carly therena. carly, it is hard to get overexcited about this, rght. >> guest: there was insider buying last week and i am sure most major corporation with a stock buy back program are looking and thinking of increasing it. there are huge uncertainty and lack of visibility. there is rick aversion so big companies are parking lots of cash as you big companies have growing markets overseas. what we should be worried about right now is growth in this economy and what we need to be worried about is small businesses. because the data is unmistake 18able . flat on the back and more maul businesses are fail fewer are starting and fewer small businesses are hire that marries tremendously of course because small businesses create most of the jobs and . most of the people. we have a growth problem and visibility problem and so no one will be bold in this environment. >> a lot of democrats are arguing about all of this couple of trillion that corporations have off shore and afraid to take on . they say at the

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>> carlie. >> carlie. and how old is carlie? >> 13. >> how old are you? >> 23. >> you don't see a problem with that? >> i do see a problem. yeah. >> what is the problem you see? >> well, i just came to say hi to her. >> you just came to say hi. >> yeah. >> but in your conversation on the internet, you talked about more than just coming over to say hi. >> that wasn't my intention. but if you see, in the conversation -- >> i have the conversation. you seem to be counseling her that she is too young to have sex. >> uh-huh. >> but then the conversation switches back around, doesn't it? like you're the concerned older guy for a minute. trying to say you're too young but then it transitions, if you're going to have sex, it might as well be with me. that's kind of what you're suggesting here. >> no. no. >> not at all? >> no. never. >> you say yep, i knew it. you're a horny little 13-year-old girl. you say, i'm going to lick you. >> i say that a lot. >> you say that a lot. >> i'm a gonna lick you. >> you say that a lot to 13-year-old girls? >> no. she kept insist

carly, nice to have you.hank you again for your insights today. >> thank you for having me, jenna. great to be with you. jon: heavy rains bring dangerous flash floods to many parts of the country. in southern utah people are up to their knees in water clearing out household items floating now in garages and basements. major concern as michigan issues more flood warnings. many homes in that state still submerged from are the last round of flooding. you throw this some triple-digit heat warnings, and it is looking like a terrible weather day for many americans.olina is here wi. >> reporter: hi, jon, that's right. terrible weather across many areas of the country. today we're looking at highs again in the triple digits. kansas city, 105, 108 in if dallas. many of these high temperatures will be near or exceeding record levels for today, so this is very hot out here all because of a big high pressure system that's continuing to produce these hot temperatures across the central and southern portions of the u.s. so

>> reporter: today, she had nickelodeon star maker dan schneider to thanks, the man who created i-carly 101 and drake and josh. >> victoria is going to be one of the biggest stars in the world within five years. i think the girl's going to be making $10 million a movie. >> reporter: she was just 12 when he cast her on zoey 101. >> i'm an actress. >> reporter: what makes her a superstar on the launch pad? >> when she walked in and said, hi, i'm victoria justice and i'm 12 years old, i thought this kid has real charisma. this is probably a kid i want to develop a tv show. >> reporter: he created a show called "victorious" just for her where she excels at navigating life. >> this is not just a high school. these kids are all artsy and creative. >> reporter: do you want to be a movie star? >> yeah. >> reporter: or a singing star? >> i want to do both. >>>>eporter: you want it all? >> i want it all, why not? >> reporter: victoria is just one of a slew of young would-be stars loaded with talent hoping to land the jackpot. a show aimed at the lucrative teen audience, boys and girls aged 8 to 1

president, this says it very carly and very well. the red line is the spending line of the united states. the green line is the revenue line going back 60 years. and what we can see is the red line, the spending line, is the highest it's ever been. 24% of gross domestic product. federal spending. the revenue line is the lowest it's ever been in that period, the lowest it's been in 60 years. some of ash friends say on the other side, we just he a spending problem. they have got it half right. we do have a spending problem. spending is almost the highest it's been in 60 years. but, you know what? we've also got a revenue problem. because revenue is the lowest it's been in 60 years as a shaver our national income. -- as a share of our national income. that's a fact. mr. president, we've got to work both sides of this equation. if we go back and reconstruct, how did we get in this ditch, a story may 1, 2011, in "the washington post" is instructive. here's what they found: "the biggest culprit, by far, has been an erosion of tax revenue t

states if the president can sort some control and there's still some crime for those of our future carli and big debts or less of a problem the inertia in inability right now to give the economy right now it looks like the chances abroad of our getting real life that are actually there are still better than fifty percent which was really less markets that are concerned with investing right now out there on the field but we're confident if it looks like obama's chances of being reelected are slim everyone's going to get more on your wrist and you don't know why do you want to do it ministration might act policy wise. amasses announced it's pulling out for me the fact ceasefire with israel the statement comes after two days of israeli air strikes on gaza on than a dozen palestinians have been killed in the strike reportedly including children israel began its campaign following a series of terrorist attacks of the egyptian border that killed eight israelis on thursday officials pin the blame on a gaza based group called the popular resistance committee for the incident only first airstrike

. >> toilets have all different flows, but carli, you have to have a 1.6 gallon or less. -- currently. >> that is the state plumbing code minimum standard. >> that is going to save your water compared to what a lot of people still have in their bathrooms. they have 3.5 or 5 gallons. that is using a ton of water. >> the year there is a new city ordinance requirement to reduce flow flesh? >> and a lot of manufacturers are real -- are already making those toilets. right here, we have a dual-flush toilet. this toilet uses 1.6 gallons on the full flush and 0.9 on the half less. >> what happened? >> it automatically opens. this is a fancy toilet. we can get to that later. >> this is the half loss, which is how many? >> 0.9. so it is very good toilet, water-saving. and then the other kind of toilet that saves water is and 1.28 gallons a flush. >> i know when people first started selling and installing the 1.6, there were problems with it was not clear in the bowl and all of that. have those generally been resolved? >> yes, they have come out with a lot of new technologies, and the flushing s

the main package was the barrell back to your question about frankfurt, this is where carly h. taylor jr. becomes a very important figure in the bourbon industry. he started off in the banking industry in the 1850's. but he migrated into the bourbon industry. he was a company, gains, very, and company that bought the old crow brand. the first thing they did was send him to europe to work in the distilling practices and ireland, scotland, england, france, and germany. he came back to the united states and apply this knowledge that he learned about the practices to design the most modern, perfect distillery that they could in kentucky for old crow. well, he takes that knowledge and because independent in 1870 and creates a distillery that was the lsc decisions -- distillery, the osce -- ofc. what he would do, as a show of his genius, he took the distillery, which he bought. a small operation. he built into a modern distillery as nice as he could because he realizes the importance of having it really nice so that when sales wind and other people came to the distillery to see how i

carly variable. you might be right about that.n this case though this was the most agree just behavior we had seen come from executive senior executives heads of mortgages heads of the whole group. literally telling their clients that hey you know what i know you think that these residential securities aren't performing in the loans aren't working out i say are you but we disagree with you so we're not going to give you back your money for this bad product least we sold you. in the meantime and then they would say they knew they knew the put it was bad and then they went out and they actually got the money back from the other people that they bought some loans from and then they pocketed it for themselves and said it could giving it back to the investors and then that's the heart of this case. if you don't mind i kind of wanted to just update was going on now a few other publications like the wall street journal and bloomberg have started to pick up on the story i only. i reported a few months ago that the manhattan d.a. was final

. >>> joining us a former hewlett-packard ceo carly fiorina. she's also a former u.s.rial campaign committee. >> thanks for having me. >> americans when they look at this economy, this market, it sends shivers through the spins and what can corporate america do to solve the problems. do you think that there's anything corporate america could be doing right now. because the president is out of ammunition and congress south of ammunition and the fed has limited things at its disposal as well. >> i think your question gets to the heart of the matter which is that this economy isn't growing as fast as it needs to and, therefore, there aren't enough jobs being created. so people are having a terrible time with so many millions still out of work. i think actually washington can do some things to help small businesses, medium businesses and large businesses. i believe washington, we now need to step up and reform the tax code. the complexity of the tax code is killing small businesses. we need to lower the business rates so that it's competitive around the world. then we need

rumors hp will spin off its personal computer division boosted by the buyout of come compaq in the carly fiorina days. investors are punishing hp stock tonight, trading at levels last seen in 2005. it was in fact a big day for your money, fear and uncertainty sweeping back into the stock market as concerns about europe's debt and america's slow growth combine for a big day of selling. the do you off more than 400 points percentage wise and even bigger loss for the nasdaq. as for tomorrow morning, look again to hewlett-packard, a big tech stock that's also part of the dow, lower by about 10% in late trade this edge other. could be a rough morning for lots of hp shareholders. >> scott, thanks so much. you can always get the latest business and tech news on our website, nbcbayarea.com. just click on the tech section to find the latest updates. >>> the hotel standoff in san rafael is finally over, but the questions are just beginning. the man responsible for the s.w.a.t. situation is dead. but just how he died and why his girlfriend was in that hotel room with him are still under investigati

. >> mine game bid is carly peterson. i just want to start by saying this conversation reminds me of things said w. e. b. du bois said in 1903 emphasis on politics education and work. it seems like we're revisiting that conversation 10 years later.nd as a sideline now also wrotely g a book and i am talkingrshi later this afternoon so i'm glad to hear about your book on a entreprenuership. but along with that they were invested in issues of education. that is a question i wanted to ask about the tests as a college president we work really hard with our students, black and white to address a comment that was made by michael lomax, what to redo to get our kids to college? it seems like that is an issue just through high school and into college. work for a foundation in washington d.c. and we just tired our executive director. but they work to get disadvantaged kids into college. how do we address the failing public-school system when it comes to black kids? [laughter] >> thank you for your march and of course, terra is thesh

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for carly come to subject an to antitrust investigations in both the united states and europe. obviously i don't share these views it should be clear. i do respect you should be debated and so forth. it's only natural that success comes scrutiny. that said, it is hard not to perceive an undercurrent of protectionism on some of these attacks. here's the other side. john singleton from the officer trading said while lots of people have talked about current competitors, nobody has articulated to us harm to consumers and that's the key. i would argue to you that consumers are the ones in the driving seat. all we are doing, all of us, is hitching a ride in the doors opening to to anyone. the internet brings the consumer to a4 in a way that we have not seen. online as you know, it's very easy for people to come, sample windows. if you don't get it right, they leave very, very fast. in our case, it's common for once again unless there is this to become out innovated and not taken. arrivals are formidable innovators and who knows where the new startups will join the phrase. so what we'