son david toms are up to the task early on at the humana challenge the per leading by a stroke on nineand after the open run in california this tournaments for me known as the bob hope classic used to feature five runs until dropping back to a conventional four this year starting nine birdies in his first attempt to conquer the jack nicklaus private course tom's never strayed too far from his colombian rival though the american with some great approaches he did end up with a nine under sixty three total as well by sun moon is in the group of four golf which he trailed by one bogey on the sixth told the difference between first and second place for the side career. both of football's main organizations fifa. russian prime minister vladimir putin to reconsider his bomb on stadium beer consumption twenty it being world cup finals a michel platini bringing up the issue in some petersburg this week farms are not a large chunk of russian city after putin signed a law in two thousand and five. and its advertising the former president said he may reconsider the stunts before the global tournam

obviously, we'll see amazon's results next week. >> tom: david do you or your firm or family have positions in these stocks? >> we own apple. we own microsoft, and we own intel. and google. >> tom: david garrity air, laundry list of technology list today with gva research. >> susie: more signs of improvement in the labor market. new claims for jobless benefits fell by 50,000 in the past week to 352,000, their lowest level in four years. meanwhile, consumer prices stayed flat in december as energy costs fell. investors welcomed those positive reports and some good earnings news from bank of america. by the closing bell, the dow rose 45 points, the nasdaq added 18, and the s&p 500 up six. >> we were warned it was going to be a bad winter and we were going to see higher bills, but that hasn't come to pass. obviously, it's been a very mild winter. >> reporter: still ahead, an unexpected boost to the bottom line for some companies-- a decade low for natural gas prices. >> susie: the south carolina primary has seen carpet-bombing ads from super-pacs. those political action committees can raise un

host: the next call for david zuchowski comes from mcdonald county, missouri. tom on the line for independents. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i watch c-span every day since i've been retired for nine years now. i was affiliated with the oil and natural gas industry since the early 1970's. our so-called oil shortage in 1973 -- we had a compressed natural gas system that would go right into any automobile, be it a car or a truck. see, that was 35 years ago. here we are still without the natural gas. your engine will last a whole lot longer than gasoline is cleaner burning -- than gasoline. it is cleaner burning. 80% of the american population

david? >> i cannot and i do not. >> tom: you can find david's articles thestreet.com, a link on our web site as well. its word on the street tonight with david pelletier with thestreet.com. >> susie: here's what we're watching for tomorrow: as we mentioned, the federal reserve kicks off a two-day policy meeting and president obama delivers his state of the union speech. also tomorrow, the latest quarterly results from two of the world's biggest brands, mcdonald's and apple. we'll see how their brands are doing around the globe. rupert murdoch's news corp is taking on the u.s. spanish television market with the launch of "mundofox." the new network will debut this fall. it's a joint venture with colombian broadcaster rcn television. mundofox hopes to reach 75% of u.s. households. it would become the third alternative for the nation's 50- million spanish-speaking viewers, currently served by the univision and telemundo networks. >> tom: macy's is taking martha to court, now that she's being courted by j.c. penney. macy's today sued martha stweart living omnimedia for breach of contract. it's u

we rely joining me now in the studio for our conversations the great minds tonight david david welcome thank you tom it's a pleasure to be here and to have you with us. a little bit about david cobb first of all. come from there what was your what what was your life like and what brought you into politics in the war well you know tom i was born in rural poverty in this country i'm not embarrassed to say i grew up in a house without a flush toilet in sam leon texas and i'll always remember one of the most important lessons that i was taught by my mama she doesn't remember this story but i certainly do i was arguing with my cousin and my brother over a toy pretty sure it was a car and i'll never forget she got down to our level she called us down and then she explained there's three of you one two three there's one toy so you can either share it or there are other toys we can bring in but you can't fight over it let's learn to share and you know what time that made sense to me then it makes sense to me now really all we have to do is treat each other with respect learn how to share learn how to exerci

spokesperson for move to amend and national projects director of democracy unlimited david welcome back. thank you so much tom it's a pleasure to be back on great to have you with us how can a state supreme court overrule the u.s. supreme court or do they not. in a nutshell this state supreme court can't overrule the u.s. supreme court however what we're seeing is that developing crisis of jurisdiction the citizens united versus federal election case was so outrageous and so inflamed people across the political spectrum that you're seeing a court in bold and in montana by simply saying look this supreme court we're duty bound to follow the supreme court but we're not going to overturn citizens united we're simply going to follow the strict scrutiny test and say that in montana who are state election law citizens united does not require us to overturn our state law i predict that this case will go up to the united states supreme court just as i predict that this movement that is growing across the country is going to get legs and will politicize ever more i'll tell you time in a nutshell what we're seeing is t

david, welcome to n. b. r., nice to see you. >> great to be with you. >> tom: profits from overseas, most of it from china. what about the business in europe specifically, how is that looking? >> we have very little exposure in europe, but our business is strong. we have a relatively small business particularly in france and germany, it really represents a lot of up side for us as we go forward, because in france, for example, we have the highest average lines and we're at the early stages of growth there, so we see lots of the unit development in both france and germany over the long term. but right now we have very little exposure in western europe. the big driver of our growth is emerging markets, particularly china. we have 4,000 restaurants in china now, we're growing in india, we just made india a separate division. africa is a big market for us now. we have a big base in south africa, and we just added five new countries, we're strong in vietnam, indonesia. so the emerging markets are really the yum growth story, and what really sets us apart from most companies. >> tom: you get about half your prof

david kelly at j. p. morgan funds. >> tom: stocks finished higher as investors welcomed the fed's pledge to keep interest rates low longer. the closing numbers, the dow rose 81 points, the nasdaq added 31.6 and the s&p 500 was up 11 points. trading volume was higher, with 829 million shares moving on the n.y.s.e. and just under two billion shares on the nasdaq. >> susie: still ahead, in tonight's "market focus," apple is on top of the world as its stock soars, making it the world's most valuable company. >> tom: as the federal reserve said again today, it's not worried about overall inflation, but if you've looked at the prices at the grocery store recently, you know food prices have been rising sharply the past year. but you probably haven't noticed much of a change on the menu at your favorite restaurant. as erika miller explains, many restaurant owners are getting creative in order to absorb the increases. >> reporter: this is no ordinary bread pudding. it's a cost-saving strategy. the dessert was made out of leftover bagu

tom? >> reporter: doreen, david rubenstein is not a very well known name to the public. but today he stepped up to help fix one of the public's favorite monuments. at this point we cannot give a hard estimate on when we will have it reopened. >> reporter: a rare earthquake here last august cracked the historic stone structure. inspection teams inside and out documented $50 million in damages, millions more than the u.s. park service could afford. >> please join me in giving him thanks for his generosity. >> reporter: now stepping to the rescue thursday was local billionaire businessman david rubenstein donating $7.5 million to pay half the restoration costs. >> as soon as i heard about the earthquake i thought because it's an important symbol of our country if i could help in some modest way i would like to do so. that's what i wanted to do. the original monument cost about a million dollars to build it. it was made with $1 contributions. that just shows thaw the cost of things go up. but today, i don't know what it would cost to rebuild this entire monument if you start

david hasselhoff. >> what? >> so they call its hasselhoff crab. >> t its tom sell lec crab. >> there are a lot of other notableh harry chests, right? >> yeah. ♪ >> they saw these things down there near the thermal vent and say it could get up to 700 degrees down there. these animals you to realize do not survive on sunshine. they get their energy by breaking down chemicals that are already in the water. >> i love the ocean. i mean it's just a remarkable world down there full of so many incredibly awesome creatures that are so insanely cool. >>> you guys remember dale peterson? >> no. >> he was an internet sensation during the 2010 elections. he was running for the alabama agriculture commissioner. this will refresh your memory. >> keep you in the dark, they do whatever they want with all that money and they don't give a rip about alabama. >> remember that line, they don't give a rip about alabama. over 2 million youtube views for this ad. now, dale peterson did not win in the gop primary in 2010, but, now, he has a very politically active wife. kathy peterson, she gives a rip about alabama. >> hi, folks. i'm k

we've been speaking with david rosenfield, white-collar criminal defense attorney at herrick, feinstein. >> tom: the obama administration today moved to block the controversial keystone x.l. pipeline. it would have brought oil from canada to the gulf of mexico. republicans called the decision a job killer, while environmentalists applauded the protection of water supplies along the pipeline route. darren gersh reports from washington. >> reporter: the white house blamed the decision to block the keystone pipeline on what it called an arbitrary deadline for approval forced by congressional republicans. >> the republicans put in jeopardy a process that should be immune from politics. >> reporter: oil producers blasted the president for caving in to pressure from environmentalists, and republican congressional leaders promised to keep pushing for the pipeline. >> the american people are still asking the question, where are the jobs? and here the president's got an opportunity to create 20,000 direct jobs and over 100,000 indirect jobs, and he says no. >> reporter: most analysts expect the keystone

complete cover reasonable continues live downtown, david value court tells us how fans are preparing for tom brady and the patriots. >> there are going to be football watching parties all over maryland this weekend. the fans right now have a lot of energy as their team inches closer and closer to a super bowl. >> there were raven fans then there are ultimate ravens fans like long who brings new meaning to get your head in the game after what was the longest haircut in his life. >> seven hours. women, i know what you go through. >> reporter: t-shirt printers are banking on you liking this one, warning the patriots we're coming for you. all this play off action means christmas in january for some retailers. >> it keeps a lot of store owners moving when things would be a little slow after the holidays. >>> superior tours are already booking up tours including tickets to the big game. other fans are finding their own way to foxboro. >> we have 90-dollar round tour. >> reporter: nelson cone planning on spending a pretty penny. >> if you're a fan of the team, if you have the means to follow them a

david we really are out of time thank you so much for being with us. thanks again for having me tom it's always a pleasure appreciate you dropping by you know frankly it's time to stop this entire insanity of corporations as people this friday is occupy the courts and noon i'll be occupying the supreme court for more information go to thom hartmann dot com. crazy alert and the wheels stop turning a massachusetts man made quite a contribution to a local animal shelter giving away ninety four amster is last week the man had been collecting hamsters for the last five years and finally got to the point where there was no room left in his apartment to how's the dozens and dozens of amsterdam's it's unclear how many hamster wheel he had an operation but in a related story rick perry's brain appears to have been slowing down recently. coming up next it took a traumatic brain injury for a young man to get inside the mind of saw america's so of america's most infamous serial torturers and murderers and i'm not talking about george w. bush or dick cheney but the kind we find in our nation's h

but even with tom daly's support, the 10-meter platform is too high for the london mayor. david cameron and his ministers want us to focus on the progress being made here at the olympic park. evidence, they say, of the great legacy in economic benefits. but the government cannot escape the reality that the promise to use the games to inspire a new generation to take up sports has so far failed. and here's why. participation figures published by sports england did show a modest rise in the number of adults play sports three times a week compared with four years ago. more alarming was the drop in youth participation and falls and bageled exports, like swimming, tennis, and football. for teachers like chris, the squeeze on public finances has made it even harder to deliver a lasting legacy. his school has seen in 80% cut in funding grants. he says he feels let down. >> we are incredibly excited about the fact that the olympics are happening this year, but i have to say i am rather disappointed the government has not been it just as excited about the legacy that we originally had in

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david garrity of gva research. you can find more apple analysis on our web site, nbc.com. >> tom: republican presidential hopeful mitt romney released his tax returns today, adding fuel to the debate over the fairness and economic impact of the tax code. romney immediately went on the offensive, charging president obama's policies on taxes and the economy would lead to more debt, decline and disappointment. for his part, president obama will argue in tonight's state of the union address the tax system is stacked against middle class americans. and to make his point, mr. obama is bringing along a special guest. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: debbie bosanek is about to become berkshire hathaway's second-most famous employee. the reason? she is the new face of the "buffett rule," which holds a billionaire like warren buffett should not pay a lower tax rate than his secretary, debbie bosanek. to drive the point home, bosanek will be sitting in a place of honor with the first lady at tonight's state of the union speech. >> the president believes it is not fair, inherently not fair that those who are millionaires and b

david campos, i am the chair of the committee. we want to thank the following members of sfgtv staff who are covering the meeting, tom and nona. >> item number one, call to order and roll-call. call at the role, commissioner avalos. present. commissioner campos. present. hope schmeltzer. present. we do have a quorum. supervisor campos: thank you. call item number two. >> item two, election of the chair person and vice-chair% for 2012. supervisor campos: colleagues, i do not know if you want to take action on this today or wait until the next meeting. supervisor avalos: i was ready to take action, but if we feel like we need more members, that is critical. if not, i am willing to renominate supervisor campos says the chair of lafco. i think your works beats -- where it speaks for itself could you have done a great job steering as the past year, looking add cca as well as the waste contracts in san francisco. i think your leadership has shown in many ways, and i would like to nominate you. supervisor campos: thank you, supervisor. commissioners? >> i would like to nominate supervisor of the los for the vice-chair -- supervisor aval