in clorox, you're talk about a $14 billion acquisition. that would have taken a lot of those companies out of the m & a market for several years. i don't think they're prepared to do that for now. >> mr. knauss, nice talking to you. >> thank you. >> we're going to get a take of the state of the consumer. we speak exclusively to the chairman and ceo of diamond restaurants at 4:40 p.m. today. >> looking forward to that. >> about 40 minutes to go. we're on 13 k watch all over again. we've only got 12 points to go before we get back to 13,000. >> stay tuned for that. can jcpenney produce big profits ahead of tomorrow's earnings report? that's the "talking numbers" trade coming up next. >> the ipo road show hitting the road today. what the business review website is doing to calm investor concerns about its growth. >> here's how each member of the dow, all 30 stocks, are faring now. now. back after this. out there. unfortunately, we're stuck in here. about half an hour to go until we do the closing bell. watching the shares of jcpenney, in the

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i'm jimmy kimmel with a word about clorox. have you ever had a moment you wish you could bleach away? well, clorox is having a contest for sharing your most bleachable moments with the panel of bleaching and laundry experts. here, with a slightly exaggerated re-enactment of a real situation we found on the website. here are the "jimmy kimmel live" players, guillermo, and my aunt chippy. >> dear, clorox. my baby and i were standing at line in a grocery store. my baby was becoming impatient and started moving his cup up and down. the lady behind me in line was an innocent bystander, who ended up with cherry juice splattered on her shirt. it was all over the checkout lane and magazines. i apologized to the lady. but then, the old bag dumped her yogurt on my baby. so, i shot her in the face with whipped cream. then, my baby threw some salt on her and punched her in the stomach. oh, it was some mess. anyway, thank goodness i can bleach it away. >> dicky: win $25,000. go to bleachitaway.com and share your bleachable moment. "jimmy k

was also the cio of the san francisco municipal transport station at 40, and she was also managing clorox's data centers previously. thank you for being here. with so much brainpower and prospective in this room, i will actually ask each of our panelists to take four or five minutes and give us a landscape of where you think of computing is today and where you see it going. am standing here with these microphones makes you feel like what rupert murdoch must have felt like this morning. i have no direct knowledge of the cloud. [laughter] let me make a small correction since my academic colleagues -- you're so sensitive to this. i am lecturer at stanford university, not a professor. that is another level of this conversation teary let me extend the conversation a little bit. one of the things that it was after i left or go, i taught for many years at stanford and talk, as i told the kids, real stuff. i started a class on cloud computing. three years ago, i started a class at the university in beijing as well on this subject because i feel it is really important. we are in my opinion in the se

clorox up 2%. >> pats or giants? >> i know you're probably a patriots fan. you worked in boston.'m pulling for the giants. that was my team of as a kid. i grew up outside new york. >> i'm a connecticut boy. >> should be a good game. hoping for a close good game high scoring. >> they were in 2007 when they played. have a good weekend. >> you, too. >>> we have some rowdiness in here because they're talking about the new reality for san francisco 49er fans watching home games in santa clara. >> the man who toyed with running for president now backing mitt romney for the republican nomination. cbs 5 political insider phil matier and former san francisco mayor willie brown join us now. >> i'm trying to figure out which joke to start with. [ laughter ] >> okay. let's go with it right now. san francisco 49ers they are out of here, guys. all the way. they have the final link of the financing, the nfl gave them $200 million to say so long, san francisco. >> and we now have to start talking about how do we get down there to watch the game sometime in 2015 or beyond. >> this is an incredibl

before today, they think they can do a lot of work it go in there with the suits, lysol, clorox to motivate me. it will be supervised from the san francisco health department. the thing 24 hours is enough. if your child is at the school, stay home today, they will make up with the loss day another time. schools should be back to normal tomorrow. coming up we will see the symptoms of stomach flu. >>will: the department of public health is monitoring its entirety and. i have to tell you, this is a private school. chances are siblings probably go here, but they do go to other schools, i am sure they have contacted other public schools as well. >>james: we're looking at spring weather as we head into february. let's take a look at temperatures this morning. on the radar, you can see that most of the wet weather is towards lake tahoe. we will have an extended look at the weekend weather coming up in your 7 day around the bay. let's go look at traffic. >>george: we have been tracking a pretty good commute for the bay area. we have no hot spots and conditions are pretty good, even at the bridges.

clorox posting earnings.lorox there. >> a stock again that probably the money shifts away from but i think now duncan house has done a remarkable job there because remember proctor didn't say this. colgate didn't say this. i think clorox is on the mend. by the way, dupont, we left that out. dupont is a company that is uniquely levered to housing and autos even though that had not been their thing talking about health sciences. that stock heads higher too. >> right. in terms of the banks today are you willing to say, you know, bank of america, jp morgan, goldman sachs, if you are to believe that the jobs report is a true tell on the economy then you got to be in the financials now. >> wells fargo. wells fargo took a gigantic amount of share. they were able to do it. the government, we talked about too big to fail. wells fargo was able to accumulate a level of mortgage business in this country that says it goes 330. wells fargo next stop, 32 on this number. >> why is the financial pace that you have after a goo

it's locked in a patent dispute and the clorox company today predicted sales will rise 2% to 4%.its up already thanks to cost reductions and higher prices. >> a young bay area woman is making the most of her second chance at leave after an extremely complex surgery. a surgery seems all the more mazing when you can see what she's now doing for fun. her teammates call her jelly buchl nicknames go, the enforcer might be a better fit. this is one of the things she loves about rugby. >> i don't know why i'm thinking about this. i like knocking people out of the way. >> her path to this side of disabled sports began with a diagnosis that could have ended her life. the former gymnast living in dorms at ucla she began losing her balance. >> in six months i fell down the stairs between 12-15 time autos this is the level of the tumor. >> doctors soon confirmed the cause. >> we were shocked to see the findings on her mri scan. her newer logical exam was normal but she had a tumor within the center of the spinal cord, in upper segments controlling breathing. >> this neurosurgeon believed cor

a short break here on the closing bell and then we are looking inin ining at clorox. >> and later two top economics reveal their economic report card. as we take a break, look at some of the highlights. >> we're digging out of a very deep hole. i think the policies have helped. i think these numbers indicate the importance of extending the payroll tax cut and emergency enemployment compensation. >> we hope the numbers continue to get better. that's what we're working on every day inside the house. we have had 11 recessions. if you take the average of the last ten we're down 13 million jobs. >> labor force participation rate has come down. one of the things that is a question mark is will it go back up or is there something more structural going on that the people who have left the labor force will not be doing? >> it's the wrong people that are participating. it should be people who are 55 and older but they are participating in a low boar force at a rate we haven't seen in years. an investment opportunity you didn't see before. fidelity's next generation ipad app lets you see what's

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don't know if this was deliberate act to poison or whether it was just inadvertent, perhaps using clorox in the cleaning process than they should have. we just don't know right now. >>> what is clear, the taliban said they killed five service members as a result of this poisoning. u.s. officials say no service members have died. taliban are trying to take advantage of the chaos right now and trying to look more and more they are on the offensive. >> shep: jennifer griffin, thank you very much. let's get to mike barrett. former intelligence officer and current ceo at a consulting firm. mike, it seems like there is a sad truth that americans should wrap their heads around and that is this is much bigger than any burning of quran. this is how we as americans are viewed in that country, isn't it? >> it is. that is the thing. when you take the sweags of the local populace, we are extremely unpopular. we are seeing as occupiers. from the american perspective we've gone and sacrifice had blood and treasure and tried to help the country become stable. but from the local perspective we're seen as

we don't know if this was a deliberate act to poison or just inadvertent, perhaps, using more clorox in the cleaning process than they should have. we just don't know right now. >> one thing that's for sure, shep, is that no one died as a result of it the taliban say that they poisoned five u.s. service members. that simply is not true. >> shepard: jennifer griffin working the pentagon for us tonight, thanks. here at home, have you stopped driving quite as much. gas prices are ridiculous, aren't they? more signs that we could all be paying $4 a gallon before very long at all. a.a.a. reporting the average for a gallon of gas nationwide is $3.70. that's the highest ever for this time of year up 18% in the past two weeks. this as tension with iran and the improving economy push oil prices higher. it's up last month hitting highest rate since may on friday. for many people $4 a gallon gas is a reality. statewide average in california is 4.18. even the cheapest in the state in fresno 4.05. and in places like new york and connecticut prices are closing in on the $4 mark. something the anal

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clorox saw costs up. general mills preannounced an ugly shortfall. general mills, the general! this was monumental. a monumental sign that things are wrong. general mills never does anything like that. of course, there is also the problem of which costs to cut. proctor decided to take a billion dollars out of its marketing budget, between now and 2016. but that could be a mistake. marketing spending is what differentiates these guys from private label and allows them to fend off competition. pepsi got hurt because it wasn't spending enough to support its brands. now proctor could be following in their footsteps versus a colgate. now, all these companies are finding themselves in a tough spot. but there are also some problems here that are uniquely proctor's. for example, for the last few years the company hasn't been able to translate revenue growth into actual earnings per share growth. that's another reason why they're doubling down on cost cuts. but it's also the reason why the company has zero credibility on saving money in the eyes of the wall streeters who follow it. i th

topping the market cap of more than one-third of the s&p 500 components including small companies like clorox and southwest airlines. >>> lastly, more am news. the company is asking a federal court in california to prohibit the sale of samsung's galaxy nexus smartphones. apple claims the phone infringes its patents. the latest in the worldwide patent dispute involving the two companies. >> thank you. >>> if you plan to run to the local florist to pick up some flowers for your valentine, we have a few ideas for you. david martin, our garden expert, joins us this morning with some ideas so that you can do other than roses and what you can do with roses as well. thank you for coming. we've got just a few hours left before we have to get those flowers out. >> the crush is on. >> let's start with some other -- we'll start with whatever you brought. show us what you brought. >> let's start with some live plants because sometimes people don't like to have things that they just throw away. we want to talk about for a moment, you canhydrangea. in this nice purple. that's something that actually a gard

. >> break out the clorox wipes, too. >> are they going to sanitize everything in the place stem to stern and is it just one day? >> reporter: that is the plan. they are going to do it over the next 24 hours so they should be ready for school tomorrow. the doorknobs, bathrooms, anything that anybody would touch needs to be completely sanitized. >> oh. all right. live in san francisco, thank you, anne makovec. keeping it clean. >> all right. >>> 502. a death blamed on alcohol poaching was something else. sonoma county court says the girl overdosed on a date rape drug, ghp. the 14-year-old was found dead after a sleepover at her home last july. three other girls got sick, as well. of the press democrat reports the other girls say they didn't know they were drinking ghb. >>> new at 5:00, admissions of guilt in a plot to bomb the london stock exchange. nine british men were arrested on various terror charges more than a year ago. they had all pleaded not guilty. but today, four of them changed their pleas and admitted being involved in the plot that was inspired by al qaeda. the other five pl

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plus, we'll get the outlook for consumer spending when we speak with the heads of clorox and darden restaurants, of course, own olive garden and red lobster gardens. brian and the gang and "street signs" are back right after signs" are back right after this. >>> do check out shares of apple. again marching toward an all-time high. $514.98. call me when it gets to $517. over the $500 a share mark. the run in apple just keeps going. i mean, apple is not just a company anymore. it is a way of life. it is a thing unto itself and it has created what we're calling the iconomy. jon, what are the hot topics? >> well, no new news on a dividend. though it did come up. tim cook all but ruled out a stock split. there were lots of questions about a number of topics. the labor stuff, the china labor stuff and fox con did not come up. and tim cook didn't volunteer any comments about that. interestingly enough, new products were an item of discussion. one of the things that i thought was interesting is cook talked a bit about how apple thinks about media. continues to say apple is looking to make money off of

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so it's nice that clorox disinfecting products help kill the germs that can live on surfaces for up toh you ♪ >>> welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> the economy is on everybody's mind from washing to main street. with us is lawrence summers. he was treasury of the secretary with president clinton and president obama as an economic adviser. national economic council. i'm pleased to have you here. we're just getting these numbers. looks like 8.3%. what does that mean? i know you haven't had a chance to look at the data. but trending is important. >> well, improvements in the unemployment rate, job creation, these are all positive things and there is a fair amount of evidence that pace has picked up over the last few months. whether that will continue, whether we'll have another disappointment, no one can know. but it's certainly better when the numbers are coming in a little ahead of expectations than when the numbers are disappointing. and that's something that should gratify observers of this economy. make no mistake, charlie, we still have a real jobs deficit in this country. we h

so it's nice that clorox disinfecting products help kill the germs that can live on surfaces for up tocan touch you ♪ >>> welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's groundhog day. there he is. punxsutawney phil. he saw his shadow. that means, look at that crowd, that means six more weeks of winter. >> usually by now most of the country has had it up to here with snow and ice and cold temperatures. but this winter has been so mild a lot of people would say six more weeks of this is just fine with them. >> i may be wurn of them. michelle miller has more on that. michelle, good morning. >> good morning. no snow in sight but the closest thing i could find were these cute snow drops peeking out of the ground. of course, it is groundhog day. he saw his shadow. that means six more weeks of winter weather, bad weather. how does that work when the weather in much of the country has been pretty good? >> at new york's botanical garden, signs of spring are in the air, literally. bees are buzzing around the fresh blooms. if mother nature seems confused, where does that leave garden director, kristin

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they use clorox on everything and steam everything. only thing they can do.me virus we heard about on cruise ships for example where people get sick? >> absolutely. variety of the same virus. jenna: does bleach get rid of it? >> bleach gets rid of it. steaming get rid of this. what you do as individual if you have got this wash your hands. hand sanitizers work as well. you can't handle food. no you have it and stay out of work place or school. jenna: some local doctors thought initially it was food boss soning, something in the cafeteria. how do you determine what looks like food poisoning and what look also like this. >> 75 million cases of food poisoning in the united states. this is one of the most common causes. i think that person is right. food handler brought it into the food. somebody ate it and they start spreading it around. hear is the treatment. no vaccine, no pill. hydration. when you have diarrhea, you have to drink fluids. that is how you avoid getting ill. we're worried about viruses spreading to people immunocompromised or very elderly. >> th

, if this was a deliberate act to poison or whether it was just an inadvertent mistake using more clorox in the cleaning process than they should have. we just do not know right now. >> do any of the commanders, particularly at the upper levels, considering the levels of last week, consider u.s. forces in the field, a fighting side-by-side with armed afghans, at greater risk today than they were one week ago? >> again, i would not want to speak for operational commanders that i have not spoken to. what i can tell you is that all of the r.c. commanders are continuing operations every day. it is not just the field operations. it is the process of transition training. they all outlined their ongoing efforts. they take whatever measures the team approach prepared it affects the mission itself. >> it is hard to escape the conclusion that the wheels are coming off a little bit here. since last week, we have the border still close with pakistan. understanding you are focused on the taliban, the relationship with partners is in crisis. i think that is fair to say. are you ruling out any changes

looking into it -- we do not know if this was a deliberate act to poison, or just perhaps using more clorox in the cleaning than they should have. we just do not know right now. >> and do any of the commanders, particularly at the upper levels considering the events of last week, consider u.s. forces in the field fighting side by side with armed afghans at greater risk today than they were a week ago? >> again, i would not want to speak for operational commanders that i have not spoken to. and i am here in kabul and not out with them. what i can tell you is that all of the rc commanders are continuing operations every day. and the process is not just field operations. it is the process of transition and training. as of this morning, they all outlined their ongoing efforts. the work continues. certainly, everybody is a little bit more vigilant, and they have taken whatever force protection measures they deem appropriate, but not to the degree -- at least, not that i have seen -- to the effect that id -- to the place that it affects the mission or the strategy. >> we have this incident of the

clorox, i marvel. i mean, it could be a t minus reverse. >> lost his touch?u're not going that far. >> i'm not going that way, because david faber taught me to be a diplomatic. he's taught me to be more like gandhi. it's very hard. >> what do you think -- i mean, you have been relatively trying to gauge your optimism with reference to europe. it's gone up and down. >> i think we have had such a run. melissa talked about the s&p up for so much. i hate parabolic moves. i would like us to pause here. parabolic moves have led to tragedy in the market. really good moves and then stair steps have led to much higher levels. >> so where do you think -- what's fair at this point? >> i love to mark time. not give up too much. then i think you're set for a very nice year. >> yeah. in terms of what happens with regard to greece, how much does it matter? >> the longer it goes on, the more people are positioned correctly for whatever happens. i know. little bullish. >> some interesting moves today. bank of america holding on to the gain. be it a quarter of a percent, but i

, if this was a deliberate act to poison or whether it was just an inadvertent mistake using more clorox in the cleaning process than they should have. we just do not know right now. >> do any of the commanders, particularly at the upper levels, considering the levels of last week, consider u.s. forces in the field, a fighting side-by-side with armed afghans, at greater risk today than they were one week ago? >> again, i would not want to speak for operational commanders that i have not spoken to. what i can tell you is that all of the r.c. commanders are continuing operations every day. it is not just the field operations. it is the process of transition training. they all outlined their ongoing efforts. they take whatever measures the team approach prepared it affects the mission itself. >> it is hard to escape the conclusion that the wheels are coming off a little bit here. since last week, we have the border still close with pakistan. understanding you are focused on the taliban, the relationship with partners is in crisis. i think that is fair to say. are you ruling out any changes