we continue our conversation with mr. jasonthe chairman of the taiwan convention and exhibition association here in taipei. jason, let's talk a little bit on the global perspective in terms of what are the things that meeting organizers are becoming more concerned with, for example, you and i were talking before the taping started for this part of the program that the ioc, international olympic committee, one day were looking at the candidate cities for the 2012 summer olympics. a lot of people thought that the bid would go to paris because paris seems to be better prepared, more finance, but ended up going to london. you told me that you were in paris at the time when the ioc committee visited paris. what happened? >> they had a strike. >> a strike of what? >> buses, public transportation. people took me from the airport to my hotel, he just told me ok, the parisians are so stupid, they want to go to strike. the ioc, special committee, went to paris, so they must've had a very bad impression during that time. >> it given the f

we continue our conversation with mr. jason, the chairman of the taiwan convention and exhibition association here in taipei. jason, let's talk a little bit about some of the attractions that taipei has, and some of the disadvantages, we are not doing enough to attract more meeting organizers to taiwan. taiwan of course is a beautiful city. it is a very cosmopolitan, very convenient, people are very friendly, helpful, but also people are saying that people in taiwan, they don't really speak english, which is recognized as the international language. and if they travel down on the streets of taiwan, cap eight, for that matter -- taipaei, for that matter, they see a lot of road signs, and a lot of places do not have roadsigns translated into english. would you think that these are some of the areas, maybe the government and also the private sector can join and improved to make taiwan more attractive? >> of course. i do believe that many cities have roadsigns in english. sometimes with different translations, which can be confusin

mr. raines' assistant. jason raines. he's married to-- kelly sloane-raines, supermodel. i still have her first swimsuit edition. their beach house was featured in the style section last month. e article said he was from toronto. ashley's cell phone. o canada plays every time jason calls. it's his exclusive ring tone. he call her last night? her call log didn't list him, but her luds did. seven times. last one at 2 a.m. his calls were deleted from her cell around the time of her death. that's half clever, which sounds about right for a trophy husband. some trophy. he marries kelly sloane and cheats on her. man marries a model, he's not looking for a soul mate. you said the girl's stepdad was a cop? yeah. office ray wiznesky. so she's family. one of ours. how'd he react? he kept it together. stoic. he offer up raines? well, if ashley's seeing raines and wiznesky knew, he might've tried to take care of things on his own. go make a condolence call on raines. i'll talk to the water haven p.d. make sure they keep an eye on the stepdad. eames-- this is your idea of taking time

jason scott is now facing one hundred 85 years. >> he was found guilty of two's first-degree murder saying, "i cannot imagine or understand the cold loaded nature of mr. scott's act but jason scott shows no reaction. ouncere's never been an of emotion. today is the first time i've heard him speak. >> three weeks into testimony, a mistrial after an investigator testified he was involved in several other crimes. the retrial was scheduled for next month but the states attorney announced they had brokered a deal. was theitt case strongest we had. >> he would not have to plead guilty but instead agree prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of the first- degree murders of them and then exchange the state would neither pursue charges for murders of loftin anddaughter the families of all five victims refuse to talk on camera and the state's attorney spoke for them. >> it has been completely devastating. they just said they wanted it finished. state's attorney goes on to say that she sees this deal he has agreed to waive all rights to appeal as well as serving 80% of the state sentence and 85% of the federal. abc 7 news., for today's top stories. a wo

and gets jason kitna looking. and then, mr. gomes, get out of there. season-high ten ks in the game for shields. two on, lorenzo cain, off of scott kazmir, off the wall. cain goes to third. and cain will be safe. royals win it, by the score of 7-1. >>> unfortunately, no time to talk about the brandon lloyd zombie movie. she's linda. i'm neil. >>> coming up next, "the pulse." a tribute to his honesty. a homeless man is honored for his good deal. >>> and still on top. bill gates is number one of a >>> and still on top. bill gates is number one of a very prestigious list. there's a. sleep number dual temp, the revolutionary temperature-balancing layer with active air technology that works on any mattress brand, including yours. whether you sleep hot or cool, sleep number dual temp allows each of you to select your ideal temperature. and it's only at one of our 425 sleep number stores nationwide. sleep number. comfort individualized. a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease art

jason aldean. mr. luke bryan. eric church. blake shelton. last but not least, mr. iner of the year are -- jason aldean. luke bryan. blake shelton. george strait. and taylor swift. >> amazing, amazing announcement. guys, not one but two, new artists of the year. and vocal duo. how does it feel? >> pretty dang good. >> excellent company you're in. cheryl, you live in nashville, the heart and soul of country music. how does it feel to share this with your friends? >> i love it. it was really fun to read your names. i'm a big fan. and i think we're all rooting for you. >> we have a couple questions from fans. we're always here for you. first duo to top billboard country charts with your first two singles. what are the plans for the year to come? >> we're going to work harder than ever. hopefully harder than this year. we're going to buy a house. >> and we have to headline through here so the good times starts october 3rd. very excited about that. >> and, cheryl, music? music? music? >> new album out today. >> go get it. >> i love it. what a day to celebrate country musi

mr. [inaudible]. er >> were you here at the time that jason was here as well? >> no, i wasn't but i studied and read all the original ordinances that i can tell you what was in there, it states those were goals but we are to study those items and should there need to be changes, changes are allowed to occur and that's what's occurred over the last several careers, we've studied this and made the changes and that's why you have the program today. >> i had a question about the rfp that was issued, how many respondents was there to that original rfp? >> i would yield to your staff on how many people did that? >> yeah, because if i remember, there was an iterative process around the rfp's that went back and forth to the board that needed to adjust if need be for the ground of a successful power. >> brash ra hale, we had a number of rounds of issuance of rfp's, the first round i believe we found no responsive bidders or we found -- i apologize, the first round we had a responsive bidder, we went into negotiations but found that bidder to not be able to perform tuned

mr. president. and karen says that's strange that democrats who support this, gassed his people yet they hated bush actions. let's stay out. one more here from jason mr. president, we, your military, are tired both physical hi and mentally, please, no more war. arthur is in lakeland, florida, on our republican line. make sure you lower your television, you're feeding back a little bit. go ahead with your comment. >> caller: yes. thank you for allowing me to come on the air with you. and i'd like to say good day to you. >> host: good to have you here. go ahead with your comments. >> caller: and also i would like to say that i'm very supportive of the president and the action that he plans to take. there was one poet said for whom the bell tolls, and ultimately it tolls for me. today syria, tomorrow america with this poison gas and what have you that is, that hit syria by their own. we are a superpower, and we must stand up and step forward. russia, even when they were our allies was not our allies, and they have not been our allies for years and also i would like to say that there are many people who are speaking who are not informed. but the botto

jason. this video is obviously a big hit on youtube. >> snacking on crackers the whole time. you and me? >> [dance music] - good show tonight, mr.ordan. - hey, kenneth, why aren't your teeth glowing in the black light? - you'll have to ask the fella who whittled 'em for me. ♪ - it's her, isn't it? - i don't kiss and tell, jack. - ahh, because you're a gentleman, danny. it's good to finally have another one of us around here. - i'm just happy to be here. a month ago i was doing a robot act on the street, so i know my place. i want to be tgs' steve nash. come down from canada, work hard, make the black guy look good. - did you just make a sports reference? you know how little of that i get here? - look at me in the black light. it's tron. watch out, sark. it's me, flynn. [imitates light cycle] [chuckles] light bike. good job tonight, danny. robot lorenzo lamas was funny. as was robot ryan seacrest and david hasselbot. - hey, it's the writing. - it's really not.

mr. freed from lafco, if you can give us some thoughts, and we're going to go straight to public comment. we have to. >> jason freed, laugh key staff. you're aware lafco is a local agency commission. it's chaired by john avalos, vice-chaired by david campos, supervisor breed and supervisor mar also serve on this commission as well as members of the public from [speaker not understood] and lee pimentel. the board of supervisors gave us [speaker not understood] to help the puc figure out how to get this program up and running many years ago actually before the current members or lafco, that's how long lafco has been working on this particular project. so, i wanted to address a few of the things [speaker not understood] how things have changed. one of things to keep in mind that has changed in this program, when the board approved this program in september of last year, it was 5% bucket 1. we're now talking about 25% bucket 1 in the current mix. that has gone up a lot. as ms. malcolm mentioned during her comments, the rest of it is coming from bucket 2 and bucket 3. you want to talk about confusing people, try e

jason scott took a -- plea, and he doesn't admit guilt but acknowledges prosecutors have enough evidence. the judge said i can't imagine or understand the cruel cold blooded nature of mr. scott's acts. >> there has never been an ounce of emotion. >> in a slaying of another woman and her daughter and the 2008 killing of a woman shot in her own home. >> states attorney says she wanted to spare the victim's families a number of different trial. > >> a popular store is back in business. three brothers is one of the shops that burned down last friday nightment they moved down from the original store front. the man who started the business says this is just the beginning of the recovery. >> i don't know. he says he's going to knock it down and condemn it and build again but not to the extent we had it. it will be a much smaller scale. >> it took about 100 firefighters to put out the flames. month one was hurt. the atf is helping determine the cause of the fire. >>> we don't have the building okay just yet. but mgm hopes to get a contract to build a vegas-style concert in prince georges counties. the whole thing is about four and a half football fields long and sits high abo

mrs. kelly will be there helping. dr. jason, a shoutout to him. from day one. then i got blake. a couple home room teachers that i need, you don't have to do this yet. >> not yet. >> ours don't start until next week. >> mr. shepherd, mr. sturgeon, be fis. >> home room teachers gone givous grades, though. you should be talking about the other teachers. >> i'm going to the man on top, dr. called well. >> you got something right here. >> this is a "squawk" prediction is what it is. >> then you got to two best managers in business, brian rogers and steve burke. they couldn't do any work without -- have i forgotten any? >> mark. >> that goes without saying. >> you have any? you don't know the name? >> no, they don't start school until next week. >> senator robert menendez, equal time. senator robert men endez on what's likely to happen. microsoft buying nokia's handset. this is 7 billion, which is 1/20 of the verizon deal. here's steve ballmer on cnbc earlier this morning. ♪ the world is changing faster than ever, creating new opportunities for those w

mr. paul o'neill. liz: indeed. that seems so long ago. let's break down today's market action. we have the jason watman. he will tell us the number one thing to watch in the market right now. last week he was one of the few talking about how the swiss franc was rallying. it was. that is a classic distress signal when the swiss frank is high against all our currencies. scott bauer from the pits of the cme. scott, to you. we were up, down, close to the flat line and down triple digits but not near the lows of the session. >> not at all. you mention ad few minutes ago watching the vix. what i watch is not only the vix but the volatility of the vix t sound kind offed, but if you look at volatility of the vix that is trading near its six to-nine-month high. even though the vix closed above 17 or so, that has traded up to 20 to 22, the volatility which is predicting more volatility going forward, is trading near its high point. coming out of the gate this morning when we saw the vix trading 17 1/2, goes over here in the s&p option pit and other equity pits i would tell you, they were loaded with inventory and

jason johnson, i want to bring in wendell potter. he's a former health insurance company executive. the reason we want to bring in mr.ry starkly different things on the floor of the house, right? eric cantor says that passing obama care would just destroy the economy. nancy pelosi said exactly the opposite. she said, mr. potter, that getting rid of obama care would add to the deficit. who's right? >> you know, carol, i think that i was a newspaper reporter before i was a health care insurance executive and i have never seen anything quite like this. what i think is really going on is that people are getting sick and tired of the same old political arguments. they are really wanting to know at this point what is actually in the law and how it will affect them and what they're most concerned about is whether they will have affordable care that's there for them when they need that. more and more americans are beginning to realize that actually obama care is delivering on that promise. so i think what we're seeing is just more and more of the same old political posturing that americans are really sick and tired of. >> am