this is beautiful. >> so are you. >> this is branson's 105-foot luxury catamaran.ding for the largest breeding ground in the world of humpback whales. >> the whales from all over the atlantic converge on this one bank, and it is magnificent. >> so we will really get to see them. >> you will not only get to see them, you should get to swim with them, which is brilliant. >> fantastic. and they are not bothered by you being there? >> if they are, they will show it. >> he routinely swims with creatures of every size and shape. he was nearly skewered by this sailfish. >> for richard, underwater exploits like these are more than fun. they have inspired him to start virgin oceanic, ocean exploration in flying submarines. >> it is incredible to think that only two people have been below 18,000 feet and over 500 people have been in space. >> how did you sleep? >> great. it is wonderful to wake up and see whales splashing around you. >> it is a sheltered stretch of the caribbean. shallow waters and coral reefs make it treacherous for boats and perfect for breeding whales. on

this is a company backed by andreessen horowitz and richard branson. want to bring in adam satariano who has covered clinkle for us. you wrote a big exposÉ about the problems at clinkle. there are more executives leaving. what is really going on? >> after they raised a bunch of money from an a-list of investors around silicon valley, they have been tripping around. they have had a lot of staff departures and delays in getting the product out. they even had a security breach. we read a lot about the startups as they go out the door getting a billion acquisition from facebook or google. this is the other side of the spectrum of a company that is really struggling. >> the failures or difficulties of a small company with a couple $10 million of backing is mildly interesting. i feel like this is emblematic of the era we are in. it is reminiscent of the dot com era, but also a startup with tons of big name funding that just seems so silly on its front. is there more to this than silly? >> there is an element of this easy money moment where this guy, lucas du

richard branson and chester cheetah, they get into the spirit. of the path, it is to recovery. we are going off to school in the classroom of the future. finally, in sports, a $2.5 billion new york yankee president randy levine on opening day. let's kick it off with what everyone is talking about. gm cannot seem to catch a break. >> gm recalls more than one million more cars. headed to the >>t, they ignored defects. oh, yeah. make that about 7 million. that is the total number of cars that gm has recalled the first quarter of this year. saturn,y malibu, the and the g six. the recall adds to the one in 2010, which includes the chevy cobalt. the recall, also in a recall a decade in the making. mary barrow will reportedly make sense of this in her testimony on capitol hill later today. we are going to have more on the story coming up in "lunch money." here is the thing. gm recalls are not the only thing washington is worried about. >> the fbi is investigating whether high-frequency trading firms break the law. are they at non-nonpublic information to gain an edge? there is certain

>> richard branson, multibillionaire. paul allen. multibillionaire. jeff bezos. multibillionaire. larry page. multibillionaire. elon musk. >> elon musks, the jeff bezos, the paul allens, myself, diamandis, all of us who are in this cause right now, i believe, come from a place of hope and possibility. >> rick tumlinson is the ceo of deep space industries, one of two asteroid mining companies in the us. >> several of us were sitting in the room, it was about 1986, 1987. we pledged our lives and fortunes to making the human breakout into space happen in our lifetimes. we called it the benevolent conspiracy. well, that same group of people are still involved today and we're making it happen. >> what will tomorrow look like? our world is at our limits at yet we all want more. and why not? why shouldn't the future be better than today? >> but he prime directive of all these companies that you name seems to be profits. but the way you speak about it is like this... >> no buck, no buck rogers. nobody stays until somebody pays. it can be you the taxpayer, and that's wonderful, thank you v

we had a brand new severe thunderstorm and rotating now in branson coming right at us.ball sized hail. it is rotating. it is increasing now from southern missouri to arkansas as the evening approaches from this large scale complex of storms. >> these are live pictures you're showing us from your vehicle. it looks sort of ominous. are these the signs you see pre-tornado activity? >> that's right, wolf. the temperature today was near 80. and dew point in the upper 60s. we have a lot of wind shear. and as the evening approaches, the wind shear will get stronger over central and southern arkansas. we have tornado watches up from 1:00. and still yet tonight. >> hold on for a moment, jeff, because our meteorologist chad myers is at the cnn weather center. give us the forecast, chad, then i know you have a question for jeff yourself. >> well, as jeff just said, the tornado threat is increasing, wolf. now, the energy from the upper levels -- we're talking about some cold air coming in aloft. we're talking about shear coming in, all the ingredients like making a cake, those ingr

they even brought richard branson along. >> a partnership with the wonderful company nest that allowss to control their own personal climate at 35,000 feet. at nest we focus on creating simple, personal, and intuitive user experience is in your home. we created a new interface called total temperature control. every passenger will be able to customize the temperature from their seating area to a wide range of preset climates. >> it seems like a no-brainer that each seat should be able to have its own temperature control. >> if you would like to feel like you're sitting in a tropical hair dyes. or simply slot -- select cancÚn afternoon and soak it all in. or if you run a little hot like me, i desire a cooler bride, that is no problem. just to let -- select chicago roller vortex and feel the chill. >> nailed it. richard branson looks so relaxed. -- they are also looking for a little april fools love. >> we found out users spend around three hours a week stuck in traffic. three hours. >> we are about bringing people together. we said why not make it even more personal? and this is how we

i recently interviewed richard branson.s virgin galactic, they still have not taken off with passengers. are there some broader challenges? >> flying into space is hard. we have only been doing it for a few years now. it is expensive. these challenges are daunting. getting past the pull of gravity and up into orbit. we have been building the space station for a decade and a half now. it is up there and it is important for our nation and the world to get to and from the international space station. >> what is it going to take to overcome the challenges? will this happen over decades? >> we keep working on it and getting better. spaceex has impressed us with how they deliver payloads to and bring projects back from the space station. the japanese, the europeans, the russians, all have vehicles that can get to and from the space station. >> they are doing this while you're doing this -- what is your mission, what is the goal? >> we were formed a couple of years ago i the congress. we are focusing on the research that will bene

-- jeff bezos, richard branson. them? will there be partnership? >> richard branson is one of our investors. elon is a great, fantastic engineer, one of the best ever, who is working on spacex, which we will use for transportation. this is a relatively small industry still for commercial spaceflight. we are all in it and pulling for each other. it is synergistic. >> you are talking commercial. do you have a response or reaction to the u.s. ending nasa's program? >> i'm a big fan of as much bass exploration as we can have. -- much space expiration as we can have. >> we didn't really and nasa's program -- we didn't really end nasa's program. we ended the shuttle program. i'm in favor of that, but we should have had something else ready. >> elon musk has demonstrated that private industry can get into space more effectively than government have. >> can't private industry get everything done faster than government? >> space is everything but earth. in terms of setting the rules and the guidelines, there -- deep space ex

los angeles firefighters are working right now to help a couple of people off a hillside in branson canyon. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway. we'll be right back. n, which di. now i say you can have it all with our new seafood trios! red lobster's new seafood trios is three times delicious! choose one option from the wood-fire grill, one signature shrimp dish, and a pasta like new lobster mac and cheese. three choices all on one plate. just $15.99. for a limited time only! you can build it any way that you like, pick your three favorite things. in branson canyon. >>> the man accused of killing three people in attacks at jewish facilities near kansas city is a well-known white supremist and former ku klux klan leader. he has been jailed on a preliminary charge of first degree murder. he shot a doctor and his 14-year-old son outside of a jewish center in greater kansas city later. moments later, he gunned down a mother of two at a jewish retirement community. >>> by the same token care -- obama care enrollment may be closed for now. >> a recent survey of 148 insurance brokers s

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december 2010 - sir richard branson brought the airline to dfw airport, where it uses two gates to fly to l.a. and san francisco, competing against american. but virgin wants to give up those gates. and take over sa two of american's gates at love field -- which the department of justice made american give up - to merge with usairways. insiders tell us virgin beat out southwest for them. but the city of dallas which owns love field - says no decision has been made. still, experts say if virgin makes the move to dallas, fares there will likely drop. "because southwest airlines practically has a monopoly at love field. by injecting competition - which is what the doj is trying to do - by injecting this competition with virgin america, it will help to moderate fare increases or in fact perhaps bring down some fares." virgin says if it goes to love, it will add flights to new york, chicago and dc. but no move would happen until october - when the wright amendment expires. just as southwest increases its own number of direct destinations from dallas. coming up on the kron 4 morning news.stu

on to branson told a detective intense nice to have run into different sauces on to a destination bought at the mont of russian military vehicles and troops is increasing. so there was a threat of invasion into a destination. meaning kids now that the tamil un assistant secretary of state's top the european dimension of hesse and the united state department stated that the united states decided to appeal to the block and it's not that neely and alice springs inning to secure a ticket on the bottom placed fifteenth can't see also underlined the need of using giovanni is for strengthening the security and the moment of people to test the strap watch the end of a ukrainian border. he's concerned with taking plays off with the quantity of russian troops in ukrainian politics that was the statement of august wind has been sent his secretary general of the lions at the press conference in brussels. he didn't mention possible actions of the block in case of information on visitation a key steal it. still always has it that our actions to protect the families according to the media the so called

founder richard branson talks about the viability of commercial space travel. >> we want to let as manysible to become astronauts to go from one country to another in the fraction of the time that it takes. to be able to colonize other planets, to put hotels in space. two great mass of satellites that can transform things for back here on earth. >> to infinity and beyond. in the immediate future, the final four this weekend, and what about the final floor? we'll show you the technology underneath one of the get games and basketball -- biggest gains in basketball. ♪ >> we have your weekend tv watch lists. silicon valley debuts sunday. we got a sneak peek. >> apps, software, software is silicon valley. >> it is dead-on. schmidt.s eric >> if you want to live here, you have to deliver. like steve. >> steve jobs? >> he didn't even write code. >> ending steve jobs is a making steve wozniak was the engineer who created the apple. >> $200,000. >> $600,000 for six percent of your company. >> the whole thing you stand on. >> when we were sitting down with barack said we're making the bitter -- wo

instead local communities here in branson which is why the department for energy and climate change havecombined to us that they are reviewing current legislation to basically make it easy and that energy company succumbing to the uk to start extracting shale gas and one change to the old it's apparently being indirect tax we did our energy companies to transport its tail cast on any private property without the threat of being sued for trespassing. so in any company would still need to obtain commission in order to drill and drill wells the franking but transportation with no known to be an age he said as part of that white told the agency reported. more invested into britain to potential new deal with the quantity provide financial compensation to her name is on to his house is either shale gas would be turned school states that my prediction is that it is unlikely to placate the ante for team evening. in the uk in fact i'd change even though it's in the team. ucf is unlikely to be somewhat controversial people and larry about the risk of contamination the risk of endangering wildlife

just climb aboard some richard branson galactic [ bleep ] space rocket and fly your [ bleep ] to uranusmething. [ bleep ]. >> save mother earth. get off. >> get the [ bleep ] off. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: "people" magazine today unveiled their annual list of the 50 most beautiful people. "people" magazine has an interesting process for choosing the most beautiful person. the editors look at every single person on earth. then they vote. it is really the only fair way to do it. topping this year's beautiful person's list, a new star, won an oscar best supporting actress this year. this is kind of weird. i don't know why it was necessary to call the other women losers. but -- hey, not my magazine. lupita is unquestionably beautiful. but her name is not easy to pronounce. which made it a tough day for our nation's news anchors. >> "people" magazine reveals its annual world's most beautiful. >> and the winner is lupita nyongo. >> oscar winner and yale alum, lupita nyongo. >> actress lupita nyongo is having a year. >> she sure is. >> her last name. >> it was close. >> lupita nyongo.

you saw richard branson, the ceo of virgin american, playing into the whole thing and the ceo narratingpretty believable. >> yes. >> you ever wish you could smell like chetos? >> no. >> me neither. but a good response with frito lay offering a cheetos scent called cheeteau. >> oh. >> limited edition fragrance. to excite and delight. get me some cheeteau for christmas, will you? >> i don't want to smell like cheetos even after i have eaten a cheeto. >>> real quick, linkedin got in on the fun by creating a page for cats you may know. you know linkedin is for professionals. this is all about cats and lets you connect with cats you know or may want to know. that's what the site looks like. kooitd kind of cute. at 15, i was addicted. by 40, i'll have lung disease. at 50, i'll die of a heart attack. dr. regina benjamin: cigarette smoke causes immediate damage that leads to health problems, even death. those who quit or die are being replaced by a new generation of smokers. i'm dr. regina benjamin, united states surgeon general. go to cdc.gov. learn how to make our next generation tobacco-free

the carbon war room backed by richard branson teamed up with aruba to give to is 00% renewable energyliant on fossil feels. >> morgan brennan just came back, recently saw perhaps the darker side of green. >> yes. so aruba is one of those places i've been vacationing for years. part of what i've loved about it is it's always been a safe place, but i ran into some issues on this particular trip. we actually got burglarized. one of the things that was said to me. we spoke to a dozen different detectives, and the oil refinery owned by valero, and it's closed down, causing a big wave of people to be unemployed and you're starting to see more petty crimes. >> you were renting a vacation home. >> yes, a home several blobs from the beach, but they stole our rental car as well, which markeds's tourists, but yeah, one things that keeps coming up is this oil refinery. like you said there's a report from the imf from last year saying there have been two major financial crises in aruba. one was the global financial crisis, the second is the oil refinery closing. so it's interesting they're moving

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you have you on must hear it you have richard branson.ou have all these-billionaires putting money of their own into the space exploration. he still wants government money. >> he wants government work. as a filedig news suit against the u.s. army. a contract. it is supposed to be as much is $70 billion. >> he also filed a complaint with the regulatory body that will not allow the civilian companies to get these military contracts. he is not really american. have not doney the things to get the company certified. they have to have technical reviews of all the components of their process. they are not there yet. >> he points out that we are currently using for military purposes equipment that is built by the russians. pay money to russian companies to build the stuff and we will not pay money to a guy who lives in college or near -- in california. >> you want the business to go whoever is doing the best job acted will stop -- best job. there have been a lotlunches that have happened in russia. they have a program up and running and nasa doe

so i'm sure the branson where thoughts on putting that purports to show that their factories as the planets are committed to improving the working conditions. the smiles that she made to achieve back to the sense of how stupid is on staff took the job is trying to stitch onto anything. if he ever said to myself and the company strives to provide a better working environment and in the open including goldman sachs. in garment factories supervises of misbehaving speed profanities. somewhat to the rind. they hear we cannot even imagine something like that. nothing like that can ever happen again. plus there are many who have been unfair or your physiotherapy. so they can take a couple of hours off each day. in any of the factory they would never be given how much time off rhiannon would like to get to work towards someone gets a job is to concentrate the candles on the same issue she's receive some compensation in a sum of money when an outlet to forget the horrific that day going back. she asked. i do know. i loove them. i was in i can. in. the i peered years and three new longest ongoing ser

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we may increase our temperatures just a couple of degrees friday unchanged the next system roaste bransonak light rain. 59 as are high and a drop here between thursday and friday. then things changed again as in the next week will welcome summerlike 90 degree weather by mid-week. << was are relevant the line to the east they were in state aid is still heavily backed up to the west from ride with a 30 minute drive time from her dress to berkeley. cal is 24 to the west from the direction in the south have the into the san ramon valley into the 48 + drive time and macarthur freeway through downtown oakland and the right to the corridor this morning at 42 minutes is not the worst ever seen in fact is close to normal. south bay freeway is really jim that we are some recovery mode from the motorcycle accident what claims of 85 north from past to it. and it's back up the right of way to saratoga on 85 north, tha 22-a minute drive time. here's the north iraq not at all but taken simmering counted the dry times are under 35 minutes from the vital to the golden greats bearish. the bay bridge backup

and our retired airline pilot, captain john branson. nice to see you again, sir. let's begin with the cockpit recordings itself. to be clear, two ways you can hear what happened on the cockpit. buried on the ocean floor, two, between air traffic control and the cockpit. what would they hear on that? >> well, in addition to things you can assume they hear because of the transcript, there's a lot you can pick up. for example, in some aircraft when the pilot transmits, it includes a side tone. it's a 400-cycle side tone. and it can tell you whether or not the engines are putting out -- or the generators are putting out the right amount of energy. if they do an analysis and see that the 400-hertz tone is down to 390, they can tell that the electrical system was being loaded up for some reason. that's one thing. another thing is each of the pilots has three microphones they can use. one is the boom mic they use most of the time, certainly in takeoffs, landings, decents. and then the high fidelity mic they use without the boom mic, and the third is in the oxygen mask. >

sir richard branson, and malcolm said elon musk and i didn't make the cnbc 25 list nor did john mcphee kevin beat me to the punch with dik bold. jamie also has run and helped build the defining commercial bank, jpmorgan. he's presided over this thing with a great persona. >> no other man in resent history as had more impact than bold. vilification of the wealthy. government being negative on businesses. the leveraging of banks all from that ground zero. >> what steve job means to apple is what qualm means to samsung. >> we'll hand it over to melissa lee and the "fast money" crew. >> we start off with twitters conference call beginning right now. shares coming in slightly better than expected. investors are looking for stronger user growth. listening on the call. he'll be with us for the full hour. ebay, also moving low after hours as that conference call begins. we will brick you more straight ahead. our trades are tim, ryan, steve and pete. we kick it

. >> sir richard branson here at davos. >> it costs money to get in there.r. look. >> hold on a second. >> it is all work here, most of the time. >> you shot a hole in my pants. >> d.j. jazzy beck. wow. >> sorry. >> hard to ride side saddle. >> there are two strings on me. >> speak into the microphone. we can't hear you. ♪ you are the best thing >> you can see where i shot you? >> we had a paint gun fight. it went through my pants. he shot me at point-blank range. i still have a cigar type burn. >> we were on opposite teams. my mission was to kill you! >> do you know how to play paintball? >> so mean. >> i wasted her. she came around the corner and was right there. >> charlie versus carl and i. >> you would think it was honestly, like you were sent off to a foreign land the way he did it. barking out orders. still like that. >> but it's funny you said richard simmons would be your top. >> still didn't add up. >> that was a great shot. >> we have more stuff going on. it's been a very extremely busy morning. goldman sachs earning $4.02 for the first quarter, s

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we will hear first up from don in branson, missouri. tax professional. caller: how are you? wife and i are both tax preparers. we passed the test and pay are $60 per year. i know they are trying to beef that up. i can understand it. at the same time, they need to beef up the irs employees we have to deal with. sometimes, we have to read their own regulations to them for them to understand what we did. i am probably going to try to clean up the whole industry. start at the top. host: it is the tax preparers and their relationship with the irs. guest: i do not belong to either one of those sets of people. i am sure they are experts in what they do and there are times they have to go at each other. i would rather have my preparer on the phone to the irs than not. host: for those who are sanctioned, what does that mean? guest: they have to meet a standard and renew it. they have to keep up with the tax law. that is one of the things that is most important. every year, the laws change. your preparer has to be prepared to apply those new relations and rules to your tax return. jus

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accompanied back by richard branson. i want to bring in adams atari tariano.ou wrote about the problems and now another executive leaving. what is going on? >> after the listd money from a investors around silicon valley, they have been tripping around. a lot of staff departures, delays in getting the product out, a security breach. we read a lot about the start ups as they go out the door and getting a billion dollar acquisition. this is the other side of the spectrum of a country -- company really struggling. failure is the difficulty of a small company with a couple 10 million and backing is mildly interesting but i feel like this is emblematic of the era we're are in. reminiscent of thedo dot com era and then big funding that seems so silly. is there more to this than silly ? >> there is an element of easy money moment in silicon valley where this guy has an idea out of sanford and goes around to silicon valley pitching it to people like peter teal and richard branson and andreessen horowitz and everyone does -- throws money out of it and a little bit of f