albertson showed the jury dante's handprint covered in sarah's blood.covered that albertson also believed was irrefutable evidence. >> one small blood stain. that bloodstain came back to sarah goode. >> reporter: a fact janet albertson ended with in her closing argument. >> one bloodstain from a dead girl is one bloodstain too many. >> reporter: nick listened to the testimony. and there was something he found especially hard to hear. he was the one who had lovingly painted sarah's nails right before she went out that night. >> when janet said to the jury, we have no more of her fingers no more, but we have her fingernails that were painted. and i wanted to jump out of my seat and strangle him. >> reporter: but according to defense attorneys john lewis and debra buxbaum, nick's rage was misplaced. they claimed dante taylor was innocent. >> there's no direct evidence that links dante taylor to this crime. >> i felt like this really was a case of classic tunnel vision where from the get go this seemed to be targeted at d dante taylor. and any information t

albertsons is owns by capital management. shares of sprouts fell a fraction. >>> a key executive is leaving uber after just six months on the job. jeff jones who was president of the fast hailing company said that his approach to leadership is inconsistent with what he saw at uber. this is just the latest in the string of other controversies for the company. in january, uber was the subject of a consumer boycott which saw an estimated 200,000 users remove the app. there was a report observe sexual harassment at the company is that the self-driving arm filed a lawsuit alleging the technology was modeled after stolen intellectual company. and a "new york times" reports that they used a secret tool. >> so if you run a company like uber, is it better to remain public or go public? eric gordon is at the ross school of business. proce professor, welcome and congratulations on the tournament. go blue. >> young companies go public. and they want the founders and investors to cash out. beyond that, i don't see why anyone would do it.

albertson's says it does not comment on rumors.d plans to take albertsons public in 2015. sprouts for its own account picked up steam towards the end of last week. sprouts rival whole foods is getting a boost from all of this talk about sprouts. >> still fighting deflation. >> exactly. >> and we also had word today that target got a new head of its grocery business after the last guy left. it's an extremely tough business to be in. >> what they're having to do is to diversify. you've got now a company like albert son's which is very big out west. they've bought other chains, vaughans and safe way. now they're going after the organic market that's so hot. >> whether the deal happens, you have to wonder about the prospects to go public. >>> time for a cnbc update. >> hi, guys. here's the news update at this hour. british prime minister theresa may holding a joint prime minister briefing with the first minister of wales. her government announcing it would trigger article 50 on march 29th signaling brittain's departure from the europea

thomas, i want to thank kevin albertson who named his auto service business after his dad keith for the great location, keeping us safe off the highway here and he was working overnight. so a good man. now we know, when we see keith 's auto service flatbed truck, bob kelly now we know guy behind it is a good guy and said his dad did in the want to name business after him but have been calls kevin keith since he owns the business, and sound similar but it is kevin albertson that owns it and daddies keith. >> i think you just earned yourself a 50 percent off discount, my friend. we will check back, thank you. >>> 4:36. fail police say someone is going around shooting people with paint balls, in roxborough. four people say the paint ball er shot them on tuesday. now detectives say that the trigger happy guys, they are driving an older white dodge caravan you can see right there in the video. they hit one person in the eye and that person needed six stitches. >>> check out what happened to this small plane yesterday afternoon, homemade plane went off the runway and crashed at trenton robbin

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it would be a tougher competitor for the likes of kroger if you saw albertson's, safeway and sprouts room. >> one of the elements of this potential m&a surge idea sara is that if nothing else makes it hazardous to short stocks. and sprouts has been a pretty crowded short. it's a 12% mobileye was another one, everyone says it's expensive, a gimmick story and then maybe a takeout. >> totally squeezed. more m&a deal talk at least from unilever on the other side of the pond, reports from british papers they're prepping more than $7 billion worth of sales from its food brand specifically the spreads business for unilever. of course this comes after that failed bid by kraft heinz to buy unilever looking at potentially the attractiveness of its food portfolio. they estimate the total spreads business has sales of just under $3 billion in 2016, about 24% of the unilever food division. i don't know how much we can trust these british papers on this sort of thing but clearly unileefr u unilever is looking closely. >> yes. certainly also spotlighted by the bid lower growth, less attractive busi

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these are sold at several big name stores including safeway, target, albertson's, vaughn's and several others. we'll post all the stores for you on our website, abc7news.com. the cdc says they're investigating at least 12 cases across four states, symptoms include cramping, diarrhea and vomiting, usually last about a week but they can also be deadly. the cdc is expected to give out some more information on this outbreak soon. i will keep monitoring the situation. i'll bring you any new details as soon as those come into the live desk. >>> angry parents want answers from a school board in the north bay. >> they say that a hazing investigation that we first told you about in november is leaving their children under a cloud of suspicion. it is happening at napa high school and involves members o. jv football team. abc7 news reporter cornell barnard has more on a very heated meeting. >> you shouldn't be tormented by adults for months over one mistake. >> reporter: anger and frustration inside the napa school board meeting over a hazing incident involving members of the napa high junior var

so when you look at the specialty grocers, trader joe's, traditional growth like albertson's or kroeger'sategories, so t.j. maxx has t.j. maxx, marshalls, home goods, sierra trading post. the home goods -- nordstrom rack. >> you have to have a lot of anchors. >> burlington. >> you have to have a lot of anchors. >> we love anchors. >> we love anchors here. we love ourselves. >> how long, though, does it take to replace that anchor box, so to speak, and are you at risk at all of triggering co-tenants agreement where you have to have a certain amount of foot traffic to satisfy the leases of the other tenants? >> good question. we're over 97% occupied in our anchor spaces. when we look at that to get the spaces back and it depends on the location obviously. real estate is a local business so you want to look at the opportunity there of who is the best retailer to complement what you're trying to drive to the center so entertainment is another good concept that's been a big boost, movie theaters. there's a lot of new concepts of dine-in, reclining chairs. >> booze. >> connor, can i widen it ou

organic grocer held talks with albertson's. helped lift whole foods. showing abbott dissolve vascular stint caused more adverse events than in patients treated with an older stint made by abbott. however, researchers did say change in guidelines should produce fwer results. >> president trump is going to be meeting with billionaire technology pioneer today. y lan joins us with more. good morning. >> reporter: he's scheduled to meet at 11:00 a.m. global health and public education as potential areas of bipartisan agreement. but the budget blueprint the white house released last week cuts funding for both of those things. the gates foundation called these reductions deeply troubling, warning they would make america and the world less safe and prosperous. another point of contention could be climate change. epa administer scott pruitt is skeptical of global warming but it's something bill gates is passionate about. you might remember he was on "squawk box" a few months ago talking about his billion dollar fund breakthrough energy ventures. back then he wa