he showed me darden paid him: on a debit card. >> was everybody using these cards? everybody had this? >> yes, everybody. the problem is, every time you use it, you are paying. >> cards like these allow darden to lower payroll costs. but alfredo says the card charged him a fee when he checked his balance, and a fee when he withdrew funds. darden - along with twenty other companies including mcdonald's and wendy's - is now under investigation by new york's attorney general for excessive and undisclosed payroll card fees. >> catch more "faultlines" episodes on demand or at aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on not just in this country but around the world. >> ...as if there were no cameras here, would be the best solution. >> this goes to the heart of the argument >> to tell you the stories that others won't cover. how big do you see this getting? getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> we're here to provide the analysis... the context... and the reporting th

he showed me darden paid him: on a debit card. >> was everybody using these cards? everybody had this? >> yes, everybody. the problem is, every time you use it, you are paying. >> cards like these allow darden to lower payroll costs. but alfredo says the card charged him a fee when he checked his balance, and a fee when he withdrew funds. darden - along with twenty other companies including mcdonald's and wendy's - is now under investigation by new york's attorney general for excessive and undisclosed payroll card fees. >> catch more "faultlines" episodes on demand or at aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> darden restaurants is the nation's largest employer of tipped workers. by federal law, employers of tipped workers benefit from a loophole in wage regulations. they can pay tipped workers a base wage that today is just thirty percent of the minimum wage. the rest is supposed to be made up by tips. >> so this is the thing that americans don't know when they eat out. the minimum wage for tipped workers is $2.13 an hour. seventy percent of tipped workers in america work at

he showed me darden paid him: on a debit card. >> was everybody using these cards? everybody had this? >> yes, everybody. the problem is, every time you use it, you are paying. >> cards like these allow darden to lower payroll costs. but alfredo says the card charged him a fee when he checked his balance, and a fee when he withdrew funds. darden - along with twenty other companies including mcdonald's and wendy's - is now under investigation by new york's attorney general for excessive and undisclosed payroll card fees. >> catch more "faultlines" episodes on demand or at aljazeera.com/faultlines. >> sunday on "hard earned". losing control. >> 50 and broke. i live with the consequences every day. >> harsh realities. >> i did two tours in iraq, when i came back i couldn't find a job. >> fighting to survive. >> bein' a man and can't put my family in a home that they deserve... that's a problem for me. >> hard earned pride. hard earned respect. hard earned future. a real look at the american dream. "hard earned". sunday, 10:00 eastern. only on al jazeera america. >> par

>> chris darden blew this case.ted very heavily too, but chris darden blew it. when o.j. was able to walk in front of the jury and say, it's too small, he didn't have to testify. because he had testified in front of the jury and he wasn't examined. so for us, it was a win win. >> he appears to have pulled the gloves on, counsel. >> but to juror david aldana, it didn't seem like a big deal. >> o.j. simpson was in front of you when he put on the glove. >> about two feet away from me. >> what do you remember from that moment? >> you know, a lot of people make a big deal about it, but i was a truck driver. i wear gloves all the time. i know that when my gloves get wet, they shrink up. >> after 92 exhausting days of testimony, 58 witnesses and 488 exhibits -- >> we ask the court to receive all the people's exhibits and the people rest. >>> next -- >> the lapd's laboratory is a cesspool of contamination. >> the defense unleashes a blistering attack. >> how about that, mr. fung? you're selling the mitchmobile!? man, we had

people love to work for darden.k every day and create wonderful dining experiences for our guests. >> can this experiment as david pits be recreated? where would you put it if you could? >> >>> it's about a partnership with the board and management team and ceo. when we get involved as owners first thing you need is a great ceo. it has to work well. it has to be a great partnership. of course it can be recreated. gene has been a great partner as he mentioned. we are excited to continue to work with him. like we are excited to work with our managing teams as other companies. >> darden is what you may be best known for, but you've been extraordinarily active as an activist. yesterday you filed a d on brink, why? >> we think the company is undervalued, obviously. their margins are significantly below their competition. they can just perform better. the managing team knows this. we had good constructive conversations with them. we believe the operations can be improved. >> another name that we talked with you about, not

darden says it'd be a great idea and the company is listening.tting a breadstick sandwich on the menu june 1. shares of darden up half of 1% and sales of olive garden, they're turning around. they were up 3% the first few months of the year. stuart: my name ends in a vowel sound. is that good enough? >> for now, sure. [laughter] stuart: varney. something serious. here we go. violent tornadoes destroying entire neighborhoods in texas. what if i told you there are apps available that give you advance warning could even save your life? we've got a demonstration for you next. >> town's just been hit. there goes the school! there goes the school! that's not a casey's, that's a [bleep] school. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. stuart: now we're going to show you the video of that skywest plane landing on just one wheel. there she goes. this is la

. >> was the self-destructive act by chris darden who decided on his own to have o.j. to try on this bloody glove. >> boy, he was a great actor this day. oh, i can't -- oh, the gloves -- oh, it is hurting my hands. it was unbelievable. >> both of them told me that when yet zin arrived from russia. he got off the plane and said to clntd, do you think he did it. that is how much the world knew. when you think about it,ez was the most famous person ever charged with murder. >> o.j. simpson in a knit cap. >> i remember johnny cochran. >> putting on this silly cap, an image forever in my mind. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> will you stand and face the juror. >> not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section -- >> the next night, johnny dock ron, his lawyer, was on the phone with me. >> if we had god on that day, we would have bumped him. >> and we'll take you and run you as soon as this is down. >> i have enough to say to everybody and to hopefully answer everybody's questions. >> he said i'll come on your show soon and tell you the whole st

. >> was the self-destructive act by chris darden, the co-prosecutor, who decided on his own to havempson attempt to try on this bloody glove. >> boy, he was a great actor this day. oh, i can't -- oh, the gloves -- oh, it's hurting my hands. it was unbelievable. >> both of them told me that when yeltsin arrived from russia he got off the plane and he said to clinton, do you think he did it? that's how much the world knew. well, when you think about it, he was the most famous person ever charged with murder. >> o.j. simpson in a knit cap. >> i remember johnny cochran. >> is still o.j. simpson. >> putting on this silly cap. that's an image that i think will be forever in my mind. >> if it doesn't fit, you must acquit. >> mr. simpson, would you please stand and face the jury. >> orenthal james simpson not guilty of the crime of murder upon nicole brown simpson. >> the next night johnny chocran, his lawyer, was on the phone with me. on the phone is o.j. simpson. if we had god on that day, we would have bumped him. >> how are you doing? >> doing fine. >> can you call tuesday and we'll tak

denny's, darden jack in the box, yet they all look the same. didn't matter what they said. you have a peak and then a bruising. even though all we heard was relatively good things. why didn't they rally? why didn't even the best of them rally? why weren't they obliterated after relatively good reports? because big portfolio managers are always trying to figure out if the earnings of a company are peaking. that's a big game they play. and with each of these stocks their judgment was this has to be the last good quarter. that the good quarter is signalled to peak. the only restaurant stories that went up were international and activist. like domino's international and yum! took off because of actavis. if you missed the quarter or guided negatively then you had a noodles on your hand. or lesser you had, yes, a chipotle style implosion all because of the rally in oil not what the companies were saying. so a day like this, when oil went lower was a god send. a reason to cover your short positions in the airlines. rest assured you know the correlation. stop kicking about why jack

again, this is the same condition, golden gate capital, that bought darden restaurant's red lobster division focus on in the after hours, mandy. back over to you. >> very big news in the after hours trading. nu skin down by 15%. do you have any comments on this? >> well i've been thinking that we should see some more deals in the retail space. ann taylor $2 billion, that is a big price. this must be a turn around for them. it's a big price. >> biotech, we have a massive deal. alexion pharma striking a deal to buy rare disease drug maker synageva biopharma corp. who could be the next target? time for some stock therapy. meg terrell. i apologize about that little twist of the tongue. very, very very strange to have a rare disease maker, wouldn't it? >> it would be funny. we've talked with a lot of analysts today because there's been an unprecedented amount of trades going on. some of the hottest names are vertex pharmaceuticals. this came up with a note from jeff forge saying it's time for gilliad to pull the trigger on a $45 billion deal. gillead is not the only possible acquirer. other peopl

gloria darden who this week said she will never be the same. >> talk to me as a mother the pain thatit never happened, wish that it never happened and i won't never be the same. i will never be the same. >> keep these mothers in your thoughts as you think about your own. i was blessed to have my mother ada a single mom who gave me all she had. late tomorrow i'll be going to alabama to lay a rose on her grave as i spend the evening with kenny glasgow my brother. i call a lot of mothers that i worked with and marched through the years on mother's day long after the headlines. because i know too many their pain was an issue, a cause, but to them it was their son, their daughter. there's nothing more precious than a mother and a mother's love. i know because i was the recipient of one. at one point in my life she was all i had. she left before i grew into other dimensions, but every step i take whether it's high places or low places the high places i know i wouldn't have got there without her. the low prices i try to escape because i always want to make her proud. happy mother's day, mom

mayor stephanie rawlings-blake said she was, quote, sickened and heartbroken and meanwhile, gloria darden the mother of freddie gray told buzzfeed i feel good because we got all six of them. she also spoke directly to her son, quote. you can rest freddie, you can rest. you can be in peace now. as marchers return to the streets of baltimore we're joined by nbc news' lester holt who is at city hall. lester, were you there earlier in the week and back there now in the wake of this stunning announcement today. what is the mood you're encountering tonight in baltimore? >> well on the streets, and the neighborhoods that we saw only a few nights ago rioting, there was actual celebrations. i encountered one mother who is going to take her kids to a class and instead she brought them to the street corn their was kind of the center of this celebration and said i wanted them to witness history and she was talking about it in such terms. she said you sound like you're almost describing a historic civil rights moment and that's what she said she believed it was, a moment when there was accountability

. >> so my name is jessica darden, i'm a assistant professor at the school of international service at american university here in d.c. and big shout out to my georgetown colleagues. i would just like to speak to this point a little bit about generational shifts and cultural shifts. so dr. mackenzie brought up the israeli defense forces, and they have historically had women integrated into their operations. but even in pushing through some of their removals of gender based combat exclusions, they're having an extremely difficult time. for example, women who operate on unmanned aerial drones are allowed to employ in theater but not with infantry units. they're only allowed to stay back with artillery unit. so there is still, even amongst the most advance countries in overcoming these hurdles hurdles still remain. so i think it's a little bit naive to think all these issues are going to go away immediately. in part because of a lot of these developments are tactically driven. and so i'm very excited that came up as point of a conversation. my own research deals primarily with irregular a

they are owned by darden restaurants and in a competitive space.'s get back to "squawk." >>> during his tenure at the new york department of financial services, ben lawsky saw over $7 trillion in assets. under his supervision, the department levied nearly $6 billion in monterey penalties against financial firms. he announced he is stepping down next month. joining us superintendent of financial services the sheriff of wall street, ben lawsky. i'm sure many bank ceos are happy to see you go. why now? >> the time was right. i've been in government service about 20 years. put it this way, at a certain point i have a 7-year-old daughter who said, daddy, isn't it time to give someone else a turn at being superintendent? it rang true for me. i loved the job. done it four years. we built a great team. i think whoever sits in the corner office the work of dfs will continue and continue to be a powerful and important agency. >> before we get onto your next move. your tenure has been marked by we mentioned the fines. some critics would say though that you le

. >> looking for jdz to update your darden -- ideas to update your garden during the drought? i am.st bay that features 35 different gardens, admission is free. we have a link with more information on ktvu.com. >>> 8:5. this is a banner year for gray whale watching off the california coast. marine biologists estimate 20,000 heading from mexico to alaska. they appear to be in good health and reproducing well. 15 years ago hundreds of whales washed up dead as changing conditions made it difficult for them to find food. experts say the whales still face challenges including boats that run into them as well as floating fishing equipment that the whales get tangled up in. >>> a research firm says it costs less than $84 to make an apple watch. the lowest price is $349. highest $17,000. ihs says components for the apple new product run about $81 and it costs apple supplies $2.50 a watch. but ihs admits it did not take research, development, marketing and other expenses into account. >>> avengers age of ultron may not meet expectations. >> here we all are. nothing but our wit and will to sa

. >> so my name is jessica trisco darden. i'm associate professor at the east school of international service at american university here in d.c. big shout out to my georgetown colleagues. i would just like to speak to this point a little bit about generational shifts and cultural shifts. dr. mackenzie brought up the israeli defense forces, and they have historically had women integrated into their operations. but even in pushing through some of their removals of gender-based combat exclusions they're having an extremely difficult time. for example, women who operate unmanned aerial drones are allowed to deploy in theater but 99 infantry units. they're only allowed to stay back with artillery units. there is still even amongst the most advanced countries in overcoming these hurdles hurdles still remain. so it's a little bit naive to think that all these issues are going to go away immediately in part because a lot of these developments are tactically driven. and so i'm very excited that came up as a point of conversation. my