. >> i see bob davis is the tremendous leader in the tobacco free coalition as well. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. and yes, my name is brian davis and i am here speaking i may be the only one, speaking on behalf of the lgbt community and san francisco, today. and in regards to this issue. and i do live? san francisco and i am sender about the fact that the community does smoke, about twice as much as the general population here in san francisco. and in many other places. and that is because of the phobia and we all know that most of us, and most of all of us who start smoking start smoking before we are 18 and that is the toughest time to grow up as an lgbt person and so anything that is out there that helps to reduce the exposure to our community and all communities to tobacco, and during that period of our lives, and beyond, when we are facing greater stress as we see people and more likelihood that we will turn to tobacco as a means of reliefing that stress. so, thank you very much for your support. and we look forward to your seeing this become a law here in san francisco. >> t

>> remember bob davis? >> i do. in fact i saw bob davis a bit ago. why do you mention bob?> in 2000, he had a company called lycos. what happened with it? do you remember? >> i do. a spanish company, not unlike repsol, the company was called terra, it paid 12.5 billion for lycos in 2000, and then it was sold to the south korean in 2004 for $95 million. i'm calling it early. i go back to 2000, maybe repsol is a better company, but that was the top. i think that's too early. >> what are any of those companies from that time? there is actually something in the ground here that has value. >> but isn't there capital structure? there is a very good note this morning -- well, i'm being too kind, a barclays note, which talks about funding problems for a bunch of company. they could be in trouble -- by the way, which suspended the dividend yesterday. >> remember, they're down 80%. is that an early call? talisman was down a lot, too. >> it was. all right, so exxon shouldn't buy anadarko now, they should wait in or they should have bought it when it was 120? >> there's nothing wrong w

speaking of executive, we've lost the head of the anf, head of utx, now the head of bob evans, which is up almost 4%. steve davisy mutual agreement. >> that was something. i felt bob evans should split, after what happened with hillshire brands. bob evans has a terrific sausage product. >> had the success of tom sandel, the activist investor able to replace quite a few board member. on the activism front, a deal this morning, toma bravo along with more canadians, ontario teachers pension plan, a large private equity wing, if you will, buying river bed for 21 bucks a share in cash. river bed, you may remember, was elliott came after them, actually offered to buy the company for 18 bucks a share. the deal gets done, private transaction. had 21 for river bed, which as you might imagine is up, rather sharply. and elliott says, largest shareholder, we're happy with the outcome, i'm paraphrasing here, we think we've gotten immediate premium value, a quote from jesse cone, who runs a lot of the activist practice when it comes to technology. >> a good deal, wide area networking, competitive. used to be a good high flyer

. >> the things are so bad out there why did restaurant chain bob evans farm soar this morning on the resignation of its ceo steve davis who many thought stood in the way of a breakup to split the company in a business like hillshire brand, the company that got the bid from tyson foods and a restaurant business on fire given how its locations dot interstates everywhere, not unlike cracker barrel. forget that, forget that. russia may not be able to pay its bills. of course, we sell sell sell sell sell. sell bob evans. it's directly linked to the ruble, isn't it? if things are bad why does honeywell, standing by their guidance forecast for more. i can't wait to take ceo david cote to task. i mean hasn't he been watching the tape about how his company is still on course for a big year? what a great opportunity this would have been to say the global growth picture is slip sliding away and he had to revise his view to the negative because i mean he must look at stocks. if things are so bad why is klaus kleinfeld the brilliant ceo of alcoa acquiring a german company that makes titanium aircraft parts. a german company. europ

the longtime ceo of bob evans is stepping down -- the company says he is said resigning under mutual agreement with the board. davisl remain with the company through the end of the year. the number of airline seats on offer in nations hit by ebola is plummeting. a new report by flight saysuling database liberia, sierra leone and guinea will see a total of 95,000 fewer available seats than one year ago and liberia was see and 81% drop. ebola has killed more than 3000 people in that country. sony pictures has a message for news at -- news outlets everywhere, stop exposing confidential information. the famous constitutional lawyer says media companies should destroy the information. they will be held responsible for damages from its publication -- but how could we resist the smack down on angelina jolie. >> you'll be held responsible for practice of the first amendment? sony should've secured the system little better. upthe futures improving -- 16. >> if you are an elf on the shelf family, remove your children from the room because on the set with us is china bell who in 2005 wrote the book about the elf that monitors