california's richest person, oracle founder larry ellison with $46.4 billion. texas, michaelllion. florida, mickey arison, the former ceo of carnival with $5.9 billion. new york's richest person, is the mayor, michael bloomberg with $21.4 billion. new jersey's hedge fund manager david tepper with $7.9 billion. to check out the entire list and your state, you can do it going to cnbc.com. ty? >> all right, sue. there are more than 7 billion n the planet but 72 actually rule the world according to "forbes" which published its ranking of the world's most powerful politicians, financiers, ceos and billionaires. here is michael nor. who's number one and why? >> number one is a bit of a surprise, it's russian president vladimir putin. and, you know, i think this is -- this list is based on a vote of eight editors across four criterias. complicated how we put it together but reflects a collective wisdom of our editors here. my guess is, that it more what happened to our number two person which is barack obama. this vote was done during the government shutdown and the nsa spying scand