with us is alex wood, europe editor, forbes. nice to see you, alex. you think? i think for both these companies it is an interesting time point. a lot of strength on both sides. on the walmart side, i think it isa sides. on the walmart side, i think it is a company nearing the transition over to e—commerce but for alibaba as well cloud computing isa for alibaba as well cloud computing is a big theme to get excited about but as you mentioned, the trade war, i think we need to be really concerned about this. we have seen that donald trump has already pulled back and started to pull away many of those tariffs he spoke about but let's not forget for a moment this isa let's not forget for a moment this is a president who is incredibly unpredictable. probably in the time we are speaking right now we will see some tweets and stories will change so i think there are serious concerns over the trade war. i'm sure alibaba breathed a sigh of relief when they heard those tariffs due to come into effect end of september may not enter until late to mid december. for

. >> that video was taken by alex woods outside the synergy entertainment complex. we understand that's where the gunman was shot and killed. and alex that witness joins us now by phone. allis, wow, intense to watch that video to hear you walk us through what you saw starting with what made you begin recording. >> well, we had arrived about five minutes before the shooting had begun. and the police were heading up towards the hospital next to the movie theater. and next thing you know, i hear a pop i put the camera to wrp the theater is at and i just see a bunch of gunfire going off. and then i could see the officer walking up to the mail van. and discharging his weapon into it. and i believe that is when the shooter was killed. >> wow, what was going through your mind? >> some very surreal moment. i never thought it would happen in my life. >> i imagine you're pretty shaken up still now. >> a little bit, yeah. >> yeah, did you -- did you happen to get a look at this man who was the shooter? >> no, i did not. >> and what was the situation like around you? you talk ab

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alex just tears through the buildings. >> oh. >> the real cool thing is its submerged. >> coming out of theed woods. >> check it out. >> it climbsy to the top and he has got ariel skills of course. >> oh, hey, nice. >> wow, this guy, a really cool video. if you want to see the entire thing including the behind the scenes as to how they pulled some of this stuff off, go to right this minute.com and click on tv show or check it out. >> i really love what alexis fleming did on her made you look channel. she is inspired to remake her look like a lot of youtuber's do but she was inspired by a 6-year-old. >> and we're going to be recreating the 6-year-old's art work. >> it's so cute. >> amazing. >> it's all going to be there. she wants to do more of these in the future to inspire kids to draw and paint. use body paint so your mom doesn't get mad at me. >> yes. >> she starts to paint her body and that's when you really see how good of an artist she is. she has to use two colors. first she uses a lighter blue, but then she goes with a darker blue to make it look as if it's crayon. and then she does the green as well but also a flower. >

woods even after a nice pop today. >> all right, we're going to take a pause, gentlemen, because we have breaking news on cbs and viacom, officially announcing a merger deal. let's go to alex sherman who has been monitoring this >> so yeah, this has been three years in the waiting, but it's finally official after several starts and stops cbs and viuconn officially agreeing to merge. it puts to rest a saga that has gone back and forth, of course, les moonves leaving as ceo of cbs last year, and then cbs refreshing its board, really talking to viacom's board all year long. exploring various different options, trying to figure out is this the best path forward it puts these two companies that were one for many years up until 2006 back together under the de facto control of sherry headstone, who controls national amusements, the holding company. sher shari redstone is the ceo of viacom and redstone. it shows so many mergers in the past two, three, four years now, and cbs and viacom are two companies, each less than $20 billion market cap, that need to get bigger to compete with the netflix and amazons and the other legacy companies that have already gotten bigger. this is a st