city council man corey johnson says the times square task force is recommending the put limits on exactly where and when the costume characters, topless painted ladies and people selling cds can operate on the pedestrian plazas. >> we want to ensure that the plazas have specific spots where people who want to engage in commercial activity, they can be there but they cannot be all over times square. >> i think that's a great idea. and i would bring my family back here. because for a while, i was telling my wife, it was not appropriate for my daughter. >> reporter: the nypd is doubling the amount of cops to about 100. first amendment rights and quality of life demands came to a head this summer. many complained that the ladies and characters harassed people and demanded tips which in fact are optional. >> the it's not necessary the to have that on the street like that. >> reporter: they argued back, they have the right to be here and try to make a living this morning, none of the characters spoke english and the naked but the women did have some support. >> when it's this time of the day, n

. ♪ corey: i am cory johnson. businessmen left and right are talking about who came out on top.p is hoping to is better than one. separate intoll two as they compete with the new way of looking at the world. a new company is taking on cooper. right now, shares plunged today as much as 25%. the biggest fall since 2012. one of the reasons for solar flow. fall is the cash they deemphasized earlier goals of signing up one million customers by 2018. another companies think 13% -- sank 13%. we're glad to have you. let me start with you. shows that the stock was only down. i don't care about the stock. i want to talk to you. is this different than what happened to the rest of solar? forcing prices fall across the industry. -- i we seeing the same thing across the industry? year,the end of next solar city will have a tax credit, which will be beneficial for the bottom line. cory: the tax break makes all the difference. >> it can make a big difference. it can also make it a big difference how much the people on the grid. utilities are pushing back against solar companies -- how much elec

corey johnson joins us now from san francisco with more on this.y on this twitter page. we didn't know whether it was steve ballmer's twitter page or not, but basically commenting twitter is closing he had a 4% stake. corey: a big investment, but from such a wealthy guy, it is not combine the clippers. steve ballmer reporting he has a 4% stake in twitter. twitter is an interesting company. i think it gets a lot of discussion for a lot of reasons. it did seem that the company put out all of the possible bad news it could before this most recent announcement that jack dorsey would stay as ceo before these ideal fines became public this week. he may be wanted to get every bad piece of news out. the question is has a bottom tier? -- has it bottomed here? the user growth statistics for twitter are concerning where the business is hardly growing in terms of adding you -- users. one way the conversation might change is to adding the value of the users. tanya total value. -- talking about total value. betty: it is a vote of confidence to have steve ballmer

. ♪ corey: i am cory johnson. businessmen left and right are talking about who came out on top.is hoping to is better than one.

city council man corey johnson detailed some of the recommendations the task force agreed on to make the area safer. many complained that the topless ladies and others harass people and demanded tips. and nypd commissioner bill bratton who cochairs the task force had suggested possibly ripping up the plazas where they gathered but johnson says the plazas will stay put. >> we will look to keep the plazas in place but have the department of transportation put forward time, place and manner restrictions related to costume characters, topless women, people hawking cds that are constitutionally robust and content neutral. >> reporter: the new plan includes doubling the number of cops to about 100. the mayor formed this task force back in august to deal with, quote, serious concerns. and we do expect to hear more about this when the full report is released later today and also at a news conference this afternoon police commissioner bill bratton. reporting live, andrea grymes, cbs 2 news. >> thank you. >>> russia's foreign minister set to hold a news conference at the u.n. today after a day

i went to bring in cory johnson in san francisco with more. coreyof a blow it this for sarah knows -- theranos? ok, it seems we have -- we do not have audio for corey, so just hang on. cory johnson, we will be back with you in a moment. just back in two minutes. ♪ ♪ ♪ betty: good afternoon, welcome back. cory johnson is that with us -- back with us to talk about theranos. we have your mic working. >> maybe. let's think about what this is about. there is a 31-year-old ceo, a stanford graduate who was compared to steve jobs, this brilliant secret missing that she wouldn't let anybody see, that she said was a part of -- prick of a finger, she invented this with lots of help. they could do over 200 blood test just a drop of blood. this is the magic missing, which they call edison. they are promising things and trying to raise $4 million at a $9 billion valuation. the wall street journal had a great tory -- story yesterday, saying that a couple dozen of were actually done by the machine, but some of them were send out to other machines established. at th

but head over to corey massar and car -- cory johnson for more. welcome everybody on bloomberg tv. this is of course bloomberg radio. carol massar in new york and cory johnson. talking about the tanker business because these folks are moving a lot of stuff around. someone who may know something about that is the chief executive officer who joins us in our studio this wednesday. you guys have a good snapshot of what is going on around the globe. around throughout the world to tell us what you're seeing and what it tells you about the global economy at this point. >> our business is moving jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline on a worldwide basis. business has been really good for us for the last year. good's record earnings per we announced yesterday strong earnings of $.52 per share. in 9% yield. this is up from $.30 per share in the third quarter. we think the trend should continue. we think that is good and it could get better this winter as the market strengthens. the book in our business is currently about 13%. we think by the end of the year could

betty: corey, thank you so much. that is cory johnson in san francisco on ibm.eyers will join "with all due respect" on comedy politics and a lot more right here on bloomberg television. ♪ betty: good morning and welcome back to "bloomberg market day." it is time for today's options inside. julie hyman is here with more. julie: let's look at what is going on with major averages right now. the s&p has mixed pictures throughout the session. we are seeing it continue right now with a slightly negative vibe. i would like to bring in kevin kelly who is joining me with today's option insight. he is the chief investment officer at recon capital partners. i thought you made an interesting point in your note to me today that the market has shifted to a focus on on systemic risk from systemic risk. in other words, what i've been talking to betty about all day is that it is very micro instead of macro right now. what: that is absolutely is happening and you can see that across individual names no matter where they are performing you look at maggie and consumer story in chi

corey: i love consuming it. betty: thank you. cory johnson in san francisco for us. we will be right back with much more. stay with us. ♪ good morning and welcome back to the bloomberg "market day." julie hyman has a check on some of the company movers. companies outf with earnings. manitowoc is one of them. the company makes cranes as well as food service equipment and planning to spend out the food equipment armed. below estimates, because of the crane business. questionings are how likely it will be and how easy it will be for the company to spin off the food service business with shares taking a big hit, up 12%. there is garmin coming out with in theeliminary view preliminary third-quarter view missing estimates because of currency effects, but the company also saying for the year it sees, the fitness center growth of 15% and it had been 25%. a lot of competition there. i was looking at garmin versus fitbit since i feel in june, fitbit shares are up better than 70% and garmin is down by about of time the same period in competition as part of the issue although i should mention in this particular quar

johnson burying the rebound off the boards... rampage take a 2-1 lead... jacob is also a coe graduate ... just 25 seconds later... rampage with the free kick... corey adamson's kick pin balls off a couple of st louis players and finds its way into the goal... but st. louis wins 11-6 ... roughriders trying to snap their 3-game losing streak hosting bloomington ... 2nd period, roughriders trail 3-1... but bloomington makes it 4-1 as blake gober buries the rebound just before the net comes off... the refs reviewed the play and the goal stands ... the roughriders did score to make it 4-2, they try to make it 4-3 as charlie michalowski tries the redirect, but he's denied by hayden lavigne... bloomington wins 4-3 it's a busy weekend of college football. the 10th ranked hawkeyes are 17 point favorites over maryland saturday at kinnick. the hawkeyes will be looking for revenge against maryland who beat iowa last year in college park. this will likely pick six was a big play in the game and likely is back again this year. and the terps who lost by one point to penn state look like they are playing with new energy under interim head coach mike lock- sley...

johnson burying the rebound off the boards... rampage take a 2-1 lead... jacob is also a coe graduate ... just 25 seconds later... rampage with the free kick... corey adamson's kick pin balls off a couple of st louis players and finds its way into the goal... but st. louis wins 11-6 ... roughriders trying to snap their 3-game losing streak hosting bloomington ... 2nd period, roughriders trail 3-1... but bloomington makes it 4-1 as blake gober buries the rebound just before the net comes off... the refs reviewed the play and the goal stands ... the roughriders did score to make it 4-2, they try to make it 4-3 as charlie michalowski tries the redirect, but he's denied by hayden lavigne... bloomington wins 4-3 it's a busy weekend of college football. the 10th ranked hawkeyes are 17 point favorites over maryland saturday at kinnick. the hawkeyes will be looking for revenge against maryland who beat iowa last year in college park. this will likely pick six was a big play in the game and likely is back again this year. and the terps who lost by one point to penn state look like they are playing with new energy under interim head coach mike lock- sley...

even bring johnson's biographer, and go through and bring out the entire truth surrounding the uss liberty, and for ms. ben gentleman minimum -- benjamin with the uss liberty and rachel corey and all of the problems that israel has caused -- the government of israel, not the people of israel -- miss benjamin do you think it will ever be possible to hold the government of israel to account without being labeled an antisemite? and again, i am both honored and humbled at this opportunity. thank you very much. >> guest: well, thank you so much, john, for calling in, women rising up, i'm totally there with you. that's what we have been trying to do. i prefer to do it outside of government, and i wanted to give you an example of something i was involved with recently, which is a woman, christine awn, a korean american woman who had a dream about women rising up to do something about the unresolved conflict in the korean peninsula, and woke up and said, i'm going to organize a group of women, and we're going to walk across the demilitarized zone and that's what we did. we organized 30 women, including nobel peace prize winners, women from 11 different countries, and we got the pe