or put it in a diff

union pacific has a new high. fedex has a new 52 week high. back to you.ori: i have not seen you have this much fun on the job, no cool, well, said yesterday. [ laughter ] melissa: charles payne is here now. charles: we are also excited. you know, listen, i have been talking about this all day long. there is a lot of cynicism out there about the rally. every time i look at these income statements, you know, i do see companies that are growing and doing extremely well. the dow is not a direct correlation of our economy. the greatest threat to this rally is the u.s. economy. melissa: the fed is what is fueling this. charles: at some point, the fed's policies have to trigger that cycle. the cycle where, you know, i feel better. i spend my money, they hire people. that cycle that that bernanke has been trying to dribble for so long. he has been so frustrated with this. i think his focus really has been on housing and perhaps maybe that will be where people start to feel richer. the rally becomes self-fulfilling. lori: you raise a good point of getting in and c

freeways and a competing idea extends bart north from the current richmond bart station along the union pacificay. here is sue. >> all three bad commutes, fortunately, are going to get better but, still, not great. we have a sig-alert lifted and san marco is clearing, and still jammed westbound 80. 34 minutes from 580 and 148 minutes from antioch to condor and 40 minutes highway four to the macarthur maze. >> thank you, >> check out temperatures a spread from 39 in petaluma to 52 in richmond, very mild this morning. san jose, can you see it is 87. most of us are pretty close if not above average with temperatures hanging out from the low 60's to the ♪ >>> oh, yeah, super bowl champ jacoby jones of the ravens, the last dance of the night, definitely one of the most promising. >> oh, yeah. >> bruno really liked it. len thought he was -- should have been -- he only had one week coming off a knee injury. >> it's the first dance, too, yeah. >> the nerves are all gone now. who's going to win it all? kelly monaco will be along later to tell us all about the premiere night. good morning, america on thi

. >> these are oligopolies that don't really compete and as long as you have coal going up and union pacific say classic and they ship western coal to china and they can't see their feet -- some great pictures. so i just feel like the rails are -- i like that ryder came up anda i lot of guys are downgrading the stock and that's a mistake and i continue to be a ziegantic believer. don't forget spirit single save -- keep the s on for savings. >> let's hear tiffany rising in the pre-market. the luxury retailer, led by double digit percent sales growth in the asia pacific region. tiffany expects full year revenue rising 8% to 6%, but addses it expects operating earnings to fall 15% to 20%. tiffany is one of the stocks in cramer's great gatsby. the high end consumer was a recent edition as of the middle of march, march 13th, i think it was. >> i've seen the stock and it's been a buyer underneath the whole way. people at home are saying they missed three quarters in a row. how the heck can you like the stock. >> you can miss, you can miss and you can miss and then you get it right and it blows thr

we like union pacific quite a bit.ould be near a near term bottom. other segments in transports, ecommerce is a big factor, so we like fedex on that basis. but broadly, i think the transportation stocks from a fundamental perspective are going to have a lot of difficulty if we can't get out of the 2% growth environment. >> brandon, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >>> still ahead, keeping an eye on macy's versus jcpenney. ron johnson about to wrap up after being on the stand this morning on the battle over the rights to martha stewart. we'll take you live to the courthouse with the very latest next. [ lorenzo ] i'm lorenzo. i work for 47 different companies. well, technically i work for one. that company, the united states postal service® works for thousands of home businesses. because at usps.com® you can pay, print and have your packages picked up for free. i can even drop off free boxes. i wear a lot of hats. well, technically i wear one. the u.s. postal service®, no business too small. riding the dog like it's

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pacific partnership. and tonight, i'm announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive transatlantic trade and investment partnership with the european union because trade that is fair and free across the atlantic supports millions of good-paying american jobs. ( applause ) >> the approach the united states is taking is to try and create little clubs that you can only join if you adopt our rules. >> reporter: but since the playing field for his product is at such a steep angle, says steve boehne, why not level it by playing tit-for-tat? >> match tariff for tariff. >> reporter: well, says robert lawrence, the result could go either way. >> one possibility is that we raise our tariffs and that persuades them that they ought to lower theirs, but a second possibility that i think we need to be concerned about is we get into a trade war in which we raise our tariffs on products and then foreigners start to retaliate and what we end up is cutting off all trade. >> reporter: meanwhile, at his own shop, boehne himself sells cheap chinese duty free boards, with an infinity label no less, along with his more expensive handcrafted product. >> that's

union city. >> upper 60s for san francisco. 74 and apple. 684 alameda. 70 in san mateo. >> satellite and radar shows a steady rain and portions of the pacificwest. >> it will stay there for now. we are talking dry conditions, clear conditions in to the afternoon. your 7 day around the bay forecast highlights the changes. >> we will notice a cool down may be some sprinkles and the north bay saturday night into sunday. >> we will continue with the cooling trend as we start the next work weeks. as of now we could see showers for the bay area tuesday through thursday. looking like a chance for a quarter of an inch or a half an inch of rain. we will take what we could get. >> in the meantime looking at traffic very quiet. a great time to leave for school.s called off at the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. they are painting the toll plaza. >> it is not affecting your ride out a, traffic is light. hoping for friday light. also at the san mateo bridge the drive time is 12-13 minutes. >> south bound 101 drive with caution we have areas of dense fog. you can see that here at the toll plaza itself. >> limited visibility keep an eye on the cars

pacific labor alliance. i grew up in south sacramento in an immigrant, catholic and union household.d if you treat others the way you want to be treated. unfortunately, i learned especially coming out as gay more than five years ago that that budget always true. wasn't always true. as a native californian, when the state passed proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage, that was particularly painful and hurtful. i worked hard, i played by the rules, i treated others the way i'd want to be treated, and i could not believe the state would tell me who i could marry or could not marry. with support from president obama, former secretary of state hillary clinton and 75% of voters across the country, marriage equality is gaining momentum! [cheers and applause] and by -- and we can't stop, we can't afford to stop. we simply want to marry for the same reasons other couples do; to show our love and commitment to the one we want to grow old with. we deserve access to the over 1400 rights that come from being legally married in the eyes of the government, and we won't stop until we are treated eq

pacific subcommittee to the thank you mr. chairman. mr. chairman, north korea remains as winston churchill once said of the soviet union a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma. we have only the slightest idea what the leaders are like or what they are thinking. this includes the new 28-year-old leader. that is why the opportunity presented to the starting to dennis rodman's recent visit should not be completely dismissed as trivial. by my calculation, dennis rodman has now spent more face time with north korea's new leader than any other american. as i recall we were dismissive of the invitation that the ping pong or tennis table to china while playing in a tournament in japan in april, 1971. china was the legacy of the korean war and an ongoing great cultural revolution was much of christ then as north korea is detected today. however, it should be noted that this so-called diplomacy changed history with the american president named richard nixon are writing less than a year later. it is my understanding the president loves basketball. sometimes on diplomacy. as i noted in the recent article, the corrine and newspaper it now seems

say, land going all the way to the pacific whereas states like delaware and rhode island were trapped. jefferson said we virginians need to give up this land to the union and sell it off because there are going to be said there is going out there and at some point the settlers, if we don't make it possible for them to become citizens toward us and a part of the government that are our = they will become rebels as we were to england and they will rebel against us. i say that to get to this. in that argument jefferson said that these new lands needed to be loyal, they needed to sign a loyalty oath or take a lower -- loyalty oath to the constitution. and to the congress. i would not go that far but it is interesting that jefferson said these lands all have to be obedient to the constitution. >> host: if you enjoy history are reminded that c-span's new first lady ceres is every monday night at 9:00 p.m. on c-span. you can go to c-span.org/firstladies and look up the whole series and see the whole schedule every monday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. larry schweikart, events, a johnstown, pa. flood. why do you say that made america america? >> guest: these

pacific subcommittee. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, north korea remains, as one son churchill once said of the soviet union, a riddle wrap inside a mystery inside an enigma. we have only the slightest glimpse of what its leaders are like or what they are thinking. this includes the new 28-year-old leader, president kim jong un. that is why the opportunity presented itself when a basketball star named dennis rodman's recent visit should not be completely dismissed as trivial. by my calculation dennis rodman has now spent more face time with north korea's new leader than any other american. as i recall, mr. chairman, we were dismissive of the invitation that the americans' ping upon or tennis table -- ping-pong team's visit to china. china, with the legacy of the korean war and ongoing great cultural revolution, was much a pariah state then as north korea is depicted today. however, it should be noted that this so-called pipping pong diplomacy -- ping-pong diplomacy changed world history with the american president, richard nixon, arriving less than a year later. it is my understanding kim jong un loaves basketball. sometimes spo