we had brian roberts on earlier.udeing certain items, one cent above estimates. revenue was slightly short above estimates. and a 12.2% jump in the theme park division. broadcast tv revenue, however, was down 18.5%. and you're seeing that stock up slightly in the premarket. and a big beat for health services provider humana earned $2.69 a share for the first quarter. that was well above estimates of $1.81, also raised the forecast for the year. >> it has been 2 1/2 years since the national commission on fiscal responsibility and reform rolled out its blueprint for reducing the nation's debt. now the former co-chairs have a new road map to a grand bargain. joining us right now is one of the former co-chairs erskine bowles and it's great to see you this morning. >> thank you, becky, great to be with you and joe and andrew. we've seen a lot of progress has been made. you acknowledged that progress has been made, but you say this is not nearly enough in terms of what we have to tackle over the longer term. >> we've done

ceo brian roberts called brian roberts a stand out. but the business does not come without risks.my, the weather, competition. one says that each park has carved out a unique segment of the market so they are going after different customers. >> i wouldn't view them as going head to head. i would say more that they have segmented the market and doing more of divide and conquering. >> no matter how you slice it, theme parks are a big business. analysts expecting them to attract more than 300 million people, bringing in more than 11. $5 billion in revenue. >> that is absolutely amazing. >> speaking of thin walter parks. right here on cnbc. >> all right. up next. herb is back and he is raising a big red flag on solar stocks. >> and both this is proof that the world's wealthiest have just way too much money. yachts on a boat on deck. we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though w

. >> the army says the commanding general of fo fort jackson, souh carolina, brigadier general brian roberts been suspended. he's facing charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation. the suspension is the latest in a series of scandals involving senior military officers in recent months. the justice department's inspector general released a department yesterday about retaliation against the whistle blower in the operation fast and fewer scandal, one not recently mentioned here in washington. as correspondent william lage la jeunesse explains, it will not be tolerated. the guns we saw individuals buy were turning up in crime scenes in the united states and mexico and we did nothing. >> reporter: atf whistle blower john dodson appeared before congress in 2011 and made a stunning claim that the u.s. government knowingly approved and executed a plan to help criminals smuggle thousands of guns to mexico, a plan directed by arizona's u.s. attorney, dennis burke who according to an inspector general's report was so incensed that dodson exposed the operation, he sought retaliation b

as brian roberts just said, our fearless leader. >> on a day when we'll get a new fcc leader. there's a lot going on in the industry. >> anybody trying to gain the 21-year-old which is historically, by the way, what the advertisers want is misjudging because they're not 21 and they don't know unless you pay for their data plan and boy, do you ever know that. wait until your kids exhaust well data plan on may 2nd. >> this will be a bad day, man. >> the emokicons. >> i speak emoji and it costs the lot of money to speak that. >> when we come back, call it ceos on parade on "squawk on the street," live interviews with the heads of t-mobile, iac, spirit airlines, halo, the company behind the app that allows you to hail taxi cabs and real estate website. the stock is up nearly doubled so far this year. take one more look at futures trying to make some sense of the adp miss this morning. will ism be negative in 45 minutes? we'll find out and we'll see what the fed says later on. back in a minute. changing the world is exhausting business. with the innovating and the transforming and

to my left is city attorney robert brian he will provide the board with any legal advice tonight. at the controls is our a sis at that point victor pacheco. i'm cynthia goldstein, the department's director. scott sanchez is here, the zoning administrator, he is also representing the planning department and planning commission. joseph did you e duffy is here representing the department of building inspection. john [speaker not understood], manager at the department of public works bureau of street use and mapping is here as well as jasper cain, executive director of the san francisco entertainment commission. at this time, mr. pacheco, if you could please go over the board's meeting guidelines and conduct the swearing in process. >> professor: the board requests that you turnoff all cell phones and pagers so they will not disturb the proceeding. please carry on conversations in the hallway. and the board rules of presentation are as follows. appellants, public holders and department representatives each have 7 minutes to present their cases and 3 minutes for rebuttals. people affil

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. >> brian: first off, robert, where do we get the new hope from?ions with sources in pakistan, particularly in conjunction with the doctor's legal office. and despite the setback of what we thought was going to be a hearing for prosecution to put on their case on may 2, being postponed to june 13, the attorneys say that the mood and the attitude is good. the attorneys are saying that they really like a new judge that was brought in and apparently the meeting that secretary kerry had with pakinstani leadership in brussels right around the first or second of may really did focus on the concern about the doctor that all americans are currently expressing and pretty aggressive talk about setting him free. >> brian: i i don't last time we spoke you were heading to the oscars with "zero dark thirty," being the hot movie. do you sense people across the aisle feel the way you feel? >> what was great about our oscar campaign is that everyone in hollywood saw it and, in fact, jessica chastain and jason clark of the movie, "zero dark thirty," that portrayed a

brian also has an interview with the ceo of churchill downs, robert evans.verage begins at 4:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow on nbc. >> yes. and straight ahead after adisappointing march jobs report, what's going to happen next? we'll put our question to the jobs panel. here is a look at how futures are trading ahead of the open on wall street. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "worldwide exchange." i'm kelly evans. >>> and i'm ross westgate. here are your headlines today from around the world. >> the euro spiking after ecb board member nowotny pouring cold water on the notion that the ecb will look at negative interest rates anytime soon. >> the markets overinterpreted this point. of course, there's always some kind of a technical discussion about this. but there is no specific plan in this direction. >> technically, they are also unintended consequences which must be properly assessed. >> u.s. jobs growth likely picked up from april. other signs in the economy are still lagging. >>> and don't get used to it, india's central bank cuts its lending rate for t

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brian, what have you seen? >> well, jake, the attorney for one of these suspects, the attorney for dias kadyrbayev was the one who did the most talking, robertssentially said his client absolutely denies the accusation of obstruction of justice and making false statements and he said his client did not know that, quote, this individual meaning dzhokhar tsarnaev, was involved allegedly in the boston marathon bombings. and, more specifically, to the charges that these three people tried to get rid of a backpack, he said that he did not know those items were involved in the search for evidence. here is a quick clip of what mr. staal said just moments ago. >> did not know the items were involved in a bombing or of any interest in a bombing or of any evidentiary value so that's all we have to say on that. but we are the ones, mr. dias kadyrbayev, who cooperated with all law enforcement when they came to him without benefit of counsel to assist in their investigation of this horrible tragedy. >> now, again, regarding the specific items involved that mr. staal is talking about, the crux of the complaint is the three of these college age men who kne

brian, this morning you can see from 10,000 feet the devastation in the neighborhood, the devastation in the community. but what makes this tornado worse than any others that i've seen or thomas robertsthers that have grown up in this area and, again, we still have lightning blasting all across the sky is just, again, how the scale of it. the widespread destruction, the fact that this thing was -- this monster as a local paper called it was a mile wide. >> right. >> the debris path estimated to be 2 miles wide. and everything in its path was absolutely destroyed. and, unfortunately, mika, as we heard when we were -- when we heard reports coming out of the school hoping for the best news. but there are some people that grew up around here that just said that some of those kids had absolutely no chance. winds up to 200 miles an hour, and, again, a path of destruction a mile wide. >> just quickly -- >> when you look at what happened here, brian, it's like it is so clear that it happened so fast that no one had any chance. no one. and it's amazing the survival stories that we've already heard. brian? >> and you see on the top right of your screen, you see an "x" on the car, that shows th