but that's something the mayor of christchurch, bob parker, intends to reverse. he's in asia to declare the city open for business. i spoke to him earlier today about the city's future and asked why it would be attractive to foreign investors. >> the scale of demolition and reconstruction in the heart of christchurch city is something unprecedented in western cities since the second world war. it's massive. i'm talking way over 50% in the core of the christchurch cbd that will be replaced, whole blocks completely clear felled. and we have a chance to build something utterly unique. we had a 19th-century city, which was a response to the reformist thinking back in the 1800s. >> so, what are you going to do? >> we're going to build a 21st-century city, a sustainable city, a green city, if you like. the writing is on the wall for that, looking at the impacts of the cost of energy, looking at how we treat the environment that we're in, the sustainable materials, looking at our carbon footprint and creating a new city that will resonate in the new century, particularl

bob joins us with the latest. >> brian, parker jones was stab the just after 8:00 and died around 2:00rning. she wasn't carrying any identification, police only learning who she was by fingerprint analysis. jones was 23. born a man, lived life as a

parker at morgan stanley. have a good time. i like that very much. heading to the close. bob pisani.he dow will finish inside 100 points away from 13,000. >> unlike dow 10,000, it became a bit of a running joke how many times it went over and under it, only in 2007 and 2008 did we ever surpass dow 13,000 several times. but we're starting to get a little more rarified territory. >> that will do it for the first hour of the "closing bell."