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i use my blackberry for more business things.ure, take it, but, really, adding it up altogether, what do you recommend for users? >> i think you have to make your decision and that the end of the day you'll probably feel like the bigger phone even with the bend ability issues, the six plus is still a great phone. >> the man behind the iphone bending video, thank you. that's it. blackberry coming up next. ? >> i'm emily chang and this is bloomberg west. blackberry is pinning its turnaround hopes on another new phone called the passport. square shaped screen geared towards business professionals. it is part of the turnaround plan. but with the continuous decline in their share, will it be enough? i spoke with the ceo earlier today, right after they unveiled the new passport, and i asked about why they picked the square shape for the passport. >> the customers, we looked at how they use the device for productivity, and looking at the new style apps, the vertical apps, apps, we figured that the ratio is what everybody would need for

i know a lot of people like blackberry. there is something about a blackberry.hen i talk to people, they like the way to feel. melissa: the thing i confiscated is not a blackberry. >> charlie, who is lining up for blackberry? >> jonathan i agree with you. >> tens of millions of subscribers though worldwide, guys. >> the first thing you say when you get one of these, these touch things, i miss my blackberry. i'm telling you. melissa: i almost got it again. >> can't bend it either by the way. the blackberry does not bend. melissa: that's true. thanks for sharing. coca-cola share a coke campaign is being credited with a 2% surge in u.s. sales according to an analyst at wells fargo. this was a huge victory. you could go and find a bottle of coke with your name on it or not in my case. although i onethought one said melissa on ebay. i think someone drank with it. charlie gasparino, do you have a coke with your name. >> i don't do coke. melissa: leave that there and move on to scott quickly. >> i do not have one with my name on it. i do drink coca-cola, melissa. sugar

i use the blackberry for more business things. but really, gene, added altogether, what do you recommend for users? >> i think you have to make your decision. at the end of the day i think you're going to probably feel like the bigger phone, even with the issues, the 6 plus is probably a great phone. >> coming up, more on blackberry's new phone, the passport. i speak with ceo john chen about whether the square screened model aimed toward business customers can turn blackberry around. ♪ >> welcome back to the best of "bloomberg west." i am emily chang. as we mentioned, blackberry has just unveiled its newest smartphone, the passport, which claimed, doesen not bend like the apple iphone. how many of these square-screen phones can blackberry sell? can it really help turn around the struggling company? i spoke with john chen and started by asking him why he opted for the square design. >> because we talked to the customers and they look at how they use the device and for productivity and looking at the new style apps, looking at the v

the blackberry ceo challenged everyone to bend the blackberry passport. it.ried to do luckily, he was not successful. i don't know if that means the phone is strong or that cory is weaker. >> i think he needs to hit the gym, personally. >> i agree completely. to me, if the telling thing. emily didn't care if i grab the passport. >> i cared. i almost had a heart attack. >> thought you are more thissive of the iphone, real intimate relationship. >> it is my primary device and i use my blackberry for business things. take it. but added together, what do you recommend for users? i think you have to make your decision and that the end of the day you'll probably feel like the bigger phone even with the bend ability issues, the six plus is still a great phone. the man behind the iphone bending video, thank you. that's it. blackberry coming up next. ♪ >> i'm emily chang and this is bloomberg west. blackberry is pinning its turnaround hopes on another new phone call the passport. square shaped screen geared towards business professionals. it is part of the turnaro

now, it is blackberry's turn. blackberry, they still exist.t smartphone will have a larger screen, and return to the classic keyboard. companyl happen to this if this new phone doesn't sell? john butler covers telecom for bloomberg and television. he is with us from new jersey. john, people need to think modestly about blackberry, don't they? there is no way this country is going to come out with an iphone killer. >> they are not going to come out with an iphone killer. the one thing to remember about him is reallydge instill this in the company itself. he told the employees, we are a company full of assets. they have the qnx operating system for cars. they have a global network of secure servers. enterpriselackberry management, which is this mobile management system that is just terrific. it goes well beyond devices for them. import inises an question. why come out with a new device? if the real intellectual property is in the other products you mentioned, who is that they could appeal to with a new phone? i've played around with this, it's n

it is all about blackberry's turnaround plan.ill the passport be enough to satisfy investors and you and me? chen righth ceo john after he unveiled the new passport and asked why he chose this square shape. >> we talked to the customers and we looked at how they use and productivity and looking at the new style apps, the vertical apps, and we figured that the wider and more one-to-one ratio is how everybody will need to achieve a more. >> what is your goal for this phone? how many do you think you will sell? >> i am just coasting it right now. we expected to be successful but the market will tell me that. we have various different ideas that we use as a mother-daughter type approach. we will have two gauge how the ark it responds. -- the market response. >> you and i talked about market share. global shipments are already lower than 1%. 2018, market share will be .3%. where do you think it will be? my job is to make sure that doesn't happen, right? i think we have a good plan, a good set of portfolios. despite everything we have

and buying blackberries. >> we want to know.re you a bull or bear? log on to cnbc.com/vote and doods decide in real time. john? >> i still like it for all this things. there is a reason apple partnered up with ibm. because they want that contract. there is a small number of folks who want that security. for those who do like the president of the united states and i think it's bit of a pres ste teej park of that. there is a awful lot of folks who want that. >> why not use this as a sell on the news gains are in at 40%. >> i still held it i would. i don't hold it now. but if i did i would. and it's a big deal around the globe for those who don't like the feds snooping, this is still a big zeal. >> a disastrous phone experience up 60% and because of their patent portfolio. other things these companies do. i think blackberry is still a strong company. and it's not just security. i deal with hedge funds all day long and 90% of those still use blackberry because of the ability to use your efficiency from the keyboard. >> technically t

sure, yes, he would be a blackberry. herr darling says not a chance he would go to the blackberry. man known only as the panic says he would consider it, but only if it came with an iphone of, as well. harsh words there. >>> the ipo market has been harsh this year evidenced by alibaba's offering last week. mary thompson joins us from cnbc hq with the full story. >> there have been ten ipos this year and is coming to market today. that is below the expected range of $23 to $25 a share. the deal raised $3 billion valuing citizens, owned by the royal bank of scotland, roughly $12 billion. now, the financial times reports rbs had to cut the ipo to alleviate investors concerns over the bank's ability to deliver on its financial target. rbs's stake in citizens will fall to 75% after the ipo. so a $3 billion citizens is the second largest offering this year. according to deal logic, it's the third largest ipo since the re sear research back in 19d 85. now, deal logic says the average pop for the ten bank ipos this year is 3% versus a 14% jump for all ipos. since going public, ipos have ga

the blackberry bass port is because it is the so isame size as a pa. the keys down here are just for texts. the screen is wide enough. you see it is square. you get 60 characters across at a reasonable resolution. that is really close to the 66, which is a standard for books. so it is the easiest phone to deal with documents i've seen. but all that said, this is not a phone designed to compete directly with the iphone 6 and 6 plus. blackberry strategy now has to do with secure software. this is selling software. if blackberry sells ten million of these in six months it will be a run away success. apple id did that many in a weekend. >> the argument here is we want more doctors, architect, engineers to be able to open devices on these documents for which security is very important. but do you see where applications already cater to those? do you see some professions switching en masse to the positi passpo passport. >> i think blackberry has started a conversation around the core competences. i don't know that these themselves are going to fly off the sh

reportst -- blackberry earnings today. this time, they mean business.l you why, next. ♪ >> first. bloomberg. time for today's company news. russia's government is pushing global internet services to store personal data locally. the draft law would fast-track this week to take effect in january 2015. the new rules mean that providers like google, facebook, and visa will have to rent service from russian providers. apple has released an ios software update that includes improvements and bug fixes for updatews in the ios 8 that was released wednesday. they also defended themselves against complaints the phone could band. and broad media is in talks about ringing games previously available on consoles to sell phones and tablets. the shift will allow developers to tap a broader potential audience of over 1.5 billion users. let's stick with the subject of smart phones. blackberry will release earnings today following the launch of phone, aimed squarely at business users. tell us more about the business strategy to get the company back to health. that is the p

blackberries passport goes global.l be speaking to bloomberg later today in his first interview.

very quick chen of blackberry to jump on the band wagon.blackberry was dominant in mobile phones in terms of smartphones and now 1% of the market. very interesting looking at apple's issues and how blackberry jumped on the back of it. >> people used to worry about their screen cracking on the iphone and now you have to worry about it potentially bending with it being so sleek and thin now. >> don't wear skinny jeans is the moral. >> i'm not allowed to. they just don't work on me. we've seen stocks were finally able to break the three days of declines yesterday to get back on track for the week. >> yeah, it was really interesting session, actually. we had some good news in terms of the pending home sales, which are much better than the existing home sales earlier in the week. comments from fed members, as well. but the point here is, as well, we had three days of declines. big declines, as well, on some of the major indices and nine out of ten major sectors rallied in the previous session. some of the higher sectors, the one that moved aroun

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. >> does blackberry have any life left in it?l like blackberry. >> me, too. >> the technology is great. they need to go to android. they are a very -- at the enterprise level they are great. they need to make a phone that's cheaper. somewhere around $100. even countries like venezuela, blackberry is huge. even some of our markets, trinidad, prepaid blackberry is a huge part of our business. we are all willing them on to come out with a broad that's going to be needed to go to the next level. they need to take their security protocols and system and layer it on to android. that's where the future is. >> what do you say to the u.s. government and all these companies who are looking at these tax inverse plans. leaving the u.s. who want to take advantage of better taxes abroad. you are a man who built his business around the world. you spend your life on a plane. what's the right thing to do? >> i think there are certain abuses -- abusive things going on. like the double dip and things like that. at the end of the day the world is gl

blackberry has gone different with this phone but don't think that blackberry is taking its future on this phone design. they are very much taking their future on security and software. this phone is just meant to sell that vision a little bit. it gets them some attention as well, shows that they're not just following the pack. as far as software goes on this, you've got the amazon app store which gives you access to lots of apps on android 4.4. there's a fast qualcomm processor in here, so it runs them quickly. i didn't have any trouble when i was testing it out. also there's something called blackberry blend which allows you to access everything that's on your phone in terms of contacts, calendar, pictures, text messages from a phone or tablet computer. interesting strategy here. it's secure in a way because this stuff isn't stored on the cloud. you're making a direct connection to your phone from a computer or tablet that can be half a world away. >> mandy, you're the style maven. what do you think about that phone? at least they're trying not to copy. >> i think it's great. obviou

blackberry is still around?nd that point about not liking the software is not what they were shooting for, john. >> not at all. i think first of all, that throwback, the device, the blackberry pager was just brilliant. a brilliant use of the bandwidth they had and what people actually wanted to do with their devices. that is the zeitgeist that blackberry is trying to get back here. the software has pluses and minuses. it is useable but some people who reviewed it also they had complaints about it. i thought it was relative will i smooth for my expectations but i think what they need to do is make their case to the enterprise behind the scenes from here. >> surprised how many people just anecdotely said i miss the keyboard. i miss it. it's frustrating on what whatever device you are using. >> and this is still a nice keyboard. >> over to rick. >> these are days i really like being on a trading floor. granted had trading floors aren't as wild as they used to be. but there is a lot of energy down here specially in

10 apps as well as android 4.4 but a blackberry key feature is called blackberry blend and allows the phone to be accessed through a p.c. or tablet, even on ios. blackberry is pushing an app that will allow you to deal with messenger, the contexts, the pictures, the calendar items on this phone. it's an interesting play. it's secure in the sense that those things don't live on the cloud but the device and you can access them through the internet. >> stay where you are. we're going to lock in the vote. will it help save the company. 49% say yes. 51% are with you, john and they say no. we're following the iphone 6 having a bending problem. users claiming the phone easily bends after being in their front pockets. dawn covers mobile devices and joins us now. dawn and john, welcome back. dawn, these reports started to come out that people are putting the phone in their front pockets and were finding that the phones were bending? >> yeah. some of the reports began cropping up on these apple enthusiast sites. there was one account of a guy who claims he had his iphone 6 plus in his front poc

a plus and may help bring more anticipation back to blackberry -- attention back to blackberry, but also the stock kind of perspective. rob enderly, he's a superstar when it comes to all things tech, wait until you hear his perspective on whether it saves blackberry. plus, huge pieces of data already out today, bigger ones coming out later this week. the number one thing you should look at, we've got austan goolsbee, a super smart economist and overall picture guy, we'll be talking to him about what he's watching most closely, and he'll teach you 40 to pick through -- how to pick through the most important data. melissa: back now to, what is unfortunately the story of the day, the latest on the death at the hands of isis. the family of american journalist reportedly saying they are aware of the video, but they are awaiting official confirmation before issuing a statement. our thoughts and prayers with that family undoubtedly. got more "money" coming up. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me zero heartburn... annc: prilosec otc the number one doct

you got a blackberry?lackberry is still around. >> not one but two. >> impressive. >> what do they have to do to turn this image problem they have? >> i think what passport does is kind of fix that problem is, you know, most people written it off as a dead company. right? failed last year with the phone launch. one thing to do to reverse the image is put out products like this that are buzz worthy and people like kelly want to give it a shot. this is different. how do you break this image? >> next month they have got the classic coming out. right? >> make no mistake the thing that matters is the enterprise 12 to manage this blackberry and android and sell it to enterprises and argue this is going to secure you and buy the way we'll compete with air watch which is now owned by vm wear, ibm, anybody else who wants to manage our devices. that's when the profits will come from. if this phone, if they can hand it out to i.t. and say, hey, you can do your work on this, too. that's nice. it's the software to driv

. >>> blackberry earnings before the bell, we speak to one analyst with a whole recommendation on the stock. you about is the hand setmaker due for an upgrade? >>> and as the indian prime minister touched down in new york city, we ask if this visit will open a new era of relations between washington and new dehli. >> announcer: you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> you don't want to miss our ryder cup ball at 9:30, but move important than that, i must admit, is the markets. this week, very much in the red and now in the red for september, as well. >> yeah. but we're going into october. rbc put out some interesting research this morning, seema. they said usually in october we hit the highest level of volatility. but stocks usually fair pretty well, despite the fact that october gets a bad rep. >> absolutely. i think what was surprising yesterday was the scale of the sell-off. the dow seeing its first 1% drop. the s&p 500 and the dow trading below their 50-day moving average. a lot of concern. is it the global slowdown catching inves

>> this shows blackberry is coming to grips with reality. blackberry users, the last time they rolled out new phones, there was a stick to their loyal users, of the stock has been up, traded down a little bit from 2% but -- melissa: who will buy this? >> they had to scream at this time. i was a blackberry users and i loved the keyboard. this is a giant keyboard. the fewest keys i have ever seen, put other things on screen. it is good to see them make a big batch and a big phone. melissa: do you think it is a loser? >> it is too early to say. >> it helped stop the bleeding. >> i don't think someone will choose this over and i phone or anything else. it is too odds. >> the wake of by phone's massive debut. galaxy through stones, and -- >> it knocked on samsung, the plastic casing looked really cheap compared to the iphone. it is getting good reviews, looks smoother, but it is not going to make people leave the iphone. iphone people will upgrade to iphone 6 but it may prevent some people from switching and joy -- melissa: what do you think? >>

i have been trying out the new blackberry passport.oks a lot different and the square screen is radical from a design perspective. joining me now is john chen, ceo of lack very. this is the first smart phone you have unveiled globally. how did you come up with the square screen? >> we talked to our customers and they love at how they use the device for productivity and looking at the new style apps and vertical apps and health-care apps come a we wider one to one ratio is what everyone will need for achieving more. that is how we came up with that. >> how many do you think you will sell? my background is very noisy. >> what is your goal for the phone westmark how many do you think you will sell? >> we expect it to be successful, but the market will tell me that. we have various different ideas we could use as a mother-daughter type approach. how thehave to gauge market responds and so far it seems to good. >> let's talk about the market. idc says blackberry global shipments are lower than 1% and by 2018, market share will be oink 3%. w

they tweeted that blackberry is the winning choice for enterprise. say, bless their hearts. >> yeah, that's amazing, blackberry, you're drunk, get off the twitter. the church needs a bundt cake. [ laughter ] >> i thought those were the easiest to use. >> the blackberry? >> as bad as it's been managed over the years. what else you got there, guys. >> the buzziest thing was the guy who wears infinity scarf, much like this one. sometimes iphone like space gray, silver and gold. >> keynote scarf guy. >> i love the infinity scarf at all times, there is no bad time for infinity scarf. >> and alex looks fabulous there. >> i can see you in one, freeman. >> if i was in the software business, i might have to. might be a little weird. liz: that sound. good afternoon, everybody, i'm liz claman, live from the heart of silicon valley. welcome to a special edition of "countdown to the closing bell." we are coming to you from inside the offices of greylock partners, the hypersensitive capital firm that picks winners, the start-ups that launch ipos and make billions,

hold on to the blackberry. >> i am. i'm going to be very sad if i can't buy a blackberry anymore.t saying. john chen, keep it going. let us little guys buy it, as well, too. thank you, bertha. >> thanks. >> did she call me a dinosaur? >> no, no. >> just checking. >>> we are coming -- time for the closing countdown already. doing that when we come back here and see how the markets finish. >> and after the bell, collar bar class talking about play they'll putting in. stay tuned for that. i have a cold. i took nyquil but i'm still stuffed up. nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. really? alka-seltzer plus night rushes relief to eight symptoms of a full blown cold including your stuffy nose. (breath of relief) oh, what a relief it is. thanks. anytime. sfx: ambient park noise, crane engine, music begins. we asked people a question, how much money do you have in your pocket right now? i have $40, $53, $21, do you think the money in your pocket could make an impact on something as big as your retirement? not a chance. i don't think so. it's hard to imagine how somethin

melissa: mike, do you have anything nice to say about blackberry? no. building a phone for professionals. they're trying to come out with a product that deals with people that want to learn how to do stuff faster, better and in a more secure fashion, and this phone isn't for everybody. this isn't for your apple user, probably not for most of the folks on the panel, and i've had it for a couple weeks, and if you spend the time learning how to use it, it is faster -- melissa: you have the little square thing? you're the one that has one? [laughter] i think you're pretty much the only guy out there. >> i'll say something nice about blackberry. they were the people that pioneered the smartphone, and they really -- melissa: a long time ago. well, maybe that's why the "wall street journal" said back to square one, simon. >> yes. maybe that's why they did. what i find really sad though is that they were top of the castle for a long while, and they're sort of nowhere now, and i don't think -- >> upper management. melissa: yeah. before you guys go anywhere -- >>

well, you know it has been a screwy few days when blackberry is having a better week than apple. blackberry boasted it received more than 200,000 orders for its new passport phone, just few days after it was announced. that square phone is already sold out of its initial supply, on the blackberry website, and also amazon. and, dunkin' donuts now offering some more grab and go snack options. the company's introduced a new granola bar, 7 grams of protein, 220 calories, and of course, it is flavored with dunkin' donuts coffee. and, a cool feature, new corvette corks actually be against the lawment general motors is warning 2015 corvette owners not to use vallet mode. that lets owners secretly record conversations and performance data in their cars when they are not there. like when the cars being parked by a vallet. but gm says it realized those secret record also actually illegal in many states. and it is working on a software fix. ukee, erika, all i could think with this story is that ferris buehler's day off when they parked the car -- >> oh, joy riding, and get it back, yep. >>

. >>> blackberry getting hit hard today. how is b.k. playing that move next. >>> later, the rumor mill heating up on the street. stocks flying higher. separating fact from fiction. how to trade these moves straight ahead. >>> an earnings alert now. kate rogers has bed bath & beyond moving higher in the session. >> it was a beat on both, melissa. earnings, $1.17 versus $1.14 that was expected. also a beat on revenue, reporting $2.94 billion versus $2.89 billion that was expected. the stock soaring in after-hours trading. guidance for the full year looks good. next quarter a bit light. comp store sales looking good. >>> the context to this move is that the space -- container store williams-sonoma, pier i warned on profits and/or revenues. >> nice job. >> didn't last night karen finerman in this seat say it looked really interesting. >> yes. >> she's too humble to mention it. >> maybe they have missed and guided down for the last three quarters in a row and soon he or later you just grind estimates so low that you're going to beat sooner o

but will the passport be enough to turn blackberry around? we hear from the ceo himself. what is next for larry ellison, now that he is not oracle ceo? could he be the next tech mobile to buy an mba franchise? he has tried before, and might have a new target in the mba hawks. to the lead, the talk of a bubble in silicon valley is starting to gain steam again. some of the most respective voices in venture capital are sounding the alarm. they are warning startups are burning through way too much cash as they get round after round of funding, leaving many with multibillion-dollar valuations. and reese and -- mark andreessen tweeted when the market turns, we will find out who is been swimming without trunks on. comedies will vaporize. -- companies will vaporize. valuations can be fixed, you can do a down round, but burn rates are exactly that. earning cash, losing money, emphasis on the losing. are they right? joining me now is cory johnson, josh nine, and paul kedrosky. paul, do you agree? >> it is math. it is hard to disagree with math. fiber and rate companies do have a ba

can you hardly wait to get your blackberry smart glasses? look at here is the example of mockup for the blackberry watch. what do you think? are you ready to get online? it is right there. i love it. looks very modern. >>> yahoo!'s battle with big brother, the u.s. government threatened the tech company with $250,000 fines per day over user data back in 2007. you know they said day after day, hard to figure out where they come down on this one? on one hand turning pressure to turn over your information, your information, your information. on the other hand we are fighting terror. look what happened with isis. and folks being recruited from here in the u.s. and are going that way what do you think? >> i think fundamental question over security more important than our freed do. i don't think it is going away. i think they will be fighting. i believe yahoo! is doing right thing. sticking to their core values trying to protect their consumer from prying government eyes. personally i think government has gone a little too far. melissa: what you d

melissa: poor blackberry. >> people make fun of apple because maybe it kind of copied samsung, blackberry'st copying anyone, we're going to rei didn't vent the wheel with -- reinvent the wheel with a phone that doesn't look like a phone. but i hear the next one is smaller. >> really buy it because we need you to. melissa: yeah. maybe the next one already round or a triangle. it could be a triangle. >> you'll be able to type with one finger, youthat's what they. melissa: i'm interested in that, all right. so if there's one thing buzzfeed knows, it's cats. i mean, they've built their business on it. they're teaming up with pure arena to -- purina. what do you think about this one? have you watched these, by the way? that little baby kitten, the older one is sort of ridiculously hazing the baby and introducing that kitten to the house, and everything the older cat says is fairly hysterical. >> well, i'm against hazing, melissa. melissa: that's good. very pc of you. barron's has been doing well, but maybe we ought to look into it -- melissa: right now we are playing an extended cat video. this

meantime, blackberry unveiled its newest competitor.it's bigger, bolder than ever before with the 4.5-inch passport pony with dual key wbod that allows to you type and swipe. and blackberry ceo john chen said the firm is definitely serious about the handset business. >> announcer: now your nbc10 "first alert" weather. >> we've got serious rain that's been moving inland. heavy downpours offshore affecting delaware and south jersey. some of those rain drops in philadelphia, too. it's light rain over boathouse row but the wind is gusty. and we will see occasional heavy downpours currently 60 degrees at 5:26. jillian mele is watching traffic. free car washes this morning. >> free car washes. we're dealing with an accident westbound on 422 that overturned off the roadway. you need to slow down out there this morning. and also increased ponding on the roads on i-95. >>> this morning, we've got video of the suspects that turned themselves into the gay bashing case. they've been released. >> the three suspects in that case made bail. jesse gary

that's my blackberry. today, abc news management made me relinquish it.phones with touch screens. most of the comments i received on twitter and instagram ran along the lines of, welcome to 2014. to which i say, whatever. you can deal with more typos in my tweets. and by the way, check this out. it's my first ever blackberry, roughly from the year 1890. it looks like a beta max. they won't get this one from me. thank you for watching "nightline" tonight. "gma" first thing in the morning and we're online 24/7 at abcnews.com. good night. hey, nemo. hey, there. steinbrenner sucks. thanks for the scoop. hey, come here. i thought we'd eat at the booth today. why? are you breaking up wiwith me? ha ha ha. just shut up and sit over there. come on. come on, trust me. you won't be disappointed. and we have liftlif. hi. something to drink first? uh... beer. it's a little early. i like it with pizza. but i don't know, what do you think i should have? because i'll change . i drink eight glasses of water a day. water. i'll have water. pitcher of water. ok. and you? yea

and blackberry unveils its new smartphone today. passport is the company's first major new device and ceo john chen took over last year. he is trying to shift blackberry to theom consumers and business unit. it is twice as when it's past the hour, which means bloomberg television is on the markets. s&p futures slightly higher today. of course we will get economic numbers this morning at analog am, new-home sales will be out. that will gauge how consumers at the housing market -- 10:00 a.m., new home sales will be out. general motors is in the midst of processing hundreds of claims linked to faulty ignition switches. so far, 30 seven claims have been approved, but many more can you get a payout. the country's largest automaker is putting out about half $1 billion to settle the claims and put the matter hopefully in its rearview mirror. back with me as the man whose soul distraction right now -- ise discretion right now defining that. so far, looking at the cases, ken, what has been most surprising to you? >> i have not been very surp

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that's my blackberry. today, abc news management made me relinquish it.ones with touch screens. most of the comments i received on twitter and instagram ran along the lines of, welcome to 2014. to which i say, whatever. you can deal with more typos in my tweets. and by the way, check this out. it's my first ever blackberry, roughly from the year 1890. it looks like a beta max. they won't get this one from me. thank you for watching "nightline" tonight. "gma" first thing in the morning and we're online 24/7 at abcnews.com. good night. right here. with a control pad that can read your handwriting, a wide-screen multimedia center, all inside a newly redesigned cabin of unrivaled style and comfort. ♪ the all-new c-class. at the very touch point of performance and innovation. ♪ a broader mix of energies,nt world needsmance and innovation. to move, to keep warm, to make clay piggies. that's why we are supplying natural gas, to generate cleaner electricity, that has around 50% fewer co2 emissions than coal. let's broaden the world's energy mix, let's go.

>> people still love them. >> if you're a blackberry guy, you're a blackberry guy.nd if you're a coffee guy. >> or gal. >> guys being plural for everybody. free coffee. where are we getting free coffee today? >> pretty much 1 big marketing event, who cares if we can get our caffeine fix free of charge. crispy cream, mcdonald's, and duncan is giving away medium cups of the dark roast. frank and michelle, drink up. >> we've already had 1 cup ready for the second 1. >> i'm on 2. >> jill wagner cbs money watch. >>> all right thanks. >>> all new this morning another american doctor is being treated for exposure to the ebola virus in africa. the doctor is in a special isolation unit in the national institute of health near washington. he has not necessarily contracted the virus. australia says it will not send help because bringing them home if infected. >>> many people feared dead after a massive volcano erupts in japan. while they were on that mountain coming up. >>> and a monster truck stunt goes wrong. we'll be back after that. and a path to success. joining the socce

that's something that blackberry business users prefer. the passport will be available in the u.s.nd of the year. >>> here on wall street investors will be watching for the august durable goods report and last week's unemployment data. the dow gained 154 points wednesday. the s&p 500 was up 15. the nasdaq rose 46. >>> sandwich team jiminy john says its payment systems were hacked. customers' credit card data from more than the hu 200 stores in states were affected between june and september. jimmy john's says it's been restored now that encrypted swipe machines have been installed. >>> and hollywood movie makers may be allowed to fly drones. the federal aviation administration is expected to announce today that seven movie and television production companies will get drone permits. the unmanned drones would be used only on closed sets and be operated by a three-person team. anne-marie? >>cy i'm i'm sure it's a lot cheaper than renting a helicopter. i'm sure it will work out for them. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. >>> when we return, will the weathe

. >> coming up, blackberry posting big gains after reporting a smaller than expected loss. is it back from the dead for good. plus, the move heard around the street. how bill gross's departure from pimco could signal more selling pressure ahead in the bond market. back in two. the conference call. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: eventually they have to end. unless you have the comcast business voiceedge mobile app. it lets you switch seamlessly from your desk phone to your mobile with no interruptions. i've never felt so alive. get the future of phone and the phones are free. comcast business. built for business. >>> gains of over 1.5%. speaking of treasury, big news out of pimco. bill gross leaving pimco joining janus. the major action was to sell. with his departure, is the strat skri going to change? >> the knee-jerk reaction was probably wrong. treasury market is huge. bill gross has now got to go build a portfolio over at janus. there are still going to be

. >> blackberry picking. late august, given heavy rain and sun for a full week, the blackberries would ripen. at first, just one-- a glossy purple clot among others, red, green, hard as a knot. you ate that first one, and its flesh was sweet like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for picking. then red ones inked up and that hunger sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. 'round hayfields, cornfields, and potato-drills we trekked and picked until the cans were full; until the tinkling bottom had been covered with green ones, and on top big, dark blobs burned like a plate of eyes. our hands were peppered with thorn pricks; our palms sticky as bluebeard's. we hoarded the fresh berries in the byre. but when the bath was filled we found a fur, a rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache. the juice was stinking too. once off the bush the fruit fermented; the sweet flesh would turn sour. i always felt like cryi

is that enough on blackberry? >> that's enough.ple of other items i want to mention -- president obama will be speaking at the global health security agenda summit. russian-ukraine meeting -- >> and secretary kerry burns up the delta shuttle three scarlet, how about company news? that thevernment says u.s. bank improperly billed customers for extra credit card fees. a major recall by chrysler for the same problem that has been dogging gm. many cars have a dish and problems. they can cause malfunction and stalling. since 2011, chrysler has called more than 2 million vehicles for ignition problems. a proposed food deal gets sweeter. chiquitae plans -- makes plans for a merger. . rival offer pushed it that is company news. >> to the news of the moment, the coalition focuses at this hour on london. prime minister cameron has corralled support for mr. miller band's party's support. with bloomberg news, traveling with secretary kerry. am glad to have you here today. the leather is green in the house of commons. i don't think there is any

by the way, her blackberry was cleared out after litigation had been filed in a companion case allegingsional investigations had already started, lou, so the irs, department of justice, fbi, everybody was on notice but amazingly, her computer crashes as they said, they then say her documents are not retrievable, then of course you have the admission earlier in the week, this week, where pursuant to a freedom of information act request, there was discussions that in fact, there is a mass backup unit which we all know exists but they said it was too burdensome to get to. then this miraculously, for lois lerner and the fbi and the department of justice and i might add, the president, her e-mails are wiped off of her blackberry, too. there's nothing there. no one can believe this. it's lying, it's lying under oath to congress and i'll tell you something. when you look at the transition that took place between the lawyer that was litigating the case -- the cases we're involved in, there was a companion case where a pro-israel group that was targeted, the lawyer that was representing the irs

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 an outlook for fiscal 2015 that was below consensus. after hours the stock fell initially -- look at that chart right there. during the regular season shares were off about 2% to 16.53. >> and the world's third biggest retailer is slashing its profit outlook. the british food chain says it has to restake past results, suspend some top executives and cut its profit forecast for the third time in just the last two months. shares tumbled to an 11-year low on l