sima ghoryani runs a successful business in herat, western afghanistan.the province is famous for its saffron fields. female entrepreneurs are few and far between. >> it's difficult as a woman. but when i'm working, i'm not constantly thinking about the fact that i'm a woman. and no one else refers to it either. >> a role model for other afghan women and also to other farmers to make a switch from opium to saffron production. >> opium used to be traded on our street. but the situation has changed a lot. saffron has become a profitable alternative for many afghans. i mean, why should we muslims earn our living with something un-islamic? >> saffron is a valuable commodity. a gram sells at about 4 euros. sima ghoryani has been growing it for 18 years. here, hope is in the air. many in afghanistan are proud that the presidential elections got off to a peaceful start in early april. but there is still room for improvement. election fraud remains a problem. and the outcome is still uncertain. sima ghoryani is optimistic. she has 15 employees, almost half of who

. >>> down to business with cnbc's sima modi. good morning. >> richard, starbucks wants to help you recharge your battery. the coffee chain is teaming up with duracell to offer free phone charging nationwide. you must have a wireless charging capable phone. >>> amazon will reportedly launch a streaming music service possibly today. amazon prime members will have access to thousands of songs free of ads, but mostly new releases won't be included. >>> at&t defends its plan to $48 billion takeover of directv in a filing with the s.e.c. at&t says the acquisition is the only way the companies can compete with a proposed comcast time warner cable merger in bundle video and broadband internet service. richard? >> all right, sima, thank you so much. >>> just ahead, some live pictures of the corinthian stadium in sao paolo, brazil. the globe about to be mesmerized as the world cup gets under way. >>> and sports headlines. want a fiber that's clearly healthy? benefiber is clear, taste free, and dissolves completely. and unlike other fibers

. >> for that and the rest of your news before the bell we turn to sima at cnbc headquarters. >> reporterod morning that is right today target meets in dallas. the meeting comes after lackluster sales in the u.s. and canada. they aare recommending that the company not rm> the move takes direct aim at si and angie's list. >> there is your business news. >> you want a pete iece of our family? it is a big one. >> a comfortable start to the day. a good looking day shaping up. we got through the peak of that heat wave. as of today temperatures fall to average. the wind will play a factor as you are getting out there this morning. you want to travel cautionly. the wind is coming in from the south. that is against that prevailing wind. that can do more damage. we are bending the trees backward. sunny by lunchtime

. >>> down to business now with sima modi. good morning to you. >> futures are flat after stocks had record highs on friday following the jobs report, but showed slow but steady hiring growth. the dow, the nasdaq and the s&p 500 turning in three straight weeks of gains. investors can look for reports on retail sales and inflation. >>> apple begins life anew today as the iphone maker's stock takes effect making it more affordable for average investors. shares rallied 23% since the split was announced in late april. the company put its stock three times before, most recent in 2005. >>> microsoft gets things started at the annual e-3 conference today, the video game industry's largest gathering. microsoft is expected to cut the price of the xbox one, which is lagging behind sales of sony's ps-4. back to you. >> because i don't have enough game boxes. thank you very much. >>> ann arbor, michigan. this is 14-year-old hunter gandy, carrying his 7-year-old brother braden. he did it for 40 miles over two days and ended at the universi

all right thank you very much sima. we drifted lower. look at the s&p after two days. it trades down the day after and fomc meeting. chevron is up almost 4% over the last day or so. companies like eog are up. today is a more defensive tone. you can see health care stocks modest gains for all of them. i've been asked about what is going on. right across the board though. gold, silver and gold miners are on the upside. there is unusual activity. we are getting 200% global volume in the slv. the gold bugs seem to believe that miss yellin has implied that she is willing to tolerate a higher level of inflation. they will give us their best stock picks. harley davidson making a big move. more power to you in twop minutes. and a developing story from the white house. we are monitoring the situation. we expect new details about the next steps in that country. we'll have that for you live. p what can your fidelity greenline do for you? just take a closer look. it works how you want to work. with a fidelity investment professional... or managing your investments on your own. hel

sima? >> good afternoon, tyler. that's right. the tech ipo market is definitely heating up. in fact, just speaking to renaissance capital, they were pointing out all a-tech ipos in may are trading well above their price. mobile iron focuses on creating software that enables employees to access work e-mail and data on their own device. i caught up with the ceo, bosh tinker who says this is a fast-growing market as more employees go mobile. blackberry today announcing it signed a mobile payments deal with end stream to provide a secure platform for transactions between banks and their customers. an interesting deal there. the overall nasdaq, though, down about 15 points. that's due to the disappointing retail sales number, seems to be weigh on investor sentme eo eor. the nasdaq 500 is up about 1.5% due in part to big movers in the large cap tech space. hp, for example, goldman sachs writing that hp management have executed its strategy much better than anticipated. you're seeing hp, other names like broadcom, and qualcomm, xilinx moving to the up side. >> sema mentioned the pr

weaknesses in this ice floe plan weather while the winds go over the wall around the onset of all three sima daiichi they're trying to free say the ground under the destroyed nuclear power complex to divert groundwater flow around the edges so that the groundwater will not mix with the highly radioactive water in the sub basements of the buildings and then flow into the ocean so that's what they're trying to do is divert the groundwater flow so it does not get contaminated in the first place but any weakness in that plan could worsen what's going on there and that's the concern that there will be water leaks that the ground producing may not work at all and they could actually screw up the hydrology and just make the situation worse and how many years of you have to keep the ground frozen if they're right and those were. i think the initial plan is just for several years worth of funding to freeze the ground but it's what worse was to have a life of plutonium. two hundred forty thousand years of hastert twenty four thousand year. if so yeah not exactly the decommissioning project so it's goi

we have sima motion following the latest developments from bangkok. sima, what do we think?. we thought they were going to talk about the search, well they were. they're trying to make complex calculations as to the flight path of mh370 and where to seven they decided to look at the cruising altitude, how fast the plane was going and whether there was any major movement in the plane. they said there wasn't any major maneuvering. there was a loss of communications between the pilot, co-pilot, and any kind of control trial or nearby air traffic control. it was going very smoothly at a certain altitude. now, looking at that and comparing it with three prior air accidents, they came to the conclusion that the plane must have been, a, on autopilot for the last few hours of its flight path, and b, that the people in the cockpit may well have been out cold, unable to communicate with anyone, so that's one factor that came out today. now of course, the major announcement they were trying to make is that they have refined the seven zone, staying in the southern arc but further down,

members engage in the sima violence fuse that caused them to flee mexico and other countries in the first place. information provided by dhs also details cartel members who enter after claiming they feared violence when they fell on grace with her "employers." families involved in job -- in drug trafficking came to the united states and begin targeting each other once here. dangerous criminals are getting in when they have often been perpetrators of the violence. administration wants to enforce the problem, they should enforce the immigration laws already on the book and work with congress on targeted fixes. i think the chairman. >> recognize that the ranking member of the subcommittee, the gentlewoman from california. >> thank you. today's hearing is on a serious topic and it deserves a serious discussion. unfortunately, as mr. connors said, the title looks like some have made up their minds and if turn intod plan to another partisan attack. will be able to guess give this topic the consideration it deserves. in thes indeed a fight number of unaccompanied minor children apprehended along

okay, sima, thank you. cooper's funeral is just now getting under way.at funeral. >>> also overseas in iraq, the u.s. military stepping up its presence. armed drones are now over the skies to provide cover for the advisers on the ground. in ice sis-held iraq, jets are the ground but do not have organization to fire upon militants. joining me is nbc news's jim mema said da. how close are the militants today? >> hi, alex, nice to be back with you, and how bizarre we're talking about this story now, ten years after we started talking about it. that's true, it's a very flexible, very fluid, i should say, situation. but we do know when isis toppled mosul earlier in june and then swept across the northeast part of iraq, first taking tikrit and then moving south towards baghdad it got as far as samarra. samar samarra's about an hour's drive north of baghdad. since then, isis seems to be digging in, trying to consolidate its gains. samarra also seems to have become the iraqi army's last line of defense, which so far isis hasn't crossed. but south of baghdad, we