and thank you, charles. so incomplete. look at this. >> charles: this is how close it is. toe taps, but look at where the foot is. look at how much white is there. that is what the officials are determining, not a catch. >> gus: so that brings up fourth down and eight with 2:57 to go and michigan state is going to punt it. >> charles: but if you are wisconsin you don't even think about rushing here. what you play is punt safe. all you want is the football. you have a three-point lead. don't run into the kicker. >> gus: sends it away. abbrederis with the fair catch at the 18. a 42-yard punt. montee ball and the wisconsin offense comes back on the field and they will look to eat up the clock. look, it's ok to take the occasional gamble- as long as it's something like switching from boxers to briefs. but you never roll the dice on your truck. so go with the sure thing, ford f-150. jd power and associates just gave f-150 their highest award for initial quality. add to that the best mix of torque and fuel economy you get with its ecoboost engine, and you're money, baby. this is

and thank you, charles. so incomplete. look at this. >> charles: this is how close it is. toe taps, but look at where the foot is. look at how much white is there. that is what the officials are determining, not a catch. >> gus: so that brings up fourth down and eight with 2:57 to go and michigan state is going to punt it. >> charles: but if you are wisconsin you don't even think about rushing here. what you play is punt safe. all you want is the football. you have a three-point lead. don't run into the kicker. >> gus: sends it away. abbrederis with the fair catch at the 18. a 42-yard punt. montee ball and the wisconsin offense comes back on the field and they will look to eat up the clock. look, it's ok to take the occasional gamble- as long as it's something like switching from boxers to briefs. but you never roll the dice on your truck. so go with the sure thing, ford f-150. jd power and associates just gave f-150 their highest award for initial quality. add to that the best mix of torque and fuel economy you get with its ecoboost engine, and you're money, baby. this is

>> charles: what a play that was.ematch. >> gus: that should do it. 49-31, the final. chip kelly and oregon with win e inaugural pac-12 championship game in eugene. the two coaches meeting. one will be going to the rose bowl in chip kelly. and the other, rick neuheisel, his future uncertain. >> charles: heckuva football coach right there. chip kelly, heckuva ballplayer. lamichael james hugging de'anthony thomas. the oregon ducks improve to 11-2 on the season. three titles for chip kelly in three years. the third straight bcs bowl, his second rose bowl. rose bowl against ohio state, bcs national championship game against auburn and now another rose bowl against the winner we will see tomorrow night. wisconsin and michigan state. >> gus: as rick neuheisel walks off the field as the head coach of the ucla bruins for the final time. let's go downstairs where our coach brewster is standing with the winning quarterback. >> i'm standing here with a young man leading the oregon ducks into pasadena as the pac-12 championships.

>> well, it's interesting, charles. because this is exactly what people were saying during the last succession. everybody was saying, well, this succession will not work. north korea will collapse. now, kim -- kim jong-il has taken over. the situation clearly is very different. kim jong-il had 14 years in the public eye as the heir apparent. he had a lot of grooming, a lot of training from his father. kim jong-un has only been in the public eye that we have seen him for just over one year. so a very different situation. and a very tense situation for those that are watching. >> okay. paula hancocks joining us live from the outer unification observatory across the river from north korea in the south. many thanks to you. pauline in. >> charles, of course the world is watching north korea looking for signs as to what the future may hold. and in many analysts' eyes, the future is not looking too bright. we're joined by a senior economist and strategist. thank you very much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> it's been a big

i'm charles hodson. >> we'll forgive you for that, charles. good afternoon from hong kong, i'm andrew stevens. you're watching "world business today." the top stories this wednesday, december the 28th. as japan eases its self-imposed ban on weapons exports, we'll look at how its defense budget adds up. >>> it's already been a volatile year in the euro zone. now nervous banks have deposited record sums with the yeaeuropea central bank. >>> and today we say bye-bye to the boss. now time in the corner office is coming to an end, but not before some final questions. >>> stock markets in asia finishing broadly lower after another day of fin trade. that followed a quiet day on wall street. and in europe where an italian bond auction will be in sharp focus, the open was mixed just a short while ago. let's get straight to the numbers. charles, how's europe looking now? >> well, here's the overall picture, obviously, andrew, kind of mixed, really. most of these indices are close to the flat line. certainly the ftse playing catch-up, having been closed

>> charles: what a play that was.ematch. >> gus: that should do it. 49-31, the final. chip kelly and oregon with win e inaugural pac-12 championship game in eugene. the two coaches meeting. one will be going to the rose bowl in chip kelly. and the other, rick neuheisel, his future uncertain. >> charles: heckuva football coach right there. chip kelly, heckuva ballplayer. lamichael james hugging de'anthony thomas. the oregon ducks improve to 11-2 on the season. three titles for chip kelly in three years. the third straight bcs bowl, his second rose bowl. rose bowl against ohio state, bcs national championship game against auburn and now another rose bowl against the winner we will see tomorrow night. wisconsin and michigan state. >> gus: as rick neuheisel walks off the field as the head coach of the ucla bruins for the final time. let's go downstairs where our coach brewster is standing with the winning quarterback. >> i'm standing here with a young man leading the oregon ducks into pasadena as the pac-12 championships.

maybe, charles felt, a film could help. narrator: we begin with a scene one meter wide, which we view from just one meter away. now, every ten seconds, we will look from ten times farther away, and our field of view will be ten times wider. franco: "powers of ten" would become the best known of all the eames films, viewed in countless classrooms and copied freely by filmmakers around the world. schrader: everyone has seen "powers of ten." they may not have seen the version charles did, but they have seen one of the countless rip-offs of that film. narrator: ten to the sixth, a one with six zeros, a million meters -- soon the earth will show as a solid sphere. tondreau: nobody had done a movie like that. how can you fail, doing a cosmic zoom in and out from all that is? and so the concept is, all by itself, mind-blowing. narrator: the trip back to the picnic on the lakefront will be a sped-up version, reducing the distance to the earth's surface by one power of ten every two seconds. it's "ch-ch-ch-ch-shoo," excessive inform

charles?op, no, it's me. sorry, look at how u.s. futures are doing. with five hours to go before trading start, the picture loo s s positive. here's where they stood up around 1% gains. we have a few hours as i said before it starts but certainly looking positive so far, charles. >> well, i wonder what actually is behind those numbers. how solid, how confident investors are in these gains? certainly we seem to be edging closer to a lasting resolution but the five days leading up to decision day could be rife with indecision joined by etx capital. i suspect we are seeing these gains. we could see them melt away, couldn't we? >> absolutely. but then the market is up and has been up so this is our feel good factor from the liquidity measures announced by central banks late last week, as well and rightly so if we don't see any firm resolution coming out of the euro-zone this week, we could see the gains given back and this rally, this christmas rally fizzle out fairly soon. >> if there's two meeti

charles? >>> now next china unveils ambitious plans for the final frontier. we have details on the exciting space program. beijing is putting the brakes on foreign investment in car manufacturing. those stories are next. >>> the price of gold moving back up today after falling for the past few days. still off its august highs. this friday we're at $1560 ang ounce. it's still worth remembering where we started this year. gold is ending up by $156. welcome back. you're watching "world business today" live on cnn. >>> let's give you some other business headlines that we're following this hour. new business guidelines in china are encouraging some types of foreign investment in car making. chinese state media are reporting that beijing wants to encourage the healthy development of a domestic auto indust industry. beijing's new rules are beginning. they say they want to promote energy saving and environmentally friendly technologies. the new guidelines take effect on january the 30th. >>> american

charles barkley. [ cheers and applause ] apparently our good friend charles is asking for a new set of what's trending in the future? umm -- [ laughter ] yeah. [ cheers and applause ] and finally, there's no use knowing what the future brings if you haven't learned the lessons of the past. with that in mind, our good friends over at jibjab bring you this "2011 year in review." >> jibjab! ♪ 2011 was hairy a year unlike any we've seen there were schweddy balls from ben & jerry ♪ ♪ and a warlock assassin named sheen ♪ >> winning! ♪ ♪ lohan strauss-khan mitt romney, rick perry and cain ♪ ♪ big trials love childs 2011 bye bye ♪ ♪ the s&p blew up our rating the job market stayed in a slump a slump ♪ ♪ the debt ceiling kept us debating while weiner just tweeted his junk ♪ [ camera shutter ] >> class war! class war! >> i nearly got hit with a pie! ♪ health threats greek debts ♪ >> 2011, buh bye! ♪ the whole arab world was rebelling so long, muammar gaddafi♪ ♪ while soldiers were asking and telling we told the whole world we're not gay ♪ ♪ got hitched got ditched got knocked up went bankrupt ♪

that charles' death is saving other lives. >> and today, even though charles is not with us, he's giving life to somebody this morning. >> reporter: his organs donated to six people in need of transplants, one apt yok man received a liver transplant this morning. >> he blessed him with a wonderful gift on christmas. my brother is a hero. he is. >> reporter: charles was shot to death in his car near his west oakland home on thursday, a victim to violence that his family said he stayed far away from. >> not all young black men are statistics, meaning that they're all not into drugs or up to shenanigans. and charles was one of them. >> reporter: they say he was a loving young man known for his infectious smile that was captured on this video played at the memorial service. charles was on his way to becoming a longshoreman like his father. and even though charles can't live to see his dream come true, his family is comforted that his death will help so many others. >> he will live on in these people's bodies. i just wish them a very merry christmas. >> reporter: nbc bay area news. >>> san jo

so that's the future. >> charles? >> i would say that it's really important to hear voices from all over the world. but i would also say we need an american voice for international news. >> which is what you've tried to do with global voice. i mean, you stated that as an objective. >> global post's--really, its tone is very intentionally and unabashedly american. >> what does that mean? yeah. >> that's--i constantly want to clarify this because what i do not mean is jingoistic. i don't mean nationalistic. i don't mean american interests matter more than any other country in the world. what i mean is we have a great tradition of storytelling in america, and i think as an american public, we all have an ear for that. we know the kinds of stories that we can--we can hear and which resonate for us as a country. we're looking to tell stories in the world that do that. and if we don't, we're not going to capture that american audience, which is the audience we want to go for. we want to say, "america is listening," and invi

and if someone is right and congress is just getting started, charles payne, adam lashinsky, charlie gasperino. and amelia. what do you think? >> we're going to see a lot more. in the state of confusion is where the democrats win and run it over and over for the entire campaign and it does, it confuses, the average consumer has no idea, but to believe that. that's what they read. the little clip is all they know about the news. >> neil: was it a defining clip or a defining line. >> and amelia hit on it, we find out it's a lie a year later. and we saw it replayed, with the payroll tax cut i'm still confuse abouted this. okay, many he no, i'm offering you $1,000 and the other guy-- ♪ silent night, holy night ♪ >> neil, af got to-- >> that was a great commercial and here is the problem that republicans have. >> but it was a-- >> okay, it was a fib or whatever. do this all the time and here is what republicans do, fight fire with fire. do that, come back and defend yourself. >> one more hideously dressed-- >> listen, i like paul ryan and admire what he did with the plan, it was bold, pol

we're at 25th and charles street. the fire began at 2:45 this morning. the blaze began in the basement of the home and spread to the first, second, and the third floor. the middle floor is occupied by the big boyz bail bonds company. police and firefighters say one person was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. reporting live, kim dacey, wbal- tv 11 news. >> thank you. here is matt lauer with a look at what is coming up next on the "today" show. >> good morning. prince philip released from the hospital this morning four days after being rushed for emergency heart surgery. a security firm is now the victim of a major hacking attack and the culprits are vowing to cause more havoc. new developments in a murder case. one man has decided to give up his extradition fight and stand trial in mexico in the death of his wife. the baby polar bear melting hearts around the world. that a much more ahead as we get started on a tuesday morning. >> that was too cute. 39 degrees on tv hill. >> we will come back and check the weather and traffic together befo

>> absolutely. >> fox news alert just in. >> charles and ben agree.

charles?> the "wall street journal" reports some employees of the uk-based oil giant bp could face felony criminal charges in the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. i hardly need to remind you, but in april 2010, an explosion at the deepwater horizon rig killed 11 people and sent oil gushing into the gulf of mexico for 87 days. the journal reports u.s. prosecutors are focusing on several u.s. based engineers and at least one supervisor. it says investigators are looking into whether they may have provided false information to regulators about the risks of deep water drilling in the gulf. u.s. department of justice could decide not to bring charges however. let's look at the bp stock price. last check up by about .5% in a rising market, andrew. >>> still ahead on "world business today," a fatal train crash sparked widespread outrage in china. will beijing put the brakes on the rapid expansion of the high-speed rail system. >>> putting limb pus in the frame. we'll take a look back at the

charles? >> well, u.s. markets came down off their highs for the day after the news from standard & poor's filtered out. they stayed in positive territory, s&p 500 finished up over 1% with the nasdaq higher still and the dow ended monday up by almost exactly 2/3 of a percent. >> so what's gregory to happen today? u.s. futures looking cautiously positive ahead of the trading day on the street. currently up by a fifth of 1%. up endown over the past hour so still a long way to go before the markets on wall street open and a lot depends on what happens in europe but certainly fair to say europe remains front and center pretty much everywhere once again. >> indeed, testament to the seriousness in which washington views that. timothy geithner is in europe and will meet mr. sarkozy in paris but today being hosted in germany ahead of meetings with the president mario draghi. i wonder what he will say, diana. >> reporter: well, yes, this is his third visit since september which is testament to the severity in which

they say they are getting some consolation that charles' death gave others life and it is making today a little bit easier. finding the words to say goodbye is never easy. saying good-bye to someone who had his whole life ahead of him more difficult than words can say. >> no words that i really can express to say goodbye you know because it is so devastating to the news that i had got about my nephew. reporter: 23-year-old charles butler graduated from the merchant marine academy and looking forward to his first assignment when he was shot while driving in his neighborhood. >> we ask that you do cry, wipe your tears and also let your heart be joyful for his life and be joyful for what he has done and going on to be with god. >>> killed three days before christmas, his funeral today comes just before the new year. >> i just want to ask you to look at your neighbor and just smile because charles was always smiling. i don't know if you noticed or not but he was always smiling, gold teeth and all, look at the person on your left and just smile at him. >> reporter: in death charles butler g

and charles, don't mess with my boots.the mint makes this hot chocolate cool, does the mint hot chocolate make me cool? not really. the new mint hot chocolate from dunkin' donuts. grab the cool sensation of mint today. >> good morning. i'm greg toland. you knew there would be hype surrounding mount st. joe's and st. francis. an intense rivalry between these two powers. both teams undefeated. the game lived up to the billing and then some. let's go to mount st. joe's where the capacity crowd was going wild from start to finish. cook breaking ankles. st. francis by 8 late in the first. second half, back come the gails. the rejection. and then the alley oop. booth to cameron williams. in the o.t. tied game. not anymore. drops. gails take the lead by three. closing seconds, lead at 2. kevin sad letter, going for the tie. huge block that saves the game for the gails. what a thriller. mount st. joe's wins the final 78-76. ravens aren't ruling out ray lewis for sunday's game against the colts. odds are this is a fourth straight g

charles, nina and charles. charles k., start with you. what do you make of this?etween two difficult constituencies. today inen odd position with the canadian prime minister. >> the canadian prime minister was extremely soft spoken. he spoke like a friend. he didn't criticize the president. that is because cre yadeians are nice -- canadians are nice. i know. that the mounties, the beavers, the loanies but the canadians are not stupid. the foreign minister who was here today said if you have a story store, you won't have a lot of customers. meaning that if the united states is not going to accept a gift, secure source of oil from a friendly ally and a strategic asset, which will create a lot of jobs, they will build it west and china will have access to it. they are serious about that. they are deeply upset about what was purely a political decision on the part of obama. this idea he had a process and dot "i"s and cross "t" says rubbish. the pipeline was the most studied pipeline in the history of american pipelines. a three-year study by the state department. whic

charles payne, you argue we should be careful what we celebrate. >> well, absolutely. i think ben made the point how indefinite-- wall street is very selfish, it's like going out to a party, seven o'clock at night and you know you're going to get flat blasted. you know you're going to get drunk as you can and don't care. >> maybe you do. >> maybe back in the day when you use today party, but here is the thing, you know that 4 a.m. is coming and 5 a.m. is coming and wall street doesn't care right now it's seven o'clock and take this as far as they can go. even though ultimately it's going to give us one heck of a hangover. >> neil: the bright spot there's always a denny's open. charlie what do you think. >> they didn't quite bailout the euro or italy and spain, it was marginal step on the road to bailout. >> you do admit they got ahead of themselves, that they-- >> i broke the tarp story. and i'm telling you, wall street likes bailouts. >> people hate-- >> by the way the ultimate bailout-- >> you're right. wall street-- >> bank failure is a terrible thing. >> they're go

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and charles payne along with dagen mcdowell and adam lashinsky, and charlie gasperino. >> occupy wall street, if niece occupy kids are defense greed and people taking advantage of things, they have to be against some of the unions, particularly the big union bosses. you can argue greed by unions kill the auto industry, the trucking industry, you know, hurting the airline industry and the bosses in the unions, forget about it. they, really, really do live a life that only the 1% could even recognize. >> neil: dagen? >> where do you think that this, this hipocracy comes from? what did you say in the intro, rich corporate fat cats, how many heard if you heard those two words, fat cats come out of the president's mouth. >> neil: as soon as i hear that, i don't listen to the rest. >> when you say fat it's almost literal, literal in that photo. >> rich, calorie challenged. >> the two men in the photo. can you imagine they're saying to each other, yo, you think my gut is too big to-- >> hey, hey, hey. >> careful, careful. gasperino? >> why would they bite the hand that feeds them? i mean, i'

charles?i think that is right. i think now he is showing a little leg because he is planning to stay in iowa the night of the caucuses. i think in 2008 he was in new hampshire where he received the results. it looks as if he's -- we will put him on the spot if he doesn't end up as the winner. that will be embarrassing. he is risking a bid in this but he must have internal polls telling him his numbers are good and rising. bachmann is probably on the fade. newt has had some decline. those supporters are scattering. it's one or two or even three -- in other words, a rather small number to him. that could be enough to give them the victory. >> jim: what do you think? >> romney has played this just about perfectly. he has managed expectations very well and he put himself in position where he can plausibly expect to finish one or two in a state where at one time it looked like he might not do better than four. he managed to get all the more conservative rivals ganging up on one another. and he ask

charles crawford is joining us live from oakland. >>charles: i am standing at the corner of denison's street and kennedy just off of 880. sometime early this morning a large acacia trees landed on top of these two semi truck trailers. a tree removal service came in. all that is left is a tree trunk. i spoke with the owner of the company who says the last few days have been very busy. >> we were expecting a lot of downed trees. >>charles: the last two days have been busy and this owner says he could not be more happy. >> the wind and rain is good for business. >>charles: this tree collapsed late wednesday or early tuesday morning. >> it is doing to their raw and the high wind. the tree just could not stand it and flopped over. >> this sort of staying is common in oakland. it's >>charles: the entire tree had to be removed. >>charles: this is a tree that sits next to where the other one was. if you take a look, the branches are barely moving. the winds have calmed down. >>jaqueline: the wins have calmed down in certain spots that not in

and syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles, the thoughts on how this is developing? rocket ride. romney decided he can't wait. he is not going to -- the conclusion of the romney camp he is not going to self-destruct, as the others who precedeed him will. especially with the iowa caucuses, a few weeks away, the time is short. so they have gone all out on attack. they have ads now on the internet to attack newt directly. an interesting ad. i uses paul ryan, the quote he made when newt called it a medical wrangling, social engineering. they use a quote that ryan said at the time. friends like that, who needs the left. which is a rather cutting attack. the ad had commentaries, including me as it happens saying unsympathetic things about newt. i'm not sure that is a good strategy. the part of the electorate that romney is appealing needs to appeal to, is a part of the electorate that considers me and the other colleagues who are on that ad complete elitist, inside the beltway, cocktail sipping sellouts. that is what they say on a good day. [ laughter ] what you want is pe

charles butler, jr. >> i don't flow if you recognize him, charles is a founding member of this church. [applause] >> he had just been awarded his merchant marine passport and was about to start his first assignment. this is video of butler when he started a maritime training program a few months ago. >> where do you see yourself in three years? >> on a boat, traveling the world. >> it was part of a tearful tribute at butler's church. he was killed before he could get his grade situation certificate for the church-sponsored program so his parents were awarded the certificate at a short ceremony. >> present this to you from the program. >> but this outpouring of emotion is part of the honor this 23-year-old is receiving. last week, butler was killed a few yards from his home. his family says he was shot to death while driving by people he never even met. charles butler, jr. is an organ donor, and this christmas, daniel murphy is a recipient of butler's liver. >> it's starting to really hit home, and i'm ju

charles butler, jr. will have his organs harvested.y friend will receive his liver. >> people were rescued today after the tour boat caught on fire. the coast guard came and tran ferred the passengers off the boat. >> the malls were packed with sr the perfect gift or stocking stuffer and monday is expected to be the third busy is shopping day of the year. >> because people usually spend more than that the gift card amounts or leave a balance, men consumers believe gift card 0 a scam to benefit retaileres. an economist says that's not the case. >> retailers don't count that as a sale until the gift card is redeemed. so they're not looking for people to spend the gift card. they want to get people in the stores spending not only the gift card but then so. so it's not any sort of scam where retailers are hoping people won't spend the money. >> use your gift cards. estimates are that consumers leave up to $5 billion on unused gift cards every year. >> a new survey shows smartphones and tablets are becoming a bigger part of the we we shop f

that charles' death is saving others' lives. >> today even though charles is not with us, he is givinge to somebody this morning. >> reporter: his organs donated to six peel in need of transplants. one antioch man received a liver transplant this morning. >> he blessed them. he blessed them with a wonderful gift on christmas. my brother is a hero. he is. >> reporter: charlie was shot to death in his car near his west oakland home on thursday. a victim to violence that his family says he stayed far away from. >> not all young black men are statistics, meaning that they're not all into drugs or not up to shenanigans and charles is one of them. >> reporter: then he was a long young man known for his infectious smile. he was becoming a longshoreman. his brother presented the certificate today. even though charles can't live to see his dream come true, his family is comforted that his death will help so many others. >> his spirit will live in these people's bodies. and i just wish them a very merry christmas. nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> in san jose, a 1-year-old child suffered mino

charles krauthammer? >> i think there is no doubt he is on rocket ride right now and the party -- a party for a few weeks that was considering herman cain as a serious candidate for the presidency -- the man who says the country needs aeader, not a reader, can certainly nominate newt gingrich. i do notnow how our probable is, but it is certainly looking far more liky than it did a few months ago. >> ma? >> the republican field stands tween a landslide reelection victory of barack obama if newt gingrich's the nominee. if he is the nominee, it will not be a competitive race.e. it willl be a landslide walk to reelection at a time when the nation needs a major leader. > i do not think barack obama has done such a good life that deserves a new gingrich as an opponent, but it is possible. it is possible because of the time. we are very close to the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primary now. feels like thi has been going on for ever, but it is about a month or less. the time to watch that fizzle is evaporating