anna conrad. a woman that at the moment these pictures were taken were buried in snow and rubble known as the summit building. could not move her body and her voice would not carry through the snow above her but she could hear the rescue workers digging. >> i spent a lot of time thinking about my boyfriend. i spent a lot of time thinking about my family how much they meant to me. and i spent a lot of time figuring out how to get out of that hole. >> reporter: one by one the victims of the avalanche were found but they were found dead. now ominously the weather was turning against the searchers. >> we are pulling everybody out, our people who have been up in the area. simply because the avalanche danger is at a level again where we don't want to have anybody up there. >> as a storm raged over the following days, anna conrad's friends anxiously waited. they had no way of knowing she was alive or that they had passed so close to her. after the night, the weather cleared and two people were still miss

. >> conrad was in reporting from the trading floor.et's take a look at the markets now, as we just heard from conrad. the dow hit a milestone 18,000 and is still rising. the dax is also finishing the day profitable and 9922. the euro stoxx also rose 1.2%. the dollar market is one dollar -- $1.23 -- $1.21. >> sony now says several independent cinemas in the united states will show the film "the interview" on christmas day. >> the movie, which lampoons north korea's dictator kim jong-un fell victim to a large-scale hacking attack. it was pulled from theaters. u.s. authorities have blamed north korea for the attacks. >> we're going to take a short break. stay with us. >> welcome back. with a day before christmas, christians all over are looking for peaceful celebrations. but in nigeria, the good nature is overshadowed by the recent past. x that is because militant group boko haram unleashed one of its deadliest attacks, attacking churches across the nation on christmas day. the bomb -- the bombing is still a fear of many residents, but ma

conrad wants a war right now.e has to reckon with the fact that austria-hungary is about to send its army on harvest leave, which is why he wants to go right away. the northern minister is slightly less gung ho. he is opposed by a hungarian. so things are complicated. the austrians have to figure out what germany would do. the plan was to corner the kaiser at the funeral while he was still emotional and angry. but he didn't come to the funeral, and no one else came to the funeral either because the emperor didn't like his nephew and didn't want anyone to come. he said it was because he had back pain, but they actually weren't sure they could secure the funeral. austria was kind of a laughing stock. a copy of the mobilization plan was sold to the russians. various copies of the german plan was sold to the russians by the same man. so it wasn't really expected they would be particularly competent, but that's what the germans wanted. and that was the first real serious problem. not miscommunication so much as misunde

parker with sacks and conrad and asked sacks -- why zenefits? >> i just got introduced to parker.s raving about the company. i met parker and he got me more excited about what he was doing. his vision for the company and his ambition around it is unlike any company i've seen in the last 15 years. >> i know you've been thinking about this, what will your next move be? now you are going back to your startup roots. why? >> i'm an addict, and hypergrowth is the drug. as i look back at my career the , times of my career that were the most fun were when i was dealing with fast-growing companies like paypal and it yammer. i was going off and becoming a vc, i liked startups better. it was more fun. zenefits has done in one year what it took yammer three years to do. this is been an extraordinary and unique company. >> before we go further, parker, the highlight of my day was a picture of david sacks being compared to lebron james. you guys have compared him to lebron james, and i am not disputing that fact, but really? why the comparison? >> there are so few people out there who have seen

. >> with connections to new york city mayor conrad, bill baa laz owe and president obama. if the president and the mayor of new york city care, what they should do is say okay, you should be paying to frame the cost of some of this. new york city police should basically -- i know it will never happen, but he has every right to basically arrest the head of the fciu for insighting that riot and causing what is going on in new york city. >> ben stein, it's costing lot of money. >> it's necessary. we have to protect the right of them. we have to appreciate the cops. the cops are our main line of defense between a decent society and anarchy. we are waging a war against criminals. in some cities, not all, some cities, there's an insurgency among inner city african-americans and to a smaller extent among hispanics. we love them, they are god's children like we are. we want them to not attack us. >> this is not what's happening here. this is a riot, in part insighted by these recent riots, the mayor of new york city who attack the cops all the time. >> come on -- >> you are being

. >> and that was conrad guzan from the trading floor in frankfurt. it was a good monday for stocks. the dax in frame for gained 8/10 of a percent and closing monday's trading at 98.65. european shares on your stocks rose by almost half a percent. trading is still underway in the u.s. with the dow looking bullish. it is up by 5.6%. and in currency markets, the euro one dollar 2240. -- the euro is $1.22. >> the china daily state newspaper reports that the chinese minister thinks the country has the ability to overcome his current economic crisis. >> china and russia close diplomatic and economic ties. particularly in the energy sector. while earlier this year, china signed a $400 billion deal to buy russian gas. a pipeline is currently in the works that should be ready to pump asked from russia to china as early as 2018. -- to pump gas from russia to china as early as 2018. the russian economy far from stable. moscow won't speak of the crisis, but the country's citizens are feeling the pinch. >> inflation is making it very difficult for the average rus

this 30 minute film is narrated by actor william conrad. >> "design for disaster," the story of the bel air conflagration. santa ana, indians named it santana, the devil wind. when it blows, the plants wither, trees and brush become dry. the atmosphere grows tense, oppressive. tire easily and argue more. even the suicide rate rises during the months of the santa ana. this climate attracts 300,000 people a month to the city of los angeles who become permanent residents. they settle into hotels, apartments, homes along the coast, inland throughout the central residential sections to the far reaches of the valleys. some move up to the scenic, secluded hill area. lush vegetation softens the ridges and valleys and breezes blow clean. increasingly strong during a the late fall months of the santa ana and dangerously dry when there has been no rain. it is during this unstable period, the firemen fear the potential of the dry chaparral and oak all within the city boundaries of los angeles. the fastest burning groundcover in the western hemisphere. nestled in the cover, one of the greatest conce

full turn around if there was a station wagon that was added into it they will be taking care of conrad square issue on the palace i'm going to turn it over to we have a lease hold on it for removing the t b m that is through may have rir7d and the first right of refusal this is in the appendix the owner is prepping to build 19 units and the department is going forward on this they're not waiting around for something to happen we look forward to that. >> how is the first right of refusal come in. >> if we say going forward for some reason didn't want to do the 19 units but thought he'd he sell it off that's the first right of refusal i'll have to conform that but that's my understanding after talking about with here that's christen. >> this is the matrix there is 7 categories to do a quick summary comparison we were not going to pick a subway alliance from passengers they were graded plus it's better than average and the menus we think less than average and the green row the subway to columbia and to go powell are the ones with the highest scores and on the higher right one that goes up

so when i got back later that year, i got a job working for senator conrad. a decent amount of money. i wasn't going to make that money doing something else. >> host: so for all fundraisers, democrat or republican, yourself included, was that hard to escape because there's obviously some pretty nice creature comforts. >> host: >> guest: there's a lot of benefits to being a fundraiser. >> host: is a true today what you're experiencing and in 2014? >> guest: unfortunately it is more today than 20 years ago. when i started raising money in 92, you have leadership on certain things. you had weekend trips to the beaches and golf resorts and ski trips. it was a select few members of congress that actually did this. today, it is virtually every single member of congress has a weekend trip once or twice a year, where you can pay $5000 go up golf for a racehorse for opening weekend or go to san diego and sail for three phase. it creates a town of waste in the system. a lot of money you spend to actually do that. you know, i don't know why you wouldn't want to keep doi

. >> host: senator conrad in the position of power himself, howard dean cut these are all other folks you mentioned it in the most positive light. if there is one connecting theme these are all democrats. when people think of the big money in politics and big expenditures they are often thinking of the coke brothers and thinking of karl rove and some of the super packs and for nonprofit groups that have been successful over the past couple of years at least on the republican side. but you are putting it on the democrats here for so many of the changes that have happened in the money and in the politics. why is that? what were they doing that republicans were not told of the process to change dramatically over the past few years? >> guest: there are a couple things i do. i work as a democrat, so i -- obviously my book is going to be about the democrats. this issue is not a partisan issue. democrats do have an issue with money. they have to find a way to fix it and sold it. we are not going to solve it by saying this is a republican issue. there was a report last week that we have raise

. >> you also -- speaking of conrad black, who's been on trial in chicago for several weeks -- but you also -- and he owned the "chicago sun--times" -- you also tell the story about wanting him to jointly go with you at the university of illinois, your alma mater, to fund a chair. explain that one. >> well, i owe a lot -- and my family, my grandfather was an immigrant -- and i owe a lot to the university of illinois. my father and his three brothers were graduates, and i'm a graduate of the university of illinois. and i wanted to fund a chair in western civilization and culture, so that they'd be talking about dead white -- studying dead white men in perpetuity. and i found out it cost $1.25 million to fund a chair. so, i went to lord black -- he wasn't lord black then, he was just conrad black -- and said, let's make this the chicago sun times chair in western culture and civilization. we'll each spend $650,000 on it. and he said, "that's a great idea. send me a letter and we'll get it done." i sent the letter, didn't get any reply. a lot of back and forth. finally, another guy, who i

larkin is doing that kind of work in fisherman's wharf planning around conrad square and james weldon johnson street to improve fisherman's wharf from a pedestrian and action point of view i say keep going i want santa clause to bring me this and have it for access and stanley and know it's there to aggregate all the stuff that goes that the station. >> thank you lastly i'd like to acknowledge mr. wong all of this needed to be looked at and the inconvenience and displacement what times to people with the affordability if the land crisis raising i'm all for that but the construction after work i think ms. christensen about the neighborhood character was addressed i'm for moving forward with some type of study if the money is available. >> commissioner hillis. >> thank you for this i agree that commissioner antonini and the other commissioners the central subway is half done there's something wrong about where it has and not continuing on to connecting it to the density it part of san francisco it is newer growing sdenlser areas of san francisco i agree if we're going to take ourselves

conrad wants a war right now.f course he has to reckon with the fact that austria-hungary is about to send its army on harvest leave which is going to slow things down a bit. that's why he wants to go right away. in the end he doesn't get his way. the foreign minister is only slightly less gung ho. he is opposed by a hungarian. so things are a little bit complicated. the main thing the austrians have to figure out is what germany will do. now the original plan was to corner the kaiser at the funeral while he was still angry and emotional. unfortunately he didn't come to the funeral. that's partly because no one else came to the funeral either because the emperor didn't like his nephew and didn't want anyone to come there. it was also because the kaiser had supposedly been attacked with a lower back pain. privately the germans in fact said that he shouldn't go to vienna because they weren't sure the austrians could secure their own funeral from terrorism. austria-hungary was kind of a laughing stock. copy of the mo

conrad justin smith was arrested after police stand off. that is where he rented a garage from david richard morgan. smith and morgan had an argument the day before the killing. smith could face 26 years to life if convicted. >>> bill cosby's wife is breaking her silence about the the more than a dozen rape allegations against her husband. she says he is a kind man, generous man, funny man and wonderful husband, father, and friend. camilia cosby blames the media. the two have been married since 1964. >>> the personal information of 1600 current and former uc berkeley employees could be at risk. the university says servers used to support a number of real estate division programs was hacked about 1300 social security numbers compromised. 300 credit card numbers also effected. that breach impacts people in the system from the early '90s all the way until this year. >>> san francisco police are searching for a man behind an unusual bank heist. he dressed up like santa and robbed a bank. it happened last saturday around 1:00 in the afternoon. h

conrad wants a war right now. to reckon with hungary ishat austria-hungr about to send its army on harvest leave which is going to slow things down a bit. that's why he wants to go right away. in the end he doesn't get his way. the foreign minister is only slightly less gung ho. he is opposed by a hungarian. so things are a little bit complicated. the main thing the austrians have to figure out is what germany will do. now the original plan was to corner the kaiser at the funeral while he was still angry and emotional. unfortunately he didn't come to , the funeral. that's partly because no one else came to the funeral either because the emperor didn't like his nephew and didn't want anyone to come there. it was also because the kaiser had supposedly been attacked with a lower back pain. privately the germans in fact said that he shouldn't go to vienna because they weren't sure the austrians could secure their own funeral from terrorism. austria-hungary was kind of a laughing stock. copy of the mobilization plan ha

from china town, and to the immediate north beach station to a station at the end of the line at conrad square. travel time comparison, and the purple line and that is the route of 30 stockton and depending on cal train to the fisherman's wharf and we estimate that it will be 14 to 17 minutes in the same area. >> and sure. >> with that large improvement in the transit travel times this extension that attracts a lot of riders, and we estimate the trips on the line and that is 55 percent increase with the line, and but a quarter of those trips are new and so those are people taking autos or others means or not making the trips and remaining trips are folks coming from the over crowded lines to better balance out of system and improve the performance of the other lines up in that neighborhood. and serving out with the rider ship increase was the subway will be able to handle it and this shows that the peak element does not increase in the trips and that is due to the nature of the demand in these neighborhoods and you can see that no red or the upper red lines that is will be sufficient to

. >> host: senator kent conrad, patrick kennedy, terry mcauliffe, in a position of power him, howard deep, all other folks you messengered and not all the time put in the most positive of light. if there's one connecting theme i see here, these are all democrat, when people think of big money and politics and big expenditures, often thinking of the koch brothers, karl rove and super pacs and nonprofit groups have the been very, very successful lately of the past couple of years, at least on the republican side. but you're putting the own news on democrats here for the changes that have happened in money and politics. why is that? were democrats doing that republicans weren't in the 1990s that helped the process and system change so dramatically over the past 20 years? >> guest: a couple of things. i do -- i'm a democrat. obviously my book is about democrats. but i also -- this issue is not a pathway a. issue. democrats do have an issue with money. got to find a way to fix it and solve it. and we're not going to solve it by saying this is a republican issue. democrats are clean. last

i like how tony conrad of true ventures told tech crunch listen, i could lie and pretend like this has a tech angle but it really doesn't. it's just coffee. >> yeah. >> why are so many technology people and people who traditionally invest in technology companies so excited about blue bottle? >> i think about that and i'm not sure. i have some leading theories. one is that -- well actually, a friend of mine who has been in tech for a long time said that people in tech in their form formative years are coding and then bond with coffee which is fueling many of their careers or which got them started. that's one plausible scenario. another plausible scenario is in coffee, one of our battles is to tell people who made the same coffee the same way for 20 years that maybe there could stand a little improvement and that's hard. it's a tough hospitality issue for us and something that we try very hard to be good at and gracious at. >> our look back at 2014 will continue in just a moment. >> city national came in at a strategic time to make investments we otherwise would not have made. our busin

parker conrad, thank you for joining us. when we come back, changes in the air for the tv business.ne late night host calls it a career. amazon is now allowing users to stream shows in 4k ultra hd. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. mark your calendars for may 20 of next year when david letterman will host his final broadcast of the late show. letterman is retiring after more than 32 years on late-night television. the last 22 of them on cbs. he's being replaced by stephen colbert, the current host of the colbert report on comedy central. you may now have the option to watch movies in 4k ultra hd. amazon prime subscribers can watch at no additional charge. people who are not try mentors -- prime members can purchase select sony movies. and coming up, a glimpse at the early days of apple with -- and what it was like walking away from a tech giant. ♪ >> you are watching "bloomberg west" where we focus on innovation, technology, and the future of business. i'm emily chang. there is a third player responsible for getting apple off the ground. he is ron wayne and he is not a

i mentioned to lorraine, austrian units in the italian front, when 1917 when they're asked for conrad'sf horse-drawn artillery and rather than the six horses required, most guns and caissons have two. and when the troops are asked what's happened to the others, they said, it's how we got through the winter. in germany, one's gas appears. there's no time to establish a veterinary corps. the orders are simple. scavenge everything from the front, traces, harnesses, et cetera. eat the animals. there's no time for long-term care for horses. and it's a real tragic story and one that's usually skipped over in most official histories. >> you talked about in 1914 about the elan of the french. why was the elan of the french in '14 than '40? >> oh, boy, i'm not a psychologist. do you want to get up here? i think it had to do a lot with training, with leadership. they had been taught by maison, that there would be no surrender, the cult of the offensive that it's been called. that the surrenders of pisan and others add been ignoble, not in the french tradition. and i think you have an army that has

. >> you were instrumental in recruiting andrew conrad for google x.hat does it mean for google ventures and for google in the larger sense? >> andy has been a friend of mine for 10 years. i was proud of all the work he has been doing, which has the potential to be really transformative. it is not just a trend but important direction that the world is moving. think about health care as something as important as a mobile and delivery of internet services to the global population. health care is really important and it makes a lot of sense that the company and google ventures are investing in these areas. >> google ventures is not looking to make strategic and i am assuming you will work closely with andy and google x. how does it play with the other google properties? >> i have known andy and sergey, who runs google x, i have known for years, so we work closely with them. i have a huge amount of respect for them and their intellect. all of the people at google and will work closely to understand the innovative areas they are working on. where destructio

conrad wants a war right now.of course he has to reckon with the fact that austria hungary is about to send its army on harvest leave which is going to slow things down a bit. that's why he wants to go right away. in the end he doesn't get his way. the foreign minister is only slightly less gung ho. he is opposed by a hungarian. so things are a little bit complicated. the main thing the austrians have to figure out is what germany will do. now the original plan was to corner the kaiser at the funeral while he was still angry and emotional. unfortunately he didn't come to the funeral. that's partly because no one else came to the funeral either because the emperor didn't like his nephew and didn't want anyone to come there. it was also because the kaiser had supposedly been attacked with a lower back pain. privately the germans in fact said that he shouldn't go to vienna because they weren't sure the austrians could secure their own funeral from terrorism. austria hungary was kind of a laughing stock. copy of the m