we are about to do hopefully a spinoff of csi about the dark net, csi ciber's.ll about entertaining audiences. on the point about the csi spinoff, you seemed quite interested in how technology is influencing society and bringing it to the big screen. >> some the things have changed since i made csi 15 years ago. -- i don't think we had cell phones 15 years ago but things change. >> jerry brown timer with our very own jon erlichman. a top gun sequel, i am in. maybe cory can score a role in that one next to tom cruise. bruckheimer has this new book, "when lightning strikes." was interesting how we talked about how tech is becoming an in theeater role storylines, potentially from the new top gun to this idea of a csi spinoff. cyber world.rous >> can it be as good? that is the question. thank you so much for bringing that one to us. thank you all for watching this addition of bloomberg west. we will see you later. ♪ >> this is the intersection of business and economics with a mainstream perspective. ukrainian troops move against pro-russian separatists. marking the

we piggybacked on the csi program for applications, for inspections of systems. with the csi program gone, we are now -- we went through a crush of work at the early part of this fiscal year to implement an online application system. at that time we were clearing the queue. we had a backlog of applications and with the additional funding that we talked about being placed on the program, we were able to clear that backlog in the early part of this fiscal year and then open the program for more applications through this new electronic process in november. we did,s as supervisor chiu mentioned, reduce the incentive level at that time largely because ~ studies were showing nationally the cost of [speaker not understood] are down, which is great. we want to make sure we have this incentive level dialed down at an amount that gets the biggest bang for the buck and is it over rich. we think we're there for most program elements. we may have dialed it back a little too much on the local -- excuse me, on the low-income customer component. and, so, we're taking a look at t

csi and all of the shows we are put on the air are still running.n they call it the golden age is because the work is so good. you look at what the other , cbs, nbc,d networks abc, netflix. there are amazing stories with great actors. >> does that mean working with netflix and partnering with them on original shows or movies, that is something you're been talking about? >> absolutely. csi, terms of a show like how long can that show stay on operably aems like long time. >> going on the 15th season. it would not be on 15 years is not the writing was great and directing was great. the dark net csi fibers working on that right now. is all about entertaining audiences. that is what we do. >> on that point, you seem quite interested these days and how technology is influencing society and ultimately bringing that to the big screen. >> absolutely. so many things have changed since i started making csi a few years ago. things change. >> thank you to jerry bruckheimer and our very own jon erlichman for that. of next, the top 10 from j&j to ge. the top 10 st

we have not had the click yet, but hopefully we will. >> how long can csi stay on the air?t seems like a long time still. >> it is going on 15 seasons. it would not be on 15 years if the writing and acting was not great and of course we have wonderful directors who direct those actors and bring the words to life. it is all about entertaining audiences. that is what we do. >> on that point about the csi spinoff, you seem quite nterested these days and how technology is influencing society and bringing that to the small screen then. >> absolutely. there are so many things that have changed. you can imagine what has changed in 15 years. things change. >> jon erlichman with jerry bruckheimer. it has been one year since the boston marathon bombings. up neeks, we're going to look at highway the city of boston is using technology to boost its security. ♪ >> you are watching "the best of bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. the boston marathon bombings, we are looking at the technology that is helping to prevent crimes like this from happening in the future. cameras,udes high-tech art

we have not had the click yet, but hopefully we will. >> how long can csi stay on the air?seems like a long time still. within is going on its 15th season. it is not that the writing was great and the acting was great, it is the raiders and rectors that digby words and, life -- take the words and make them come to life. it is all about entertaining audiences. that is what we do. >> on that point about the csi spinoff, you seem quite interested these days and how technology is influencing cigna that society and bring that to be smaller bring screen. >> absolutely. there are so many things that have changed. you can imagine what has changed in 15 years. things change. >> jon erlichman with jerry bruckheimer. and has been one year since the boston marathon bombings. we going to look at how the city of boston is using technology to boost its security. ♪ >> you are watching the best of bloomberg west where we focus on technology and the future of business. a year after the boston marathon bombings we are looking at the technology that is helping to prevent crimes like this from

>> hopefully we will work with him. >> how long can csi stay on the air? its 15th season. it is not the writing that is great, the actors are great and we have wonderful directors. we are about to do a spinoff of cyber.ut it is all about entertaining audiences. that is what we do. point, you seem interested in how technology is influencing society and ultimately bringing that back to the small or big screen. >> so may things have changed since i started making csi 15 years ago. phones know who had cell 15 years ago. things change. >> some people may not know that you get your start in advertising. you know how to sell a story in 30 seconds. hollywood aree in experimenting more with short form video. is that something that you are thinking about? >> we have not captured that yet. we are still doing longform. it is a great way for young talent to show their wares on youtube or other places. they make these little short movies that are three minutes or 10 minutes. we noticed them when they are really good. is speakingckheimer to jon erlichman. up, can google'

could you answer supervisor tang's question around csi? >>> yes. california's solar initiative had been -- had the desire to drive down the cost of solar. it did not have a work force development component and it had a 10% low-income component. when go solar s.f. was started, go solar s.f. -- and if you see the chart, if you refer back to the chart that amy hale showed about how the money has been sent and how we've driven solar in san francisco, we've really driven solar in terms of job creation and in terms of low-income installations and in terms of nonprofit installations. the state of california has looked back and has said, wait a minute, we actually didn't address those issues very well when we first started the program. let's look at how we can start to create more low-income installations, how we can start to create jobs. and, so, recently legislation was passed in sacramento to actually do what go solar s.f. has been doing successfully since 2008. >> thank you very much. >>> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >>> good morning,

we have quite a strong following online and follow us on twitter at csis.so this morning's event marks the halfway point in a two-year project that we're doing here at the simon chair on economic decision-making in china. this audience doesn't need to hear from me about the, about the interests and the frankly concerns about the chinese economy that everyone in the global markets and global policy making community are very focused on right now. after 30 years of break neck growth china has clearly entered a period of slower growth and the risks and challenges for policymakers have substantially increased. and so we're, i'm not going to spoil our multimedia presentation in a minute but what we're trying to do in this study is really ask the question whether this group of policymakers, the leadership and the broader policy making world in china have, or still have the right stuff to manage this transition to a new model of economic growth and development. so that is what this is all about. we call this project the navigators. that is our nickname for it becau

i'm a fellow here at csis. this is maybe falling on -- following on to john's reference how the media treats iraq, covers iraq negatively. my impression is that there is the sentiment in the united states, strong desire to see iraq succeed. and, americans may feel some responsibility for success in iraq, understanding that we pulled back too on our responsibility and yet we spent a decade there and we want to know it was worth it, both for u.s. objectives and for iraqis themselves. so i guess i would ask you, what is, was it worth it to you to have the u.s. intervention? was it worth it to the average iraqi citizen? what are the benefits that iraqis may experience now despite all the challenges that came with intervention? . .

>> what is been great for me and "csi" and all of the shows we are putting on the air and even thoughy may not be on network, but maybe on netflix, the writing is so good. if you look at what the other channels and networks are putting out, hbo, cbs, nbc, some of the series, they have their amazing stories that are told great actors. >> is that something you have been thinking about? working with netflix? >> absolutely. we have not had the click yet, but hopefully we will. >> how long can "c.s.i." stay on the air? it seems like a long time still. >> it is going on 15 seasons. it would not be on 15 years if the writing and acting was not great and of course we have wonderful directors who direct those actors and bring the words to life. we are about to do a spinoff about the dark net, so we are working on that right now. it is all about entertaining audiences. that is what we do. >> on that point about the "csi" spinoff, you seem quite interested these days and how technology is influencing society and bringing that to the small screen then. >> absolutely. there are so many things that

on isical d thother in csi i felt like there one side that wanted to comt. it does most of the time. th'she s ve nevet out i don'really know how to do it. e impression i get is you chere, and you're always very rational and level. and though you talk about the problems you're suffering, it's like you've already put them at a distance. we're not experienci themith you. sometimes i wonder if i'm exriencing them. most othe time. sometimes. what you bring here is a very calm, rational person. from what u're telling us, that's not how you are all the time. you're not letting us in on thother side. i can certainly entify with that. i think all of us have read more of what's really there than maybe you've-- not expressed, but shown. but it makes me realize how controlled yoreally are. that's what i'm afraid of. and because there are a lot of things going on-- i remember one time when you were describing your life, it reminded of a smp-- st lots of roots intertwing and twisting around. the fact tt you do handle all of this-- i have maybe more confinc your ability to

so this is a few seg:we are calling earnings csi, our own mike coc- koe goes under cover.rally very serious, a departure from right now. unusual activity call your stock. >> it was mgm. they will be reporting on the 29th. what i happened to notice is the put-to-call ratio, you look at different things, people were trading more puts than calls by about 50 to 60% today than they usually do in this stock an both of the two most active options were puts. the one that caughtpy eye is the may 22 puts, people are buying those for 45 cents. they're obviously making bearish bets. they will expire the third friday in may amount i think looking at this, though, i would probably be inclined to take a higher probability bet. and i would probably look to do the may 23, 21 put spread. you can spend 50 cents. you will make money before the other one breaks even. you will have to see the stocks move down materially for the others to get ahead. this is missing its move 11-and-a-half percent. >> that gets you down to 21 bucks or. so so you probably want to see the maximum profits there. >> t

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that was matthew goodman, senior adviser for asian economics at csis. >>> well, nigerians now find themselves living in africa's largest economy. government officials say figures for gross domestic product have surpassed those of south africa. officials at the national bureau of statistics say gdp for 2013 added up to $510 billion. united nations officials recommend governments overhaul their calculations every few years to reflect changes in output and consumption. so if the nigerians recalculated their data with the help of experts from the international monetary fund. about 170 million people make up the largest population in africa. they enjoyed annual nick growth of about 7% over the past several years. >>> and that is going to do it for biz this hour. i'll leave you with the markets. >>> engineers are trying to cope with rising volumes of radioactive water at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant. they want to get the water out of the ground before it becomes contaminated. they could begin pumping up groundwater as early as wednesday. clean water flows underground from the mountains

the csi three hundred index ended down one and a half percent and also on our eye as i mentioned there was a bright spot today canning china's state owned banking sector give us what you tell them that too. really we've seen bank after bank announced that it better than expected performance for the quarter china construction bank today posted a more than ten percent gain in first quarter profits is the country's second biggest listed bank it finished up one percent in trading today. two others have recently beat profit expectations at a cultural bank of china and commercial bank of china. he'd stand about four tenths of a percent today. no really it's ironic that things are hoping time for a wider downturn in the markets. things have long been settled by concerns about bad debts and loans going sour here and lastly the banking sector suffered a bit of an image using as an energy company announced it would be the first title is different to offer preferred shares of course market watchers had expected that privilege to go to ebay. not in the energy for it and that's the news or from sha

today well the financial stocks which helped with the market last week queensland today the blue chip csi three hundred financial set index dropped ten percent last week it hit its highest entry level since mid december thanks to new roles that would eventually allow investors in china and hong kong to trace the stocks in each other's markets analysts said the stops for adjusting after perhaps writing team that last week. meanwhile as you point out our continued and write about you chongqing china. not all closed up ten percent after it announced strong first quarter profits mainly thanks to strong sales for its joint venture with ford ford said earlier this month that its first quarter sales in china was up forty five percent and general motors and see that it already my sale of its one wheeled vehicle in china this year. really if it ever reached this level. the body or the one millionth vehicle a black chevrolet tracks suv gets his cut our teeth. after many anti anti meth headquarters gs me back to you. richardson told the owner of a good price on the cartoon on the nest hearing news t

so this is a new segment we're calling "earnings csi."oes undercover, combing through the data to find clues about a stock reporting earnings next week. it gives him a chance to tap into his inner david caruso. you look generally very serious. a departure from right now. unusual activity, mike. which stock caught your eye? >> mgm, reporting on the 29th. what i happen to notice todays the put call ratio. a lot of options activity, whether ratios change. people trading more puts than calls by 60% today than usual in this stock. and body of the two most active options were puts. the one that caught my eye was the may 22 put. we're seeing people buying those things for about 45 cents. they're making bearish bets going intoerings. these are going to expire the third friday in may. looking at this, though, i would probably be inclined to take a higher probability bet. i would probably look to do the may 23-21 put spread. you can spend 50 cents, you're going to start making money before the other one breaks even. you're going to have to see the

"topom csi to movies like gun," jerry bruckheimer has seen great success.lking to the famous producer about his next roger. that is still to come on "bloomberg west." ♪ welcome back. this is "bloomberg west." jerry bruckheimer is back with two sequels in the work of he has just reached a deal with paramount pictures for his "beverly hills cop" and "top gun" franchises." he is the subject of a new book. >> we put a lot of time and energy into making angst look interesting and unusual. we tried to put something special and different in what we do. that is in poor to us. in terms of where the movie business is going, you had a long run of disney and nine have this first look deal with paramount. how disneylked about is focused on its movies and your focus on your movies and disney is doing a lot of is there goings. to be superhero fatigue at some point? >> i don't know. i saw the latest captain america and i thought it was rate. everybody is cheering and laughing. it is a great lakes areas. that is what movies are all about. that is why you leave your living r

i am a fellow here at csis. this is following on john's reference to how the media treats iraq, covers iraq negatively. my impression is that there is a sentiment in the united states, a strong desire to see iraq succeed. americans may feel some responsibility for success in iraq, understanding that we pulled back and now it is your responsibility, and yet we spent a decade there and we want to for that it was worth it u.s. objectives and iraqis themselves. , was iti would ask you worth it to you to have the u.s. intervention? was it worth it to the average iraqi citizen? that iraqis may experience despite all the challenges that came with intervention? , whenyou may appreciate we evaluate it, historians talk about a value adding situations, they tried to move away from the binary element of it. is it right or wrong? was it worth it or not worth it? issues foryriads of iraqis prior to 2003. that is one aspect. the other aspect is that the people used to have pride in their country. now they're alienated. there a

the second thing what is referred to as the csi affect because of hollywood dramas where crime scene investigations are actually the attraction now. juries expect that dna evidence is going to be used in the trial. it's not always available. if it's not there then they may put less credibility on other evidence. >> of course there is the argument from the human rights point of view, yo once they have their dna, they may use it in other situation. but they are promising to destroy the dna. >> it depends on the government where it's going to be used. the governments say it's going to be destroyed, but what is the guarantee there. >> in massachusetts ten years ago a town was dna tested. that's not what led to the conviction of a man who ended up in jail. caroline, a british backpacker there. same thing there. it didn't apply. it isn't new and it isn't foolproof. >> when dna evidence is left behind at a crime scene and you test individuals, unless you have the person that is the right match urinates profile you don't have the guilty party. >> one final point on dna in particular. since y

. >> on that point about the csi spinoff, you seem quite interested these days and how technology isluencing society and bringing that to the small screen then. >> absolutely. there are so many things that have changed. you can imagine what has changed in 15 years. things change. >> jon erlichman with jerry bruckheimer. it has been one year since the boston marathon bombings. up next, we're going to look at how the city of boston is using technology to boost its security. ♪ >> you are watching "the best of bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. a year after the boston marathon bombings, we are looking at the technology that is helping to prevent crimes like this from happening in the future. this includes high-tech cameras, artificial intelligence and social media. social media analytics company can help this process. i spoke with the ceo tim jones about his company's involvement in last year's investigation and how they're helping law enforcement agencies across the country today. >> our involvement predates the events of last year by two years. the boston police department was starting

sunday programs that's very durable and tinkering with it is different than starting a program like "csi" or changing the host on a late night entertainment show. they are really built on familiarity and comfort. as you pointed out, bob schaefer is the king of the hill right now. >> i'm going to steal a word from earlier. i think this is a very illuminating conversation and i thank you both for joining me. >> thanks very much. >> thanks, brian. >>> two more notes about the network sunday shows. amid all the media coverage about david gregory this week, a media came out to publicly declare her support and their support for him. he's not going anywhere any time soon. george stefanopolous renewed his contract on abc and you can read about that on cnn.com. >>> coming up, the risks and rewards of tornado chasing. i went out on assignment with the "new york times" last year with a chaser, so i think i can safely say these guys are crazy. i'm going to talk to one of them and he's chasing storms this weekend. you'll want to hear a little more about how his job works. stay tuned. weekdays are for

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but i've watched every single "csi" series and i'm thinking, scratch his face and as i did, he turned and tried to bite me. and i thought, huh-uh, not getting near the teeth, there could be a disease, germs. he put me into a headlock and tried to push me down and stabbed me in the thigh. it felt like he punched me hard with the handle of it because when he pulled it out, there was no blood. that made me mad. >> the struggle intensifies but this gutsy grandma refuses to surrender and starts wailing on him with the phone. >> somehow i had the phone in my hand and i started hitting him as hard as i could on the head with the phone. the whole time i'm yelling and screaming for him to get away, for someone to help me. there has to be someone in the hotel that could heard me screaming. i turned around to go for the phone again, the dial and i felt him punch me in the back. and i had started having a hard time breathing. so i thought, he broke a rib, it punctured my lung. now i'm really ticked off. >> the angrier tamarine gets, the more courageous she becomes, lying to her attacker that she

so this is a new segment we're calling earnings csi and it's where mike goes through the data findingtock reporting earnings next week. it gives him a chance to tap into his inner david caruso looking generally very serious. usual activity, which stock caught your eye? >> it was mgm. they will be reporting on the 29th. you look for different kind of things. just a lot of options activity or whether the ratios change. people were trading more puts than calls by 50% or 60% today than they usually do in the stock. two the most active options were puts. the one that caught my eye was the may 22 puts. they're obviously making bearish bets going into earnings. these are going to expire the third friday in may. i think looking at this though i would probably be inclined to take a higher probability bet and i would probably look to do the may 23/21 put spread. you can spend 50 cents for that trade. you will start making money before the other one even breaks even. you have to see the stock move down materially for the other trade to get ahead. over the last several earnings, this thing has mo

-- what are the csi they actually doing now?k -- front lining is where floor clerks are getting ready to place a big institutional orders. the call friends and colleagues and tell them and the friends and colleagues trade in front of the order. now, what the fbi is looking at is these complicated algorithms and computer programs that give across thed edges board. does that violate the law? what they will do -- it will be extremely difficult. there has been way too many over generalizations. i don't want to call out the to say thelashpoint. market is rigged is way too overgeneralized. we have to break down and look at these programs and see who has specific advantage over other traders. >> so the fbi is in the knowledge business right now. they're trying to get smarter about these processes. please explain why this is important to the average american who probably has never placed 100,000 share orders in their life. when you have a journalist writing a book that says the market is rigged, that gets main street and the average inv

in los angeles, let me csi, amir mail have got this right. i pay you a subscription, $40 a month.rect and then you send me suggestions on what shoes to buy and i am supposed to buy one pair of shoes a month. >> each month i will send suggestions on what items you like, shoes, handbags and apparel and you have the choice to buy an item or this is not what i want to or not be charged. in a frequent basis. stuart: when you don't have a human being suggest shoes and handbags for me do you? it is an algorithm, isn't it? >> we now have 2 million members. it will be impossible to have a unique stylist for every member. this is where fashion needs technology. being an ally company we have the best stylist on staff and an incredible program that combined these two groups together to create an algorithm that protect the right items. stuart: did you say 2 million subscribers? >> 2 million half of subscribers on the program that are actually -- stuart: are they paying you $40 a month, all 2 million of them? are they? >> all 2 million and coming to our site and deciding to shop or skip but cus

. >> csis. wanted to ask prime minister sanctions, butof sanctions beyond financial to do within order the question of deterrence that were raised. some have argued here in the united states that financial sanctions, although we have become very good at it, is a very potent instrument now, may not be -- these have not been sufficient so far -- and may not .e sufficient to deter putin that we need to bring some of the more traditional instruments to bear as part of a deterrence strategy, such as deepening the defenses of ukraine, maybe strengthening the potential of ukraine to make a russian occupation if you like of eastern ukraine should have been confronticult and putin with the potential for a protracted conflict, that may, in addition to financial sanctions on him and his allies, , leaving asidey the u.s. or nato should come to the defense of ukraine because ukraine is not a member of nato. we have dates who were not members of the u.s. alliances, but the u.s. has security order to harden th

the csi -- actually in the balkans in the 1940's, the 2,671st special reconnaissance one guard to confess, i don't know the answer to that. i don't have a good answer for that. but the person who is as that question as the answer. i would like to here. any volunteers on that? all right. what is next for american intelligence? what technical concerns are you most -- how will that impact covered ops? the technology is changing drastically. but i think everyone in this room has an iphone and then i pat and a computer home. and though world now is awash in communications. the challenge that the u.s., i think, intelligence has is taking advantage of that. in some way it is susceptible to the american public to read you know, americans always have a love-hate relationship with intelligence. let me remind you that in 1923 the secretary of state made a statement. he said he found out that the state department had been monitoring communications of the enemy. he made a statement, and gentlemen, don't read each other's mail. interest in sin was his name. in the congress that passed a law called the

another area being looked at this morning, local press speculation, that the government ro, whichg at the csipected to have his budget cut by $150 million. it has already let 300 workers go. the australian broadcasting perennial favorites to be targeted with budget cuts, and this time around is no different. it looks as if they are being softened up for a cut, as well. these organizations are favorites of the prime minister, tony abbott. he has been actively criticizing the abc for its coverage of the asylum seeker debate. he rather famously has no science ministry in his cabinet. it's pretty likely that these areas could be targeted in the budget, as well. of sydney.en out thanks. let's check some other stories making headlines for you this hour. >> frequency traders and the cme are accused of distorting futures trading. investors are suing the owner of the world's largest futures market, claiming the cme group sold orders. cme said the accusations were without merit and the exchange only operates at one speed. we will be watching sunnier at the tokyo open. it may pull thousands of laptops d