by the way, we were at the cavalier in san francisco, which is one of bower's favorite spots.says he goes to a restaurant three times before writing the initial review. he says the peninsula is the biggest weak spot for bay area restaurants. >>> it's a new day of competition starting in sochi. a live look at the alpine skiing center as we show you where a lot of action you'll see tonight takes place in prime time. let's get to nbc's jack live in sochi. i hear a world leader dropped in on team usa. >> reporter: yeah, how about that? in the heat, but every once in awhile, competition takes a backseat to olympic spirit that happened here in sochi on valentine's day. it's valentine's day here in sochi, but there was no love for team usa at the ski sent serp. four american men started the 15 kilometer cross country classic and none finished higher than 31st. a couple of hours later, the women ran the 15 k individual b biathilon. vladimir putin may have delivered a valentine, he dropped by the u.s. tour house for tour. he could have been trying to sike out the u.s. men's hockey team

between providers and companies that provide the service to their employees and the transportation like bowers and compass who many of this contract out for so there's an overlap and that's included in that the medical institution as well >> so shilt companies. >> in most cases the transportation provider that's they're busy and operators but ultimately whomever wants to choose to be the permit he. >> are you going to ask for more money. >> so the state law based on prop 18 and 26 restricts any local government from collecting foes and they're now greater to cost than the fees support. so the state law to raise the revenue is is to go to the voters for a revenue increase >> how many plays - >> i don't think we have that information. i didn't really mention this one of the benefits of the pilot is to gather the information that requires a significant data component to this so we can understand the dynamics of how many people are moving in from where >> so is there infrastructure improvements and how much money and how does this effect building - >> probably not building new stops but signage to

an exclusive interview with the ceo of one of the nation's biggest homebuilders, doug bower tells us what he thinks. soft drinks and snacks go together, not a few are pepsico. activist shareholder in a nelson raising the stakes in his battle, to spin off the beverage business. who will win this battle and will pepsi stock fizz or fizzle? "countdown to the closing bell" starts now. ♪ adam: good afternoon. liz: this is the last and most import hour of trade. as we come on the air stocks are rallying. despite a mixed bag of economic reports including i don't know if you saw this closely watched reading and manufacturing in philadelphia in the region this month, philadelphia fed index was awful. sinking to negative 6.3 from positive 9.4, how did that happen? a reading in one year, and the blame that is going to severe weather. there may be a silver lining. senior economist says more than half of manufacturers surveyed expected production increases in the first quarter so what do we do? do we throw out this number? we have a totally different picture of manufacturing for market, a private

i bower rowed some from my relatives but i wasn't able to afford the expensive treatment. >> thousandsf people here are maimed by fighting between pakistan forces and the taliban. she doesn't have much faith in the government. >> going do get groceries is a risk for us. i am afraid to send out our children, no one has helped us. no one, the at least they can do is provide treatment for my son. >> so far the government hasn't been successful in negotiating a deal with the same people it's been at war with for many years. despite the losses, she wants peace, not revenge. >> i do wish for these peace talks to succeed. then we will be able to go back to our homes, and there will be no bomb blasts. like me, no mother will have to lose her sons, no woman will have to become a widow, i don't need anything, but i do need peace for my children. they should be able to play and have some happy moments. >> while the people in charge struggle to bring fighters to the negotiation table and make grand france formations for peace, thousands of others. >> i wish my children can get an education, like o

. >> reporter: david bowers knows soda isn't good for him. some lawmakers wants to make sure everyone knows soft drinks are loaded with sugar. legislation was introduced that would require safety warning labels on sugary drinks that reads -- >> the projections are that if we don't reduce consuch shup of sugary beverages, one in three americans will have diabetes. >> reporter: scott weiner supports the warning. he's working to slow the flow of soda consumption in san francisco with a tax. he says it's a public health issue lawmakers can't ignore. >> beverage manufacturers that put out these cheap products making people sick, as we get stuck with the bill when the hospitals get flooded with people with diabetes. >> reporter: the beverage industry is expected to spend millions of dollars fighting the proposals. soda drinkers say a warning label is a good idea. >> that would make people buy less sodas. >> i think it should have a warning. >> reporter: but a tax is harder to swallow. >> this is too much. they almost tax everything around here in s

this week jeff bower is not the only country trying to gain dealt with holding them. there are a few when dough. explain that and cause me and how cute can the study noted that goes red shawl over and on and as i try to complete the grassy you. and us as we all follow as vital and sweat for five hundred megawatts the mop up for. to borrow me why i was going to deprive its government about the project to be the future. paul hunter to do this we'll call it the downside to using duo of ralphie from a line drive homer young gold coast to the economy according to the realities of gold was to show it leaks don't keep it open and the use of a fight to plant city didn't play to housing in wales. all but one hundred times the peep is the key. the ability to develop the complex but twenty fifteen and soon we hope to contribute to the country's economic development. lots of apple infrastructure and to read as chief counsel bowery from this. japanese firms mainly due to a premium on hot coals i exchange it for us. and totally umaga in which he wrote the young bull. people in part

. >>> fue liberado en república dominicana el cantante jimmy bower después de cumplir 3 años en prisiónnsformado yu espera que le sirva a otros. >>> ninguna persona que haya hecho esto está vivo para contarlo. >>> el cantante se salvó de milagro, llevaba 90 bolsas de cocaína en el estómago y algunas se reventron. >>> todo, inclusive de lo mal que estaba de la cabeza, fui muy vulnerable al sistema ese corrupto y lamento mucho porque tuve que sufrir mucho en carne propia las cosas, me daba vergüenza, no quería que nadie me viera así. >>> usabas drogas. >>> no, no usaba droga, porque en mi vida artística de alrededor de 20 años, estaba muy cerca de eso. >>> fue condenado a 4 años de cárcel ,pero esta jueza dice que está listo para reintegrarse a la sociedad. >>> fue una decisión favoarble está sujeto a ciertas condiciones. >>>ccomo elp pago de una fianza y también no salir del país. >>> algunas vez de viste en peligro al interior de la cárcel . >>> no, inclusive los muchachos allá muy respetuosos, al contrario, me apoyaban, cada vez que había una actividad les cantaba. >>> ahora dice que e

fertile bowers thirty news investigators from the guard all the fun commission are examining the circumstances surrounding the death from an eight goal a faulty was recovered from the river called last night. the man named locally as david johnson had been stopped by guardian short time earlier david jones in the living dead weight on and on for a number of years which means it's going to move back to the city in december and has been staying at the local boston. just when an item. mr johnson drove a taxi initially for a milk company and will reach the oven until just after six o'clock that evening he was approached by kat be about the routine road traffic issue and bridge streets. i suggested that i would be good at all towards o'brien's bridge at six twenty emergency services were notified that he was seen entering the river. a full scale search and rescue operation was launched involving been opened and that i'd like for them because they're pretty corrupt in love with dad the fire service personnel. i marinated the forty three year old was five strokes to go with that. his body was recover

we hear from historian neil mcmillen, author rick bowers, and mississippi commerce and bennie thompson begins with our guest in jackson, jerry mitchell. >> i will never forget finding clyde kennard. his great crime against the state of mississippi was to apply to go to college. he was an upstanding citizen who had studied in the northern universities and was very ambitious and profoundly decent and good guy. the 1950's, he tried to go to the university of southern mississippi. >> in the 1950's, the few african-americans in the south who were able to enroll in college could only attend black schools. his application to attend mississippi southern was seen as an attack on segregation and set into motion the swift response from the state. his application was given to the mississippi state sovereignty commission, an organization few mississippians even knew existed. they did a report that track his background growing up in mississippi, his time spent with his family in chicago, his time in the military, his time at the university of chicago and his time back in mississippi helping his aili

. >> bowering joins the chase. >> i know he's not going to go over 30 miles per hour.l tank is diesel. i thought, well, i could follow him all night. he's not going to get away. >> he may not get away, but he's doing plenty of damage. >> just knocked down grave stones and he's coming out on the 860 as we speak. >> i don't think he would have stopped. the only thing that did stop him were those double gates where he rammed and had his tire burst. >> it looks like it's going to be left, no, reversing back into the cemetery. >> his front tire damaged, the digger grinds to a stop. >> the vehicle's stopped. >> but the driver doesn't surrender easily. >> he was extremely aggressive when officers approached him and they were forced to use incapacitate spray. >> he's out. officers are with him. >> for one guy, he's made a lot of trouble in just a few minutes. >> he has caused in excess of 30,000 to 40,000 pounds worth of damage. he was prepared to drive through a graveyard and desecrate that in order to try and get away. i think it's just an absolute disgrace. it's appalling.

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so there's a young adult book by rick bowers of the same name, "spies of mississippi."ally got on a plane. we went to saifl rights convention. we met all these activists and they started telling their stories. >> the late lawrence guy yad is in the film. he said if you registered to vote, you immediately became an enemy of the state. given what we've been talking about about voter i.d., if you reasonable centered to vote, you became an enemy of the state? >> that's why it's so important to tell these stories. the segment you just did about voter suppression, there's a history there, a long history of trying to stop the african-american vote and trying to stop civil rights. i think if we understand all the ways in which people were trying to suppress the vote, that's how we were making sure it doesn't happen any longer. >> marc, one of the reasons i wanted you at the table is because of your own history of engagement in the civil rights movement. as i was watching, i'm thinking they're paying people who are in the movement, but it turns out they're spying back, sending i

vote began to be targeted by the left and democratic members of congress, the white house counsel bob bower wrote a membership oh attacking true the vote. i have spoke on their national meeting. these are normal people. martha: thank you for being here, we are out of time. we are going to take a quick break and we'll be back with more. we asked people a question, how much money do you think you'll need when you retire? then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagin how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 3years or mor so maybe we need to approach things dferently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. ♪ she loves to shop online with her debit card. and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts and stole her hard earned money. unfortunately, millions of americans just like you learn all it may take is a little misplaced information to wreak havoc on you

bowers a partner in the law firm of perkins to eat.e is general counsel to the democratic national committee in the 2008 and 2012 election cycles with general counsel. as you can see, the democratic side are equally strong. mr. ken ginsburg and serving as cochair of the commission, and in 2012 and 2000 awaits you served as national counsel to the romney for president can't gain. he's had a profound effect in our electoral system in 1992 and 1994. he changed america not in the way i would say, but it was amazing what you did. with that, let me turn it over to mr. bauer. we ask each of our witnesses to limit their statements to five minutes an additional statement and additional remarks about it check should not be read into the record. mr. bauer. >> senator schumer, senator roberts, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity testifying today we discussed how we would organize this. i'm going to open with some general considerations identified in the report that we asked our readers to keep in mind as we laid out her beckoni

joseph a bank in talks to buy eddy bower.ews of the team amid a 5-month battle between joseph a bank and men's house. >> rates for family plans are cut. plans with 10 gigabytes of data shared with two or more phones on a single account. savings $10 per month, per phone. this is an total to get customers to pay more overall. nine out of 10 americans identify as a part of the middle class or aspire to be. after years of economic recession many families are squeezed after job losses, stagnant wages and rising costs. we look at the struggles facing america's middle class. >> today's middle class is under pressure. >> i feel like i'm on a treadmill. i'm sueding. there's nowhere to go. >> one little setback and you are both going to sink. >> 44% of americans today say they belong to the middle class. that's down 9 points from 53% of americans who identified themselves as meddle class. millions of middle class families found themselves underwater on loans or facing foreclosure. millions discovered that a college degree is not enough

breaking news in the world of business, it's official, joseph bank is buying eddy bower for $825 million and stock from private equity owner golden gate capitol and it comes over a take over battle between men's warehouse and joseph bank and we will find out how up beat people are over the economy over disappointing on retail sales and labor market and expect to see a small improvement in early february from january. wall street futures are flat at this hour and the dow starts above the key 16,000 level. s&p is 1829. nasdaq is 4240. in asia markets ending the day higher after inflation data out of china is steady by the nikki fell 1 1/2% and they are posting slight gains. gm is recalling 780,000 cars in america and effects cobalt s and g 5 made between 2005 and 2007, a facility ignition switch can shut off the engines causing crashes and six deaths links to the problem and gm neither makes either car. the black market has been hacked. reports say silk road two's entire bit coin wallet worth $2.7 billion was stolen, silk road two was launched in october after the original site was shut do

bank is acquiring eddie bower for more than $800 million in cash and stocks. talks will be rooub roumored ea this morning. joseph a. bank does have the right to end that agreement if it receives an acquisition bid that et feels would create more shareholder value. joesest a. bank and men'swearhouse have made bids in the last few months. andrew, you've had some pretty strong thoughts about this move when it was first rumored that it might be happening. >> this is the talk to the hand because it's -- >> nanny, nanny, nanny. >> yeah. craziness. we can talk about that more in just a moment. we've got some frozen-nomics to talk about first. the unusually harsh winter will be trimming 0.3 percentage points from gdp this quarter pulling q1's annualized growth rate down to 2.2%. the weather has closed businesses. it's disrupted transportation supply chains and kept a lot of shoppers at home. among the other drags on the economy, energy bills as consumers have to pay a lot more to keep warm. the general survey, taking before this week's latest storms, those polls said

banks, in talks to buy eddie bower, the latest in the struggle between joseph a.anks and men's warehouse and both companies having made offers to buy each other, the size of the potential eddie bauer deal, it's early, talking about a company with $800 million in sales. not a lot of overlaps between the two. >> football, right? football, eddie bauer. >> it was joseph a. banks for men's warehouse, stiff armed there, coming back with the pac-man. dueling proxy fights. i did speak to ricky sandler, not much to report, but we'll seal if we hear from them. the largest shareholder in men and joseph a. banks going after two directors, the ceo and chairman up at joseph a. banks. but this is -- that and the letter that came out saturday night from joseph a. banks all of the reasons men's warehouse, you're not what we're looking for. negative everybody if you're expecting that these two are going to get together. >> is eddie bauer -- i remember they -- it's one of the brands in the '80s a great stock for a long time. >> went bankrupt. >> lost in the shuffle. too much debt. >