my name is ben. and i'm 17. i'm really lucky because i've lived on the lake almost all my life and i love wake boarding. i have an awesome family. >> i live with my husband, shawn, and two of our three children, ali and jake. >> where does ben fall in the lineup? >> he is in the middle. >> we have reached 17,000 of subscribers. that's insane. >> what was it about making videos that your brother loved so much? >> his strong connection to people. that's why he gravitated towards giving advice to teens, is he genuinely wanted to help them out. he became a little bit of a local celebrity, especially with the girls. >> it doesn't matter how a person looks, if they have braces or acne or anything like that. what matters is their personality. i have a really big challenge in my life. i have a heart condition. it is called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. and i have a pacemaker. >> do you remember that day that you got the diagnosis, what you felt? >> yes, i do. because it was very scary. the doctor just very clearly stated

and we took turns praying for ben and his health. and after we were finished, ben prayed for us.dn't be sad or scared for him anymore because he wasn't sad or scared. and he added, i'm okay with whatever god decides. >> did that bring you peace? >> a lot, yes. he wasn't afraid of dying anymore at that point. the day he chose to make this video, we had that home church that morning, and we didn't know what he was doing afterwards, but that's when he went into his room and made this video. >> so a week later, christmas day. >> we actually had a wonderful christmas morning together. we opened presents as a family. we were all laughing and ben was very adamant about playing our annual family game of monopoly. and it was right after that that he went outside with jake and watched him jump on the trampoline with his friends. >> i was in the kitchen starting to fix christmas dinner, and i looked outside my kitchen window and i took a mental snapshot of ben standing there smiling. that was the last time i saw him smile. almost immediately after that, jake came running in the back door an

and she says, it's ben. he died. i just -- i didn't have any of the information. >> i finally said, how did this happen? and she said he went to sleep the night before and he just never woke up. >> he's always smiling, every picture he's smiling. >> for days, ben gupta's family was desperate for answers. what killed him? he was only 28 years old. he had recently been given a clean bill of health. how could he just not wake up? >> and then the thought went through my mind that maybe it was some sort of a brain aneurism or something must have happened. >> but his father was in for a shock after a conversation with the doctor who performed ben's autopsy. >> and he called me and said, yes, you know, they found oxycodone in his system. >> he tells you he believes that your son died of an overdose of narcotics. >> yeah. right. >> what do you think at that point? >> i was just shocked at that time. >> did you think it was possible, what you knew of your son? >> no. no. >> he worked for the state department, and he, you know

ben, moreovernment outreach?ddling and more government getting if your life in tiny ways that don't make any difference. be honest, make adam happy. thisis a republican idea and a terrible idea no matterho it came from. the idea that government can tell youhhat wattage of lightbulb to own is nuts. if ty can do that, plus forget about $525 million owed by a contractor, scariest day for america. scariest of all is income inequality. be terrified of that. >> i ess it goes to the saying. absolute corruption and power. no matter who isin power, when a government is thisig, they make crazy decisio. no more incandscent lightbulbs. i can't get goodight from the new ones. >> i call this progress, not government overreach. there all sorts things. i'm not an expert on lightlbs, neither are any of you. i belve the experts that say we are moving in the right direction. >> experts? >> we don't have cbons in the aerosol cans anymore. that is good. >> there are poison in the fluorescent bulbs. >> they didn't have to ban somethin

for ben, stereotypes mean good business.fits from the fact that americans consider germans very trustworthy when it comes to security matters. by next year, he expects to be in the black. he says that following his dream and moving to new york was worth it. of course, it was risky but everything worked out and now he and his crew are a success. it's everything they could have hoped for. the u.s. remains a place that fascinates ben and many or germans. making their american dream a reality takes strong will, hard reality takes strong will, hard work and a bit of luck.??ñ?ño? what are we doing today? today we are looking for roger ridley. he's a street musician that plays down here in santa monica. i was walking by the promenade the other day and i heard him singing the song "stand by me". such an amazing version, such an amazing voice, you know. and a couple days before that i had heard the john lennon version. so i approached roger and i said, "hey man, if we come back down here with some recording equipment and some cameras

again, this is benning and bladensburg. if you're familiar with this area in northwest d.c., you know how busy this area is and how much work is going on here. this is phase one, literally just starting to deg, basically break open the road so they can get underneath and figure out exactly how bad of a break they're dealing with here. but, the supervisor says, at best, the learns here at the intersection heading into the city will not reopen until some time this evening. reporting live, john gonzalez, abc7 news. >> well, thank you very much, john. looking at not only benning road but in addition to our problems there, we have a crash out of bounds new york avenue. luckily for folks heading into work today, this crash is on the out of bounds side of new york avenue and not affecting the inbound lanes. the best bet to avoid the situation and benning road, go inbound new york avenue and i will get into town much more easily there. moving to 270, you will tape delays open and running very well there. no reported problems on 270

what is ben bernanke's legacy?we would like to hear from you. what has he accomplished or not accomplished? this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am tom keene. scarlet fu and alix steel are with me. jim rogers is with me. tope have fed-less headlines. the jobless rate is dropping to 7.4% in october. that is the lowest since april 2009. the fall and unemployment has led to speculation that the bank of england could raise interest rates as early as next year. there were two winners in last night's $636 million mega millions jackpot. one ticket was sold in california and the other was sold in atlanta. become harder to win as the pool increases. to russia with burgers. shake shack is opening its first restaurant in the country and moscow. they will go for more than seven dollars. that is 50% more than in new york prices. russia 30's opened in years ago and a lot of people stood in line for their grand opening. >> i enjoy and they're fine with zine a few nights ago -- fine cuisine a few nights ago. my people brought it to

to ben wiznero about another question i had about the report. encryption.osedly encryption is a safeguard for ordinary americans, businesses and others who might want to protect their privacy on the internet. this report basically urges the government not to continue to undermine encryption or -- and instead seek to strengthen it. your sense of the report's recommendation on the incursion issue? >> this is important. it comes out of an important article "the new york times" published where we learned the nsa, even as part of its mission, is to secure the internet, security medications, protect us from cyber attack by strengthening encryption. while simultaneously undermining systematically encryption standards around the world so that its spies could break into these communications. the problem is, a backdoor for the nsa is a backdoor for everyone else, too. it is a backdoor for hacker, china, criminals. there's a fundamental tension between the cybersecurity mission, which is to defend the country and the safety of communications, and the aggressive spying

and ben bernanke. former partner of private equity firm bain capital and also the author of "unintended consequences. oh -- consequences." years andthrough the you also lived through the bernanke years, culminating in your book. in your view, which fed chairmen serve you best? [laughter] >> i suppose alan greenspan. even.t things steady and if you look at the class of 1982, it has been an extremely successful class because over this time, the economy has grown by leaps and bounds relative to other times. are talking about what ben bernanke's legacy might be but i feel like we do not know because we do not know where it ends and the flooding of the markets and all this money could and poorly. money really led to the asset inflation and lead to a crash that was very punishing for a lot of people. do you think we can take stock in bernanke today e >> i disagree with you on greenspan. i do not think the fed has a big impact on asset bubbles. small but not large. i think ben bernanke will be recognized as s

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ben bernanke and the post-crisis ben bernanke. at those individuals differently. >> why? >> i could tell you why. let's give peter a chance. >> this was a guy who got the baton from alan greenspan in 2005 and 2006 without any storm clouds. everyone thought this was smooth and he would be able to coast along on a goldilocks economy that was happening. it did not work out. students of the great depression, the expert on the great depression found himself confronted with much the same thing. he had to invent new rules and new tools for the federal reserve. that has been controversial. those decisions -- we do not know how the full legacy will be measured. we have not seen the wind down of the risk factors that everyone knows are out there. looking back, critics in washington as well as supporters who say they are thankful ben bernanke was in the job if for no other reason that he provided a cool hand. in terms of how he led the fed and made decisions, controversial as they may be, people in washington are thankful he was there. serve

is ben bernanke a friend or foe of retailers? ask than a retailer who was schooled by one of ben bernanke's heroes by the way, the late great milton friedman. first on fox business interview, we're pleased to have back with us in person in new york this time, patrick m. byrne, overstock.com chairman, ceo and founder and really renaissance man. patrick, good to see you. the fed -- >> the fed. david: is it having any influence at all on retail sales do you think? >> of course the easy money policy is, a way to prop up retail sales, a way to prop up the pockets of the rich. them saying they will taper in january is like you and i saying we're going on a diet in january. i don't think they can taper. if they do taper we'll slip back into recession. i don't believe anything they say. david: we're seeing retail sales up .7% in november. it sounds like it is fair to say you think the fed's influence on the economy has been pretty negligible? >> i think it as an influence, wholly pernicious. david: how? >> because they are enabling, they

and i think -- >> wait, hold on, ben -- >> yeah, marc, jump in. >> let me finish. >> ben, do you -- bens as if this are jobs out there, that people aren't accessing, people are watching reality television. there are few jobs out there, and the jobs out there are unavailable to big chunks of the american public. >> marc, you can't have it -- marc, you can't -- >> they're not lazy. >> marc, you can't have it both ways. you can't say there's no jobs out there, yet the president of the united states of america, at his end of the year press conference, saying the economy is going well right now, in the right direction. look how great it is compared to a year ago. you can't have it both ways. >> ben, let me interrupt. ben -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> ben, it's not both ways. what we're saying is the economy was in a bad hole, and we are recovering. gas prices are down, the housing market has recovered, or is recovering, jobs are recovering, unemployment is recovering, but we're still in a hole. even though we've turned a corner in some ways, we still don't have -- >> ben, let me ask you, lo

that's outgoing federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. he's talking about unemployment, inflation, and monitory policy. he mentioned today that he set transparency as an important priority for the time that he served as fed chair. when he talks like that is the public meant to follow it or really is he talking in technical terms to an audience of journalists and others who understand the technical talk? >> i think he's doing the best to straddle both worlds. his first attempt to be colloquial than his "60 minutes" interview that he did. he has done a great job, especially when you consider where the fed is coming from. his predecessor alan greenspan led in policy by discretion. we're doing this because we think its best and we're not going to tell you the reasoning behind it, bernanke has gone out of his way to use explanations to the public. he uses terminology that may not be your average person's vernacular, but he has increased the amount of transparency. >> and in this case what does that mean? >> very low interest rates for a very l

>> ben is right. breaking news. ben stein is right. except for the part about nixon. he probably should have played more golf, it would have gotten him into less trouble. >> bill clinton played a lot of golf and it did not avoid trouble. >> there are a lot of golf analogies we could talk about. ben's right, obama dropped the ball on this. it doesn't surprise me he may have only met with her once beuse he certainly didn't do anything else he needed to do to make this rollout a success. look, obama care, said this before, is a good policy. the implementation is horrific. >> poorly executed. the nebraska senator who's now heading up all these insurance commissioners, he was telling me, i thought it was revealing, that they did wince at the time when the president said, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. i said, i don't remember you saying that at the time. he said, we did relay to the white house, i don't know who in the white house, that this was not feasible. there's a lot of liny covering here. i'm wondering if it's all part of the same story. of not k

ben carson on, a good friend of ours. i would like to have ben carson write the medical plan, health care plan for america and from the poor to the rich i think we would all be much better off. >> jordan sekulow, dr. nina radcliff, thank you. >> thank you, judge. >>> the one and only ben stin is here to tell us why republicans need to stop tryi back to "justice with judge jeanine." scrap the whole thing, right? not according to my next guest. he says republicans need to fix obama care, not destroy it. with me, economist and author ben stein. all right, ben, why would republicans want tory to fibs fix this mess? >> i don't mean going in there, unscrewing a bunch of nuts and bolts and row wiring things. they ought to do what mr. nixon did long ago to say it's a moral imperative that all americans have access to health care. that said we're not going to take the existing health care system and smash it to pieces with a hammer. we're going to take a census of the americans who can't afford health care insurance and write them

and i like what ben said about "nebraska". it's a really rough first act but the second acted is really terrific and interesting portrait of america. and i hope bruce durn gist gets a nomination. >> definitely oscar worthy. >> let's talk about comedies. >> for obvious reasons. i wasn't a fan of anchorman i i suppose i won't be a fan of anchorman ii. that is a movie i didn't hear anyone clamoring for. >> i don't know if you are right about that. you should talk to our staff they all wanted a anchorman ii. the marketing has become per pervasive and highly annoying. >> ben you wanted to say something. anchorman was an interesting movie. i couldn't have laughed harder. i i shuts must have seen anchor0 times. >> yoyou are probably very alon, ben. >> no i'm not. >> you have people on your staff there. my brother is a correspondent. he is like you he hates it. he couldn't hate it more. i think it's one of the ten funniest movies i have seen in my life. i'm incredibly eager for the sequel. >> i'm not sure i will have you back as a mov

both leaderships wanted this to happen for the reason ben bernanke expressed. it's not often washington gets a chance to please anybody but markets wanted this, the country wanted this. >> all right. so now that they are all getting along in washington, will that carry over to 2014, john? >> to a limited extent, susie. there will not be a shutdown when the government runs out of money in january. they will extend government funding along the lines outlined by the deal, and i think that even though some republicans said yes, we'll make demands for the debt limit, i don't think they will push it to the brink so we'll is a smooth process on the debt limit. the question is can we get anything bigger than that? can we get immigration reform? a grand bargain? that is by far from clear and actually unlikely. >> so if you have a two-year deal on the federal budget, then if the debt limit debate becomes contankous, what would the gop look for to let administration raise the debt limit? >> you certainly could have them return to issues of obamacare, that they have loved

that's outgoing federal reserve chairman ben bernanke.e's talking about unemployment, inflation, and highly accommodative monitory policy. and even today he mentioned that he set transparency as an important priority for a the time that he served as fed chair. when he talks like that is the public meant to follow or is he talking in-- >> during the press conference it's difficult for him not to get technical because we ask him somewhat technical questions, but i think he has done a great job. his predecessor alan greenspan believed in policy by discretion, and it was sort of we're doing this because we think its best. we're not going to tell you the reasoning behind it, and ba bernanke has gone out of his way to discuss the policy. he has not use the average person's vernacular, i think he does his best to describe why the fed is doing what it's doi doing. >> in this case what does this mean? >> very low interest rates for a very long time. the fed is going to remain supportive of the economy regardless of this small retreat from the won'

bernanke, filled with virtually every economic challenge imaginable. >> i, ben s. >> reporter: it began in 2006 when bernanke became the 14th federal reserve chairman, taking the reins from the man once called the maestro, alan greenspan. at first it was smooth sailing. the u.s. economy was expanding, storm clouds seemed far away. but all that changed in 2007. >> the economic outlook has been importantly affected by recent developments in financial markets which have come under significant pressure over the past few months. >> reporter: the slump in housing gathered speed, foreclosures surged. publicly, bernanke remained upbeat. >> our forecast is for moderate put positive growth going forward for the next few quarters. >> reporter: in fact, the great recession was just beginning. bear stearns collapsed in 2008 and was gobbled up by jpmorgan chase. lehman brothers collapsed, stocks tanked, and credit markets seized up. >> this plan is an emergency plan to put out a fire. >> reporter: bernanke stepped on the gas and revved up the engines. >> mr. bernanke was aggress

we have the westbound lanes of benning road closed. blade e bladensburg is closed in both directions. this is the case for the entirety of the morning rush hour. the repair work will be with us until noon or so this morning. keep in mind you will encounter traffic tie-ups. the volume is still pretty light. we are expecting that to change. with more on traffic we go

watching ben bernanke full labor force participation rate.lem in back in september when you didn't announce taper. why is it a problem low. still at 1978 levels. are we going to hear more fed officials trying to anchor expectations about interest rates? rate spikes, rate rises are kryptonite to the market. ashley: right. -@>> you will see more fed officials out en masse to anchor inflation expectations. more to your point, before the break, ashley, where will the banks park reserves. that is when you talk about inflation, right? that is when banks start lending again and true inflation could possibly pick up steam. ashley: lou, same question to you. you're sitting there. mr. bernanke says, mr. dobbs, you've got the next question, what do you say? >> i don't know that i would form it as a question but rather say, mr. bernanke, well-done, because the, they have managed the, fed in one taper, if you will, to take two elements out of the market. one is they have taken ideology out of the market. you won't hear much discussion now from the hard ri

ben carson on, a good friend of ours. like to have ben carson write the medical plan, health care plan for america and from the poor to the rich i think we would all be much better off. >> jordan sekulow, dr. nina radcliff, thank you. >> thank you, judge. >>> the one and only ben stin is here to tell us why republicans need to stop tryi keeping up with these two is more than a full time job and i don't have time for unreliable companies. angie's list definitely saves me time and money. for over 18 years we've helped people take care of the things that matter mo. join today. it really made the difference between a morning around the house and getting a little exercise. unlike the bargain brand, depend gives you new fit-flex®, our best protection. it's a smooth and comfortable fit with more lycra strands. get your free sample at depend.com. is a really big deal.u with aches, fever and chills- there's no such thing as a little flu. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-th

, host of the ben ferguson show.oining me. michael, let me start with you. was this the right move? how long should phil robertson stay out of the show? >> it's the right thing. certainly he has a right to say what he wants. he didn't say it was a sin, he compared it to bestiality. he later said homosexuals were evil and murderers. he has the right to say what he wants but we have the right to say what we want, too. if we don't appreciate it and respect it we can get him off the show. itis what we did. >> ben, what is your take? >> first of all, if you read the article, he did not compare homosexuality to bestiality. he listed 11 different sins that he said were in the same all over category of a sinful nature in this world. i think it's funny to me the only people that came out of the 11 sins listed, including greed, men sleeping with multiple different women, having sex before marriage, examples like that, the only group that has come out and even claimed their lifestyle was claimed to bestiality, which he did not

to test we enlisted the help of the ben's colleagues. a conference room discussion about what to order for lunch. very heavy stuff. >> consistently david wins the competitions. >> would like date day. >> hold on. >> you know the co-worker that talks and talks. >> do you think. >> hold on a sec. and played that guy. oh, did the data show it. >> this is me in blue, now people can come and say, "ben, you need to tone it down." >> we compared an alert employee with a tired employee. >> time for a snooze. again. the data was loud and clear. you are in your chair. your posture is up rite and you are moving around. it flat lines when you lay down. if my boss had access to the data i might be in trouble. i asked if ben's company would sell the product to someone that wanted to spy on employees, and if not, how do you prevent it? >> they are not allowed to use it in a way that identifies users. we won't operate this that way. >> ben says clients' employees couldses the badges. why? bank of america is a good example. ben's team saw a call center w

i mean, will this change, ben?he have such a halo over his head that he's safe from everything? >> he has a halo over his head from the people who count. he has a halo over his head from the mainstream powers in the media, mainstream powers in hollywood, mainstream powers on wall street. he has a halo over his head from the shining thought police who run this country. they will not let him sink to really low numbers the way nixon did. there's just too much media power guarding him. >> ben, i can't let you go without asking you about "duck dynasty." whose side are you on, phil, the ducks or a&e? >> drama is about conflict and a&e says no drama against power centers in america, xeps gay power center. you are out automatically. the thought police weigh in there, too. they should have a gay person come on and confront him and then you will have some drama. >> ben, always good to have you on. thanks so much for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> all right. >> thank you. >>> and now the results of tonight's poll. we

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ben's team saw one call center was outperforming another. they looked at the data the badge collected and made one simple change. they gave half of the teams at the lesser performing call center the same scheduled break time. >> people completed calls 23% more quickly when we made this change. there was no significant change in a group where they didn't change their breaks, and that's i didn't know credible. >> you found when people are more social, they're less stressed and their performance is higher. >> it's not rocket science. >> like it or not, people an littics is evolving and you might be the next lucky employee to find a badge with in our name on it. aljazeera, boston. >> we are joined by the guy who talks and talks and talks, ben waiver, the president and c.e.o. and by don peck, his cover story, they're watching you at work looks at the field and how it is transforming how companies hire, fire and promote. he joins us from washington, d.c. great to have you both with us tonight. don, we already know we are being monitored in all sor