and a documentary of ash director of the documentary, "to be takei" that available next month.for the bwest byte -- brad stone is with us for that today. he's also the author of "the everything store." what have you got? >> 152. that is the number of days amazon and hachette have been fighting. what does that mean? the new book by tavis smiley takes weeks to deliver and a lot of authors are suffering. so today, authors united, including stephen king, took the fight to jeff bezos's boss, saying it's undermining their ability to support their families and asking them whether they support making it more difficult for people to buy books. >> your book is published by hachette, so how can this and? >> my book is out and not being harmed by amazon but i do worry for new authors whose books are not available for pre-order and amazon is making it more difficult for them to make a living. >> day 153 tomorrow. thank you for watching this edition of the show. we will see you later. ♪ >> the following is a paid program for the tummy tuck slimming system. it instantly erases inches from you

"to be takei" gives a behind the scenes look at the actor from his childhood in a japanese internmentis work on the "star trek" series. with thewn to talk actor. we started by talking about his huge social media following. take a listen. >> the reason i started with social media is to bring attention to this musical we develop. first we had to raise the awareness of that dark chapter of american history, and then to let them know we have a musical of it, and then to develop that into of people enthusiastic potential ticket buyers. the best way to do that is through social media. >> you have a particular voice -- firstly, this wonderful baritone voice in real life, but a particular voice in social media. it is both informative, sarcastic, smart. it is really right for the medium and i wonder how that has grown on you? >> by trial and error. the basic audience base when i started were sci-fi geeks and nerds. so, i had to grow that. i found that humor is a thing that got the most like sand shares, so i started and doesting on that, the audience grew larger, then i started injecting socia

takeis unacceptable, and i full responsibility.ill make sure it does not happen again. >> the promises of full and fearless inquiry won her few friends. >> i wish to god you protected the white house like you are protecting your reputation today. i wish you spent that time and effort to protect the american president. don't let somebody get close to the president. don't let somebody could close to his family. don't let them get in the white house, ever. >> look at the white house lawn today, and there are many more heavily armed officers on duty to prevent that happening. the extra security outside the white house ever since gonzalez managed to jump the fence and get all the way into the building. after the incident, the secret service were praised for the extraordinary restraint they showed, but in the age of the suicide bomber, is restraint what is needed? bbc news, washington. >> after a private dinner last night, today president obama welcomed narendra modi to the oval office. his first visit as india's prime minister. economy

at 11:00 a.m., lieutenant sulu wait, george takei.is a documentary out and they will be looking at that at 11:00 a.m. this is "bloomberg surveillance." good morning from our world headquarters in new york. are we having rubber chicken for lunch in the commissary? >> the roadshow has moved on to hong kong. weekendpends the entire in an ice rink to come up with this. >> frozen brains help. alibaba and the home stretch because the chinese e-commerce company scheduled to price its ipo on thursday evening and begin trading on friday. the latest indications are that alibaba will given to the high demand and price its shares above $70, beyond the market range. guest joins us by phone. leslie, isn't it interesting that the founder of alibaba made clear he would not price the ipo to aggressively and here we are talking about a price above $70. >> their strategy was to start with the $60 to $66 range, which is seen as incredibly conservative by all different valuation than -- methods. be able to raise it for more psychological reasons than anyt

takeis really going to alibaba to the moon. >> i think that is an interesting way to look at it.s the perfect company him to get excited about. if he wasn't a chinese citizen, he could buy the shares. this is a great way to look at it. increases. >> this is almost the product of the commonest party. -- communist party. a lot of them are state owned and state-controlled. it is for a much the case that jack ma works very close with the government. love with the government, but don't marry it. they work very closely in a setting rules. the chinese government sets the infrastructure for the internet. they set what is going to be on in terms of content. they censor a lot of content. they also set the narrative for what they want in terms of whether or not they will criminalize what is happening. about not just complained people vocalizing what they think is wrong with china, he has criminalized it. if you post on the internet and it has been reposted over 5000 times. does not scare you? >> of course. >> lovely. jack ma is friends with them. is theink alibaba perfect company for any mo

takeys -- as soon as you care of the rest of my needs, we will talk about the next big science project. as i said to both mr. upton -- we need to be an advocate of meeting his needs and the academic needs as well. think this that, i is a big project of data collection. so many other enterprises -- academic, commercial, private could dockstigators into this mothership and upload their data to enrich the total database and download data from this set to enhance their abilities to further their research projects, whatever they may be. this is not a project that would be a low-cost project. you are talking about $100 million a year. when you think about the trillions of dollars in costs that can be avoided just with alzheimer's, let alone other diseases, it would pay for itself in spades. the people that participate in this project but also learn how to better tended to their own health and thereby saving the health care system dollars. in the verye not distant future, everybody will be doing this. everybody will have the genome sequence at birth, everyone will have this kind of early diag

. >> fremont, tough situation, as my friend george takei would say, oh, my.re back with more of "today" on this thirsty thursday, ready to reveal our "ambush makeovers" for two very lucky ladies who stood in the very wet plaza for the chance to get a brand-new look. >> here with a big reveal are masters of the makeover, "today" contributor and stylist to the stars, louis licari and "today" contributor and author jill martin. >> hi, kids. a little damp. >> a little. between the drops we found two great ladies. >> you did. >> the first one up is diane from gaston, connecticut. she's very, very low maintenance. last time she colored her hair, she did it herself to cover the gray. her beauty routine consists of mascara, bronzer. she's a four-year breast cancer survivor, this makeover is well deserved. let's listen to her story. >> i know this is emotional for your whole family because you came with this wet sign and i know you want this for mom. >> yeah. she does everything for us and everyone else. she works for charity and she deserves a makeover. >> and four y