i am mark barton. >> i am anna edwards.:00 in london this thursday morning. bloomberg reporters are standing by around the world ready to deliver stories that will drive your day. we have details of a slide in stock prices. manus cranny has been digging into bernanke's policy decision. and also looking at nintendo in desperate need of a power up. we will look at what the company is doing to boost its profits. anothernovo with purchase. hans nichols is in berlin. big on the super bowl with the new ad campaign. and caroline hyde on facebook shares. >> let's tell you what is coming up on bloomberg this morning. .e have some big interviews we have andrew griffin that will join "countdown" after the earnings break. we will also get results from menezes.'s ivan >> china manufacturing shares -- david with us from hong kong. good morning. >> good morning. it is a confluence of factors really. asia welcome to big declines on wall street. it is all of the uncertainty out there. you have a lot of these unexpected moves. you have new z

i am mark barton. anna will join me in about an hour's time. a bloomberg reporters are standing by and ready to deliver stories that will drive your day. atn chilcote is looking sony's new internet service. mia will highlight comments from emerging markets. focused on head of a trading statement. which hedge fund beats out the rest? jonathan ferro has been digging into the top funds. do not miss that. do not miss john rogers later on "countdown." us at 7:00 in the second hour of "countdown." alan is out of the race to be microsoft's new chief executive. mulally said he will stay through 2014. hans nichols is here in person. --come back onset eared welcome back onset. >> i couldn't drive the f-150 h ere. he finally ends the speculation that he will not be heading microsoft. andave associated press confirm to bloomberg that he has no plans to do anything other than serve ford. they seem to be having a hard time finding people. there have been a few candidates. eve of qualcomm was in the running. john don

i am mark barton. >> i am anna edwards. bloomberg reporters are standing .y ready to deliver the stories in a berlin, david tweed covers sap. their earnings are breaking it now. >> unilever's numbers. and hong kong to the lenovo/ibm story. it's a possible to make a new profits in music streaming? a new company is trying it. getting earnings from sap, the german company, the biggest maker of software. they all felt fourth-quarter results. it is announcing its output for 2014. and 2015. it sees its operating profit this year between 5 billion euros and 6 billion euros. just slightly below analyst' e stimates. it delayed its margin operating target to 2017. it delayed its profitability target and that seems to be the biggest news pushing back profitability target of by two years. it is chipping stemcells from licensing business to program delivered over the internet. they said operating profit at adjusted for some items will probably reach 35% of sales by 2017 rather than in 2015 as previously projected. let's get contacts for

i am mark barton. >> i am anna edwards. are standingorters by a crossed the world and ready to deliver stories that will drive your day. we'll get stills from the world's largest jewelry maker. airline hide will have those numbers. we are also following microsoft news for the new ceo candidates. i'm getting tough on bank capital. and in sydney, the poor job numbers. sweetest have the story of the day. more regulation on sugar that affect profits. we will take a look at those numbers. china. the government is urging people to stay inside. breakingget to numbers. the jewelry rocket maker is releasing its numbers. >> we know the brands well. not living up to expectations in the third quarter. we are staying shy of just 3 billion euros. analysts expected just over $3 billion. it is a misstep there. the gross is also a miss. sales are rising nine percent in certain currencies. many have been hoping to see double digits. double digit growth is not out of their grasp. china, this is where they said they are expect in it to be the

i'm mark barton.pple is selling its iphone through china mobile, but can they find success amid competition with local brands? apple has fallen behind on the innovation curve, my guest said last time he was here. he joins us now. james, good morning. can apple cracks china? is a grand task and do not underestimate it. this is a true luxury product frome know there is luxury chanel to range rover. , mobilere not cheap phones in china. the hope was that under china mobile they would be cheaper, but $700 for a phone is not .heap >> they were hoping that the iphone 5c would break the market, but it is still a punchy price. >> and the want for a cheaper phone. how much did that dent the hopes of cracking china? small, nimble,f cheap companies snapping at its .eels >> these cheap local companies, chinese born and bred, well- made, and they are very proud of that. if you look at the android app store, they are all china born and bred. the interesting thing is around subsidy and what they will subsidize the m

ho>> london -- irgan in am mark barton in london. world bank raises its growth forecast. -- thehington post lender is-based predicting the global economy will grow this year. this followed a conflict with the biggest shareholder over the 3 billion euro offer. they are seeking to boost the world's largest bank to avoid nationalization. and the british labour party is expected to charge a chancellor. chris leslie has tabled the cop pay senior staff bonuses. welcome back. i mark barton. >> and i am anna edwards. asian stock markets are higher. that is the global -- world bank raises its growth forecast. we have the details. bankoptimism for the world comes with some conditions. the asteriskith that we are in taper mode. it says, not everybody is prepared on an equal footing as it were to defend against the smooth and orderly unwinding of qe. let's go with the upside. austerity supplementing recovery. we will get growth on a global races, 3.2%. the world will grow at double the rate is here that it did two years ago. however you chop tha

i'm anna edwards. >> and i'm mark barton.ond buying impact on financial stability, our next guest is the tapering of those purchases finishing by the end of the year, the fixed income director at hansen global directors. billione minutes, 10 per meeting finishing by the end of december? collected feels like it. the clear guidance was that yes, they are beginning to be concerned about some of the aspects of quantitative easing and want to keep tapering in place. they have greater confidence that the economy is doing well enough to continue. >> what about a potential called in the wheel concerns about the celebration in consumer prices over the year? many talked about that in the preferred measure over half lower than it should be. could more tapering be held off because of inflation at lower levels? >> it's possible. inflation is so low that it has to be a concern for the fed. unless it falls to extremely low levels, less than 0.5%, they will hold off. >> is this because -- you've mentioned that this is coming from emerging ma

i am mark barton. >> and i am an edwards. -- anna edwards. blackberry is looking to the past to brighten his future. how their newn ceo is driving a return to physical keyboards. the details ofs the profit samsung prayer to >> how to 1000 u.k. businesses feel about the economy? we dig into the latest report by the british chamber of commerce. and jack lew's agenda as he stops in paris. onemphasis is back keyboards. that is according to ceo john chen. chen is trying to rebuild the company after blackberry's 10 touchscreen models fizzled with what customers last year. it contributed to the means of dollars of write-downs. the return of the keyboard. >> i'm not going to hide it. i have been a blackberry user and i was sort of wondered what happened to a company when every new model they come out what -- out with is a little bit worse than their preceding model. as a fan of the keyboard, i had a big issue with not only the touchscreen but also in blackberry did that. even the hybrid ones. you did not know where to press and it was always making e

i am mark barton. >> is 6:00 a.m. this tuesday morning. in berlin, hans nichols will give you numbers from the -- breaking. >> digging into apple's disappointing earnings as well as looking at the ikea earnings report. focusing on the turnaround out -- effort at rbs. >> we have a couple of big interviews this morning on "countdown." , someone fromes unilever. >> chief executive stephen stonehill will be joining us. -- ind us that in u.k. october that u.k. is far from a housing bubble. the biggest making of -- maker of lighting equipment, philip. it looks like there beating earnings reports. that is including -- excluding items for the fourth quarter. 915 million euros. analysts were expecting 874 million euros. they were able to increase dividends 80 euro cents per share. the targets were to achieve a and 12%. of 10% its target to 2016 is to achieve a margin through 11%-12%. this is the company that is focusing on health care, lighting, on consumer lifestyle as well. i will be asking be coo frans figuresen all about the in 15 minutes time.

barton gellman says, "obama placed restrictions on access to domestic can phone records collected by the national security agency, but the changes he announced will allow it to continue or expand the collection of personal data from billions of people around the world, americans and foreign citizens alike." that doesn't seem like a lot of privacy protection. >> well, i would disagree with mr. gellman. i think that what the president has said is that he wanted to maintain the capability of the

i might barton -- i am mark barton. --anna an edwards edwards. start out in -- let's start out in davos. what do you have for us? ipad.put it on the german]g >> he believes there is a leadership role for the united states. he does not think he will get a fair trial. security and phones are the background of some of the talking. i have been asking executives whether they have a blackberry or iphone. great topic, which is why we chose the story. we have the most powerful business leaders of the world. they must be concerned about security. >> no one has admitted to what kind of security they have. i was talking to jamie diamond, who has a blackberry. 60% in davos, the that is when we will know it is the death knell. the question is whether you have a balkanization of the internet. if the u.s. cannot secure server data, physical all around the globe and country? in that case, you might have more barriers and walls than openness. a question of whether companies can take advantage of the scandal. the digital agenda commissioner was saying, this is a g

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i am mark barton. >> i am caroline hyde. let's move to at&t and tax. speculation that looking to buy vodafone is saying they have no plans to make a specific offer. let's head out to berlin with hans nichols. an update. they have written it off the table. but they ripped it off the table stop there and raises the question what might at&t be interest -- >> they wrote it off the table and it raises the question what might at&t be interested in? an interesting question and we will update you. the head of at&t met with the top eu trade and that raises questions about what did they talk about and is at&t answers and something other than vodafone? they put out a statement indicating that the vodafone is not a target. i will read it. confirms it does not intend to make an offer for vodafone and that would event at&t from going after vodafone for six months under u.k. rules." all of the focus comes back to vodafone. vodafone is going to have a lot of cash on their hands because of the deal unwinding with verizon, one should $30 billion deal. if you take -- $13

attorney for the district of columbia philip barton key. d.c. politicians tried to keep this out of the papers. they didn't talk to anybody about it. it's not like reporters were reporting on what happened between these two lovers. but people whispered about in washington and eventually he found out. he accosted philip barton key in the matter of the -- middle of the square, shot him, and turned himself in to the district attorney. he's famous now for being the first person to be acquitted because of temporary insanity. but this was a good example of how we can learn about this today but it was something kept secret for a long time. as the story of fickles tells you violence was also a pretty regular part of the washington experience and not just between northerners and southerners. some of you might be thinking that southerners were the ones who were more violent. not true at all. northerners were just as violent. one of my favorite stories of violence took place between william english, a democrat from indiana, and william montgomery, a democr

has secretly hacked into google and yahoo is data links barton gellman calls this the most explosive story and it's a was breaking into the data links the private cleone the links between for example to google data centers this one in finland and one in. and they are intercepting the data as it crosses there and they're intercepting that in very large numbers to collecting for example hundreds of millions. email address books that was a shocker for me in it and very much so for the industry and despite repeated assurances from the white house on the spot of internal n.s.a. documents and pfizer court documents reveal how the n.s.a. broke privacy rules thousands of times every year in congress there was a revolt against the spy agency we're here to answer one question for the people we represent do we oppose the suspicion this collection of every american's phone records in the summer the house of representatives comes within just a few votes of defunding the n.s.a.'s bulk records collection program despite the defeat n.s.a. reformers are emboldened a flurry of legislation drops to rei

. ♪ >> i mark barton in london. these are the top bloomberg headlines.lywood star matt damon is taking center stage in davos. he received an award as cofounder of a nonprofit organization, water.org. pope francis has sent his blessing to davos. he urged the leaders to ensure well.umanity is served he called for a new political and business mentality that takes ethics into consideration. as the business elite gather in davos, peace talks between syrian president bashar al-assad and opposition groups began. at least 40 countries including the u.n., russia, and the u.s. hope to create a transitional government and end the three year civil war. hello and welcome to "countdown." >> 6:31 here in london. time to head back to dad vose -- davos in the snowy and very cold resort. now a bloomberg exclusive story. billionaires expend -- attending richer inplan to be 2014 with a few key that's. francine lacqua and others are live from the slopes. towe have been talking shibu. a lot of ceo's are here for business and also to gauge the mood. the mood seems pretty first

barton was talking about. if you think about one of the wisest things that was done in the 1996 act, it has nothing to do with the individual rules but the fundamental judgment that the government rejected the monopoly thesis and decided instead that competition was the more fruitful approach. common carriage law inherently is about a government-sanctioned monopoly. it's essentially the queen of the realm who grants an exclusive license to a ferryboat captain in exchange for all the privileges of that monopoly, they agree to be bound to serve all the citizens in a nonzrimtry way and other things that the zorch wishes to have as part that have benefit. mutual in regards they get the exclusive profits and the realm gets the benefits of serving all the citizens. in some ways in 1996, the government sued for divorce from companies through exclusive monopoly and instead said go compete. raise your own capital. no guaranteed return on investment. no guaranteed success. but yet the lingering notions of common carriag

mark barton, nbc news. >>> step aside, oprah, someone else topped the list for most influential celebrities >> steven spielberg won, oprah dropped to second, third is george lucas. not on the list, miley cyrus, justin bieber, and kim kardashian. >> they're disrespecting the biebs. >>> two recycling plant owners that saved a puppy's life. >> well today two workers saved an injured puppy. >> they found the ten week old puppy nicknamed gem on a conveyer belt. she was thrown away in a truckload of trash including bottles, cans, and other recyclebles. she has come a long way, but she is still in foster care. gem herself will be at tonight's event, up for adoption, as soon as she fully recovers. so far authorities have not been able to identify who did d that to the poor little pup. >> nice work to those people, the mayor will be there and gem will be there. >> thank you for joining us. our next newscast is at 5:00. [whining like a dog] (tina) oh, my, not that--this. sorry, i don't shake hands. i have avian bone syndrome. hollow bones. tracy jordan, the black crusaders are coming for you. the top

barton was talking about. if you think about one of the wisest things that was done in the 1996 act, it has nothing to do with the individual rules but the fundamental judgment that the government rejected the monopoly thesis and decided instead that competition was the more fruitful approach. common carriage law inherently is about a government-sanctioned monopoly. it's essentially the queen of the realm who grants an exclusive license to a ferryboat captain in exchange for all the privileges of that monopoly, they agree to be bound to serve all the citizens in a nonzrimtry way and other things that the zorch wishes to have as part that have benefit. mutual in regards they get the exclusive profits and the realm gets the benefits of serving all the citizens. in some ways in 1996, the government sued for divorce from companies through exclusive monopoly and instead said go compete. raise your own capital. no guaranteed return on investment. no guaranteed success. but yet the lingering notions of common carriag

today, "washington post" reporter barton gelman, who interviewed snowden in december, said the theory doesn't add up. >> edward snowden told me he acted alone. and as far as i know, that is the view of the u.s. government. i'm trying to imagine how it would be plausible that the russians would help edward snowden and then let him fly to hong kong. >> reporter: and today, russian president vladimir putin didn't hesitate to embrace snowden, saying he's welcome to stay in russia as long as he wants, and even travel to the olympic games. >> translator: everybody is invited. mr. snowden is subject to the treatment of provisional asylum here in russia. he has a right to travel freely across the country. he has no special limitation. he can just buy a ticket and come here. >> reporter: there was no specific evidence offered by any of the lawmakers today that snowden cooperated with russia. now, this all comes amidst tense relations with the united states and russia, clashing with issues such as syria, gay rights and edward snowden. lester? >> kristen, thanks. >>> on the defensive about the t

i am mark barton. >> i am anna edwards. a warm welcome to the program. are ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. jon ferro is looking ahead. ryan chilcote is on the ground at the london boat show. >> we have another quarter of sliding sales. there is competition from chinese brands and, who better than manus cranny to talk about center stage in london. -- london? >> george osborne will set out his vision a more spending cuts in a speech and lower taxes. >> not a cheery message for a lot people in one of the fastest-growing economies in the western world. you have unemployment and -- of unemployment falling and economic activity rising. truths andr of hard the government will not be losing the purse strings. tempering andot this is about minimizing the government's role in the economy. incentivizing and hiring more. funded bynot be borrowing and, as we start 2014, really, this is about setting this up for next year. >> it is a big year because the election. despite the improvement in the economy, the conservatives are losing some of their

my name is patrick christie and i have the honor of introducing the former headmaster of the joe bartonchool. please join me in welcoming him to deliver the invocation. [applause] >> as you can tell, patrick, by that applause that your dad got, that he is loved. let us now bow our heads and pray for god's blessing. lord, we gather today to ask your blessings on our governor, lieutenant governor, senators, and members of the assembly, jurists, and all citizens of this great state of new jersey. we ask your blessings on all who serve the common good for the people of this state. we ask you, lord, with the author of the first book of kings, to give your servants an understanding mind to govern your people, able to discern between good and evil, and to seek justice and peace and security. we ask your blessings on all who govern and protect us, and all who serve us in any way in public office. we ask your blessings on all gathered here. on our families, on the christie family and on all families in this state. and lord, we ask your blessings on those most vulnerable, and on all the children

shipped to a rebel group in neighboring india three hundred people have been killed during the medical barton's in bangladesh over just the last year. now if the essence of the winter olympics is sliding in all its many forms and saatchi's sankey arena will be central to the upcoming games. continue through the curtains of the venues by heading to the sliding center and beating some skillet. the olympic hopefuls in bumps lady and skeleton will be chasing the dream at the sunday sliding center. the movie cool runnings they use retelling of the true story of jamaican bobsled team could perhaps you resonate to inside this old sheep but i've always wondered how do they get the shape of the track to be the way it is i'd also how do they get it so smooth while i've already answered today and it's old man politics actually called the shape of the track and once that's done this big baby here comes into action what it does is it was floated like a vacuum machine so it got up over the guy off of the tribe and then moved put over the causes a for us in russia to have three up and slopes which help to slo

what is is day like were easy was his living conditions like you know he gave a long interview to barton gellman of the washington post that was published on that paper's front page just before christmas and he used a funny term to describe himself to bart he said i am an indoor cat. by which he means that wherever he is in the world he's a citizen of the internet he's someone who doesn't need much more than a laptop and some dry ramen noodles that you can buy at the store and he'll be fine in whatever country he's in but he's living very independently he is learning the language there in case he doesn't get the benefit of clemency or amnesty and needs to make his home there he does need to live somewhere and he is very closely watching the news what about those who say been why didn't he do as others in somewhat similar circumstances doing those word comes to mind why not stay and face to face the music have a trial appear before the public many many many many people agree with you why why one. i think it's a fair question but i think people don't understand what the laws are under whic

i am mark barton. >> i am anna edwards. time in london is 6:31.casting beverly between bt and sky -- rivalry between bt and sky. investors are focusing on the company countries and the launched sports channel. jonathan ferro joins us for more. pitting these two titans of the u.k. business scene against each other. >> i don't think you can talk about one without talking about the other. we saw a record acquisitions at sky. the big question is how well has bt done? i spent almost one billion pounds to get the champions league rights. the big issue is not the right now but how this plays out in the next couple of years. just check out how many -- how much ram your league rights have ballooned. if you want to buy them, sky paid 1.6 billion pounds for three seasons. that jumped to 2.2 billion in 2013. the question is how much will they pay when the next auction comes about? that is at the end of this year at the start of 2015. look at that inflation. year back inunds a 92. now, 560 million. how does sky absorb these costs? bt is coming hard to push sky

officers responded to a call on dumb barton last night.y. firefighters think it could very well overlap all the way until next june. part of the bay area under a red flag warning until thursday morning. >>> a lot of this has to do with the fact that we haven't had rain. >> yeah. very dry. about 19% of normal as far as rainfall is concerned and, yup, we have those offshore winds blowing today. clear skies all the way to the coastline this morning. looks like it's going to stay that way all day long with record-breaking temperatures by the afternoon. it's been calm down in the valleys but windy over the mountains. we have seen winds gusting to 30 miles per hour even over 40. humidity levels under 10% so bone dry in the mountains. we haven't seen any rain so, yeah, a lot of dry brush in the hills, too. looks like by the afternoon, beer expecting about 72 degrees in oakland, 70 in san jose and 69 in san francisco. more records over the next couple of days. we are going to check out your "kcbs traffic" coming up next. anncr: at jennie-o we hear

. >> reporter: justin barton oversees the projects which uses this 3d scanner to report images of sites. it is so precise it can duplicate the image to within 3 millimeters. the founder of the company came up with the idea of digitally preserving historic sites after the taliban's destruction of t structures in afghanistan. concerned about documenting the monuments in areas where there is civil unrest. >> at a time when we have natural disasters increasing, wars, and all sorts of transfer imaginations gointransformation. it is important. >> reporter: so far they have mapped five of the cultural landmarks including mission delorez, the oldest building here in san francisco. the company was started in 2003, and so far scientists have mapped 100 landmarks including the sydney oprah house and mount rushmore which proved to be one of their more difficult assignments. >> going up in into the eyes, under the nose. we used a rope team to lower the equipment down. >> reporter: they'll map more historically important sites. >> it's hard to save the world. but it's something that we're trying to d

pole of ut >>> the agency taking a hard look at their policies, probing into the shooting death of a bartonpolice officer under way but already, bart is making a change to how it conducts its investigations. juliette goodrich is live with more on that and the officer who was involved in the so- called friendly fire tragedy. juliet? >> reporter: a lot of changes now to bart policy. kenton announced mike maize was the officer who fired the fatal shot killing his partner sergeant tommy smith. >> mike maize, he's an experienced well-trained officer. obviously, something did not go the way we wanted it to go. >> reporter: detective maize is a 26 yearlong veteran of law enforcement. he's been with bart pd for 14 years. prior to that, spent 12 years with miwagapd. chief would not warn if the officers' cameras were on or off. >> this is an active ongoing investigation where you'll have very far reaching implications for everyone. >> reporter: in the meantime, detective maize is on administrative leave. one day after her husband, sergeant tommy smith was killed, kelly smith, a k9 bart training offic

joe barton brought this to people's attention. one of the concerns was that the health care website was certified on a temporary basis. the administration is good at p protecting people's information. they did this with medicare and where going through to make sure people's information is protected. >> host: i want to ask you about congress and what their role is likely to be. the house has taken a number of votes looking to repeal the affordable care act. there is legislation about the data breaches. what is the next step? >> we will so continued attacked and additional votes where republicans control in the house. this is going to be a big issue in the election. we are in an election year now. i am sure we will see a bit of campaign rhetoric around this. >> host: dan is 48 calling from manhattan, beach california. >> caller: i am calling from w hawaii. what is the difference between the va health care and the obamacare? which is better? >> the va system is more like the british system. so you have health care providers provider

san mateo and don barton bridge could be alternates for you if you have to get to work. >>> major work has to be done. harmful chemicals are being found inside now that building is closed for the rest of the semester. ktvu's ryan florez joining us live on the campus to tell us how students and the staff are going to be affected by this, good morning bryan. >> reporter: good morning dave, it is the first day of the spring semester here at san francisco state university and really the mayor impact at least immediately is the inconvenience. about 250 faculty need to find other buildings. the science building they need to find out where the classes are now that the building is closed. the decision was made last week to close it. according to a second inspection it was much worse than originally thought. according to the report asbestos was discovered in the basement. first and second floors and several rooms tested positive for mercury vapors with a large concentration in the basement. the report also indicated that mold was discovered in several area of the building. university officials

. >> and the barton police chief waiting to hear the how and why that led to the shooting death of 23-year veteran tommy smith. he died from a bullet fired by as of yet unname d officer. >> we want the give him a chance to grieve. >> the circumstances that led up to it we will hold it for now. >> we know five detectives and two officers in uniform, and one alameda sheriff's deputy. they had been in the apartment looking for property ta had been left behind by henry lee who remains in jail by patrol violation and causing a crash with a police officer in a police chief. they said that the everyone used bulletproof vests, and followed the training by the book at least until the shooting. >> this fallen officer tom smith was clearly very well liked an respected by those who knew him and worked with him. nick smith has that part of the story. >> if you ever had an opportunity to come across him at any time in your life, you were lucky. >> kathy manzoni is talking about a man they have known since they were 8 years old. fellow police sargent tommy smith. this is a class photo of the two of

. >> justin barton overseas the project which uses the scanner to record images of site.n duplicate n image within a few millimetres. soon we'll have a scan. the underer came up with the idea of restoring sites after the destruction of the buddhas. scientists are particularly concerned about documenting the monuments in syria and egypt due to unrest. historyions say the technology is invaluable. the time we have natural disasters increasing. all sorts of transformation going on. to have the cultural heritage. >> here in california, the 21 missions from the spanish colonial error. so far five landmarks have been mapped, including this building, the oldest in san francisco. scientists mapped 100 landmarks, including the sydney opera house and mount rushmore, a difficult assignment. >> we had to d design a customised rig to lower the scanner over the faces and lower the scanner into position up in the eyes, under the nose, under the chin, so we used a rope team to lower it down. >> now it is embarking on an ambitious plan, mapping 400 historical sites within five years. it's

by the way, two-way traffic during rush hour times now on canal road, clara barton parkway as well, where you are used to it being oneway, it is two-way traffic. if you're planning to head over on the southbound side of i-95, the hov lanes are shut down. snowplow caravan right now in the rockville area. i believe they are trying to get to the beltway where there's an accident in silver spring. and also, westbound route 7 at tollston road, an overturned vehicle. you know, you were just saying on the air that all the moms are calling you, well all my kids are calling me to find out if they have school tomorrow. back to you. >> and you don't even know. >> we all know what the kids are going to say, it's very easy to figure that out. >> and monika samtani had a long day. >> and talk about people who had a very long day. our road crews have been doing it. nikki was able to ride along with one snowplow driver this accident in prince georges county. hi nick nikki, what did you learn? >> reporter: i learned a lot. the first woman to drive a snowplow here in prince georges county. she's been doing

. >> justin barton oversees the project which uses this to record images of sites.t can duplicate an image within a few mil meters. >> a little over 6 and a half minutes will have a full 360 degree scan. the founder came up with the idea of digitally preserving historic sites after thetab taliban's destruction of the bud buddhas in afghanistan. they were documenting syria and egypt icons due to political unrest in those countries. >> in a time when we have natural disasters increasing and frequency, wars and we have all sorts of transformation, to have that cultural heritage preserved is essential. the spanish colonial era, syark hasma mapped five landmarks including mission to juarez, the oldest building here in san francisco. >> the company was started in 2003. so far,scientists have mapped 100 landmarks including the sidney opera house and mount rushmore which proved to be one of their most difficult assignments? >> we had to design a customized rig that could lower the scanner over the faces and basically, we had to lower the scanner into the position, you know,

including part of the mansion that once and was home of a musician damage was caused to homes triage is barton's00 a. were affected. the men in their 20s have been arrested investigators believe they recklessly started the fire by tossing paper and a campfire that they say they started to keep warm. >> : today marks the day of an earthquake that struck in 1974. it hit the stanford and note that area of california. it killed 57 people and injured thousands more. collapsed intersections. buyers caused additional damage. the kit quake was felt as far away as las vegas. >> : coming up next 91 hung up on one man when he called. >> : is this book more for grandparents and grandchildren. we have a new study about who is on line. a 9-1-1 operator in nevada still has her job tonight.despite the fact she hung up on a frantic caller who had just found his mother dead. the woman dispatcher was found to have made 'critical' mistakes.but has not been fired. here's part of the call. operator talking. frantic person also talking. >> : operator trying to gain information. and up. >> : the fire and rescue chief i

barton gelman says, "obama placed restrictions on access to domestic can phone records collected by thenal security agency but the changes he announced will allow it to continue or expand the collection of personal data from billions of people around the world, americans and foreign citizens alike." that doesn't seem like a lot of privacy protection. >> well, i would ed disagree with mr. gelman. i think that what the president has said is that he wanted to maintain the capability of the program, that as chairman rogers said, it has not been abused or misused and it is carried out by very strict lit vetted and professional people. now, what he said is, by march 28th, i'm asking the attorney general to come back to me with some suggestions and probabilities of how the data might be stored by others in the government. and i think that's a very difficult thing because the whole purpose of this program is to provide instantaneous information to be able to disrupt any plot that may be taking place. and you know, i think a lot of the privacy people perhaps don't understand that we still occupy

shift away a little bit to the war on drugs and the war on poverty but got to read where we ended up barton nicole williams marc harrold thank you all for john thank you coming up all of the washington d.c. metro areas the wealthiest urban area in the country many d.c. residents struggle with backbreaking poverty so how can the city use its recent economic success to give everyone a shot at the american dream i'll ask and we shall all candidate for mayor of the district of columbia tonight's conversations with great minds but. i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question. i know c.n.n. the m.s.n. b c news have taken some not slightly but if i desired by their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and i think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media work side by side the joke is actually on here. at our teen years we have a different approach