they asked boeing to build the boeing 315. it was delivered to pan am in january of 1939 and kristened the yankee clipper. a new fabulous era had begun. in 1939 at the world's fair treasure island, this was known as treasure coffee. cove but not for long. the name was soon changed to clipper cove to honor pan am's giant flying boats, the prestigious air ships that literally opened the pacific ocean to commercial air travel. 60 years ago they were moored right here. what a sight he -- they must have been. [ music ] >> reporter: pan american bolt a hangar here with a ramp so fare goers could go inside and look down on the giant clipper ship. the eye of the beholder had a pronoun impact on at least one 16-year-old boy. >> and i kept thinking, if i could just get down there and touch it, being involved with airplanes all of my life, why, i could just get down and touch it, i was really excited. and i never did until four years later. i was the pilot on the thing. >> reporter: pan am boeing clipper was a flying carpet of extravagan

it was a boeing town. boeing was responsible for its success and the growth of culture, many of the institutions that i enjoyed as a kid. i have a special attachment to it for that reason. while now boeing is headquartered in chicago, people in seattle still feel the way i do. i am particularly delighted to have gotten to know jim mcnerney over the past year and to have him here at aie. it is a great honor for us to hear his remarks. boeing is a $68 billion aerospace corporation. jim has been running boeing as ceo since 2005. he has a senate career as executive and a number of fortune 50 firms, including procter and gamble, general electric, and 3m. he has been recently appointed to the president's export council. this is a very important position that helped the united states craft policy around expanding exports in the united states and identifying challenges around the world. he has a unique perspective, both as chief executive of one of america's most important companies and as serving the president un

it was a boeing town. boeing was responsible for its success and the growth of culture, many of the institutions that i enjoyed as a kid. i have a special attachment to it for that reason. while now boeing is headquartered in chicago, people in seattle still feel the way i do. i am particularly delighted to have gotten to know jim mcnerney over the past year and to have him here at aie. it is a great honor for us to hear his remarks. boeing is a $68 billion aerospace corporation. jim has been running boeing as ceo since 2005. he has a senate career as executive and a number of fortune 50 firms, including procter and gamble, general electric, and 3m. he has been recently appointed to the president's export council. this is a very important position that helped the united states craft policy around expanding exports in the united states and identifying challenges around the world. he has a unique perspective, both as chief executive of one of america's most important companies and as serving the president un

fellow dow component boeing also losing ground today. the "seattle times" reported over the weekend that the 787 dreamliner could be pushed back by as much as another six months, but boeing would not confirm that. looking at a chart of boeing stock, shares down almost 3% percent today, but still up over 16% on the year. another defense contractor raytheon is expanding its reconnaissance products. it's buying applied signal for almost $0.5 billion, or $38. that bid pushed shares of applied signal sharply higher, up 8%. meanwhile, raytheon stock pulled back a bit. the other big deal of the day? at&t is buying wireless spectrum licenses from qualcomm. the price tag? nearly $2 billion. with those additional wireless licenses, at&t will reach more customers and expand its 4g wireless broadband service. a different story at k.k.r. its deal with an australian wealth manager was scrapped. the company, called perpetual, called off takeover talks with kohlberg kravis roberts. k-k-r was offering roughly $1.7 billion for perpetual, an offer many saw

boeing has repeatedly postponed the new model's delivery for various reasons, such as design rework and delays in parts availability. >>> last month tokyo's haneda international airport resumed international operations after years serving domestic flights. it has gone further and now opened services for budget carriers for the first time making trips easy for discount travelers. on thursday the malaysian airline air asia x started a shuttle service linking haneda and the country's capital, kuala lumpur, three times a week. the first flight, with 320 passengers on board, arrived at haneda on schedule, and the company's ceo welcomed the passengers. >> translator: the fare was half of wh less than half of what i used to pay. my seat was comfortable. just like the other regular air carriers. i had enough space around my feet. >> the malaysian carrier has set one-way discount fares at around $60 and regular economy seats at $165. the carrier says it has made efforts to cut expenses by omitting some cabin services and raising operation rates. more and more foreign airlines are expanding their

he is followed by the boeing ceo. then a house discussion on increase in reimbursements for medicare and medicaid providers. the surgeon general issues a new report on the health risk of tobacco use. now, from thursday, president obama. >> welcome. >> everybody have a seat. good morning, everybody. thank you for coming together to help us figure out how we are going to sell a lot of stuff all around the world. i want to thank secretary locke, members of congress who are here, and i want to thank the chair and buys-chair of the chairs of = -- vice- the council on exports. everyone here is dedicated to promoting posturing a strong middle class and extending opportunity for all in the workforce. as we meet here, there is an important debate on capitol hill that will determine whether our economy moves forward or backwards. the bipartisan framework we have forced on taxes will not only protect working americans from seeing a major tax increase on january 1, it will provide businesses with incentives to invest, grow, and h

boeing and airbus. america and europe, because it requires an unfair competitive advantage from either bidder to be taken into consideration. . and it is w.t.o. compliant. we are careful to draft a bill with that in mind. third, this is an enormous contract, and there have been enormous unfair competitive advantages bestowed on one of the bidders, frankly, airbus here. the $5 billion of illegal subsidies that we have found come out to somewhere between $ 27 to $5 million an airplane. this is something we need to take into consideration. fourth, the job importance of this legislation cannot be overstated. it's estimated that 62,000 jobs could hang in the balance if we allow these illegal subsidies not to be remedied in this procurement contract. american workers have built the best airplanes. they're ready to do it and we are not going to allow tens of thousands of jobs lost based on illegal subsidizeation by our friends in europe. we look forward to giving the senate every opportunity to act on this. wi

. >> corporate funding also provided by boeing and wells fargo advisors. additional funding for "washington week" is provided by the ethics in excellence in journalism foundation, the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening, well where to begin. if anyone has suggested after the midterm elections we would be sitting around this table for the last show of the year talking about an obama comeback, he or she would have been laughed off the set. the president left town for his hawaiian vacation with a smile on his face with good reason. >> a lot of folks in this town predicted that after the mid-term elections, washington would be headed for more partisanship and more gridlock. and instead, this has been a season of progress for the american people. that progress is reflected -- is a reflection of the message the voters sent in november, a message that said, it's time to find common ground on cha

prudential. >> corporate funding is also provided by boeing, and wells fargo advisors. additional funding for "washington week" is provided by the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation, the annenburg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. got the mirrors all adjusted? you can see everything ok? just stay off the freeways, all right? i don't want you going out on those yet. and leave your phone in your purse, i don't want you texting. >> daddy... ok! ok, here you go. be careful. >> thanks dad. >> and call me--but not while you're driving. we knew this day was coming. that's why we bought a subaru.

prudential. >> corporate funding is also provided by boeing, and wells fargo advisors. additional funding for "washington week" is provided by the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation, the annenburg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

. >> corporate funding is also provided by boeing and wells fargo advisers. additional funding for "washington week" is provided by the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation, the anenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator, gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. congress tackled all the big political issues of the day this week, immigration, nuclear security, gay rights. even the normally placid harry reid was irate, though, at the lack of movement. >> what in the world do they accomplish by saying we're not going to allow you to do the start treaty, the defense authorization bill, until the tax bill is completed and spending is done. we know that before we leave here this year, we're going to have to do something to finance the government for the next year and the odds are we're going to do something on taxes. for them to have these, i repeat, artificial road blocks is foolishness. >> nothing stirred the blood like the deb

this is harford and we are looking at delays forming their pre same boeing 495. we're almost at a standstill at liberty road. -- delays forming. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. sandra shaw is having some fun this one with the harlem globetrotters. i love them because they are so much fun. scooter and buckets are here doing razzle dazzle basketball wizardry. there will be at 1st mariner arena on the following tuesday, december 28. they have been all over the world. nine years for buckets. the new deal is actually from 35 feet. the four-point shot. that will be the new deal of this year. they are always so much fun. they meet and greet with everybody after the game. they try to call me learned some stuff but it is challenging. these guys have a lot of experience and they are fun. let's talk about the seven-day forecast. it will stay cold again today. still below freezing for a high. we will be milder tomorrow in shot ofr 30's with a winter precipitation to our north. we could see more precipitation on sunday. scooter and buckets are still taking it away. >>

boeing says it has now fixed the problem. the first planes were supposed to be delivered to japanese airline back in 2008. but industry analysts say it will likely be four to five months before the first planes can be handed over to that japanese airline. >>> fines for parking meter violations in oakland will go up on january 3rd. three dollars increase will raise the cost of the average meter fine from $55 to $58. none of the additional money goes to oakland. the rest goes today to the state for court costs. the new fee actually took effect on november 7th: but enforcement was delayed to give holiday shoppers a break. >>> the santa clara valley trance poration authority will be running 14 lines today. >>> we have some dropping news, almost 3,000 south bay pg & e customers are spending this christmas eve without any power. a pg & e spokeswoman said a car hit a powerful this afternoon near el camino real and knocked out power to 200 customers. the car hit that pole about 4:15 and the power has been out since. there's no word o

watch what happens to boeing. did you see the other day? china announcement, they're going to start making airplanes. that's wonderful. first of all, they manipulate their currency. they totally manipulate their currency. china, it's almost impossible to compete. here is the good news. we make much better products. when i buy chinese furniture, it breaks. you know who i call? nobody. there is nobody to talk to. when i buy chinese sheetrock and thank goodness i didn't, but you see what's happening with the sheetrock, people are dying all over the place when they use it. we make better products. but they manipulate their currency and it's very, very sad. somebody has to do something about it before it's too late. >> brian: what about those who accuse us of doing the same thing by printing out $600 billion because we seem to be short? >> we're trying to do the same thing, but we don't know how to do it because they're smarter than our leaders. >> gretchen: let me take a political turn here because a lot of what you're talking about is what you

and you can see that the boeing 727 had hot brakes. the faa said a fire also had a reporter flier and the landing gear area. and tof the passengers were taken to the hospital. two of those passengers were taken with minor injuries to the hospital. >> and with a relatively hot season for retailers. a quick " dumb things to go stores. >> each year, how much-a quick will done things to the was storms-- >> and with shoppers, to close their wallets right before christmas. the next year, spending was down and it's state downed. this year, after post- thanksgiving at the spending bounced back and the trend was looking up. and the blizzard of 2010. as the mercury dropped, the up sales were also dropped by 24 percent down. due to 5% in the midwest, 46 percent in the east. and the south, and the west the drop was smaller. this monikers business and shopping mall and it estimates that the snow storm probably monitors--monitors perhaps bond before $1 billion. with sales for the rest of this holiday week sales to be regained. >> and just like repor

after one year with all of the grants will and all of the stadiums and you go out and you start a boeing 5 and you fall short. even though you're in it because you are in a weak division because of yesterday. it is is not a good fit >>. will it is not a good fit but it is a good factor. he has been singled out periods get coded. >> yes excellent use of the word. it's not singled out. when you're the head coach you are aware that is a franchise. you have to, you cannot miss. >> thank you. we need to take a break. we will be back after this. scary moment for us and as a family. a stranger barged into their apartment filled with children. for a few terrifying moments they did not out happen next. >> it is this after 1131 police say that 33 year-old entered it beat apartment. six children were in the home. >> the kids were all here. >> not all of them. he forced his way into this room where natalie was sitting. >> the man command and said hi guys. that is what they all said, the kids. he just walked in and said hi guys thinking straight into the bedroom. >> they say he barricaded the door it

boeing was another drag on the dow, despite vowing to ramp up production of its 777 aircraft. amazon enjoyed a boost thanks to a jump in online shopping this holiday season. keep an eye on adobe systems. after the bell, they exceeded expectations. shares shot up in late trades. and finally, just in time for christmas, prince william and kate middleton's official royal wedding china is on sale in england. all proceeds from the officially approved cup, plate and pill box will go towards the royal collection trust which maintains the queen's art collection. >>> orlando's new guys produce the same old results and there's no stopping sid the kid. plus, brett farve made a surprise start last night in minnesota, but he probably wishes he stayed on the bench. your early morning sports headlines are just ahead. >>> two more days left of heavy rain on the west coast and then that storm moves across the country. your tuesday forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." what can i get you? i'd like one of those desserts and some coffee. sure. decaf or regular? regular. cake or pi

from the battle space to cyberspace. [ female announcer ] around the globe, the people of boeing aremerica's best. that's why we're here. ♪ >>> we are back with more from our roundtable, final thoughts. tom brokaw, at this stage, we were getting ready for the new year and new announcements as to who was going to run for president. >> right. >> what are republicans going to do? >> well, you know, who knows at this point, dave. you heard me say this 1,000 times over. the ufo always holds the unforeseen will occur, we don't know who they are at this point. 15 months ago the tea party was a faint line on the political horizon in this country and suddenly was a very powerful force. there are, obviously, a lot of republicans in the senate and in the state houses around the country who see themselves in the oval office. tim pawlenty is run ining hard minnesota. sarah palin is obviously more than flirting with the idea now. haley barbour has probably banged himself up again with comments this past week, to say nothing of people in the united states senate and mitt romney, former governor of

there was an advisory commission made up of a number of corporate entities including starbucks and boeing and they came up with a plan for seattle the materials are there and if your interested i encourage you to go ahead and look at those and see the things being done with other mayors across the country. >> our system, we have two water supply systems the cedar system and toll system that supplies one third and we own the entire head waters on 90 thousand acres and we control that and it's secure so it allows us to not filter that supply and the toll system we own 15000 acres around. so we control a majority of our system which gives us a little flexibility in the way we design and manage our system and allows experiments that we could not do in other areas. again, 90 thousand acres, most of our reservoir gets a hundred thousand precipitation dependent water supply. we don't have multi-year storage so we depend on that's a rain. for us, there's a number of adaptive strategies we've been trying to figure out to invest in to deal with consequences of climate change. one of the first is to

reshape the science of aerospace -- forever. [ female announcer ] around the globe, the people of boeing dreams of generations to come. that's why we're here. ♪ >>> to button up our conversation, if you've seen "time" magazine, person of the year, mark zuckerberg. mr. booker, you spent time with mr. zuckerberg, what he's trying to do for education is significant. >> global knowledge-based economy is education. you can't have a first-class society and the math not even in the top 15. it's great to see mark zuckerberg, who is a genius in creating wealth, and communications, this interwoven that we have, but doubling down on education like gates and walleden and some others. >> it's the new form of american patriotism. we'll see a big push on this, the competitiveness of america is tied to how good our kids are doing -- >> it's more than tied. it's essential. we do not have a great education system, we will fail as a democracy. >> and the asian countries are completely out -- >> that's our new moon shot. >> president obama, michael bloomberg, cory booker, conservatives all together, educati

they talked about business around ge and boeing. that's good.we talked about common ground and what we could achieve collectively going forward and building on the momentum that's becoming established. >> let's talk about your company. a popular smartphone android is pushing your sales higher. revenue up, profits up. what would you say to americans that would come to motorola solutions and say, why aren't you expanding your own workforces to allow for more job creation? >> i think we are expanding our workforce in motorola. like any company, we're always o optimizing. there's a number of areas that mote recaorola is growing. you named wuone of them. smartphones. another is enterprise mobile computing. retail sales have bounced back a bit in this country and in europe. that's a good thing. so we're seeing growth again, and we're investing organically. we're investing more r and d to capitalize on the growth opportunities in the addressable markets that motorola competes in. >> what is the job that you recommend somebody -- you know, or the skills

obama will bring some holiday cheer to the white house for the toys for tots distribution center at boeingr force base in washington, d.c.. >>> and procrastinators, rejoice. if you've put off your holiday shopping until today, you're in luck. more than 1,000 online retailers are offering free shipping today. all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc. and tonight, be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news." and sunday on "meet the press," an exclusive with vice president joe biden. >>> and finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. meet the security guard called a hero for shooting a gunman who terrorized a florida school board meeting. and two-time oscar-winning actor kevin spacey talks about his new movie, "casino jack." keep it here for continuing local news, weather, sports and more. i'm lynn berry. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one.

that includes jim mcnurny of boeing, and several members of my economic recovery advisory board.one of many discussions we'll be having in the months ahead to find new ways to spur hiring, put americans back to work, and move our economy forward. as i said when i was running for president, and as i've said since, i believe that the primary engine of america's economic success is not government, it's the ingenuity of america's entrepreneurs, it's the dynamism of our markets. and for me the most important question about an economic idea is not whether it's good short-term politics or meet somebody's litmus test. it's whether it will help spur businesses, jobs, and growth. and that's why i've set a goal of doubling u.s. exports in the next five years, to create more jobs selling more products abroad. that's why i'm so pleased that earlier this month, after intensive negotiations, we finalized a trade agreement with our ally, south korea, that will boost the annual exports of american goods by $11 billion. a deal that all told, will support at least 70,000 american jobs. it's an agre

she also spoke to those helping at the boeing air force base in soutast. the toys for tts program was found bid a u.s. marine reservist and his wife 62 years ago. that program has given out more than 400 million toys in the years since then. >>> back in january, danas in port-au-prince when that earthquake hit there. today he met with rescuers face to face. >> i thought this was the end. i really thought that this was, you know, that my life was probably over, and so i was trying to figure out, what could i do -- if i had the chance to sayast things to my family, what would i want to say? >> in the two weeks they were in haiti, the fairfax county rescue task force pulled 16 people from thrubble down there. >>> we'll be right back. because of one word, imagination and reality have merged. because of one word, a new generation-- a fifth generation-- of fighter aircrt has been born. because of one word, america's air dominance for the next forty years is assured. that one word... is how. 1 in 6 amecans live in hunger. at bank of america, we've created the gif

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among the round table's members of the ceos of pepsi, amexand boeing, all scheduled to be at the white today. >>> let's huddle around the water cooler to check in on rahm emanuel's run for mayor in chicago. a new poll, "chicago tribune" has rahm leading at this moment. the election is in february. he has 32% just ahead of undecided at 30%. but he is getting a challenge to his residency. some people saying he shouldn't be allowed to run because while he went to work in the white house, he effectively gave up his residency in chicago. laws there say you have to live there for a full year. he says he kept his house, still owned the house. the challengers say yeah, but you rented it out, didn't live here. a weird, strange, surreal basement hearing where people were shouting and heckling rahm emanuel. one of the attorneys for the challengers, looking at pictures inside emanuel's house to decide whether or not he lives there. >> mr. emanuel, i want to show you a petitioner's exhibit 2, document 6, and this is the -- the listing from the multiple listing for the rental of the property. that's

boeing, but clearly it has trouble rolling out its 787 dreamliner.you're not too concerned and would buy shares ahead of that? >> i would. i think you're getting a very attractive valuation for a premium company. you're seeing better loadings, better pricing. that should help overall. and, by the way, better traffic trends. i think near-term earnings are okay. and then you get this dreamliner to be launched sometime at the end of 2011 into 2012, and you have positive -- very positive operating leverage. as they get the planes out of the door, the r & d goes down and the margins go up. >> tom: looking at the world through a windshield. any disclosures for this trio, stephanie? >> personally do not own it. in the fund we own all three. >> tom: we have stephanie's article at the treat.com -- thestreet.com. and our guest is stephanie link with thestreet.com. >> susie: here's what we're watching for tomorrow. the latest on inflation with november's consumer price index. we'll also find out how hilary kramer's stock pick, zales, is doing in our "street cri

according to some sources in july in one thousand nine hundred five eight thousand boes name muslims were massacred in that city after serbian troops seized it with apparent ease. sort of but it's a useful because i need to episode was a fabrication with the actually a good. toll there was much less most of those people died in fighting the war was going on and claimed dead soldiers were in fact massacred civilians. innocents exists in anglo-saxon and european legislation the hague tribunal this principle presumably means the following everyone is innocent until they're proven to be serbs. according to some of the materials that the hague tribunal is expected to consider the police and the army of a serbian republic organized a wholesale massacre of muslim residents the corpses were buried in mass graves. don't know what's going on that day one year old a criminal and. i don't believe those charges are being made several calls to us from the hague to ask me about his behavior he told me how the news should be treated if you. asked me whether daniel was receiving the treatment recomme

the boeing 747 is still on the tarmac. passengers say they felt that the auxiliary power unit may have caught fire and that was what caused the delay. qantas told them that the accommodations on the plane were going to be better than what they had to offer them so the passengers remained on the aircraft for seven hours. they were let off the plane at 5 a.m. they did however, praise the cabin crew. >> what was it like in the plane. >> hot. and the poor captain, all the crew they were marvelous but they couldn't do anything. it was parked, terrible. >> it's been really rough. i think i feel most sorry for hearing that a lot of people in economy didn't get hotel rooms at all and had to sleep on the -- at the airport and so i feel very lucky that i did actually get a hotel room and i did actually have a sleep. >> reporter: we're seeing some ak tractor-trailer over here now at the qantas 7 -- -- we're seeing some activity here over at the qantas 747. the people were allowed to economic in for the flight at 5:00 tonight so they