are you outraged at brian dunn's severance here? >> the fact that he'll get -- >> $6.6 million.uote, ran the company into the ground. and his severance is tied to a noncompete because obviously other people would want to hire brian dunn at this stage. >> they want to hire brian dunn at this stage, i don't know about that. >> a lot of this stuff is contractually guaranteed -- >> what's irked our producer -- >> i like the way they -- >> it's not just a close relationship but extremely close. >> and inappropriate. >> there are some relationships that are appropriate, apparently. >> he got to keep his 15,000 twitter followers when he changed his account. >> would that be irksome as someone who tweets, david? >> no. >> do you have cnbc in your h h hasht hashtag, i don't think i do. >> moving on here. scott thompson stepping down as ceo of yahoo! after four months on the job amid growing controversy over his academic record. yahoo!'s global media head named interim ceo during a massive shake-up that included many board changes in the middle a bitter proxy fight. jordan rohan has a buy

best buy hired a law firm to hire brian dunn. he was having a personal relationship with a female employee. the inquiry found that founder richard schultz acted inappropriately when he found out about the relationship and did not report it to other company officials. >>> one of two efforts to recall jean quan will end today. today is the deadline for a group behind one of the petitions to remove mayor quan from office to turn in 20,000 signatures to turn in to qualify. another group did not have enough signatures, and the second group has 12,000 and 15,000 signatures right now. >>> tonight, the lay fa yet city council will vote on tougher restrictions on massage parlors. this comes after people complained that illegal activities were happening inside some of those businesses. one woman who began researching massage parlors in her neighborhood said some of the activities were graphic and sexual in nature. new rules would include being state certified at registered with the city's police department. >>> police arrested a petaluma m

in march best buy hired an outside law firm to investigate then ceo brian dunn who resigned himself in april. the committee found dunn had a relationship with a female employee that showed poor judgment. >>> today marked the first day of a special legislative session to try and settle on a budget for the state of maryland. >> reporter: i'm scott broom in annapolis where the legislature is back to try to decide whether the raise taxes on some of us or impose the so- called doomsday budget cuts. >> no way doomsday! >> we're here as part of 100 organizations who have said that the doomsday budget is unacceptable. >> reporter: it's that or sock high income earners with a tax hike and squeeze more out of tobacco, too. >> that's what the tea party is all about is taxed enough already. >> it's no big deal. you know, it's just a small amount to pay for living in this great state and this great country. >> there's only 16% of the marylanders who will be asked to pay a little more and they were hurt the least during the recession. >> reporter: examples of the bottom line include a couple making

best bay announcing its former ceo brian dunn behaved inappropriately and founder schultz is steppingown after a close relationship with a female employee that negatively impacted the work environment. yahoo investors seem to be liking the latest changes stocks higher at the moment in response to the announcement that scott thompson is out after failing to correct errors in his credentials. the company is revamping the bore. they are bowing to investor daniel lobe. getting a seat on the board as part of those changes. weak start overall markets. speculation that greece may leave the euro within a matter of months. still no government there. concern about spain's banking crisis. jpmorgan chase top exec ina drew is retiring following news the bank is facing huge trading losses. down 140 points, s&p and nasdaq deeply in the red. bloomberg index down four points. facebook getting ready to go public this week. steve wozniak says he would be a buyer and he doesn't care about the price because he believes in zuckerberg. wozniak says zuckerberg --. >> we lost jane. you got the gist of that st

founder, richard schultz resigned as chairman after an investigation found he knew, former ceo brian dunn having a relationship with a female employee and did not alert the audit committee. the company hired an outside law firm to investigate dunn who resigned in april. the enquiry showed schultz, with the company since inception in 1966, acted inappropriately when he founded out about the relationship. >>> big week for mark zuckerburg the facebook founder turns 28 today. then on friday, his company is expected to sell stock to the public for the first time and begin trading on the nasdaq stock market. the ipo could having facebook at nearly 100 -- could value facebook at nearly $100 billion making it worth more than disney, ford and kraft foods. >> 28. >> 28. >> he is going to be -- i don't know. i wonder where that will put him on the forbes list of billionaires. >> i hope he is grounded. >> seems to be let's hope he stays that way too. >>> coming up dr. oz joins us live to talk about little known childhood hazards. plus why certain batteries are causing a jump in emergency room visits.

back in april, the company found out that the ceo, brian dunn had been having a close personal relationshiph an employee. that's a violation of company policy. an investigation determined the chairman knew about it but said nothing. at the same time internet search giant yahoo has canned its ceo after an investigation revealed he had embellished his resume. he has been with yahoo but four months. signs of progress for the sole survivor of a fiery plane crash and we know the young woman wouldn't be alive at all if not for a marine's heroic last act. their story is just ahead. first, somebody is apparently walking up to cars and shooting their drivers dead. now, cops are warning folks about a police impersonator or imposter, that's next. it's very important to understand how math and science kind of makes the world work. in high school, i had a physics teacher by the name of mr. davies. he made physics more than theoretical, he made it real for me. we built a guitar, we did thingwith electronics and mother boards. that's where the interest in engineering came from. so now, as an engineer, i h

richard schultz, is stepping down as chairman after an investigation found that he knew former ceo brian dunn had a relationship with a female employee and did not alert the audit committee of the company. yahoo! announced ross levenson will step down to replace -- will step in, rather, to replace scott thompson who stepped down sunday after allegations that he did not have a computer science degree that was listed in his official biographical materials. this is the third ceo switch in three years at that company. but one corporate executive is having a good day today. that's facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. it's his 28th birthday today. the social networking company is expected to be public in a blockbuster ipo that could value the company at almost $100 billion. barbara, back to you. >> okay, thank you. >> reporter: you bet. >>> we begin baby week here on news 4 midday on a special anniversary for nbc 4. it was 25 years ago that our station started an outreach campaign called beautiful babies right from the start. during that series designed to help decrease the extremely high infant mortality

it's in the midst of a search to replace the recently resigned ceo brian dunn and closing 50 of its bigr formats. >> investors will get a fresh reading on home sales well. economists are looking for a 2.7% increase in march. >> and a study shows apple is maintaining its distinction as the world's most valuable brand. its brand valued jumped by 19% to $183 billion. ibm is number two, followed by google. >> facebook's stock trades below expected. joining us, donald trump. did you get any allotment on the ipo? >> i was trying to buy facebook the day it came out and i was going to sell immediately because these things have a -- but unfortunately rules and regulations precluded me from buying. they actually have a rule that said if you're too rich or if you have access to these companies, you're not allowed to buy, access to the exchanges or morgan stanley. i said, wait a minute, what are you talking about? if you are a certain net worth individual, i've never heard of anything like this. so i was all set to buy -- maybe i got lucky. i was all set to buy and they said the rules and regulatio