lou: michael cargil, from central texas. thank you. i bet he knows some folks to pro for you to in other parts of can the runty. -- of the country, michael, come back soon, will you. >> thank you, sir, i sure will. lou: when are record revenues just not enough? when wall street wants more, apple bruised in after-hours trading, we'll have the story, and ho how many and how much dos it take to question a secretary of state? the answer in tonight's chalk talk. next. ♪ lou: you know, i would hope to use the jock talk to keep you a list of new insights , new revelations. that is not the way it worked out. we did not get anything in a way of answer today from secretary clinton. instead to we got what amounted to political theater to a theater, if you will, that was more farce, theater of the assert my call it what you will. it was a waste of time the most part. we're going to show you just how big a show it was because it was a big show. over in the senate there are 19 senators, 19 senators on the foreign relations committee. over in the hou

lou: michael cargil, from central texas. thank you. i bet he knows some folks to pro for you to in other parts of can the runty. -- of the country, michael, come back soon, will you. >> thank you, sir, i sure will. lou: when are record revenues just not enough? when wall street wants more, apple bruised in after-hours trading, we'll have the story, and ho how many and how much dos it take to question a secretary of state? the answer in tonight's chalk talk. next. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you make 70,000 trades a second... ♪ reach one customer at a time? ♪ or help doctors turn billions of bytes of shared information... ♪ into a fifth anniversary of remission? ♪ whatever your business challenge, dell has the technology and services to help you solve it. ♪ lou: you know, i would hope to use the jock talk to keep you a list of new insights , new revelations. that is not the way it worked out. we did not get anything in a way of answer today from secretary clinton. instead to we got what amounted to political theater to a theater, if you

a lot of artists and writers and people you might call bohemians at the time went to cargill. it was an artistic place to hang out. you have people going out, maybe getting into landscape, maybe just partying. >> but wasn't there some push back? it had an unsavory reputation. >> in 1913, the lead was settled, and it was supposed to be sold, and a lot of people did not like it because they thought there was a lot of romantic rendezvous happening there that perhaps should not be. they had a ceremony there to burn the car out of cargo, so they have a big bonfire. it was the fourth of july, so they threw some fireworks in, too, and they were trying to announce that it was a new neighborhood. it was respectable. that is essentially the last and best carville house on the highway. two cable cars that are joined together. they took out the walls and connected the rope and of course, as a bedroom. and i would like to buy it. >> i think we have a photograph of the inside of one of these cars. >> yes, some of the original cable car bridges are still on the inside. it is a wonderful plac

in san antonio, texas, cargill is letting go of 2,000 workers as it closes a beef packaging plant. burger king is dropping an overseas beef supplier after traces of horsemeat were found in its products. abp food group supplies beef to b-k restaurants in the u.k. and ireland. b-k says there are no risks to human health, but some of bk's products may be temporarily unavailable. meanwhile, mcdonald's is emphasizing 'knowing your fillet o fish.' the golden arches is auditing its supply chain so that it will serve only "certified sustainable fish." sustainable is a term given to suppliers who do not harm the animal. mcdonald's is one of the top buyers of fish in the country. mcdonald's is also launching a new product, the fish mcbite, on its menu next month. a new ranking uncovers the top companies doling out the fattest paychecks. according to cnn, salesforce.com employees take home an average pay of $129,000 a year. in addition, top employees are awarded a trip to hawaii, plus $5,000 to tiffany and company. hitachi data systems also ranked high with annual pay of $134,000. employees a

cargill will be the general contractor to create the floats for the parade and the decor and staging of the ball. we also learned more today about metro's plan for i mug racing. metro rail will be open 4 -- for inauguration. metro rail will be open 4 a.m. until 2 p.m. peak fares are in effect between 4 a.m. and 9 p.m. the archives to hunt vernon square and smithsonian stations may be shut down. it's all about security i would imagine. >>> another member of the president's cabinet apparently won't stick around much after the inauguration. bloomberg is supporting the treasury secretary tim geithner will step down the end of this month regardless of whether or not there's an agreement to raise the debt ceiling. white house chief of staff jack lew is considered the front runner to take over geithner's job. >>> there was plenty of sun today, but we'd like to replace some of that cold with warmth. any chance of that happening, top? >> not really, but at least it's not record setting cold. we're finally kind of where we should be this time of year. we're looking at temperatures on the avera

the oscars will be on february 24th. >> in hollywood nine j d cargill for hollywood minute. >> for atbes is all about football. >> right now we're talking about the cold weather and a live look from our roof cover on that as ave. currently 39 degrees. in san francisco high of 52 later this afternoon. will the francisco high of 52 later this afternoon. will the ride i??çóÑk?wç >> good morning here is a live look at the golden gate bridge. it is clear and cold. it is freezing in some parts this morning. our kron 4 solo reporter jackie sissel has been out the north of the golden gate bridge shohot in san rafeal. >> when i got out here this morning it was 31 degrees now is to deny degrees. >> i am about to stop working at this point. yesterday was cold. my water pipes completely froze up. this morning it feels colder. there is a breeze blowing through. there is no clouds. it brings the windshield to 29 degrees. -- . chill i have onto shirts, a jacket, as scarf and a snowcap on and a pair of gloves and the wind blows through it. >> they laid out clothes and said will be cold. they pulled o

now, there's so little supply, cargill cloelgsed this plant.s down, but usually, that means if there's less beef, prices eventually go back up. >> meat space expert. >> jane knows exactly why you have to be aware of the meat space. very important to a lot of different -- >> i know meat. >> triangle. pyramid. >> the way to play this is probably through the garain, we talked about that a lot. dba is your etf, or look at a hormel foods. that stock has been on fire over the last month or so. i would look into that, as well. >> jane? >> okay. now, if you know anyone in the restaurant business, they tell you the cost of the salad bar has gone through the roof. you're going to see it in the grocery store. the freeze for a week in california has really damaged a lot of the vegetables and prices for some are up three times what they were a year ago. and this is going to continue over the next few weeks before things get back to normal. what's interesting is, that these farmers don't get crop insurance, so, when they have a shortage like this, they reall

jd cargill, thank you for that update. out our website ktvu.com for a complete list of the golden globe winners and also the pictures from the red carpet. click on the golden globes tab. >>> 7:47. stocks are opening. a little change ahead of a speech on monetary policy from federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. he's expected to speak at a question and answer session this afternoon as the stock market closes. u.s. stocks hit a five-year high last thursday. taking a live look at the big board, the dow down slightly, down 6. the nasdaq also down 14. s&p down 4. >>> a leading term reserve official is forecasting two and a half percent economic growth in the u.s. this year. charles evans who is the chicago fed president says it will improve to 3.5% next year. he also expects unemployment to fall below 7.5% this year but he adds it won't be 6.5% until the middle of 2015. >>> time 7:48. another fight looming in congress over the federal debt limit. technically the government hit the debt ceiling at the end of december, but treas

they used big agriculture like cargill and they used slaughterhouses. the slaughterhouses were given a fiscal help in the form of loans if they committed to only buying cattle from land, from landowners that was in compliance with the brazilian land love. so this is a method of implementing a law that was intended to reduce deforestation. but, the essence of the outlaw was a very definite encouragement into the rights of the landowners. they had to protect a certain fraction of their land and not that it be cut and made into pastures. so they mixed a standard of 20% to 21st -- 30% of the land had to be kept in a natural state with a private enforcement system. i thought that was an interesting technique, but the essence of it at the beginning of it was a rule that says thou shall not take all your land and make it into pasture. and that was possible in brazil i think in large part because the president -- president who pushed it through was very popular, very popular. the big question was whether it would survive his tenure and i think the answer is it

the third-largest private company in the united states after coke industries and cargill.ks or mcdonald's or general mills but very, very secretive. it's in northern virginia. it's interesting, right near the cia and people say there's -- like willie wonka a little like that. >> several companies on your list are private. do private companies have something special going for them that helps? >> that's a really good point. there's a large number of these that are private. and i think, you know, mars said it. we're not beholden to the tyranny of quarterly earnings. we can invest in our companies, treat our employees really well. we don't have to worry about laying people off. and praying to the god of wall street -- it's just -- i'm telling you, that stuff gets worse and worse all the time. >> so let me ask you -- >> very good point. >> another story in here that is fascinating about samsung crushing the competition. you ask is apple next. i bring this up, because, of course, several -- you know, a couple months ago we saw the case. >> yeah. >> about how we heard samsung mig