i wanted the to ask your opinion on st micro electronics, stm. >> yeah. stm's not bad.s is one of the integrated circuit stories i think people believe will be taken over. i don't know about it. i think it is inexpensive and i like it. thomas in florida. >> thank you very much for taking my call. very are quickly, i'd like your thoughts on soda. >> soda is a difficult stock. you would never recommend it. some people continue to. they say pepsi-co will buy them. the ceo is terrific. didn't confirm or deny. she's not going to say, yeah, i will buy or not. people are putting words in her mouth. i don't want to recommend soda on a fundamental basis. that's all i have to say about it. lee in california. lee! >> caller: hey, b-b-boo-yah greetings from sunny san diego. >> lucky. herb greenberg land. tell him i said hi. what's up? >> caller: amazon. i have a position in the high 300s. is it time to dollar cost the average? what do you think? >> last amazon quart was all growth. this market doesn't like growth. it is a cold stock without any fundamental reason to recommend it. t

i called for a stm-wide audit. i want this fixed in arizona so that we can get the veterans the care that they want and they need in a timely way and that's what i'm hearing you say. i really think listening to our veterans is key to resolving this issue. so my first question is when you did your assessment at the phoenix v.a., did that include talking to the veterans who had experienced these delays? >> did not talk to any veterans during the course of that visit. i had subsequently received a phone call from one veteran who has had troubles with access and i am working with him to assure that gets the care needs. >> my i just suggest that we include our veterans maybe a little more in this process? i share somewhat the concern that he expressed about how do we know we're getting accurate information and i sometimes think getting it from a couple of sources helps with that process. i'm certainly hearing from a lot of -- >> i don't disagree with you. i think the veteran is our customer. i think we can learn a lot b

this year's results will not be used to evaluate students because this new stm is still in a -- systemis still in a testing phase. >>> happening now, michelle obama and jill biden getting ready to host their annual mother's day tea to honor military mothers at the white house. you can see some of those mothers filing into the room there at the white house. the two women will also help military kids create mother's day cards and homemade gifts. you see a pea yan yo-- piano there. and nora jones is featured for the event. >>> the computer glitch that caused problems at l.a.x., they are blaming a design problem. air traffic controllers didn't have altitude information for a spy plane flying through the area. they say that caused the computer system to crash. in theory, experts say the same vulnerability could have been used by an attacker but it could be hard to re-create the exact conditions. the faa has added more memory to the computer system which it claims should prevent the problem from happening in the future. >>> this morning, the ntsb is investigating what caused nine flight atte

so part of what we have to do is figure out what are realistic bench marks for the stms and my suspicionthat with not only all the veterans from iraq and afghanistan coming back but also the aging of our vietnam vets who may have more chronic illnesses may need more visits we may need to get more doctors. and we may need to get more nurses. and that's going to cost some money. which means that's going to have to be reflected in veteran affairs budget which i was consistently increased even during fiscally tight times there's been no area where i've put more priority than making sure that we're delivering the kind of budget that's necessary to make sure our veterans are being served. but it may still not be enough. and we're going to -- before we start spending more money, our first job is let's take care of some basic management issues that i think can be fixed. all right? thank you. >> house speaker john boehner also issued a statement on the resignation of eric shinseki. he says the resignation does not absolve the president and he should outline his vision for solving the problems. du