again, it's what is c.e.s. c.e.s. is the great opportunity to present what you are trying to do and if you are tired of hearing about driverless cars, as an auto maker, you will talk about the kind of technology. at c.e.s., incredible to look at the massive secretaries devoted to the automobile industry. just seas and seas of technologies tied to cars. huge transformation they are focusing on a lot. just to his point about companies and apple leading the way, i think the question is, what choice do these companies have? they can't sit around the table waiting for what apple is doing. have the opportunity to get out and show what they are doing. some apple news comes out during c.e.s. week, which was the case last year and draw the attention of showing at c.e.s. >> you are sticking around and we will talk to you. programming reminder, turn in next tuesday and wednesday when we are live in las vegas. the long standing hit show and "myth busters" is taking scenes from "star wars" and putting them to the test. >> i'm emil

more commonly just called "c.e.s.," this is a trade show. that means it's not open to the general public. during the four-day event, these booths and displays will be jam-packed with exhibitors and visitors. to give you an idea of just how massive this show is, 150,000 people from over 100 different countries come here to see 37 football fields full of technology. some of those exciting products are new lines of digital cameras coming from panasonic. so, i'm at the panasonic booth, and joining me now is darin pepple from panasonic. hey, darin. how are you? >> i'm great. >> good to see you. cameras are a big thing. a lot of people are really interested in taking great still photography, but also motion video. and i hear you guys have something that's a little hybrid, a little "best of both worlds"? >> yeah, we call it hybrid photography. basically, all we're saying is that panasonic, being a video company, has brought video to the photographic world. >> okay. >> so, we call it "hybrid" -- mixing the two together, whether it's through what we

in las vegas, scott budman, nbc bay area news. >>> also at c.e.s. usually michael bay is behind the scene creating car crashes and explosions. today he was the one that was a train wreck. >> oh. the type is all off, sorry. i'll just wing this. >> tell us what you think. >> excuse me, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. >> okay. ladies and gentlemen, let's thank michael bay for joining us. >> and then he left. he was at the conference to talk about samsung's 105 inch curved h.d. tv. but he had a bad day. he wrote about his experience saying that the teleprompter got lost and said i guess live shows just just aren't my thing. >>> the yeahs are 56, the nays are 26, the nomination is confirmed. >> she knows her money and is making history for it. the senate confirming the first woman to head the federal reserve today on capitol hill. janet yellen will be replacing ben bernanke who is retiring at the end of the month. >>> the commuter shuttle buses have become a symbol of rising rent and the new money of san francisco. protests have popped up with people angry about t

we're proud to launch it here at c.e.s. we're going to defend this lawsuit fig rousely.ed patents. do you have the reserves? what does ryan seacrest say about this whole thing? >> ryan is loving the product. we both built this product for ourselves. we started two years ago developing this. and we developed it from the ground-up. for something, it's something we needed in our lives. we need to be able to type on the iphone. and you know, the lawsuit is the lawsuit. we'll deal with it as we have to deal with it. >> how many have you sold so far? >> we don't disclose numbers. we only have taken preorders. we haven't shipped the product yet. we're going to ship at the end of january. we've been successful with preorders. >> what does your trajectory look like -- do you see yourself being private? do you see yourself being a takeout target in the future? >> no. listen. we did this because ryan and i wanted physical cease on an iphone. and for us, for me, i've had this on my phone for the last year. and it's completely changed my life with the iphone. so, i think it's a great

saying a problem with the teleprompter threw him off and later he said i just embarrassed myself at c.e.sa state won the championship over auburn but it could not escape controversy. the most of alabama quaterback a.j. sent out a tweet in response to the post-game speech from florida state quarterback winston saying and i quote, "am i listening to english," and quickly was deleted. she then sent out another tweet and i quote, "anyone that knows our family knows we are far from racist. my tweet was not meant that way. i sincerely apologized if it offended anyone." months are getting involved, too, that is how it is in the age of twitter. >> better football on the west coast. >> absolutely. we will go back to the east coast and i will show you the forecast if the game in charlotte, the queen city at bank of america stadium and uptown, it will be wet with a subject of moisture coming in from the gulf coast with temperatures in the mid-to-upper 40's and we will show you the wind chill quickly with east of the mississippi river a third of the country is under wind chill advisories and warnings