>> yes. >> costco was down -- salary, carl quinn. >> have i ever opened my big mouth?thought about it. >> the point s i never thought about it. >> what about joe kern? >> we could do kernan with an a-n. >> when i search my name, they spell it with a lot of nasty stuff. anyway, july komps at costco down 7, worse than the street account but in line with the first call. and then finally, king pharmaceuticals, 32 cent, above expect takings and revenue was also above. >> so when you look around sector by sector at the s&p, this time there's been a rough balance between the number of sectors that are underperforming on revenues, but revenues are coming in light, versus those that are coming in above expectatio expectations. so that's actually an improvement. yeah, they're still down but an improvement relative to the first quarter. if we can keep that going, that would actually be positive. >> all right. >> good stuff. >>> when we come back we'll get a flood of breaking news. retail sales, as joe mentioned, also weekly jobless claims in about 35 minutes. and senator republic

no one said carl quinn yesterday, did they? >> no.teve leisman did a report and there wasn't a single -- >> i didn't choose -- do you think i can play the deliverance? do i have a button here to play that music? do you think that's me? >> you openly begged the audio department to run that sound. thank you. >> i didn't. you just did. you brought it up. general motors. >> i wish i knew how to quit you. >> general motors is holding a highly anticipated event in warren, michigan today. how bitting that we played that music because that's where we find our own phil lebeau. >> is that some reference to me being from deliverance this morning? >> no, no. you weren't watching last week when leisman was up there. are you looking at the volt today, phil? it's fast, right? >> well, it's a prototype. this is a model of it. this is not an actual driving version of the volt. but that's why we're here this morning because general motors will be announcing the expected fuel efficiency for the volt when it comes out on the market late next year. take a