cosco heavy map president obama? >> guest: no come i never have but i was on a daily sw epode he was appearing on and i heard he was on satellite lathing. i ink i did a joke that may have come a little too close. i can remember what it is no but i read a blog about it where someone was watching the feed, someon with obama and said he was really laughing and then got a little quiet. i think i talked about his reference a something, but i heard he enjoyed it for the most part. >> host: it is coming up on 10 days, lot of media covege, what is your first impression of the first 100 days? >> guest: so far soood. he had that kind of scar amazon book moment with hugo chavez. he did not want to be in his book club you know. but,t is a bit overwhelming. there is so much going on. i can remember in the first 100 days were there was such a big agenda of things to do. younow, so i don'tnow how he is handling it. i think michelle is little upset that she has to take care of that dog the. i don't think she is too happy about that.

however, because of the momentum in the market today, dell is ahead and cosco getting a nice bump. shares up 2.5%. the story is all about gold and other commodities, sharon, right? >> that's the hot story of the day. these gold traders here will tell you that's definitely the case. they're up around $1009. we're off of those highs right now, but this is still is highest prices we've seen since february. keep in mind, there are a couple of facts pushing gold to these levels. we broke through some key areas last week. that was without any help from the dollar. today, the dollar is definitely playing a role. that is helping gold prices and also oil. oil prices up about $3. above $71 a barrel as we look ahead to tomorrow's opec meeting. meanwhile, not only gold but also silver up about 30%. copper on fire. it is really a dollar story and these traders here, gold up, thaer taking advantage of it. >> thanks. >>> what does the rising price of gold mean for stocks in  general as investors return? the big question remains, can this rally continue or are we in for a big sell-off? let's br

. >> reporter: i hope you're shopping at like cosco or something. >> as a matter of fact we do. then the walnuts and 300 pounds goes to baklava and there is about 100 gallons of milk, over 150 pounds of butter. 500 pounds of clover hoppy, and then one of the other items that we like, we have about 700 pounds of pork that goes to sib likey, which is made on the screwer. and we have 7 hub pounds of chicken, 500 pounds of lamb. >> reporter: how do you figure out the numbers? because you've been doing it now for 49 years and you have the largest and oldest greek festival. how do you gauge your numbers and does iten crease every year? how does it work. >> we go from past experience, quite frankly. and if we've had x number of people at a particular festival. i'll plan for 10% more. and weather is a big deal also. if i think we're going to have so-so weather, i'll scale back a little bit. >> reporter: but you so to lan so far in advance. >> but if we freeze it and don't use it at the festival, our women can use if when we have a luncheon. >> reporter: how many are you expecting this w

cosco got an upgrade today. let's go to sharon epperson at the nymex. >> we still have another hour or so to go in the trading day for gold. we're looking at oil though. it's really on a tear. the traders behind me, not trading too much paper. a lot of electronic trades these days. they're saying they're very bullish right now. a lot of new money that had been sitting on the sidelines over the holiday is back in this market and it's being fueled by this dollar play. crude oil or gold, it is the dollar at work today with the doll dollar index falling to the lowest levels since september of last year. gold has come off of its highs of the session. the gold is valued right now at about $34 billion. the biggest out there. that is where a lot of investors are going to play this gold play. they are looking at these etfs, rick santelli. >> absolutely. we can't look at these charts enough because this is a rather historic move in the dollar. intraday chart, one-year chart. the last time close to 77. it trades nine bucks

cueva cosco refer to them and i commend her for bringing. -- claire mccaskill referred to them and ier for doing it. host: let's go to arkansas, open phones. caller: when mr. crawford was talking about iraq. he cannot bring the troops home because bush signed a deal that goes to 2011. he should know about. even i know that. [unintelligible] diedre, indiana, and i forget the third, people are not getting new jobs. but the media does our report data arbatov and accurate -- is not reporting all of that. host: why would you think that they are not reporting bob dole being in the hospital? caller: they did not. they talk about cheney being in the hospital and all of that. they just do not do it. [unintelligible] and he is being investigated about the money, he said his parents gave yemehim. host: what is your theory behind what is reported and what does not? caller: you do not want to know that. host: why not? caller: because they have stuff they want you to know about and stuff they do not want you to know them. host: let me introduce you to rob green. he is with penn, schoen and berland