we have... let me talk about the amazon a little bit. about what, 15, 20% of the brazilian population live in what we call the legal amazon, which takes about half of the territory. so up to 30, 40%... 40 million people. now, in brazil in the last 30 years, there has been a complete change in the way we think about the amazon. the amazon is now... is increasingly... i think the protection levels are increasing. deforestation has decreased. it has not disappeared. it's still a problem. but more and more people, especially people from the agricultural sector, is realizing that we need to keep the amazon there, not only because we... not because we are tree huggers. we are not. but because the amazon is the physical element that controls the rain patterns in brazil. the amazon... >> hinojosa: but if you say that there's an understanding that's different, then why in the news are we always hearing that still the issue around the amazon is a battle, and, you know, that it is not being protected? >> in part... here is a criticism for the rest o

the amazon rainforest for more than 50 million years it's been a cradle of life. this is what pristine rainforest looks like. lush, untamed, bursting with wildlife. but maybe not for long. because the soil underneath is laced with gold. and the human desire for it can turn all of this... into a toxic wasteland like this. this is la pampa - in the buffer zone of the tambopata national reserve. its part of more than a hundred thousand acres of rainforest in peru that have been decimatd by an illegal gold rush. to investigate - techknow traveled deep into peru - to a region called madre de dios - the mother of god. it's one of the most biodiverse areas on the planet - and the source of 70% of the illicit gold produced each year in peru. so we're on our flight into the area of peru where goldmining is taking stronghold. if you look out the window you can actually already see signs of the damage. we arrived at puerto maldonado - the region's capitol and a gold mining boom town. an estimated 30 thousand illegal miners work in madre de dios. chances are you might find som

we believe the achilles' heel in the amazon deal is the less investment. and shipping costs last year took in $3 billion and that is growing 40% year. that is not sustainable even for amazon. the last mile is too expensive for amazon with the current solution. when you look innovation in the payment space near catching up to one quick in things like apple pay giving us the opportunity, and we think that will erode their advantage. more often anything the disruptive force for amazon will give other retailers a solution for a fraction of the capital investment when i see hoover, it came to be in florida, i forgot my beach chair, and came back and was $4, gave my grocery list to the organic market, 12 bucks, we affectively at the post office without unions for collective bargaining, without uniforms and they buy their own trucks, becoming a vascular system to the business world. a private car service, the last solution for every retailer entity billions of dollars to create that solution. if you are visiting from out of town, take a taxi. they are going to die

experience, own the margin structure. amazonrticular wants to own -- brad: the prices of these are cheaper so why are the margins higher? maha: i don't think they are higher -- it is higher than obviously going through a branded middleman or a cpg manufacturer because they take those companies out of the picture. they take the middleman out of the picture. in amazon doing this, they are going for the lowest margin products on the grocery shelves. it is a confusing push. brad: amazon has been trying to private label products for 10 years. it started with kitchen stuff. it never really seemed to really work. partly i thought that was because they didn't wanted to privilege their own stuff versus their manufacturing partners. and partly because it is not really customer centric. you are putting your products in front of your customer and yet here they are amplifying these programs. is this driven by business necessity? maha: it seems to me it is going against the grain which is why i'm confused. in this on-demand, excess capacity,

they take the middleman out of the picture. in amazonoing this, they are going for the lowest margin products in the grocery shelves. brad: amazon has been trying to private label for 10 years. it started with kitchen stuff. and never really seemed to really work. i thought that was because they didn't wanted to privilege their own stuff versus their manufacturing partners. and partly because it is not really customer centric. you are putting your products in front of your customer and yet here they are amplifying the program. is this driven by business necessity? maha: it seems to me it is going against the grain. in this on-demand excess capacity, collaborative consumption model, you are seeing companies like instacart pop-up that are taking advantage of the no capitalized model of selling groceries. brad: they don't fulfill from costco or a grocery store. maha: it is a delivery on-demand model for groceries. amazon is going retro and taking the web band circa 1999 approach which is we will own the warehouses the trucks and even own th

. >> i'm in the peruvian amazon and we're on the search for endangered macaws. >> now techknow is on a one of a kind mission. >> look at those wings. >> the macaw; graceful, elegant, and in some parts of the world endangered. it's a race against time - >> so the climber up top just yelled down saying she saw a lightning strike. >> - to save a species. >> it's time to hurry up. >> i'm phil torres, i'm an entymologist. i do much of my research in this jungle i'll share my findings with marita davision, an environmental biologist, and dr. crystal dilworth, a molecular neuroscientist. that's our team, now let's do some science. >> it's all worth it. >> hey guys, welcome to techknow. i'm phil torres, joined by dr. crystal dilworth and marita davison. so guys, picture this, you are deep in the rain forests of peru when suddenly a flock of red and blue magnificent creatures takes off in front of you. they are beautiful, but let me tell you, they don't start out so pretty. >> you have to be talking about macaws. i'm a bird biologist so in my day i've seen a lot of baby birds and i have to ad

emily: when did you become the lead analyst of amazon? ll: shortly thereafter, we got into a competition of who would be the lead banker of amazon. emily: what was that like? bill: it was exciting. getting exposure to somebody like jeff bezos at that moment in time and seeing what he has accomplished today is amazingly rewarding. i have been able to keep up with him. he is a large investor in our fund and one of the smartest, quickest thinkers i've been exposed to. emily: what has surprised you most about amazon and jeff bezos, now almost 20 years later? bill: he has convinced wall street that he is playing this super long-term game, and they let him forgo profits for what is now 20 years. it kind of goes back to what we were talking about with the overfunded startups. he gets to play a different game because he has convinced them it is ok. emily: is it ok? bill: every investor gets to decide that on a daily basis. i think there were multiple periods in amazon's life where people doubted whether the model had long-term legs and they forced

the head of the amazon india business team what can you tell us about the people sitting on amazon's h? there's always that question of who could succeed because it's not obvious. kevin: -- jim: jeff has been there since close to the beginning and basically runs their retail. if you had to replace and on replaceable person, it's probably jeff. i don't think that there is anything in the queue, not that we are suggesting that, but like you mentioned maria will be at the head of a major business and jeff is probably the heir apparent at this point. emily: what do you put think? you think? sukhinder: i think that jeff wilke knows the computer business. emily: you come from the e-commerce business. talk about how important it is to have diversity leadership when it comes to e-commerce? emily: one of the reasons that women are emerging there is that more than half of that population is often female right? if you think about the areas that he's attacking thinking about investments in fashion beauty, premium merchandising these are all experiential types of commerce and i think that in those

in the amazon we have like 200 types of catfish. >> and the flavor from the leaf, too. >> and here wewater fish in the world. underneath you have a puree that is a pan fruit and a production of fermented yucca. >> fermented. >> or poisonous. >> they let it ferment it and it becomes -- you can eat it. >> these fish are unbelievable. they get up to like 600 pounds and they're swimming in water no deeper than a rice paddy. >> really? >> giant. they're like dinosaur fish. everyone has been saying for years peru will be the next big thing as far as restaurants and -- >> it is. this really prove it. >> and we have a chili pepper made with nuts and ants. >> wow, they're huge. >> yeah, huge ants. >> you want to try it? >> yeah. totally. you're not loving that, are you? >> no. >> imagine, you took a lot of acid and then you ate that whole bowl of ants and you go home and you experience violent diarrhea, and, like, you're tripping. it's, like, 4:00 in the morning and you turn around and look at the toilet and all these ant heads floating around in there. it would be cool. >> it would be super c

later, a bigger drought hit the amazon. are the climate projections playing out before our eyes. >> we saw a core sample from the last ice age, to get a comparison on how quickly greenhouse gases are accumulating today. this sample represents 3,000 years of changing of carbon dioxide. >> the equivalent change of greenhouse gases that happened in the last decade took thousands of years to happen when the earth was not being influenced by humans. >>> these scientists reflect the fact that 97% of all research published on climate change say it's fuelled by manmade greenhouse gas emissions. >> as scientists we barely agree on anything. to say 97% of climate experts say the climate system is warming today is phenomenal. >>> scientists aside some politicians are not buying it. >> it changes, it gets hot and cold >> but man made? isn't that the question? >> then why did the dinosaurs go extinct? dinosaurs aside, "techknow" went to washington d.c. where a herd of lawmakers don't agree with the scientists we interviewed. like republi

. >>> the charts prove it, amazon may be beating google in the markets, the blue line is amazon, the le. fighting back with a new buy button. will it be an amazon killer? some say yes, we have a guest that says not so fast. that and much more coming up. excellent looking below the surface, researching a hunch... and making a decision you are type e*. time for a change of menu. research and invest from any website. with e*trade's browser trading. e*trade. opportunity is everywhere. "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. . liz: you want a bright spot amid the red, it's in home builders. rallying from just under a percent to 3.5%. why? april pending home sales hit a nine-year high. contracts to start new home or buy new homes, hovnanian, kb home, ryland, toll brothers, hovnanian gets the biggest move. will it be bye-bye ama

who has got the most to worry about? bill: i would say amazon'sition with prime is pretty remarkable. i would probably put them in the safe camp. i think google, with the profitability of the search business and this insane footprint of android, i would put them in the safe camp, too. on facebook, i think they're working through an interesting challenge. they have lost the trust of their user. if you ask someone, do you have certainty as to who is seeing your facebook content, my guess is 90% of the people would say no. that creates anxiety. i think it created anxiety which made room for snapchat, which we are an investor in. even, a company like nextdoor, which we are also invested in. because that lack of trust limits what you can do next. emily: and apple? bill: i think apple's only problem -- only problem -- is android. and google. and google's willingness to be aggressive. apple should have paid anything. flat out. if you're going to pay $3 billion for a headphone company, $2 billion for a maps company is a no-brainer. i also think they shoul

what can you tell us about the people sitting on amazon's bench? e is always the question about who can succeed jeff bezos. >> it's not obvious. jeff wilkie has been with amazon since close to the beginning. he runs their retail. if you're going to ask me to replace a non-replaceable person, it's probably him. i don't think there is anything in the queue. i think maria will be ahead of a major business. i think jeff is probably the heir apparent at this point. emily: what you think? >> i think that i will agree. emily: you come from the e-commerce business. tell us how important it is to have diversity in leadership when it comes to e-commerce. >> one of the key reasons that women are emerging as e-commerce leaders is that -- there is investment in fashion, beauty, premium merchandising experiential types of commerce. in those types of areas understanding the female mind in perspective, is something that a female leader brings to the table. emily: it's great to hear about maria's promotion to this role. the term shadow is debatable. thank you. in to

i would not count amazon or walmart out. in terms of serving thetomer better to make that sale or it emily: let's talk about customers. how are walmart and amazon customers different? guest: look at the price point. it is half as much. let amazon prime is running up against is there are only so many americans that want to play -- pay $100 per year for just shipping. walmart cuts that price in and half you have twice as many people who would want that. guest: amazon has more perks. you get the streaming video service as well. how much does that matter? guest: it's a different model. amazon prime, think of it like a costco membership. you join. you get free shipping in two days. you get streaming videos. our survey work says 80% of people sign up for amazon prime to get the free shipping in two days. but 40% renew for the streaming. if it is a membership model that is what amazon has with prime. whereas what walmart is doing is try to figure out other markets where they can get scale by doing more regular deliveries. that is the way to think of the t

we will tell you what it means for the future of amazon. otify adding video and podcasts to take on google and fend off apple. you may want to keep an eye on your robotics engineer if uber is around. it seems the company won't stop at anything to build its own self driving cars. all that ahead. we begin with breaking news. salesforce raising its forecast. they have seen the biggest first-quarter they have had. this underscores their attractiveness as a takeover target. cory johnson is in san francisco. it looks like a strong report. we heard no comment on the deals. but they are 1000% focused on customer satisfaction. cory: that's a lot of percents. that's like a hundred percent focused 10 times in a row. here is the big take away. if you want to compare it to what the analysts expected, it's better than that. it typically is. the reaction in post market trading is muted. last quarter, the stock jumped 12%. the next day it's down 5%. right now it is up 2%. we will see how it shakes out in trading. what we saw is while better than , expected,

emily: it is going to take them three days to get the goods to you. amazoners same day delivery. other company's offers same-day delivery. how much do people care about these the aspect? guest: if you look at the numbers it is a lot of marketing. people care about getting their goods to them. you have to have one million skews. it is not practical. it is not going to have a widespread adoption. emily: walmart has physical stores. does that give them an advantage? guest: there is a big chunk of consumers that like multichannel. they love amazon, amazon prime. there over 40 million prime members. they spend more and more after three years. at the end of the day there are things they don't get it amazon. if they wanted it, today it is hard to get it. amazon is doing prime now in certain markets. it is all about getting closer to your customer. i would not count amazon or walmart out. emily: how are walmart and amazon customers different? guest: look at the price point. it is half as much. there are only some americans that want to pay $100 a year for the shippi

the amazon video going viral was the first time people thought of them in a nonmilitary context. how likely is it that drones will be delivering my amazon packages? chris: your packages to your home -- that is a long ways off. emily: how long? chris: a decade. center whereg to a you could pick up a package. warehouse the warehouse, we can do that today. delivering to rural areas would be easy as well. once you get delivering to an arbitrary front doorstep, that is a little hard. as the instantaneous gratification movement takes off, we could start to get the next generation of mailboxes where certain homes end up with well-defined machine-readable delivery boxes. emily: you are saying this is going to happen. this will happen. maybe it is a decade out but it will happen. chris: it is happening now in limited ways. dhl has an experiment in germany where they are delivering pharmaceuticals to an island. you are going to start to see it happening in places with small, high value packages delivered to safe areas. emily: is there any reason it won't happen? chris: regulations. in the

the nsa dragnet? i'm emily chang. this is bloomberg west is walmart ready to compete with amazon? company would need to do to win over prime users. and what does rachel weck stone bring? kim visits our studio. she gives us her secret to success ahead. we have breaking news out of symantec. a disappointing forecast. they want to develop more modern anti-hacking technology. i want to get to cory johnson. it is about time is a net? cory: they may argue they have in making anti-hacking technology since the beginning. $1.6 billion in sale profit, 43 since adjust. that was expected. that is a decline. it is a percent less than the previous quarter. the company in the last six of the seven quarters have seen sales decline. predicting the same going forward in the next year. they need new kinds of anti-hacking technology. this company came out with a report saying hacking was up on the 40% year over year basis. companies are using tools on the cloud. they are hiring consultants to come in and do those things. this is not where they are seen as strong. they are trying to tailor its offerin

trying to make good on the prime now. amazonedly using manhattan subways to get packages to customers. "the financial times" reports that amazon loads small push carts with packages as and then it arrives underground. anne-marie. >> thanks a lot, jill. >>> in sports the tampa bay lightning scorched the new york rangers to tie the nhl eastern conference finals at a game apiece. tyler johnson had three goals. johnson scored shorthanded even strength and on a power play. tampa bay wins 6-2. game three is tomorrow in florida. >>> and another crash during practice for the indianapolis 500. james hitchgrove slams into the wall going into turn three monday. he had had surgery on his left thigh and is listed in stable condition. it's the fourth wreck at the indianapolis speedway as drivers prepare for sunday's race. >>> when we return bosom buddies after tom hanks visits with good friend david letterman on "late show" as the host gets ready to sign off this week. delicious. with more great nutrition. and 25% less saturated fat. only egg

the alternate model is the amazon model, the jeff bezos model.f you want a desk, it is a recycled door on two sawhorses. go crazy. we are much more on the side of, let's get out the sawhorse desks. and maybe tamp down on the spending. emily: you had a spirited back-and-forth with the activist investor, carl icahn. last week, you called him evil captain kirk. he said some things. i wonder though, do some of these activist investors actually have the same concerns you do? mark: i think they are a result, not a cause. they are a consequence of companies being very cheap on the stock market. they are a consequence of companies needing to restructure. or needing to react to market changes. the activist is a little bit of a sideshow to the core question of how is the company being run. emily: is there a disconnect between wall street and silicon valley? is there a fundamental misunderstanding? mark: i think in the long run -- i do not think in the long run there is a misunderstanding. emily: i'm curious about your thoughts on payments. it is an area th

the doorstep? you want that? amazon is ready to give it to you, ready to help with grocery shopping, the "wall street journal" reports amazon is gearing up to launch grocery and household items for delivery. amazon taking on supermarkets, google head on with the google buy button which is one of many things announced at the google io event. can google run amazon out of business? can amazon prevail and do the same thing or is there room for all of us. more importantly a future as she sees into the future and it's been looking at loathe companies. what do you see in your crystal ball. >> i think if google is trying to do anything with the buy button aside from the technical prowess and show off. they're in for a huge effort. amazon has 20 years of experience figuring out how to deliver people the things they want quickly and cheaply and have put billions of dollars in research and development into the effort, if google thinks they can walk in with their buy button and compete with amazon, they're in for a nasty surprise.

emily: the amazon-hachette war, you are published by hachette, you and your books got caught in the middle. how do you feel about this? malcolm: it cost me a lot of money. that's for sure. it breaks my heart a little. i had thought of amazon as in partnership with writers. and for a company to try to make a business point by turning its back on -- i have sold, through amazon, millions of books. i have contributed mightily to their bottom line. i would've thought they would see me as an asset. me and other writers have brought people to their site in droves. and now they have turned on us. it is, to say the least, a puzzling strategy for a business to turn on its assets. i would love to have a conversation with jeff bezos about the self-destructive nature of this particular strategy. emily: amazon is arguing that books must be cheaper in this environment where there are so many media distractions. do you have any sympathy for their argument? malcolm: complete sympathy for it. i just don't understand why, in order to get to that preferred outcome, they have chosen to screw over the people wh

we use the amazon storage farm. every video is digitally tagged, imprinted with every viewing including by whom and any alterations. the original is also retained, so the camera to courtroom, the chain of custody remains intact. >> it's about transparency. jennifer: potentially impacting behavior on both sides of the badge. jennifer donelan, abc 7 news. kellye: taser just announced the next generation of its body cameras that will operate automatically, beyond the officers control. d.c. mayor muriel bowser said a are deploying cameras in the city but there is a holdup. mayor bowser: we also recognize the technology is changing fast and that we need to come up with a robust set of rules. kellye: the council is at odds over those rules and regulations. balser says the cameras will not roll out until those are set in stone. d.c. has spent $5.1 million on 2800 cameras. a montgomery county police officer is being hailed a hero after saving in infants life. tonight, there are questions as to what happened to the child in t

the question is whether wal-mart can entice an amazon or target shopper to the new service or whether it will attract new shoppers. wells fargo animal matt neemer tells investors it is better late than never for wal-mart but caution there is heavy lifting ahead to catch up to the king of the jungle. for "nightly business report," i'm court nyreagan. >> and finally tonight, christy has done something never done before. sold $3 billion in tree days and it will host another sale today and tomorrow. >> wow we'll keep you posted. that's "nightly business i'm sue herera thanks for joining us. >> and i'm tyler mathisen. thanks for joining us as well. we'll see yo. announcer: a kqed television production. woman: it kind of was, like, the bang that set off the night. man: that is the funkiest restaurant. thomas: the honey walnut prawns will make your insides smile. [ laughter ] woman #2: more tortillas, please! man #2: what is comfort food if it isn'atgluten and grease? man #3: i love crème brûlée. woman #3: the octopus should have been, like, quadrapus because it was really small. sbrocco: an

but if you look at some of the reviews on amazon you'll see that this, my insisting on my getting my own room is the first of many things that antagonize some of the reviewers on the amazon site to the extent that one of the great ones it begins something like is it possible to loathe a person you've never met just on the basis of their writing? but the great thing is you're not buying the book on amazon you're buying it here, so we don't care what these incredibly antagonistic people say. [laughter] >> so you write very honestly in the book. i mean, you didn't like the food. it was never quiet. you felt like you never fit in. you write the aircraft carrier, quote: smelled like a gram with 50,000 cars in it, each suffering a major fuel leak. and yet your writing about it is funny and witty, it's kind, it's even generous. so were you taking notes on the ship and writing, you know, at night, or did you sort of have the remove of some time and distance to sort of recast your thoughts? >> well, a bit of both. you know, i certainly was taking notes all the time because it was one of the mo

the question is whether wal-mart can entice an amazon or target shopper to the new service or whether it will attract new shoppers. wells fargo animal matt neemer tells investors it is better late than never for wal-mart but caution there is heavy lifting ahead to catch up to the king of the jungle. for "nightly business report," i'm court nyreagan. >> and finally tonight, christy has done something never done before. sold $3 billion in tree days and it will host another sale today and tomorrow. >> wow we'll keep you posted. that's "nightly business i'm sue herera thanks for joining us. >> and i'm tyler mathisen. thanks for joining us as well. we'll see yo. when i found the opportunity to travel across the country with three complete strangers, who were also first in their families to go to college, and along the way, talk with people who chose their own paths in life, i knew it was something i wanted to do. it's going to be harder for you than for other people but what's going to make you successful, is if you, despite these challenges figure out a way to make it work. and you can do

since then she's gone on to do 57 day race through the sahara and another race through the amazon. lso climbed to the top of argentina's highest peak. robert barrett went back to idaho and never again ran in an echo challenge race. as for helen klein the 72-year- old she was unducted into the u.s.a. track hall of fame. at 85 she was still breaking records with her marathon running. a remarkable group. i'm frank somerville, see you next week. blood pressure introducing the one-and-only volkswagen golf sportwagen. the sportier utility vehicle. okay, hold still, honey. i'm afraid you're going to hit me again. don't worry. i'm just putting this time. i'm not the strongest golfer and i think it's holding me back in business. too bad deals aren't closed in a trampoline park. i'd just lazy-back into a rudolph into a quadriffus right up the corporate ladder. hey, dad, you coming to my play tonight? "your" play? you only painted the sets. yeah, and michelangelo "only" painted the sixteenth chapel. maybe don't keep your face so close to the paint cans. sorry, buddy i'm getting a golf lesson a