. >> brian told us about the j and j pike. i think coke, 2 for 1 split. seen a lot of big shareholder return moves by the giants of american business this quarter. i think it's really been interesting. >> and it's really important to sift out the reasons behind the return of capital to shareholder. we have, for instance, today at sun mobil deciding it's going to increase its dividends. the stock won't be there, but it's the dividends he recommends. >> it's that race for return, it's the direct effect of what the fed has been doing. it's forcing people into those assets, into stocks in order to achieve the dividends and he's basically just reflecting that. >> it's also a function of the amount of cash these companies have, and you're looking at markets, asia, europe, where growth is not that easy to come by, so they're going to have to find uses for that cash in order to keep investors interested, and this is one way to do it. one of the big arguments against these kind of things is, look, i'm investing you as a company. if you're giving me the money back,

. >> brian is very depressed today because he thinks it's emblematic of the space program coming to an end. >> what space program? we have nothing coming up the pikeou think about that. you can twitter us or e-mail us. >> according to gretchen who is my source and i'm about to go on e-mail now. we're getting a lot of reabreed. we asked people for their mixes. we have puggle and labradoodle. >> a lot of e-mails of people that are concerned with you because you wanted to breed a pug with a poodle. >> sometimes love is blind. >> what did i call it? pagoodle as opposed to a pagoda. >> i don't know how expensive they would be. >> we have a busy 90 minimum straight ahead and now we have an extreme weather alert. the death toll reaches six after devastating tornadoes ripped through kansas, nebraska and oklahoma and iowa and minnesota as well over the weekend. and while many are still picking up the pieces, look at these pictures after the storms. a story of survival out of kansas. the davenport family inside their home in wichita when the twister hit. during the chaos, they lost their cat who had just given birth to kittens. but eventually, the mom and t

[father: brian pike] at first, you think, i want my son to be able to walk.ialist andrew pike was paralyzed while serving in iraq. [andrew pike] my injury was a gunshot wound to the left abdomen from a sniper. my first contact with the paralyzed veterans was in walter reed. [national service officer michael killen] we try to reassure him what benefits are out there, and we try to educate him and take some of that stress away from him. p-v-a did a fantastic job making sure that he got those benefits in a timely basis. [michael killen] we helped him apply for automobile grants, special adaptive housing and vocational rehabilitation [andrew pike] right now, i'm going back to school to earn a degree. i'm working with a real estate agency in town with my realtor's license. and i'm just spending time with my wife and child, and just moving on with our lives. just as anyone in my age group would do.