aol instant messenger service >> you have mail. >> yes. this is old school. aol instant messenger will be shut down in december. it started 1997. hugely popular. it was the leading instant messenger service until the rise of smartphones and social media. this was before we texted each other and before twitter and all that stuff. the company said instant messenger ignited a cultural shift. it sure did. >> the little thing that says "you've got mail". >> it still says that? how would i know? i still have aol. >> that's a throwback. >> you have a throwback. >> i can't let it go. all right. send you guys an email. >> yes. >> fleet week happening this weekend. and we are seeing temperatures at 70 at morina green one of the best viewing spots. sunny skies couldn't get better. on the extended forecast in san francisco a little bit windier on sunday. slightly cooler then back up. >> you will still have mail just no the the instant messenger. >> lester holt next with nightly news. >>> breaking news tonight, state of emergency. they're bracing for impact from new orlea

aol announced today that instant messenger will shut down on december 15th. known as a.i.m., it dominated online chat in north america at the turn of the century. with sms and social apps like facebook and what's app having conquered chat, aol is giving up the fight with no planned replacement. >>> costco just launched two new delivery options for its members. costco grocery is offering ne nearly 500 items that will be delivered in two days. they're also offering same-day delivering on more than 1,500 items including fresh groceries from 376 stores. now we checked for you, that option is available in nearly all of the bay area. this comes weeks after amazon closed a deal with whole foods at the online giant aggressively moves into the grocery market. >>> a celebration of italy comes to san francisco this weekend. details ahead. >>> plus, we have the scoop on how you can get some of the best seats to see the blue angels. >>> and a live look right now. this is the bay, the parade of ships about to get under way right there as part of fleet week. how's the weath

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aol instant messenger will be discontinued december 15.e announcement on twitter saying all good things come to an end. they say they will focus on building the next iteration of iconic brands and life-changing products. >>> youtube changing its search algorithm after search results following the las vegas shooting you did conspiracy theories and false information. they want to promote authoritative sources to the top of the results to come to the spread of fake news and conspiracy theories. youtube has been working of the change for months. they decided to release it early after conspiracy videos became prominent after the shooting. >>> o.j. simpson has registered with the las vegas metro police department. he walked out of a local police headquarters yesterday. he was required to register with police as a condition of his release from prison last weekend. he was granted parole in july after serving nine years for armed robbery. is required to report to his parole officer every month and receive permission from nevada's division of parole

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aol shutting down the instant messenger on december 15. it has been running since 1997.ook and what's app have become more popular. the number of users has dropped to fewer than 10 million. the cost of aol to keep it running has become too expensive to justify. >>> report now accusing one of hollywood's biggest power players of a decades long pattern of sexual harassment. harvey weinstein has been suspended by his company after accusations of inappropriate and predatory behavior.>> reporter: the report details allegations of sexual harassment by a number of women including employees and some very high profile actresses but including rose mcgowan and ashley judd. judd tilts the paper of an incident that happened two decades ago. she was asked to meet him in his hotel room. he greeted her wearing a bathrobe and asked her to watch them take is to shower. at least eight women have received settlements from weinstein over the years including rose mcgowan. of the stories include accounts of weinstein coercing women into giving him massages while naked a watching him in the sho

we found the one person in the country who still has the aol email account. >> would you believe it. >> yes. you know when i have the volume up on the computer and it says you've got mail or whatever. everyone is like what? i still have it. >> be proud, jeff. >> no security breaches on that at least. >> that's true aol standing tall. >> good news. >> in terms of the weather forecasts looks really nice through the we could. let's look at what we're dealing with outside right now. a beautiful here for fleet week. today and the air show. and of course continues this we could. it's a little bit breezy. you can see the wind knocking around the sky camera a little bit and with fire danger as well. more on that later. but the latest here 72 right now. it's somewhat mild at least for 6:41. the temperature dropping to the 60s heading through 8:00 and 9:00 and 10:00. heading into the city you still need a light jacket. now the big weather headline we are following is high pressure building in throughout the pacific. that's going to give us the warmer weather heading through the next three days

by the end of the year, aol messenger will go dark.s an era-defining communications application of its time. as the communication started to drop off amid google chat and text massaging and local media sites. >> bugged musicians got the lesson of a lifetime. that is world renown chinese pianist lapping language was at thomas home elementary school to announce a school investment. he was educated at the curtis institute because he saw a need for this. >> the public school has left out the art of music. i felt pretty sad because music and art inspired the people the most. >> all right giving back, the grant money will go to build a state-of-the-art piano lab and provide a curriculum at three elementary schools over the next 6 careers. great way to give back. >>> meteorologist chris sowers tracking the forecast, a lot going on in the gulf. >> reporter: feels like summer here and of course we've not nate to talk about, let's talk about nate now, let's get into nate. nate became a hurricane overnight with maximum sustained winds jumping up

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aol is killing off its instant messenger. announced that aim will disappear at the end of the year. it launched back in 1997. at the time when they required the dial-up modem. but the little running man failed to evolve with consumer needs. as if dictated by technological darwinism, aol announced the shutdown on twitter and tumblr today. >> big talkers now. we start with a story we first brought you here on big talkers. remember all those smart devices meant to be hands-free helpers for mom and dad. mattel has scrapped plans because too many controversy. it was basically a digital assistant that you can control with an app. so they pulled it following widespread backlash over privacy concerns and the potential for hacking. so this device encouraged kids to bond with it. it collected data. the naysayers were against it from the get-go. parents were wondering what would it do with the location and. >> they insisted it would be secured but it still it pulled the product. >>> made with love. we hear that a lot and while we joke i

soledad: as a co-founder of aol in 1985 steve case was an internet pioneer. today he advocates for entrepreneurship outside of silicon valley and says the third wave could reinvent healthcare, indication, transportation. is nice to see you again. last time we were talking we were in wisconsin, madison at claim -- chamber of commerce. your people to silicon valley. you should be nurturing policeman in madison. >> we have seen people who want to be involved in technology and felt thread to move to the coast and particularly silicon valley. that is great it does a lot of things but it left a lot of parts of the country behind. they are trying to encourage more communities in the middle of the country to support their entrepreneurs and create a more thriving community to result in more of them growing and creating jobs there and driving economic growth. it is very important to level the playing field so everybody everywhere can be optimistic about the future and feel they have a shot. soledad: not to mention silicon valley is running out of places to live. >> the

instant messenger aol, will shut down after 20 years in service. long before texting, revolutionized how people communicated, and it made it mark in pop culture take a look. >> long before smart phones, and social media, there was another way to dial up a connection. >> you have to sit there and wait. dial-up internet on the desk top computer t gave us our first access to the worlds wide web, all while tying up the phone line. >> so my parent used to get angry. we would be on line for too long. >> from the ad event of america on line, then aol instant messenger. >> b ball rock 131. >> spent time perfecting our profile. >> like a diary. diary but sort of secret. >> and updated our away messages. >> change the color for each letter. >> i had the bolds eye tal i can. >> the open door. then when they sign off, it closes. >> now comedies 15, it is signing offer for good. >> wow. i'm so sad. >> people use it? >> having failed to keep up with ever evolving technology, we're forced to to say the iconic service, and simpler time, we can only hope will. >> t

i've been a social media for the majority of my life, even going back to aol. so it is really ingrained in. but what i can say is tracking over those nine years a different way that my posts have evolved, in a sense, and the way you've grown, i look back and say, wow, i wouldn't even say that now, or, wow, i wouldn't even type that were. and i look at even 90 years ago there was a lot of negativity in those posts. they may have been typed a little differently, and i may have responded differently. >> you may write a little bit of a change i would personally my platform to be better and now i am able to mentor from that facebook watch what you post. it's not like it evaporates. so be very intentional in what you do. social media can become eventful. people become overnight celebrities in a sense because of it. so you can really utilize it to your gut. >> although then?>> positive. >> i do like the fact that people need to learn how to write, communicate, encourages people to learn foreign languages. you can travel through social media. you can share your experie

. >>> aol is getting rid of snapt messenger service known as aim when it ghan 1997 they made the announcementand tweeted aall good things must come to anen. which is very true. because it is almost 11:30 which means. >> this must come to end. >> this must come to end. >> but you. >> but. >> final five is coming up next with brody logan filling in for jim lokay. >> that's right have a great weekend everybody. the awesome. snrvr welcome to the final five i'm brody logan in for jim lokay more republicans show support for banning bump stops this is the calm before the storm. i don't think he talk become another hurricane. speaking of spormz puerto rico continues to recover from hurricane maria and string of hurricanes september is being blamed for losses in the latest job report and you better stock up on that free birth control while you still can. that's your final five. we get things started with the latest own las vegas shooting and gun debate it sparked in wash to be. police gave another update on investigation today.

wide web >> my parents used to get angry staying on line >> from the advent of america online, then aol instant messenger or aim. >> we spent time perfecting our profiles >> like a diary. >> reporter: and updating our away messages. >> i had the >> >>? >> reporter: december 15th, aim is signing off for good. >> that's for now, be right back. at one time. >> you guys had this in college. >> yes. even before i had america online. >> i had morris code >> tell them your screen name, can you remember there was an irish band called the corrs, i was corrgirl 18. >> i loved the screening. >> did you have one >> we used morris code. >> oh. >> all right. let's move on. >> reminiscing. >> let's talk about the weather. we have hot humid weather to start the westbound then we'll be talking about rain from nate. let's take a peak what's going on we'll take you out to the roof camphor everything looking quiet. it's nice night. mild, we take for granted not having to ware the coat when we're walking around. come february, when you're bundled up we're going to long for nights like this one where you don

verizon and aol bought yahoo!. it was confined to user ids and e-mail addresses, not passwords or bank account information. yahoo! will notify the additional users by e-mail. >>> the company did consider buying twitter, speaking at a conference yesterday. twitter had global reach and a compelling way to sell content to consumers. disney decided to buy ban tech from major league baseball. back to you. >> more power for the sports. thanks, landon. >>> 4:41. new this morning, for the first time in 80 years, san francisco can hand out new liquor licenses. governor jerry brown signed a bill to allow five new licenses a year. they are restricted to restaurants in sunset, ocean avenue and bayview neighborhoods. the licenses cost $13,000, but existing licenses can sell for $300,000 on the secondary market. >>> coming up on "today in the bay," another cool start for the morning. kari? >> yes, definitely another morning where you have to dig a sweater out of the back of the closet. we are starting out with clear skies. let's

aol says instant messenger is no more.ber aim was the popular way to communicate online before text messaging and facebook took over. program first started back in nope 97, yeah, 27 years ago. can you believe it? in a tweet this morning aim said the program shut down for good on september 15. >> that was my go to. >> that will do it for tonight at 11:00. up n n >> announcer: a hotel clerk's challenging check-in. >> i advised him that long distance was cut off in the rooms. he threw an ink pen over the desk at me. >> judge judy: what are you fighting with him for? >> announcer: but when this guest returned... >> he got off the elevator like this, coming towards the desk. >> announcer: ...he wanted to reach out and touch someone. >> he leaned across his desk and said, "do you want some of me?" and i grabbed at him. >> judge judy: this is a good story. it's like a dr. seuss fairy tale. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. the people are real. the cases are real. the peopl

as part of merger with verizon and becoming part of this new verizon organization called oath art of aold yahoo coming together they discovered accounts and put have multiple account and tremendous data and passwords and answer security questions and share across other account and verification questions and troubling. >> and between these two massive data breaches you mentioned yahoo breach what is value of information to hackers. how is it being used by people hope have breached these accounts? >> yeah, so the most obvious thing obviously is break into accounts themselves and yahoo indicate when billion records they forced all users to reset accounts. >> if you share passwords themes toll passwords on security or if authenticating to sungle account like email account that gives you ak is to everything. when you reset your password if email password is week you have real problems because authentication goats then and you reach your password and becomes a real problem. >> what kind of ram if i cans do we see from all this. what can anyone who say had their accounts breached by these what

aol instant messenger known as aim is signing off for good.e facebook and twitter it was the way to chat with friends for so many people throughout the late '90s and into the 2000s with your screen name and buddy lists and creative away messages that might now make you cringe >>> scary moments caught on camera when an airbus jumbo jet came in for a rough landing in powerful cross winds. take a look. the plane wobbled as it touched down, appearing to come close to sliding off the runway in germany yesterday before the pilot was able to finally straighten it out. the airbus a-380 plane is the largest commercial aircraft in the world. >> when we come back, the creator of the smash hit "hamilton," lin-manuel miranda on his star-studded hit to benefit puerto rico. the bay area gives hillary clinton a hero )s welcome! next at 6: the outcome she )s hoping for... from the russian hacking investigation. plus, bart has been found guilty! the punishment it just received for the deaths of two workers... next. right now at 6: >>> finally tonight, more than

. >>> the parent company of aol instant messenger announced the product will shut down december 15 after 20 years in service. instant messenger launched in 1997, made its mark in pop culture with cameos in "you've got mail" and "sex and the city." but it faded into the background with new apps including social media networks and mobile products. >> i love that. that's how we communicated in college. late-night meet up on denny's? we would go online on a.i.m. and say, see you there. people who don't know what a.i.m. is are making me feel old. >>> here's a look outside at the bay area. pi rfece-t. i had a good time watching these on live camera shots. i also want to take you to the beach. here it is. we have a beach hazard statement because of what's going on in the ocean. temperatures right now, 79, concord, 70. oakland, 81, livermore, 81, san francisco, 75. beach hazards until tomorrow night because we have a southwest swell and northwest swell colliding across the northern california coastline. your wave, rip currents, and large brakes out there. red flag warnings have been upgraded by

. >> that and your aol account, to make sure they're both okay. >>> we're going so start things off with new video and dpriping new details on the killer's extensive planning. >> police released body camera footage showing the chaotic moments as officers surrounded the mandalay bay hotel trying to figure out where the shots wier coming from. >> a couple of officers hunkered down next to a patrol vehicle on las vegas boulevard when one of our >> police there dictating that video, narrating it. just some of the video from 67 police body cameras being examined. >> the gunman had set up cameras inside and outside his hotel room to see when police were closing in. cops also found 12 devices in his room, capable of modifying weapons into automatic weapons. his girlfriend is now back in the u.s. >> and crime scene photos show the inside of the shooter's hotel room, scattered with weapons, including an assault-style rifle with a scope. lana zak has the latest from las vegas. good morning, lana. >> reporter: we're learning so many details about that shooter including how many guns he had in total

wide web >> my parents used to get angry staying on line >> from the advent of america online, then aol instant messenger or aim. >> we spent time perfecting our profiles >> like a diary. >> reporter: and updating our away messages. >> i had the >> >>? >> reporter: december 15th, aim is signing off for good. >> that's for now, be right back. at one time. >> you guys had this in college. >> yes. even before i had america online. >> i had morris code >> tell them your screen name, can you remember there was an irish band called the corrs, i was corrgirl 18. >> i loved the screening. >> did you have one >> we used morris code. >> oh. >> all right. let's move on. >> reminiscing. >> let's talk about the weather. we have hot humid weather to start the westbound then we'll be talking about rain from nate. let's take a peak what's going on we'll take you out to the roof camphor everything looking quiet. it's nice night. mild, we take for granted not having to ware the coat when we're walking around. come february, when you're bundled up we're going to long for nights like this one where you don

i don't think a whole lot of people are using aol anymore. >> i know a couple of people.on't out you. she's tempted. >> i know one person. >> you know that same person >> i know someone else. of >> ok. anyway. it's holding you hostage. >> aim is gone. >>> weekend looks like 50-50. 50-50. we're starting out with a great day tomorrow. take a look at this, 86 and sunshine, wonderful for the baseball game but then, we're talking about a real soaker come sunday. plenty of tropical moisture coming up towards our area from what will be the remnants of nate and we expect to see a lot of rainfall moving right up the midatlantic and hanging around through until tuesday and maybe lingering through a couple more days after that >> we needed this. didn't we >> we're desperate for rain. we are. >> we'll take it. that's it for us. 5@630 is coming up ne [music playing] across the country, we walk. carrying flowers that signify why we want to end alzheimer's disease. but what if, one day, there was a white flower for alzheimer's first survivor? what if there were millions of them? join us

was being integrated into verizon and aol. verizon bought yahoo! in june for $4.5 million. the stolen data was confined to users' i.d.s and e-mail addresses and not passwords, payment card, or bank account information. yahoo! will notify the additional affected users by e-mail. >>> let's talk about ford moving away from traditional cars. what are they planning? >> reporter: yeah, exactly what ford's ceo was talking about. ford plans to invest heavily in electric and hybrid cars as the new ceo aims to boost profits. his long-term plan includes a dramatic shakeup of ford's lineup including reducing the number of gas-powered cars that it makes. ford will also shift more money toward pickup trucks, crossovers, and suvs. >>> let's check the markets. they could take a breather after closing at record highs again yesterday. the dow rising for a fifth straight session. investors will get data on the job market and the services sector. back to you. >> thanks. >>> 5:25. 57 degrees outside. a theft investigation leads to a deadly crash. this morning, investigators say the suspect left

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. >> reporter: verizon has been focused on its oath unit, which has evolved from aol. we'll see if there other acquisitions in the works. i'm julia boorstin in lodg for "nightly business report mor br it wasal >> reporter: in a quarter adopted by catastrophes, travelers has good news to share, a big earnings beat. the insurance giant reported adjusted earnings that were more than double what wall street analysts were expecting. even as a historic hurricane season racked up $700 million in pretax catastrophe losses. those company losses due largely to hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria, were seven times higher than a year ago. travelers is bracing for more in this quarter, thanks to deadly wildfires in california. travelers' ceo said it will now seek renewal price increases for some policies the company offers. >> big eve pricing when a material amount of industry surplus is eroded or when the events change the market's view of risk. it's hard not to make the argument that we've experienced both. >> reporter: stronger pricing could fuel stronger results for the industry

. >>> aol instant messenger will shut down on december 15th the once popular chat platform now ownedy verizon making that announcement it helped popularize a new short handlingo such as lol for laughing out loud. you're up to date. that's the news update this hour scotty, back for you. >> i'm going to miss that, aren't you >> i was literally going say what would you do? >> i was nervous to call girls on the phone, like the dad would hang up -- the dad would pick up and i would be like oh, my god i almost smoke to this girl's dad, but instant message came along at the right time for me in the mid-'90s. i was killer -- look at me on twitter. you can imagine me in a chat room just -- just wrecking it, so -- >> camech age. >> shout out to aol instant message. we'll miss you. >> you feel me, jimmy. >> you're on fire today, josh. >> jimmy has never been in a chat room, come on. >> up next, we're trading costco and p & g and kansas city southern alimrertcoins ntue right after this >> you're on fire today, josh catalonian okay. >>> all right. we're back on "halftime. i want to call your atte

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the aol and other content like "huffington post," riot, tumblr. it's going well and hopefully be a third player in the advertising market. third player that companies have been asking for and looking for. so it's good. >> host: with that, facebook and google, et cetera, are now essentially competitors of yours in a sense. how do you differ business-wise from them? when it comes to issues like privacy, et cetera? >> guest: we compete and we work together is the easy answer to that. in area wes compete directly, mobile advertising, digital content markets inch other area wes partner and work together on different products or things customers might want we can do joinly. on terms of privacy in a lot of ways our companies use information never same way, or in -- for the same purposes. we don't have the same policy structure or the same regulatory framework but we use the information or -- content its the same way. >> there's been an i think increased interest from both democrats and republicans on possible regulation of some of the big companies, like

but aol and some of the other great content that consumers love like "huffington post," write, tumblr, it's going very well and it will be hopefully a third player in the advertising market, third player that companies have been asking for an looking for. so it's good. >> host: with that, facebook and google, et cetera, are now essentially competitors of yours any sense. how do you differ from a businesswise from them? when it comes to issues like privacy, et cetera? >> guest: we compete and we work together i guess is the easy answer. in some areas we compete directly. mobile advertising, some of the digital content market. in other areas with partner and work together on different products or things our customers might want. in terms of privacy, in a lot of ways our companies use information in the same way for the same purposes. we don't have the same policy structure or same regular framework most of the time, but we we use the information or content the same way. >> there's been i think increased interest from both democrats and republicans on possible regulation of some of the b

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>> the big opportunity is what i call the third wave, get everybody connected that we started aol andle online, last 15 or 20 years the second wave app services, facebook, google, but the third wave is now happening, integrating the internet throughout health care, energy, food, agriculture, transportation, a lot of things are up for grabs in the third wave but require policy regulatory issues more important and i will believe they will tie because expertise and a lot of sectors like health care and farm asking in the middle of the country. if we back the entrepreneurs that are close to industries, that's where it will break out. people talk about peak oil, i think we are peak silicon valley and will continue to be strong and vibrant, we will see inclusive innovation economy within the united states and globalized really all around the world. maria: you make a good point. when you were first obviously with aol, a different moment in time, we were on the doorstep of a new revolution if you, will. today it's a different tool. >> i was in columbus a couple of weeks ago, ohio, indiana and

>> loves something even more vintage than aol itself. >> there is a percussiv quality if the drums arethe productivity. listen to this sound. >> intrigue him so much. hanks made typewriters the supporting characters in this. his very first book. collection of50s i fittingly titled "uncommon type." >> did you plan to weave a type wriemter into each story. >> i did. that was on purpose. it helped me formulate each story. off a really? >> each type writer has a personality? >> yes. >> his stories 17 in all are not about typewriters nor are they about tom hanks although you may catch glimpses of him including his life growing up in a fractured home. >> when i was 10 years old both my parents had been married three times and lived in ten houses. an adventure, confused by what it happened. we just were moving. we just had new people in our lives. we didn't know why. they were g in some ways like i'm going back and looking at the times for me and my siblings and trying to put context on the confusion. >> besides his own life, hanks also drew in spspiration from h big screen life too. >> oh, y

. >> if you think when aol was starting and you were excited to get online with your dialup"up" speedre seeing things grow so much on top of it is because there are so many applications built on top of this technology that require bitcoin to be involved so there is more demand for bitcoin. charles: breaking news in the harvey weinstein scandal. harvey weinstein's contract aloud him to get sued for sexual misconduct if he paid out the fine. this would suggest this some secret was so well known they found the need to put a provision in his contract. judge napolitano: there are a couple of implications. the first is the board or whoever the contracting party is here. a committee of the board, was aware of his proclivity. secondly and more significant in my view, this contract is against public policy. there is no way you can indemnify for the commission of acts which are themselves harmful and against public policy. he could be indemnified for your own negligence. but not your own intentional acts if those acts are against public policy. it's beyond me that any lawyer could have drafted

. >>> and people are lamenting the end of aol instant messenger. yeah, my chat service was a staple back in the 1990s. aim will shut down on december, is that what we call aim? december 15th of this year shut down. we invite you to share your memories. call nbc bay area to tweet us. we want to know what your tweets were like back then or your messages. back in two minutes with more news. a bit faster - on monday. the new express lanes - literally years in the making. and some peninsula students- call their r-v - )home. ) the solution one superintendent has for this growing problem. that )s monday - on )today in e live in san jose in danger. >>> you might have heard about this, a clerical error put people who live in san jose in danger. a clerk in the sheriff's office accidentally ordered an inmate released when he should have been heading to prison. >> nbc damien broke the news on twitter yesterday morning. he has more from outside the jail where the inmate is in custody. >> reporter: ranchers were enjoying their day when they heard a commotion. >>

>> you could argue i did a book on aol. >> not to take away from him, but the idea was an important one. it wasn't around when they started operation, so he was the founder. >>> next on booktv "after words" discussed sexual harassment in the workplace interviewed by sally quinn, "washington post" columnist and on the face founding editor. >> host: it's too bad we don't have anything to talk about today. [laughter] >> that is the understatement of the century. >> why don't we start off by talking about harvey weinstein because that is what everyone is talking about right now. every day there is a new atrocity that occurs. three more people came forward with the idea and this has been going on for years and years. there were eight settlements against him, and obviously everyone in the company knew about it. and i have to say, i wondered about his wife who i gather announced last night announced she was leaving him finally, how she could possibly not have heard about this. how do you think this happened? how was disallowed to go on and on and have nobody speak out until now >> guest: as a

. >> goes back to when aol was raising prices.t of that drops to the bottom line and gives more money to inve invest. >> is this a sign we are getting milked. maybe netflix feels like we don't need growth in s subscribers. >> milked. you are free to quit. you don't like the $11 of value per month. always up. >> worth every penny. >> still a great deal. >> how much it costs around the world is a good indicator of the local economies. >> great to see you. >> getting milked. >>> coming up, record highs for the nasdaq and s&p 500. we will track the next move in a moment. why does the mayor of san jose say he is not bidding for amazon's next headquarters the white house reyunts with favorite ceos nearly two months after disbanding the infamous ceo counsels. >>> the dow, s&p and nasdaq hitting record highs. the s&p is on pace for eighth straight day of gains. joining us now is chief investments officer with open hiemer funds. good to have you here. why is the market at new highs are these levels justified >> absolutely. if you look arou

there are so many areas where the united states and russia could, could cooperate that are in our mute aol interests. another easy one is on north korea. we recognize that china has the vast majority of economic and power and influence over north korea, russia has considerable innuns as we influence as well. if they were to use that with a way that is an effort to convince, to convince kim jong-un and his regime to move toward denuclearization of the peninsula as really a last chance to avoid severe consequences, russia could play a productive role there. i think it's becoming clear to russia that it's not in its interest to perpetuate this conflict in ukraine. it's imposing costs on russia, economic costs, credibility costs. and so these are all areas that we could work with russia on and i know the president and the secretary of state, the whole team would welcome the opportunity to do that. the president's speech focused on the revolutionary guard corps and one of the take ways from the action opens friday was the designation of the guard corps in the entirety. so as a beginning predica