get in the zone-- autozone. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: hey, welcome back. folks, you know, if you are's paying atension, i know the colbert nation always does, it is absolutely no big secret that our country is being torn apart by childish partisan bickering and obama started it. we're a culture war, folks, it's us versus them. and if you don't know who them are, you could be they. and it's not just politics, we also must pick sides in the products we buy. that's why i patronize only conservative businesses, sam's club insed of cost co, chip fill a instead of chip otle. hobby lobby instead of what the pro contraceptive crap superstore is, i'm guessing fluff and stuff. unfortunately-- that's good. unfortunately, not every company just advertises which side they're on. well, good news. as the kids say, there's an iphone application program to do that. >> bipartisan, that's buy, an app that allows you to scan the bar code of your favorite grocery item and find out just how much money the company and its c.e.o. give to either party. cherrios gave 63.5% of its p

autozone. ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight is author of the "the star spangled banner: the making of an american icon." it's a book about a song. a flag. i can't wait for the movie. please welcome lonn taylor! ( cheers and applause ) don't get up. thank you. good to see you. thanks for coming on. >> it's a pleasure to be here. >> stephen: all right, sir, you are a former historian at the smithsonian national museum of natural history, and you worked on the star spangle banner restoration project. >> that's right correct. >> stephen: let's show the folks what the actual star spangled banner is. jim, throw that up there. what is is the history of this flag? >> this flag is now at the museum of natural history. it came there in 1907. before that it was kept for nearly 100 years in an attic in baltimore. after the battle of fort mchenry, the commander of the fort, major george armstead, essentially took it home as a personal souvenir. >> stephen: wow. >> even though it was a very expensive piece of government prop

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in fact, on the way here, we saw officeres the stop a black see dan at the autozone store close by.police haven't determined an motive. that will be part of the investigation. this neighborhood saw another fatal shooting recently. that was just on august 2nd on the 5,000 block of monterrey. tonight's shooting is the 29th homicide for the city of san jose this year. at this time last yee, the city was at 39. so again here, live in south san jose, we have a man confirmed dead and what residents here believe is a drive-by shooting. live in south san jose, nan net miranda. >> new details tonight in a deadly head on collision involving a bus on peninsula. two people died yesterday when their van struck a samtrans bus. today medical examiners identified the pair as 84 joseph stivala and annan stivala both from san mateo. authorities say he was driving the car. five passengers on the bus were hospitalized. none of the injuries are life-threatening. >> new at 11:00, help it on the way for thousands of unaccompanied minors who recently fled their corrupts into california. today governor brow

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share sofs autozone went the other way after the auto parts retailer reported weak are than expected fourth quarter revenue. this comes as the sfrentenning economy has encouraged consumers to buy new cars instead of fixing up the old one. that sent shares down 4% to $505.38. >>> blackberry is rolling out a new smartphone and that's cheaper than the iphone. the passport phone goes on sale wednesday and retails without a contract. apple's new iphone 6 has a sticker price, no contract of about 650 bucks. shares of blackberry up a little bit today to $10.93. shares of radio shack popped after the struggling retailer said it is in talks with a major vendor in an effort to avoid bankruptcy. earlier this month we told you that radio shack said it was running out of cash and could be forced to see bankruptcy protection if it can't find another way to shore up its finances. the stock finished unchanged at about the price of a connector, 91 cents. after the bell athena retail posted fourth quarter earnings that missed estimates. the company which operates lane bryant and dress barn also gave a

and autozone and ascena retail are going to report their earnings. >>> and now michael is here with usmorning, a guest earlier on told us this market is a little depressed because we are coming off a very busy week with alibaba with the scottish referendum. where are markets headed this week? >> well, i will say this, if it is slightly positive, then you are up double digits on the year. i've already noticed equity markets are clearly riding the tide very well in this environment. and for those reasons, i'm not going to be too surprised if we see some positive growth here in the numbers and upcoming week. and also the fed is going to get on all the right tones in regard of where their direction wants to be. but at the same time being very cautious and not implementing it immediately. that being said, i'm not surprised at the yields and the ten-year that start to peak down a bit now because of the recent pricing we saw last week. again, i'm rather bullish in the equity markets with things getting better here in the u.s. >> michael, the s&p 500 is trading at 15.6 times projected earnings

autozone. don't call my company and on ball. ok, it is not an oddball. it is just out of the normal flow. global initiative is today. treasury secretary lou will be willg a keynote -- lew beginning a keynote address. ecb president mario draghi is addressing the european parliament. >> let's do a did a check. equities, bonds, currencies, commodities. yields come in. euro does nothing. nymex crude. hydrocarbons are down. gold, it is now on the 1200 watch. let's look at goldbach a zillion years. this is inflation-adjusted. -- gold, back a zillion years. this is inflation-adjusted. we really rolled over. we are at critical support at $1200 per ounce. harkin -- lly hearkener of disinflation. buying sigma, a chemical company of its own for $17 billion. this works out to $140 per share in cash. friday thatoned on there was a possibility that they were looking to -- that was the other deal. is what is staying in a nice rank for eight hours will do to you. >> absolutely. we have another deal we want to tell you about area and >> this is a large transaction. hugel

. >> autozone. >> i was in that camp. i started the same day as eddie lampert did at goldman sachs.ie has got a problem on his hands which is that every other company has decided they are going to kill sears. it's part of your operating plant, let's kill sears. >> to be fair, it has not helped itself. >> no. i don't want to touch the stock. it's so heavily short it's even where it is. i think people forget what retail is like. i remember because my mother worked at lidzt and my father worked at gimbel's. those were it. those were sears. gimbel's is when we think about santa claus, macy's versus gi gimbel's. >> don't want to get too negative. tesla is the stock unlike go pro, tesla bounces. i would prefer you to buy microsoft. the fundamentals are really good. tesla is a wonder stock. that's when people are done saying that the market is over. they come back to tesla. >> what did you make of the morgan stanley argument that there is a reason their rivals are not jumping into electric vehicles? they don't sound convinced that this is really the technology, necessarily. that tesla can

and autozone's earnings has beat it but revenues are down. >>> coming up, they are a leader in crowdsourcingand today they're announcing a $15 million prize to help spread literacy around the world. also check out the futures at this hour. you'll see red arrows still there. but the losses have moderated somewhat. dow down 16 points. s&p futured off by just under five points. and nasdaq 11.5. stick around. whenwork with equity experts who work with regional experts who work with portfolio management experts that's when expertise happens. mfs. because there is no expertise without collaboration. >>> welcome back, everybody. let's jump back into the shark tank. we have an update on the founder of mo's bows. he was on two weeks ago and has been featured from vogue to "gq" magazine. he was even on "shark tank." when he joined us this month he spoke about deciding to start his bow tie company. >> how did you come up with this idea when you were 9 years old. >> i really love to dress nice and i couldn't find other bow ties i really liked. so i asked my grandmother to teach me how to sew. after that