i'm talking about briggs & stratton.mall company, a market cap of little less than a billion dollars, but it's the world's largest maker of gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment. they make it for lawn and garden equipment. pressure washers, snow throwers and it sells much better in markets where housing is improving. and they have a sandy kicker. it is the number one manufacturer of portable generators, and they only account for 10% of company sales, but they have an easy to operate product, and when millions of people lost power for days or weeks after hurricane sandy, you better believe just about everybody stuck in that situation wished they had a generator. i think these people will not allow themselves to be caught without power again, which is why i bet portable generators will become a staple of hurricane preparedness, like candles and flashlights and batteries. that's very good news for briggs & stratton. let's get a closer look with todd teske, the president and ceo of briggs & stratton, to find out more

, the handsome brother of john briggs, a close friend in hand ball -- hand bl. twain initially passed hours at ed stall's posh ground room floor barbershop and basement steam bath on montgomery street. a thoroughfare he likened to just like being on main street and meeting the old familiar faces. the extensive chunk of granite known as the montgomery block dominated the southeast corner of montgomery and washington streets. numbers 722 and 724 montgomery. it had been a gold rush tobacco warehouses, the melodian theater, and now the turkish bath where twain par boiled with fireman sawyer and stall, another good friend. twain studied his cards and hefted a bottle of dark beer. it was cold and sweaty in his palm. he took a swig. a few glistening droplets caught in his horseshoe miss -- moustache, and he left them there. he slumped as he played poker, smoking one of his wheeling long nines which reportedly could kill at 30 yards. he'd become addicted to them when he was a cub reporter on the mississippi. puffing, he contributed his own clouds to the roiling steam. t

he departed va c 42 month visit to san francisco to visit bill briggs, the handsome brother of john briggs comment and a former classmate. mark twain habitually passed hours at the posh round room floor and barber shop and basement steam bath on montgomery street. a thorough very light and to just like being on main street in had a land being old familiar faces. the extensive chunk of granite known as the montgomery bloc dominated the southeast corner of montgomery and washington streets. number 722 and 724, montgomerie had been a gold rush tobacco warehouse nickelodeon theater and now the turkish baths where he hardboiled with firemen sawyer and another good friend. he studied his cards and have to a bottle of dark beer. a few glistening droplets in the mustache and he left them there. and he could reportedly killing at 30 yards. he had become addicted to them as a cub reporter. he contributed his own clouds the roiling steam. mark twain bought the flavored ropes by the basketball for a dime and by the barrel for $4 including the barrel. for his guests he bought them in distributable squa

in your deadly travels see a cutler hammer fuse box made by an eaton, honeywell thermostat, or a briggs and stratton engine of some sort pf lawnmower, portable generator, snow thrower. ppg just spent a billion dollars to buy akzo household paint today. and like so many other moves that ceo chuck bunch makes you caught a five-point gain on top of an already amazing run. i like these mundane ideas that represent superior companies that do so many things to make themselves valuable and are always finding ways to make the top and bottom lines more lucrative. i bet most of you don't care about ppg but that company has a fabulous return this year simply by contributing its march toward becoming a proprietary and less commodity company. many of these stories have a very similar theme to them. but i know that for every one person that wants to learn about ppg out there are probably 100 people who want information, any information and a viewpoint on how a well-known company like apple is doing at this very moment. so with that preamble of what i think you should be looking for out of the way, le

and zucker briggs net worth has dropped by about half but while he's still solidly in the world's top one hundred richest people boris berezovsky this year's biggest loser in terms of reputation is definitely not his six and i have billion dollar lawsuit against another prominent russian oligarch ramon abramovich became the biggest private litigation battle in the british history and the biggest flop for berezovsky whom london's high court judge called an unreliable witness he tried to laugh it off you wish more people but it is bad but that is not a bit of it but what debate i will go to discredit but was there is no having to foot the forty million pound bill the loss of burned a hole not only as pocket but it also ruin his reputation perhaps the biggest loser in terms of image in two thousand and twelve was ukraine its much publicized deal to build a liquefied gas terminal with spain's help quickly unraveled into a complete fiasco in november and proudly claimed that it will soon overcome its dependence on russia's gas as it signed a one billion dollar agreement to build an l n g t

i've never spent time in a brigg. i've visited a brigg. are there extenuating circumstances?here was. >> suicide watch. that's another interesting point. what kind of conversation would we be having had he committed suicide? >> right. >> would we be having a different conversation? >> yes, we would. >> i wanted to leap in there. yes, that's what they're saying. we heard from psychiatrists this week who gave important evidence. they were the people who treated them. they were the psychiatrists. they had the training. they said within about two weeks of him arriving at quantico they said he was no threat to himself or anyone else and they recommended he be taken fully off any suicide watch. >> this i think tees up a provocative question which gets us to what bradley manning is a lenled to have done and the way the state reacts to this. this treatment is not an accident but this is pretrial punishment for having committed this or having allegedly committed this sin. i'm curious to hear you guys weigh in on that and talkn mann this. what about updated equipment? they can help, bu

and another crash along the southbound lanes of columbia pike at briggs cheney road you want to watch out for. another crash westbound route 100 at route 10 and another accident on interstate 70 right along westbound lanes at old national pike. and as we check in and look live outside, here on the northwest corner of the beltway, notice a lot of fog at old court road. a 12 minute ride on the outer loop from 795 down to 95. and the foggy conditions will continue here in parkville at harford road. traffic moving along. no significant delays on the beltway but fog still going to be a huge issue. so take our advice and take it slow if you are heading out this morning. that's your abc2 timesaver traffic megan over to you. >>> news time 6:17. an outrageous restaurant bill not because of the charge but because of what was printed on it. abc's mark greenblat has the details. >> reporter: rule number one with casinos, the house is supposed to win. the cameo club casino restaurant in stockton california left three women feeling taken in an unusually large way. >> i got the bill and looking at t

. >> juliet: oh, in honor of dave briggs, this is his last day with us.astures. >> clayton: so play his least favorite song? i asked you to send us your least favorite song. that's dave's. mine is "call me maybe". and toba knows it's my birthday. please do not play that song today. that's my only wish. >> juliet: i can't wait to hear "call me maybe." how do you guys not like that? i don't get it. let's get to some headlines. major health scare for secretary of state hillary clinton. she was supposed to be back on the job this week, but instead, she is waking up at new york presbyterian hospital. she's being treated for a blood closet it was found during a follow-up exam for her concussion. that concussion forced her to cancel testifying at a house hearing on the benghazi terrorist attack. lawmakers say she must testify before a vote can happen on whether senator john kerry can succeed her. we'll keep you updated on her situation. >>> tour bus crash leaving nine people dead, more than two dozen injured. the bus apparently slid off an icy highway and crashe

are saying goodbye to dave briggs, he's moving on the end of the year.. >> alisyn: thanks. and there is, as you know, a national dialog going on how we can prevent the tragedy that happened in newtown, connecticut from ever happening again. and there's all sorts of talk, as you know, about what would you do in the mental health field and what we can do to school safety and gun violence. and amidst all this, a mom of one of the little six year olds who was killed has released the class photo and it is a tragic, sad, heart wrenching photo because half the kids in the class survived. >> if you look at the corner, that's the teacher victoria soto, the reports are was so courageous in saving as many kids as she could when she was hearing the gunfire. we understand, you know, tried to block the door and help put her kids and hide them in closets and in spaces where the gunman couldn't find them. of course the gunman burst in and took her life as well as some of the other children's lives and the mother olivia engel, her mother relessing this photo, heart wrenc

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in early may, he took a two-month visit to john briggs and eight former classmate in hannibal. and literally took hours. a thorough fare he likened to just like being on main street in hannibal and meaningful familiar faces. the montgomery block block dominated montgomery and washington streets. number 722 and 724 montgomery. it had been a gold rush tobacco warehouse and now the man, mark twain, setting his cars. it was cold and sweaty in his palm. he took a swig. a few droplets caught in his horseshoe mustache, and he left them there. he spoke and he had become addicted on the mississippi. he contributed his own cloud and by the barrel for $4, he held a cigar poison the air and scattered the vapor with a long sweep of his arms. mark twain had acquired a steam bath in virginia city. while laboring under bronchitis and a series called, 8 miles northwest from the road between virginia city and steamboat springs, a distance of 7 miles. over a long line of beautiful columns, there was a large house constructed to be then. [inaudible] gave me a boiling and surging noise exactly as a

lance briggs summed it all up. >>you want to win it for us. enjoyed your time here in chicago and the way that he has treated a few and us together, if he is not here that goes with him. i've enjoyed every moment. i do not intend on that changing. the bears beat the lions at sodlier field earlier this year, and it was the defense that led the way. the final score was 13-10, with the lions making two key fumbles. kickoff is at noon on sunday. northwestern football players are enjoying the sunshine of jacksonville, florida. the wildcats meet mississippi state in the gator bowl on january first. head coach pat fitzgerald is trying to mix work and pleasure. this is the 5th year in a row that the wildcats are in a bowl game. they have lost the first four. 19-49 is the last time northwestern won a bowl game. that's a look at sports. your live illinois lottery drawing is next. >>good afternoon. >>winning pick 3 numbers 1,59 >>time for the pick 4 gamses. >>step outside the box. go to where your dreams come true. >>winning pick 4 numbers 8,8,7,1 >>liuc

in early may, virginia city for a two-month visit to visit tobrex, handsome brother john briggs, a close friend and hannibal and neo-nazi former class may. twain had passed our set at stalls ground-floor barbershop in basements and bass on montgomery street. a third affair he likened to just save being on main street in hannibal in meeting the old familiar faces. the extensive chunk of granite dome is the montgomery block dominated the southeast corner of montgomery and washington streets. numbers 722 and 724, montgomery. identical gresh tobacco warehouse, melodeon theater and now the turkish bath were trained parboiled the fire ms. sawyer install, another good friend. twain study discards them have to do of dirt. it was cold and sweaty in his path. he took a swig. a few droplets caught in this horseshoe mustache and he left them there. he found as he played poker, smoking one of his wheeling long sandwich report that the could kill it 30 yards. he become addicted when he was a reporter in the mississippi. huffing contributed his own cause to the roiling steam. twain bought the long, dis

dave briggs is moving up in the world and we are terribly sad to see him go. >> i love you guys. races between you and i. it would have been five years in april for me but the canoe race. am i invited back to take you on? >> i mean come on, i don't know who is going to be sitting there but no one as athletic as you i'm sure. >> more "fox and friends" in two minutes. ♪ will have ever stop, yo i don't know ♪ ♪ better hit bullseye the kid don't play ♪ >> i can't wait for reichmuthou >> i can't wait for reichmuthou and the bare. >> we'll be back in two andr two, chuck woolery.

. >> chief briggs here. >> very, very kind, considerate, lived here good part of her life. she was very involved in the community. very well respected. >> did you talk about the family in general? >> i can tell you small town, that mrs. champion, dotty, worked as the school nurse at the daniel j. bakey school for a number of years. a wonderful person, very good with children. jim champion worked for me for a number of years as the captain of the police department and he currently works for me as a part-time officer, as well as for a deputy. >> (inaudible). >> the whole family is traumatized by this event. very sad. very sad. >> (inaudible). >> i'm sorry. i didn't hear that. i have not. i have not. he has not. >> (question inaudible). >> i have not had a conversation with him. very close. >> (question inaudible). >> i actually saw her last november when jim champion retired. i saw her at the retirement party. i haven't seen the children since they left here in 1998. my understanding was it was 1998. that was my understanding. >> any other questions? thanks a lot. >> thank yo

first let's check in with dave briggs to see what is coming up on "fox & friends."this is your last day with us. we are going to miss you. >> i will miss this place indeed. it's my fox family. a big show coming up we, too, are counting down to the fiscal cliff to new year's eve to the nfl post season on my last day as you said and clayton's birthday mind you. an update on hillary clinton's condition in just about 10 minutes join us for "fox & friends" 6-9 eastern time. >> welcome back. it is 52 after the top of the hour. let's span the globe to see what's happening in headlines. hugo chavez is reporting from new complications following his recent cancer surgery there. so far we are hearing those complications are stemming from a respiratory infection and his condition is delicate. next to northern ireland where police officer manages to escape a bomb found under his car. so far no one is claiming responsibility for planting the device. finally to columbia where a massive land slide completely cut off a highway and buried cars there. at least five people were killed.

good morning, everyone, thanks so much for joining us bright and early great to be back with dave briggs, i've missed you for the past couple of weekends. >> you, too. >> alisyn: and wonderful to have you in, kelly, in for clayton. >> it's good to be back in this chair. >> julie: you and i both have kids the same age, 30, 40 minutes away from newtown in elementary school in a town very similar. this hit very close to home for us and for a lot of people. >> you know, based on that point, if it can happen in newtown and it can happen anywhere, in a small rural community and haggerstown, maryland, an idyllic community, town of 30,000, just likes newtown, and people are mourning and weeping as they mourn for the teachers at sanry hook elementary school. >> just when you think you can be composed and keep it together and maybe the tears will have stopped, they put out the names and ages of the victims and even not knowing them, but just to read through their names and their ages is just wretching. we will show you some of their names now, the victims, there were 12. we'll show them later to y

. >> can you maybe talk a little bit about her, what she is like -- >> this is chief donald briggs hen here. >> very, very kind, considerate, loving young lady. she lived here a good part of her life. she was very involved in the community. very well respected. >> chief, can you talk about the champions in general, well known in town? >> i can tell you, small town, that mrs. champion, dottie, worked as a school nurse at the school for a number of years. a wonderful person, very good with children. jim champion worked for me for a number of years as the captain of the police department. and he currently works for me as a part-time officer as well as for sheriff downing as a deputy. >> have you spoken much to him since he has heard this news? can you tell us anything about how he is doing? >> the whole family is trau traumatized by this event, very sad, very sad. >> do you know if he was in contact, has he expressed anything -- anything -- >> i'm sorry i didn't hear. i have not. >> can you tell us about -- >> he has not. >> what does he say about -- this day. >> i have not had a conversa

. >> dave briggs -- i'm sorry. >> then most outrageous video you will see all day.stroller headed for a busy street. ♪ the weather outside is frightful ♪ ♪ but the fire is so delightful ♪ nothing melts away the cold like a hot, delicious bowl of chicken noodle soup from campbell's. ♪ let it snow, let it snow >> welcome back, after spending four months in a mexican jail. happy ending for a marine veteran john hammar. overnight hammar crossing the mexican border into texas after a judge ruled to release him from prison earlier in the day. hammar was being held on charges that he possessed illegal antique gun and carried it across the border. >> our next guest helped hammar's case by putting pressure on the mexican government and u.s. authors of the. florida congressman joins us this morning. what a wonderful happy end to an otherwise horrible story. >> absolutely. you know, it is important to point out to the viewers that john had actually tried to register the firearm he wasn't sneaking it in. he asked our u.s. custom border patrol in brownsville before he entered me

dave bowling in for dave briggs. >> come in and do the show with us today. more filling in today than the regulars. we are glad to be on with you clayton. >> you are on an interesting morning because congress now just 23 days left, 23 days until we head off that flif. fiscal cliff. if you listened to speaker boehner yesterday he is reading reports that the president is trying to slow walk this thing. listen to the speaker. >> when it comes to the fiscal cliff that's threatening our economy and threatening jobs, the white house has wasted another week. >> there are a lot of things that are possible to put the rev that the president seeks on the table, but nope of it is going to be possible. the president insists on his position. insists on my way or the highway. that's not the way to get to an agreement that i think is important for the american people and very important for our economy. >> there you go. so that's what speaker boehner's office is saying. they had a phone call on thursday. but people wondering if they are not even talking at all anymore. >> he

welcome back to "fox & friends" everybody, i'm dave briggs.d juliet huddy. >> juliet: hi, guys. >> clayton: talking snowplow, homer simpson (laughter) >> not just clayton singing. coming up, we'll see who can wrap the best gift. my money is on huddy, we'll wait and see. >> juliet: because i'm a girl. >> clayton: yes, my wife, a perfect bow and mine looks like a four-year-old stapled it. >> dave: i know me. >> juliet: and let's get to headline before the wrapping. south korea responding to new reports that north korea will launch long range rockets in december, calling it a grave provocation that will have implications. and the news agency reporting between december 10th and 22nd to launch a satellite ap the company reportedly dried launching a long range rocket back in april and broke apart in lift-off. it's been criticized as a ballistics missile test which goes against a ban. like so many people in staten island, destroyed by hurricane sandy and met with president obama and he promised he would help fema to help him. moments later they're wa

this is going to crush co-host dave briggs. boxes showing up.oup on deal here. hit by this? >> definitely. i was a fan when they first started out. deals are not as good. a lot of strings attached to them not as valuable. starting to see them focus on physical goods, spa treatments good restaurant deals out. on the shipping side we are seeing that shipping costs are set to rise next year about. 5% price hike from u.p.s. and fedex in the works. post offices of course raising prices again in 2013. off set more shipping deals for ceerms have to look for the fine print. more for the product than the free shipping. college tuition. >> this is one that we have seen fiscal cliff effects here too. really we have seen that federal aid and grant money has not been able to outpace all of the increases in tuition. and then a lot of the tax breaks that savers my see are starting to disappear and shift. >> cla we have been hearing homes aren't completed with. >> investment for it. starting to see the sec has approved the first atf that's going to trade in cop

we have a little going away cake for long-time co-host, dave briggs. >> juliet: good luck, dave. >> claytongood luck, dave. can you tell people where you're going now? >> dave: i am going to do sports in 2013. i will reveal that on thursday. i want to say thank you to you, ali always calls us her work husbands. you've been like my work brother on and off camera. thanks to all the viewers who thousands of thaws, it humbles me. i will miss you all. i will miss the show and miss the network. happy new year. gregg: this is it. we are just hours away from falling off the so-called fiscal cliff. tax hikes for nearly every american. lots of different ones. spending cuts of totaling more than a trillion dollars. by all indications, nothing, we mean nothing has changed on capitol hill. senate majority leader harry reid saying significant distance remains between the two sides. good morning everyone, i'm gregg jarrett in for bill hemmer here in "america's newsroom.". >> i'm heather childers in for martha maccallum the senate gavels in at 11:00 a.m. we'll see if there was some miracle overnight. gregg

new accident at briggs avenue involving several cars blocking several lanes of traffic. the scissors are picking up some slowing. you are less than 24 h yesterday the tide was 7.1 at the golden gate bridge. today it will be 7.2 the highest tide of the entire year to date. we talk about the warning signs. you can see one of them they're letting people know this parking lot of flood. we're sharing a video from yesterday of what it looked like during the high tide. yesterday it was at 9:45 a.m.. today at 1034. you can see the standing water 2 to 3 in. deep. some over the tops of this higher suspect. they had t close the on and planes. >> had to close the on and off ramps. >> they are warning people that will get back to day. to give you a point of reference. last week at the same time high tide was 5.2 at the golden gate bridge. today is its full to feed more than last week. we are expecting to see flooding in low-lying areas. >> they have put up warning signs to let people know the displays will flood at some point today. >> as you noted earlier the water is quite a ways a

i got to tell you, i use a briggs and stratton energy to be able to power my house during the power outageyou back here to >> all right, buddy. >> 6.5, the magic number, how let fed says the rate of unemployment has to get to before it even thinks about raising rates. what if we don't get there? we will explore what's at stake for your money. keep it here. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ well, if itmr. margin?margin. don't be modest, bob. you found a better way to pack a bowling ball. that was ups. and who called ups? you did, bob. i just asked a question. it takes a long time to pack a bowling ball. the last guy pitched more ball packers. but you... you consulted ups. you found a better way. that's logistics. that's margin. find out what else ups knows. i'll d

. >> clayton: that's like dave briggs, he leaves his christmas lights up all year.y the way. pretty remarkable. in fact, i think he lost a leg and he was able to hang up all these lights himself. >> ainsley: that's right. we talked about. climbing the ladder. >> clayton: they called him superman, the neighbors called him superman for doing such a remarkable job. >> rick: i want people to weigh in on this. do you like the flashy led light stuff or the simple, you put up the lights and let it be? send that into us. >> clayton: could i ask a sub question? do you like the colored lights or white lights? >> ainsley: what do you say? >> clayton: i like the white lights. >> ainsley: what do you say? >> rick: on those houses i like a lot of lights, just not flashing. i don't put up lights. >> clayton: we got weather to talk about. last night, people waking up to a white christmas n. char lotsville, virginia, people waking up to a mice chat. in walk -- a nice christmas. a new round of storms expected to bring more snow, rain and rick, even tornadoes to part of the country fo

[applaus [applause] >> and dave briggs in the studio does this every morning.isyn sasslow incoming chief of staff, sticking the landing on a cartwheel and needless t this did give her luck, picked number ten in the capitol hill office space lottery. all right. meanwhile, kim kardashian is setting off a riot, yes, you can believe it. the reality store was in bahrain opening new millions of milk shake store not familiar with that. police had to use tear gas, and hundreds protested her appearance she has a bad reputation, you don't have to be hardline muslim. that didn't bother her, she tweeted bahrain is the prettyiest place on earth. >> and notre dame took notes on yesterday's game. and winner likely play them for the championship. tied down by three one of the great games i've seen. aj mccarron after running 50 plus times hooking with with cooper, 45 yard strike, 32-28. last chance for georgia, ten seconds left, they needed that pass to be incomplete or they needed to spike it, needed to do something. time runs out on the dogs. and bumming there. 32-28. so it l

i'm going to sit next to him and make dave briggs jealous. >>> it's been coined the war on men.uce. >> susan banker, author of how to choose a husband and make peace with marriage is here. >> thanks for having me. >> you stirred up quite a bit of controversy. why are you deciding to call a truce on this whole issue? >> well, because that's really what it was about to begin with, honestly. that's what my work is about, what my writing does, is to just really try to turn around what's happened by saying you don't need to keep score between men and women. i think that's unquestionably what has happened much the terms manning up, or keeping up with the so-called rise of women. all that is putting -- that's putting men and women -- pitting them against one another. i'm trying to say it doesn't need to be this way. what is the ultimate goal for most women? not all women but for most women, it's to get married and have kids. and how do we rectify that desire with this other desire we have to be independent beings that are supposedly as strong as men. you can rectify those things. you d