so, my first job was at adobe and we made a product called after effects for special effects software use it in everything now from "star wars" to like a bmw commercial. that went really, really well for a while. and the things that i did were selling very, very well so adobe said do more of that, do whatever you want, and i came up with this idea for animation inside of a browser, where you could just make a simple language that used the most -- the smallest amount of data and instructions to describe an animation and play it on a web page and i pitched that to the ceo of adobe when i was there, and he said, people don't want to see dancing monkeys on web pages. you know. and i said, what do you mean? that's exactly what people want to see. are you crazy? around the mid-90s i started making some more mature polished types of screen based artwork where you interact with a screen using a mouse, basically that was the only way we had back then, and they were actually meant as a combination of nature and technology, a way to take something that feels like nature, but looks like technolog

. >>> and adobe buying up an on- line advertising services company. san jose based adobe wait won't say how much it is paying in sunny vale, but they will let it forecast the digital ad campaigns and manage the brands on social media. the deal should be completed during the first business quarter. >>> and pg&e getting ready for power problems due to the gusty winds. they activated the emergency center in anticipation of the downed lines and tree branches. it will be the first test to see if they can pinpoint the outages as they happen. >> there are a number in the neighborhood. what we may find from the smart meters is good insight, being able to dispatch the crews over the course of a long outage. >> pg&e says this will allow for much faster and more efficient repairs . >>> and wind gusts throughout the area as they ramp up. 20 in san jose, and fairfield. winds clocking easterly. that is when you will notice this increased wind speed, especially in the oakland hills, gusts at 40 miles per hour, and places in the bay area, the areas strongest above th

he never forgave adobe, which is why flash doesn't work on your i. a but the mark of a true genius of a company is not just when you think of things first, burt when you actually fail to think of something first, can you leapfrog, catch up? and so he realizes he had gotten aced out of the music business. that others were making cd burner trays and people were -- all of us were making -- downloading music from napster and making play lists and burning cds and you couldn't do that well on the apple. so he had to leapfrog and says we're going to make a perfect end-to-end thing with a juke box software, which is itunes, the store itself, and when they start making the ipod, he makes it so simple because it's integrated. you can put the complexity on the mac or the itune software so the device itself is not a complicated mp3 players. you could just look at it with the track wheel and it was intuitive, and he kept saying i want to be able to get wherever i want, whateverson want, in three clicks and i want it to be intuitive, and he drove them until the ip

adobe a sunny day. i guess you could call it eight mixture of sunshine and clouds., look at these. 19 degrees in marten's fur. -- martinsburg. a little bit warmer immediately along the waterway. reagan national is immediately along the waterway. the teamsters are still in the upper-40's. dimeters will be in the mid- 40's. into the 40's by thuisis midday. tomorrow be warmer than today. tomorrow morning will be just as cold as what we have outside right now. bundle up as your head out to the bus stop. tomorrow afternoon will be sunny. we will see an increase in cloud cover. it'll give us the chance of showers by thursday. at least it will be warmer into the 50's. it will cool down behind that front. that should give this a few showers. mid-40's by saturday. it pretty much uneventful. only scattered showers. that is the forecast. what about the commute? >>> we are taking our holiday picture to send to your in mindzumba -- in my zumba class. plan on it. the lady behind the desk says i love it when you talk about your class. what are we going to talk about on the highway

adobe a quiet rush-hour commutes. >>> that is what we're hoping for.e way to the roosevelt bridge. we will head over to 270 near the boulevard where we can see just a few cars on the southbound traffic. with everything moving all the way down into the lane divide into the beltway everything is moving smoothly on northbound 95 with no problems reported right now as you head up to the springfield interchange and on 2395. back to you. >> thank you. >>> attention sears in kmart shoppers. no stores so be closing their doors. they have a preliminary list and no stores in this area are on it. between 100-120 stores will be closed. >>> import news for rising customers. you'll be charged a $2 fee for every game and make over the phone or online with their credit card. this will not apply to electronic checked payment spirit of the race to the avoid the fee? pay -- check payments. other ways to avoid the fee? pay in the store. >>> here is an idea. lady gag is joining the party in times square. >> she will drop the ball. she is expected to perform. michael bloomb

it start shortly before midnight in a home not far from the adobe golf course.tvu's lorraine blanco has more. >> reporter: well, good morning. imagine winding down after christmas dinner and hearing your smoke detectors go off. that's what happened to dave kunin when he opened his garage door. he saw a call of fire. here's what it looked like just before cid mat. coon says his first intuition was to gather his two children, wife, in-laws an dogs. everyone got out safely and that's when coon said he tried to fight the flames himself for a minute. >> just take care of them. you know, go for it. don't be the hero on it. i tried fighting it for a while and then the department showed up and i let them go for it. >> reporter: investigators are still trying to figure out what started the fire. coon says smoke detectors saved interest lives -- their lives. as you can see a cleanup crew is busy boarding up the home as we speak. right now there's no estimate of the cause of the damage here. lorraine blanco, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> well, one family in southern santa clara

. >>> su casa es de ladrillo de adobe, y laas que tiene un corral, pero con un solo cuarto que mide doce>>> tiene 29 aÑo de edad pero lleva las marcas del trabajo se va al campo cuando el sal sale recorta wlooeshg y hace escobas y las vende si le va muy bien gana 14 dÓlares por el dÍa aunque solo puede haz dos veces a la semana porque tambiÉn hay que ir al rÍo por agua, y atender a su hermosa hija cuatro aÑos que sin darse cuenta ya tiene dientes podridos por una infecciÓn. >>> cuando lluevo requÉ pasa. >>> vamos a poner las cu betas para que llene cuando llueva, como mi casa es de cartÓn se mete el agua. >>> en mÉxico la brecha entre rico y pobres alcanzÓ el nivel mÁs de Últimos 30 aÑos el presidente calderÓn atribuyo este crecimiento de la desigualdad a chris anteriores cuando gobernaba el partido referencia uso rÍo institucional pri. >>> y si la desigualdad aumenta por las chris que tuvimos, hasta que llega aquÍ el 2000 y ahi empieza a bajar. >>> un paÍs dÓnde todavÍa ella no sabe como salir de su alto grado de marginaciÓn y donde tampoco recibe ningÚn tipo de ayuda del actual gobiern

san jose-based adobe surprised analysts with very strong earnings. revenue up 14%. on the other hand blackberry maker research in motion saw its profit drop 71%. and we're seeing how investors react to both those companies this morning. trying to get a winning streak on wall street. the dow is up 48. nasdaq up by 20. s&p gaining 7. adobe shares are up 7%. research in motion dennis and grace is down by 10% this morning. back to you. >> hovering around that 12,000 mark. >> yeah. we'll see if we can fight through. no bad news out of europe today so, so far, so good. >> keep our fingers crossed. >>> 6:48 now. we have some salvation army volunteer with a tire hand? carpal tunnel. [ ringing ] >> how he is using his bell to get into the guinness book of world records. coming up. can now be enjoyed in your coffee only international delight puts the real flavours from your favourite treats inside any last wishes? new selsun blue deep cleansing micro-bead scrub goes to the source wiping out flakes before they flake. new selsun blue deep cleansing. stand right now. he just tes

on the flip side, shares of adobe systems jumped nearly 7%, after the software maker reported better than expected earnings and revenues. citigroup's analyst said the quarter was quote, "a blow out when most expected weakness." ebay is another tech stock scoring big gains. in an unusual move, this internet powerhouse is partnering with three bricks and mortar stores for a holiday promotion. starting today, consumers who spend a $100 online at toys 'r' us, dick's sporting goods or aeropostale can get a $10 voucher to spend in-store. the catch is they have to use ebay's paypal service for payment. ebay shas ro almost 3%, closinat $30.40, rebounding from this month's lows. many financial stocks rose today, which may seem surprising given the continuing worries about europe. j.p. morgan, citi and wells fargo all managed to end the day in positive in positive territory, even though the gains were modest but bank of america, goldman sachs and morgan stanley were down. fitch downgraded their credit ratings, citing increased challenges in financial markets. over in the oil patch, shares of c

there were hundreds of volunteers from wells fargo, adobe systems, all of these companies that have volunteered. they are corporate center since -- their corporate citizens. they have been around a long time. i hope to continue working with the established companies that have been here sacrificing and being part of the city and in welcoming in a new generation of companies that i would also call san francisco companies that will be the new philanthropists

your bloomberg index up a smith with adobe being the big winner up 6.5%.l convalley and hollywood are lined up at how to find online piracy saying $58 billion in content is stolen every year and they want that to stop. so they're backing new legislation aimed at clamping down on pir yag yasy. some companies are not on board. they fear u.s. web sites like you tube, twitter and facebook will be caught in a drag net. legislation called stop online piracy act forcing providers and search engines to cut ties with foreign sites deemed dedicated to piracy. proponents say it's losing tons of money trickling down to blue collar workers and the tech industry cites a study saying if it is passed 200 venture capitolists will cut investments by more than 80% per year. for now the debate had been put on hold until after congress has a holiday break. elsewhere, alec baldwin and other mobile game addicts are out of luck but some pilots are now allowed to use electronic devices. the faa is allowing airline pilots to rely on ipads instead of suitcases full of paper maps. an

said, no, you have too small of a market share, and he never forgave adobe, which is why flash doesn't work on your i. a but the mark of a true genius of a company is not just when you think of things first, burt when you actually fail to think of something first, can you leapfrog, catch up? and so he realizes he had gotten aced out of the music business. that others were making cd burner trays and people were -- all of us were making -- downloading music from napster and making play lists and burning cds and you couldn't do that well on the apple. so he had to leapfrog and says we're going to make a perfect end-to-end thing with a juke box software, which is itunes, the store itself, and when they start making the ipod, he makes it so simple because it's integrated. you can put the complexity on the mac or the itune software so the device itself is not a complicated mp3 players. you could just look at it with the track wheel and it was intuitive, and he kept saying i want to be able to get wherever i want, whateverson want, in three clicks and i want it to be intuitive, and he drove t

. >> some of the buildings here still has adobe brick left over from when spain built the presidio. the bay changed hands from spain to mexico and final toll the united states in the late 1700s. when the u.s. military pulled out, it became a national park. ten years ago the presidio developed a detailed plan to put the space back in use. the 22-room inat the presidio is part of that plan. >> all that was restored and brought back. >> the building was gutted and redone, maintains or matching as much of the original nix tur as possible. much of the $11 million spent on the project was used for the retrofit. because it was literally leaning to the side. >> it was in a fair amount of disrepair. >> reporter: waterford hotels expects to open the one bedroom suites and charge up to $350 a night for the rooms with the golden gauge bridge view. it's considerably cheaper than a similar project in ft. baker. a presidio spokesperson says the prices have to remain on the lower side in order to meet the goal of making the presidio accessible to locals and visitors. traci grant, nbc bay area news.

said, no, you have too small of a market share, and he never forgave adobe, which is why flash doesn'twork on your i. a but the mark of a true genius of a company is not just when you think of things first, burt when you actually fail to think of something first, can you leapfrog, catch up? and so he realizes he had gotten aced out of the music business. that others were making cd burner trays and people were -- all of us were making -- downloading music from napster and making play lists and burning cds and you couldn't do that well on the apple. so he had to leapfrog and says we're going to make a perfect end-to-end thing with a juke box software, which is itunes, the store itself, and when they start making the ipod, he makes it so simple because it's integrated. you can put the complexity on the mac or the itune software so the device itself is not a complicated mp3 players. you could just look at it with the track wheel and it was intuitive, and he kept saying i want to be able to get wherever i want, whateverson want, in three clicks and i want it to be intuitive, and he drove th

the original he willdor raddo building was built in the 1930s and the adobe building in the back patio is a registered historic landmark. jeff works nearby. >> it's going to be fun to come here and have different places to go to eat every day. you have a different choice. >> reporter: from palafels to pizza, these small business owners hope this will be the recipe for success they need to earn a lot of dough. in san jose, mary ann favro, nbc bay area news. >> to get it good enough as it is, i don't imagine them figuring more ways to get more one out of us. >>> speaking of business, the people smopoke and verizon listened. the wireless carrier is dropping a payment fee only a day after the company announced it. it's a full reversal of its decision to charge some customers a $2 fee to pay their bills online or over the phone. the backlash from customers was swift and ferocious and ultimately for verizon convincing. >>> if you use the words "dragon" or "shadow" as passwor passwords, your chances of getting hacked are pi higher. the top 25 stolen pass wards are posted online by hackers. th

to see a family in the white house and the devotion they have to their daughters and i think she's adobepeople think it's his to lose. can you taste living in the white house? >> i really am thinking more about what we're doing now and one step at a time. the first step is to get the nomination. the next is going to be a very tough race. >> more indications between now. >> i've got to have vacations. >> what about you? >> maybe not him. >> every summer, we get a week or two with all of our kids and grand kids and i would hope to be able to do that, but other than that, i think it's going to be a pretty full year. >> good luck to both of you. got your work cut out for you. nice bus ride over here. thank you very much. got a little bit better appreciation of you, which is one of my objectives. >> thank you. >> thanks, wolf. good to see you. >>> there's a lot of dissect and digest after my interview with mitt and ann romney. does she make him more likable? what's going on? we'll discuss in our strategy session coming up. and stony silence from ron paul. we're taking a closer look at how he'

adobe difficult to have members exit. >> i am in general agreement with this. if they leave relatively soon, despite the problems of transitioning back to their previous currency, this may actually be positive for the global economy. they will have cheaper currencies. their exportsill become more competitive. this may be better for those countries and the global economy if they leave sooner rather than later. they can go through the adjustment process. for the remaining countries, and they have to address the classic problem of any kind of common currency area. that is the policies are not too far out of synch from what they are in other countries in the currency area. that is a huge long-term challenge. >> you have to remember part of the problem that we have watched is that they tried to avoid that default from occurring in periphery by any means. we watched it tends to come through their voluntarily. it is becoming a default in names. this is part of the problem. they do not want to allow it to be called a default. what that would mean creates a problem in t

adobe difficult to have members exit. >> i am in general agreement with this. if they leave relatively soon, despite the problems of transitioning back to their previous currency, this may actually be positive for the global economy. they will have cheaper currencies. their exports will become more competitive. this may be better for those countries and the global economy if they leave sooner rather than later. they can go through the adjustment process. for the remaining countries, and they have to address the classic problem of any kind of common currency area. that is the policies are not too far out of synch from what they are in other countries in the currency area. that is a huge long-term challenge. >> you have to remember part of the problem that we have watched is that they tried to avoid that default from occurring in periphery by any means. we watched it tends to come through their voluntarily. it is becoming a default in names. this is part of the problem. they do not want to allow it to be called a default. what that would mean creates a problem in