and i was privy to the photographs of darren's victim.

darren, thanks so much. washington bureau chief, darren gesh. >> susie always a pleasure. >> tom: still ahead, best buy rings up a better than expected holiday season. what's next for the struggling electronics retailer, now that its founder has given up on taking it private. it was a volatile end to a wild week on wall street. stocks opened sharply lower today, but quickly rebounded on positive manufacturing news. the dow added 35 points to close just 75 points from its all time high. the nasdaq tacked on 10 points and the s&p 500 gained 3.5. still the 800 pound gorilla on wall street today was the spending cut showdown in the nation's capital, known as sequester. suzanne pratt reports. >> reporter: there was little evidence here today at the new york stock exchange of the looming sequester in washington. even as the clock ticked closer to those government spending cuts it was business as usual. stocks were bought and stocks were sold. big board trader jonathan corpina says he's not surprised by the nonchal

welcome back to the show, darren. >> how you doing? >> we're doing great. we want to know how you are doing. >> lose a job, go to jail, very interesting week. >> walk us through exactly what happened. >> there is a video that i posted on -- >> dude, get out of my door. next time you step in my doorway i put you in handcuffs. >> in the video you hear them saying the next time you come into the wall i will put handcuffs on you and that was william wright and he didn't see and i didn't say, hey, i just grabbed and a scuffle ensued and i ended up on the ground on my back and the police like said i should have said something to him before i grabbed him. all of that came together and i got a battery charge and while i was in jail, the guy that i tasers on the ground flopping around was able to get his warrant and i was sitting in jail for that as well. >> how are people reactoring to you being arrested. >> depends on which side of the fence are you on. the detractors are like had you ray, and my supporters are like, man, that is tough. >> even though the last day

darren gersh, "n.b.r.," washington. >> tom: darren has more on the sequester on his blog, just head to: www.nbr.com and look for the blogs tab. clearly the sequester is a major concern for the u.s. economy. but today, at least, there was some good news: the economy actually grew in the final quarter of last year, instead of shrinking, as was first estimated. the revised gross domestic product grew 0.10% in the fourth quarter. a month ago, the government thought the economy shrank that much. but a drop in government spending remains a big overhang for the economy this year. erika miller reports. >> reporter: a tenth of a percent gain in economic growth is not much to brag about, but at least the economy is moving in the right direction. >> the report was encouraging despite the very weak headline number. the reason is that the parts of the report that we think indicate the underlying trend-- things like business spending and housing investment, all of those were pretty positive in the g.d.p. numbers. >> reporter: but, today's revision does not change the fact that growth nearly stalled

welcome back to the show, darren. >> how you doing? >> we're doing really well. i understand you just got bad news. >> oh, yeah, i won't be working here. my last day of work is march 31st. >> is that a result of this video? >> i think it was a result of a lot of things, the publicity, it is not one thing, it is all the things. >> were you shocked? were you surprised when you were let go? >> no. you can see the writing on the wall. two of the vendors actually leaving, revenues down, so there is a whole bunch of stuff going on. >> what do you think will happen after march 31st when you are done working there? >> in two or three days the drug dealers will come back in. >> do you know what you may do next? will you stay? security and try to clean up atlanta some. >> after the interviews and the videos and the people in the industry thinking, well, that's not really, really special, and people more concerned about their liability than what's going on, it may make it particularly tough for me to get another job in this field. i don't know. we'll see. >> the entitled on

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abc's darren rovell went to find the man himself. >> as he dons the traditional masters jacket -- >>jor champion. arnold palmer with that unmistakable swing and charm. >> arnie's army is hanging on every stroke of their hero, arnold palmer. >> reporter: but at 83, 25 years after his last tournament win, palmer's name is bigger than ever. in fact, in 2012, palmer earned more than any other golfer except tiger woods and phil mickelson, a cool $36 million. that's partly because one of the fastest-growing beverages in the united states is the combination of two classics, iced tea and lemonade, that palmer himself popularized after ordering the concoction in a diner in the 1960s. >> i had a big glass of iced tea and i shared a little lemonade on it and mixed it up and boy was it good. well, a lady at a table heard me do that, and she said, "i want a palmer!" >> reporter: palmer didn't make any money off his name sake drink until recent it will when he teamed with arizona beverages. the arnold palmer brand did nearly $200 million in sales in the u.s. last year. don vultaggio, arizona's cha

darren rovell has the story. >> reporter: how old is too old?pparently not 48 years old. >> victory is sweeter than honey. >> reporter: as bernard hopkins became a champion once again last night. >> hopkins is stepping on the gas. >> reporter: it was a moment that never would have happened had he listened to his mother's dying wish that came a decade ago. don't fight past 40. >> right hand by hopkins again. >> reporter: oh, well. >> my mother would say get the hell out of that ring and don't go in there again. i probably wouldn't be boxing. i probably would be gone ten years ago. >> reporter: this was hopkins last night at the ripe old age of 48 beating tovoris cloud previously undefeated in a 24-fight career. hopkins counteracting the strength of a man 17 years his junior. >> six rounds to three, bernard hopkins. >> reporter: but deftly moving around his opponent's munches using his vast library of his experience to school the youngster. with a unanimous decision from the three judges, hopkins had a title belt in his hands once again. in the pr

not too happy darren tried to make the ball club. women's college basketball.ford will go in as the number one seed, cal right there with them as the number two seed. we have plenty of college basketball heading our way of the mens and women's variety. but that's the spokane region. >> all right, you got it, >> thanks, mark. >> coming up tonight, facing major fallout after reportedly going on an anti-gay rant during a concert in san francisco. we'll tell you about the backlash the singer is facing. >> >> thank you for trusting ktvu news. we are always here for you. see you at 10:00. .

now, for darren and sugar daddy, it's on to the next town, leaving at least one resident disappointedk that does fit and makes sense they would make the effort? >> totally. the manager approves. >> in woodside, kpix5. >> now i know why my wife married me. the raiders said good bioto two normer number one picks and the 49ers lost their swiss army knife. next. [ woman ] my boyfriend and i were going on vacation, so i used my citi thankyou card to pick up some accessories. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? and with all the points i've been earning, i was able to get us a flight to our favorite climbing spot, even on a holiday weekend. ♪ things are definitely... looking up. [ male announcer ] with no blackout dates, you can use your citi thankyou points to travel whenever you want. visit citi.com/thankyoucards to apply. >>> terms delaney walker agreed to a new deal. such a weapon for the 49ers, called him a swiss army knife. the raiders released the number 7 overall pick in the 2009 draft. he never lived up to the hype. 11 touchdowns in four years. they also

. >>> mall security guard darren long has been arrested and booked for battery in atlanta. >> back it up. you better. >> we were one of the first to show you this video of long using a taser gun on a woman at the metro mall in atlanta last year. the video went viral and long became something of an internet hero. >> walking up. >> you better back up. >> two days ago we showed you yet another taser incident at the mall, this one from february. we skyped with long and he told us mall management was letting him go as of march 31st. according to reports he tackled someone at the mall thursday night and that's when he was arrested. this is long's mug shot taken when he was booked at the fulton county jail and bond was set at $2,000. >>> we have another really cool video from justin wren, the ufc fighter and he is back in africa. last time we had him on the show we got to see kids that for the first time saw a white man and they were going crazy. >> they loved the arm hair. >> yes. this time it is the first time some of the kids in the village he is in see themselves. he takes the iphone and

darren, you're up first. what do you want to be prepared for tomorrow? on cyprus again. i do think we're going to get a restrike of terms with regard to thresholds for taxation. i think that based on that we will see the markets grind higher. i don't know if we're going to take out new highs again tomorrow or the next day. and you know, looking ahead, it's all going to be -- it's going to be all about earnings. >> all about earnings as the quarter is kickly coming to an end. thank you so much, sir. michael, you're up. what do you want to look at? >> hi, maria. good afternoon. i'm looking at housing. specifically looking about 910,000 house starts tomorrow. i'm looking at weyerhaeuser as a stock. you look at the rebound, it's going to hit 52-week highs. i'm looking at leverage to the up side. and i think this market's going to continue to grind higher. >> all right. so you're not worried about cyprus? >> not in the least. >> okay. cooper, you're up. 30 seconds on the clock. what do you want to watch? >> sure, yeah. we think cyprus is still front and cente

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not too happy darren tried to make the ball club. women's college basketball.ford will go in as the number one seed, cal right there with them as the number two seed. we have plenty of college basketball heading our way of the mens and women's variety. but that's the spokane region. >> all right, you got it, >> thanks, mark. >> coming up tonight, facing major fallout after reportedly going on an anti-gay rant during a concert in san francisco. we'll tell you about the backlash the singer is facing. >> >> thank you for trusting ktvu news. we are always here for you. see you at 10:00. . mom, i invited justin over for lunch. good. no, not good. he's a vegetarian and he's going to be here in 20 minutes! don't stress. we can figure this out. [ male announcer ] get the speed to make a great first impression. call today to get u-verse high speed internet for as little as $14.95 a month for 12 months with a one-year price guarantee. this is delicious. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] save the day in an instant. at&t. ♪ ♪ because of elaine. elaine is in my drawing class at the ne

. >> captain darren smith is the head of the stg unit which has documented more than 150 different gangsnside the prison. >> we have our hispanic gangs, which basically fall under southern cal or southern hispanic or northern cal, northern hispanic. we have crips, and we have bloods, and then we have our white supremacists. >> the most active gang members at usp are segregated into one section of the prison, away from the general population. >> it's pretty amazing. you got a bunch of different people associated with gangs for one reason or another. and you stick them all together, some people do get along, some people don't. >> it has its ups and downs. rival gangs bring problems from the streets in here. that brings problems for everybody in here. you know. >> part of getting along you have to learn how to be a human being and put your hate behind you. >> so there's always this kind of uneasy truce. but for the most part, if they have respect for each other and each other's space, then there's usually not a problem. >> while segregated from the rest of the general population, within thi

and in darren's case, he pretty much admitted to committing this assault. >> susan just popped up, and she wants her property back. see, i told you it was borrowed time, man. so -- so it was nice doing this for susan & company. so i have to return to where i started from, the blackout. so you guys have a nice day. thank you for listening to me. good-bye. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons, into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen, "lockup: raw." >>> when you come to prison you have to join a gang. you have no choice. it's a must. >> once i opened the door with the drugs i got recognition. >> many of them have this warrior mentality. >> by getting that recognition, i get power. >> my job was to go in there and kill him and went in with the intention of killing him. with power i get every one i go to. >> you're surrounded by, you know, a thousand killers. and every one of them did a stranger. >> once i control the yards i control the drug situation. i control the inmates as well. >> we were actually killing people that didn

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abc's darren ravell explains. >> reporter: a seven-time major champion.m. >> arne's army is hanging on every stroke of their hero arnold palmer. >> reporter: at 83, 25 years after his last tournament win, palm ear name is bigger than ever, in fact in 2012, palmer earned more than any other golfer except tiger woods and phil mickelson. a cool $36 million. that's partly because one of the fastest growing beverages in the united states is the combination of two classics, iced tea and lemonade. that palmer himself popularized after ordering the concoction in a diner in the 1960s. >> i had a big class of iced tea. i shared a little lemonade on it. mixed it up. wow was it good. a lady at the table heard me do that. and she said, "i want a palmer." >> reporter: palmer didn't make any money off his namesake drink until recently when he teamed with arizona beverages. the arnold palmer brand did $200 million in sales in the u.s. last year. don fotagio, arizona's chairman. >> we make it taste good. >> reporter: now some of palmer's biggest customers are in the young

or how about my dad and managing the fall of darren kirton? as the soviet empire was collapsing there was a significant danger that there would be violence. the united states justifiably had done a victory dance over the soviets particularly for example when the berlin wall fell. i will never forget watching my dad on tv and the pundits were all saying we should go over there and celebrate with the german people. had my dad done with the people of the here and now want us to do rather than be a figure he could have created greater vulnerabilities for garbage or a -- gorbachev to create an orderly transfer without bloodshed. the dictatorship of epic proportions in the 20th century fell without a drop of blood. it was an amazing feat thanks to the fantastic leadership of ronald reagan and then the humility of george h.w. bush to do the right thing rather than do to the thing that mike made him look popular. these are the kinds of leadership skills that are necessary today for our country. to be effective a strong leader must adhere to basic prin

thank you so much for joining me, darren. >> thank you. >> it's interesting because as you point out article, mccarthy brings bipartisan credentials to the job encolluding as the regulator under then massachusetts governor mitt romney. but like chuck hagel, you can have an affiliation with republicans and doesn't mean that conservatives will not still come after you. what's at the heart of these issues here? >> well, i mean, i don't think she's another chuck hagel. >> no. >> i don't think the white house has to work that much. over time for this. i think she is going to be fine. i think that at the heart of that is, even if you talk to those in the regulated community, even those that may not like what epa does, they like her. they like the fact that she'll talk with them. she'll discuss problems. she'll even address them to a certain extent in the rule making. so they like her. and you know, i know you mentioned some views from some -- i mean, epa's always going to be a lightning rod. they're involved in so many major rule makings, involved in the climate change effort. they're alwa

our washington bureau chief darren gersh tonight on what happened and what comes next. >> reporter: byow how this story goes. after the last-minute meeting at the white house, the speaker emerges grim-faced. >> the discussion about revenue in my view is over. it's about taking on the spending problem in washington. >> reporter: cut to the white house briefing room. the president says he's been reasonable. some tax cuts, some spending cuts and some entitlement reform. that's his prescription for budgetary pain. s won'tce republic accept it, the president says the middle class is about to feel the pain of those automatic spending cuts known in washington speak as the sequester. >> i don't anticipate a huge financial crisis, but people are going to be hurt. the economy will not grow as quickly as it would have. unemployment will not go down as quickly as it would have and there are lives behind t

the bad news, as darren gersh reports, is the cuts will build in pain over time. >> reporter: in terms of its impact on the economy, the sequester is really more of a "slow" quester. the impact of the across the board spending cuts will take time to build and it could be months before its felt throughout the economy. students of government dysfunction say this is not the same as a government shut down or hitting the nation's borrowing limit. >> there is not that great an urgency. when we were talking about the debt ceiling, there was a real urgency, because if we got to the point where you literally can't pay the bills, that's a very big deal. in this case, we'll see cuts, i mean depending on exactly how the obama administration runs things, we may not see anything at all march first. >> reporter: well, not tl

the bad news, as darren gersh reports, is the cuts will build in pain over time. >> reporter: in terms of its impact on the economy, the sequester is really more of a "slow" quester. the impact of the across the board spending cuts will take time to build and it could be months before its felt throughout the economy. students of government dysfunction say this is not the same as a government shut down or hitting the nation's borrowing limit. >> there is not that great an urgency. when we were talking about the debt ceiling, there was a real urgency, because if we got to the point where you literally can't pay the bills, that's a very big deal. in this case, we'll see cuts, i mean depending on exactly how the obama administration runs things, we may not see anything at all march first. >> reporter: well, not tl

our washington bureau chief darren gersh tonight on what happened and what comes next. >> reporter: byknow how this story goes. after the last-minute meeting at the white house, the speaker emerges grim-faced. >> the discussion about revenue in my view is over. it's about taking on the spending problem in washington. >> reporter: cut to the white house briefing room. the president says he's been reasonable. some tax cuts, some spending cuts and some entitlement reform. that's his prescription for budgetary pain. and since republicans won't accept it, the president says the middle class is about to feel the pain of those automatic spending cuts known in washington speak as the sequester. >> i don't anticipate a huge financial crisis, but people are going to be hurt. the economy will not grow as quickly as it would have. unemployment will not go down as quickly as it would have and there are lives behind t

. >> darren, thank you. >> hard to believe. >> and the women's tournament, too. a little more march madness. >> i want spring break again. >> spring break every day, yes! >> at florida gulf coast university it is. >> sam? >> let's start with where the cold air is. the middle of the country, the chilly temperatures. look at the low area of pressure the snow all the way across the country. weakening. it re-forms a bit, heads out to the atlantic. if you're waiting for the warmer shot to final move across the country, it does this week. denver, from a foot of snow to almost 62. dallas, a frost and freezy morning this morning. 75 by thursday. everybody is getting milder temperatures. it's getting through this last chilly week. that's the weather around the nation. >>> and coming up on "gma," why didn't parachutes open for two skydivers. inside the case baffling investigators. >> chilling brush with danger, the stunning shark attack all caught on tape. ♪ with two cats in the yard, hd 3. ♪ now everything is easy 'cause of you, ♪ ♪ and our la, la, ♪ la, la, la, la, ♪ la,

debuting a brand-new model, it did so last night, does things that no other phone on the market can and darrenovell is here with the latest. >> it is amazing. a lot of features. apple might be one of the hottest brands in the world but facing a legitimate challenge in the smartphone market that just might have gotten a whole lot tougher. ♪ it was quite an unveiling for samsung last night. the star of the show, the company's latest entry in the ultra competitive smartphone market. >> ladies and gentlemen, the samsung galaxy s4. >> reporter: it's loaded with features that its chief competitor apple doesn't offer, one called air gesture allows users to scroll up and down by simply waving a hand over the phone. there's also smart pause which uses facial recognition software to determine if you're looking at the phone. if you're watching a video and turn away, the video will stop and resume when you bring your eyes back to the phone. samsung and apple own nearly 70% of the u.s. smartphone market with apple holding a slight edge at last count. >> eight out of every ten mobile phones purchased now be

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host: darren is joining us from bridgewater, new jersey, good morning. caller: good morning, i am shocked of the lack of discussion of the problem of dispersion. supposed to operate under negative air when the defense department gets appropriation for whatever weapons it has produced, they are dispersed throughout the country purely on the basis of politics. he's congressman wants to have their local operation going. when these things are put together, there is a real safety problem. this is worse because it is on a smaller scale and there is i am shocked because this lady has a poor science background and micro organisms that ground. she is forced into the investigation of the proper handling and dispersal that give proper jobs to various departments and universities that are politically completing with each other for these privileges. host: thank you. guest: there has been a proliferation of these kinds of labs all around the country. congress in 20 07 held a hearing looking at potential safety risks as we have more labs and scientists who are experime

and, darren, you cannot answer. [laughter] demand for stuff. right? demand for stuff. and that demand for stuff generally creates things like distribution centers, big box retailers. i bring that up because we have got to together, and some of you have already been leaders in this, but we've got to together bring new partners to the table on this issue of truck parking. drivers are moving our nation's warehouses around the country. they arrive at places that are major distribution centers, big box retailers, major consumption spots, and they need to stage the truck somewhere to wait to drop off or pick up. that staging is rarely planned for when a big pox retailer's -- box retailer's recruited to the region or distribution center's recruited to the region. when it comes to ip up suring there's adequate rest space because that's, again, moving 24/7, the person moving that warehouses, the person in his or her office needs to sleep. we need to have space to sleep. but the places to sleep, the most demanding or those in highest demand are those along key interstate corrido

somebody replaced my darren.>> i don't know if i'm dick sergeant or dick york. >> dick york was the latter one. [ scooby-doo's "huh?" ] >> stephanie: i think it would have been funnier if i didn't notice all three hours just like samantha. anyway jim. >> hal: someone else says i'm not -- coughs over by correcting you. [ ♪ magic wand ♪ ] >> stephanie: do we have a show today or do we have a show? >> it's packed. >> stephanie: wonder woman lynda carter is on the show! >> very exciting. [wonder woman theme song] >> stephanie: you told the most totes adorbs story. >> hal: true story. when i was a kid living in kentucky i had a huge painful spine curling -- >> stephanie: me too. >> crush on lynda carter. >> stephanie: i only had mary or bionic woman. >> yours was a junior dike version. >> stephanie: that's why it's so cute. >> so i figured out a scheme to call her because i needed to talk to her. >> stephanie: the bionic man -- >> the $6 million man. hello. that was the noise i made. anyways, so i called -- i think so

darren gersh, "n.b.r.," washington. >> susie: joining us now richard bejtlich. he's the chief security officer at mandiant, that's the cyber security firm working with the new york times and others, to combat recent attacks blamed on hacker groups in china. if he richard, let me begin by picking up on a point that darren brought up in his package there that your report says that companies and countries can be pinpointed of where the source of the attack really came from. can we actually do it that specifically? is that possible? >> it is possible when you have an acter that is so aggressive that takes so much data over a sustained period of time n this case over seven years, 141 companies. you can't apply that to all actor its. but for a case like this you can make that conclusion. >> what advice do you have for companies that are on the one hand trying to make information available to employees and others and they put that information on the i cloud but on the other hand they have to save guard that information and protect it from hackers. what is your advice?