. >> dell is getting into the phone business. dell is buying perot systems.utermaker on a new smart track or are they off track? plus coke's ceo is blasting the idea of a soda tax. he said americans need more exercise not more taxes. >> you should go to "the wall street journal" and read his op ed piece. i want to be incentivized to exercise. >> he would agree with you in that particular case. good news on retail helping the credit card companies. will that rally continue? answers on "the fast money" halftime report. we have the 12 billion of 30-year bonds being auctioned off and we'll have the results of that at the top of the hour as well. see you then. >>> welcome to "the fast money halftime report." earnings from alcoa and the latest round of retail figures giving the mark a boost. we want to get to what's moving right now and right now the markets are at session highs this as surprise, surprise, the dollar is falling. let's get to the word right now. the fast money crew is the negotiator, guy adami manning the starship enterprise. j.j. can han and katie

a sneak peek at dell's interesting design twist for lap tops.in. >>> all right, time for us to salute our troops. today's salute comes from a wife to her husband. she is counting down the days until he gets back so he can finally meet his new baby girl. >> hi, robin, this is tanya bailey and i would like to sent a salute to my husband antwan bailey. it's been three weeks since our daughter was born and he hasn't met her yet. we can't wait until you are home with us and you can finally meet our daughter and we can be a family again. we love you and are so proud of you and pray for you every day. hurry home to us. >> if you have someone in the service, we are always honored to help you salute them. >>> a crucial vote today could shape your health care for decades. after months of back room negotiations, the senate finance committee will finally vote on this bill. why is this bill so important? >> they worked together, both the gop and the democrats, the first time they helped create this bill. look at today's vote as a litmus test to see how close

you've got hp acquiring ads last year, dell and xerox. do you need to keep acquiring to get deeper in? what are your thoughts on the activity? >> actually, i find it quite flattering in many ways. but if you think about services, and you go back a decade ago, that's what you see happening with dell and hp and with xerox. when you hear them articulated, talking about services as the way to pull through commodity products. the services as we see it for the future is this advanced outcome capability. so we don't really need to acquire. we bought the software companies. we've acquired price waterhouse. we're busy scaling the analytic centers. we're moving what we think the future is. >> one example paul palmisano cited is work with new york city to create a crime center based on ibm's technology to present a 20% drop in the crime rate by helping police respond more quickly to incidents. >>> can retailers provide some employment relief as we head toward the holiday shopping season? we'll answer that question when we come back in a moment. it d

. >>> dell getting into the cell phone business.t will reportedly release its first smart phone early next year. it will run on google software and be available for at & t customers. all four major cell phone companies will soon carry phones using its mobile operating system. >>> several smart phones now double as gps devices thanks mainly to downloadable aps but one gps maker is getting in the cell phone business. garmin. as sam grobart explains the $300 device will get you where you want to go but that's about it. >> it's maybe a slightly better afghanistan navigator than -- navigator than you'll find in an ap for your iphone or blackberry but your device can do so much more. this new phone is limited to two things and costs way too much to be so limited. >> read more bit on "the new york times" web site. >>> finally, a hot new pop star proving that japan's got talent but this cute edgy singer is actually a robot belting out tunes with the help of new electronic voice technology by yamaha. she also takes requests but you need an i

. >> alexandra city council member dell pepper is angry. on tuesday there, was a fuel spill, 50 gallons at the norfolk southern railroad's transit station. she believes they should have called the fire department mu. >> it's an outrageous we should hear it from a third party from the state dartment of emergency management no less. >> in a statement, norfolk southern said the station has standard operating procedures that are used to determine if emergency services should be called. this incident did not meet those criteria. battalion chief john north is in charge of the alexandra fire department special operations division. >> what we're encourage iing norfolk southern now to do, review their procedures and maybe do retraining with their staff. >> the reason for the concern is the transfer station is a stone's throw from the densely populated cameron station development andn elementary school. residents have been worried about safety at the facility just off van dorn street since last year. >> the railroad has been a corporate citizen from

. >> remember, apple, dell, microsoft, all started out as small businesses, and so this government needs to appreciate the entrepreneurial spirit in this country, and, you know, the issue is can we do it? can we bring that spirit back with the tax and spend policies the way they're going? >> lot of our policies now will hurt the small and midsized entrepreneurs trying to get a leg up. >> that's right. we're trying to modify capitalism to make the highs lower and the lows higher to even it out for everyone. what you do is you risk blunting the positive impact of that. capitalism isn't a system of non-failures. >> quentin, your point is a good one. the fact is that it is the taxpayers' deep pockets that is paying off the big guys, not the limb and medium sized entrepreneurs. >> wall street has locked up against the small guy right now and the irony is we can wait for wall street to unlock or the government can step with small business loans. maybe the socialist answer will be better for small business in the short term. >> steve is right, some of these people that think of themselves as ca

and 29.93 and the broom ma'am at the time readings and from garrett to aaron dell rendell county. 65he shore and elkton and around the immediate metro area. 53 in howard county. 57 in annapolis and up in bellaire. the west wind is drying out out continually and move through 48 hours ago. and the rain is well offshore. and still providing a little cloud cover up towards new england. it is all because of the spin in the atmosphere and extends all the way back across the northern edge of the great lakes. and what we are dealing with. and high pressure in control and the clockwise movement and bringing in the west, northwesterly winds. as the high starts to ease off through the week. by tuesday and into wednesday. we will see a potential for showers. moving in from the south and southwest. and moving in that direction. they stay pretty moderate and coming in from the north. it may have dropped down a little bit. we are not going it fluctuate too much. and see a chance of showers on wednesday and then again on friday. we have a small craft advisory going into effect and going through tone

dell and perot systems. microsoft dismissed rumors of a potential play for electronic arts but still talk of a possible tie-up between palm and nokia and routine speculation, always, surrounding google and sales force.com and what about hp's potential to the teleconference today. suggests polycom might number play now. much more about this on the blog of course. tech check.cnbc diagram. maria, back to you. >> thank you very much. melissa lee is standing by there with a preview of what is coming up at top of the hours, "fast money." >> the markets pulled off nicely, first day of the quarter we'll bring in a technical analyst to tell us where the stocks are headed next and also 24 hours after charlie gasparino broke the big news of ken lewis stepping down after the big year, we'll have charlie back. we'll bring in a top-ranked analyst in the media space tell us,trade this news. maria, all of that and more at the top of the hour. >> see you in five minutes. we'll be there. up next, at what could move the market

rimm and dell outperforming research in motion. on a day like this, that's almost like being up. sharon at the nymex. >> oil prices ended the day higher but have weakened since the close. we are looking at prices above the $70 mark. we are following closely the headlines from the talks in geneva between iran and the major powers. president obama will brief the country about those talks later. headlines out of the white house says u.s. warns of sanctions if iran uses talks to delay. we've seen oil prices rally the last half hour of trading. natural gas taking a steep plunge today after inventories have swelled now to record levels. we are also looking at a weak demand picture. that's highlighted today by the ism manufacturing index, as well as jobless claims being higher than expected, and traders bracing themselves for tomorrow for perhaps higher unemployment rate. the dollar rising a factor in the weakening of commodity prices across the board. metal is lower, gold down $8 and copper falling 3%. the most important data point for tomorrow for all the markets will be that jobs rep

the building was built with over 75 million pounds of mar dell and fully furnished and still came in $100,000 under budget. taft died before it opened for the first time in 1935. bret: and now fresh pickings from the political grapevine from the supreme court. even "the new york times" questioning president obama's promise of transparency saying "white house officials are proposing deep revisions to a senate judiciary committee bill that weakens protections against forcing reporters to reveal their sources. " the times says a shield law to protect journalists is necessary but that the white house wants judges to defer to the administration's view of what constitutes a security leak you, quote "the executive branch would abrogate the public's right to know by crimping the news media's ability to make a case for disclosure." it does not equal a new era of openness. >> although the dalai lama made no secret to meet with the president this week during his visit, the white house said it will not happen until after the president's trip to china next month. it is the first time since 1991 t

they've also reported their metrics for september and also tech names likee-bay, dell, google, apple, all should be in play today. >> chris cotter up in new york for us. we are checking out the day's top sister usc plus more on that is' plan to bomb the moon -- on nasa's plan to bomb the moon this morning. we are live with more on what this means for future trips to space. ohh... how many friends does a person need, sharon ? 'cause i'm thinking 90,000 is 90,000 too many. i can't imagine having too many friends, lewis. oh i can. i open the door to my apartment and 90,000 friends jump out from behind a futon screaming "surprise, happy birthday !" i would be in seventh heaven. i'd be in emergency cardiac surgery. you know a real friend would be giving me mouth-to-mouth resuscitation right now. here's to discovering that the little things in life are often big things and the time well spent doesn't always mean money must be spent people everywhere are building their lives on more solid ground through sound choices and a smart approach to their finances and they're turning to suntrust for

how many books have michael dell, eric schmidt, anthony robbins, john chambers, and neil young as anndorser? hey, i say neil young, i'll buy that book alone on him. all right. mark benioff, come on over here, will you? i can't even be formal with you. i just can't. >> good to see you. >> you've made too much money for our people. welcome back to "mad money." and welcome in person. >> thank you so much for having me. i appreciate it. >> let me just give the setup. i have said time and again cloud computing, internet, the new model. >> mm-hmm. >> i would tell you that unless you're part of an enterprise like i am at cnbc or the street.com where i'm chairman i wouldn't know what i'm talking about. so tonight you're going to show us. >> we're going to show you how to make your business more successful. and really in today's economy the number one way you're going to do that is by improving your sales. >> absolutely. >> and the way to do that is to know who your contacts are, who your accounts are, and what deals you're working, how do you put it all together. but for a lot of companies m

. >>> a 2-year-old disappears while riding her by psych dell. family members say she had gone out for a bike ride and when she did not return be she called police. officers found her bike the next afternoon about a quarter mile or so away from the teen's home. police also say they are following up on hundreds of secret witness calls and other potential leads. >> there was a case about a week, week and a half ago up in cold springs where it's a. >> reporter: where a male tried to tell a couple girls on bicycles to come talk to them in the car and they're following up on that. >> police believe foul play was involved. police and volunteers are now going door to door for information and looking at at foreclosed homes for any clues. >>> knew details this morning in the case of a man secretly videotaping a sports reporter. investigators say the videos were taken through a modified peep hole while erin andrews dressed. >> reporter: the suspect is behind bars this morning after making his first court appearance this weekend. in a chicago courtroom, 48-

it was really the dell gts on t the second vote were sold on the passion of a rio bid. >> let's go tovell in chicago. can you pick up on this thing ross was talking about that maybe the american tv rights are too pricey is maybe what he's saying? >> basically what happened is from the spat was comcast and the usoc, they decided to have a channel and the ioc really didn't like that. the channel came out of nowhere and, therefore, that spat might have contributed to a little bit more tension. he also referenced the fact the europeans, they have 46 ioc members out of the 106. i want to get into a little bit beyond the math and to rio de janeiro and going ahead. let's talk a little about their challenges. we'll start with infrastructure. they have to build more than half of the stadium seating and so they're obviously committed to that, but that's a lot of seats. also, the metro system does not link to the city center. that's one of the issues. obviously transportation is a big issue, getting people around. the number of people around when you're not used to it. crime in rio de janeiro, b

later, a fund manager betting big on big cap tech, names like hewlett-packard and dell top his stockk" comes back. >> when we return, we get you caught up with today's top business stories. find out what's moving the markets before you make a trade right on "squawk box" on cnbc. we are first in business worldwide. ♪ at the end of the day in sitka, alaska, everyone awaits the return of the fishing boats. ♪ their safe arrival is highly anticipated, ♪ as is something else. a shipment of natural sea salt from cargill, essential for preserving the catch. we deliver the salt on precise schedules... and ship it efficiently all along the alaskan coast; saving the fishermen money, and their catch. this is how cargill works with customers. >>> welcome back to "squawk box." earnings season is upon us. next week, next monday ernest. we've got alcoa, aa, alcoa, like acne that's a good name to pick for the yellow pages. alcoa a slow start, then the true flood of earnings when becky and carl will be spearheading earnings central. that will begin monday. earnings for s&p 500 -- can't i rest on my la

. >> reporter: analysts say at least 25 dell ghats had not decided who they would vote for. >> i promise you this the city of chicago and the united states of america will make the world proud. >> reporter: some delegates said they were less than impressed that the president stayed just four hours and left before the voting even began. sources familiar with the thinking of the olympic committee told cbs news chicago focused too much on celebrity at the expense of the city. and delegates expected more from america's charismatic president. >> if you are are the striker and you don't make the goal it means that you are a loser. >> reporter: rio made its strongest argument pay, that it was time for the olympic games to come to south america. >> you can play a great game and still not win. >> reporter: it's now brazil's challenge to host those games. they come with a hefty price tag of about $15 billion. the brazilians say they are ready and willing to pay. >> sheila thank you so much. >>> joining us now is veteran republican political strategy guest ed rollins. good to see you. thanks for jo

dell, perot, xerox, acs, sis korks and look at the ceo also says selling the company may make sense at some point in the future. a lot of buzz out there. people say that's the sort of buzz supportive of a market, that is going higher. >> well, i hope you haven't stolen matt nesto's thunder. >> i know. >> he is in charge of the what's going up and what's going down department. matt nesto. >> yes, pete peterson, the department of reredundancy department, that's me. you're talking about the big two sect upgrades, technology and banks here today. it's interesting what's not happening. we haven't seen any value or any bargain hunting come into the worst performing. i'm talking about the material and industrial. that points really to jitters about the global recovery. take a look at their two-week giveback, you talk about 6% and 7% respectively for the industrials and the materials sectors. about 50% worse than the 4% giveback that we've seen. modest in line expected for the run-up that we've had. also, with are not seeing the staples in the telecoms whole huge amount of flight into those tw

. >> i think it was cass sa dell hogan, the name of the house. >> maybe you can do something for me.se a summer home. >> wow. >> let's go back to you. you're dating now i hear. >> well, i've got a girlfriend. >> you have a girlfriend. >> yes. >> it's not dating. this is like a real thing. >> yeah. >> how long are you dating? is she 19? >> no, she's not 19. god, you're brutal. you're brutal. >> i heard -- howard stern says your girlfriend looks like your daughter. does she? >> i think howard stern's wife looks like my daughter. tu shay. >> you can fight that one out with him. no, i was just thinking, maybe you and your wife have in common you like someone younger. it's up to you. i'm not judging. i'm just saying. all right. fine. now, you also just announced you're returning to pro wrestling. you're 56. i don't want to when an ageist, but, you know, those guys that you're going to go up against are going to be a lot younger than you. is there a senior citizen match? >> we can do a jerital match. >> that will be good. >> i don't know if i'm going to get back in the ring and wrestle. >>

. >>> five bup can dells of joy showed up three months early and now a family is scrambling to juggle a life with quinn it up heads plus a set of twins. >>> sths hln for sunday morning. details on all of those stories just ahead, but we start with a deadly day for troops in afghanistan. eight u.s. troops and two members of afghanistan's national security force were killed in a battle as militantses yesterday. that is the largest number killed in a single day since july of 2008. officials say coalition forces fought back after militants launched and at tack from a mosque. >>> yesterday's deaths come as president obama tries to make a decision about changing course in afghanistan. an immediate withdrawal seems unlikely, but ultimately they degree it's critical. >> i believe the loss of stability in afghanistan brings huge risks that al qaeda will operate within afghanistan again. >> he's also calling for faster training of afghan forces. earlier efforts stalled partly because there was a lack of nato trainers. >>> u.n. inspectors will start looking at iran's newly revealed nuclear site

. >>> computer maker dell plans to close a plant by the end of january, meaning 905 people at the winston-salem factory will lose their jobs. the company says 600 will be let go next month. the plant closure is part of their plan to save $4 billion a year by 2011. >>> a giant ring around saturn no one has seen before. it's huge, large enough to hold a billion earths. unlike saturn's other rings it is almost invisible because the ice and dust that form it are so spread out and tilted at a 27 degree angle. nasa's space telescope detected it in the infrared spectrum. more to come on hln.

he leaves his parents, dell bert and cheryl, two sister, one serving in the army.n brother and best friend matthew who is serving in the marines and fiance, emily. daniel hansen, an american hero. thank you so much to all of our guests and to you at home for being with us. see you tomorrow night at 8:00 sharp eastern. good night, everybody. >>> i'm aj hammer in new york. here's some of what we are covering for friday night at the top of the hour. the david letterman sex extortion shocker. new late breaking developments today after letterman's incredible on air confession that he had sex with women who worked for him. could letterman get fired over this? a brand-new star war over roman polanski. kirstie alley's rant against him. chris rock comparing roman to o.j. simpson. the roman star outrage. today's brand-new jon and kate bombshell. the fallout after job gosselin goes on "larry king live" and opens up about everything. the woman who got so mad at her husband, she fried his pet goldfish and it too. nice. >> at the top of the hour here on hln.

. >> hps, dell. >> all of them trying to do that.n this morning announcement, another norwegian coming. going back to global, not just u.s. but service business. also evaluation of the company. we do have large parts of the market that have done amazing switch. junk bombs, financial up a zillion percent because it went out of business almost. >> >> no one sells them. institutional investor, hedge fund i speak with periodically will say i'm glad you mentioned that. i've forgotten those. not only inflation hedges but their deflation hedges. we as taxpayers are underwriting this. they are misnomered as inflation hedge. if you put money into ten-year tip auction, you buy $100 worth get deflation, taxpayers will get money back, even though we've had deflation. it's a bedrock with any investment you have to have it. >> the market, do you feel like this run is done and we need something else to get to another level and at least consolidate. >> i'm really worried about september because september is a really bad month. i'm sorry, okay is a r

. >>> dell seems to be taking aim at apple with its newest laptop. called the adamo.y have been sending us these snapshots. this is only a millimeter, i'm sorry, ten millimeters thick. it seems to be taking aim with the mac book air. but check out the adamo. that's my pinky. that's ten sent meters. >> less than half an inch. >> yeah. that is how thin it is. it's also i think that's why it's competing with the mac, expensive, stylish and they need different parts when they make it that thin. even in the marketing i thought you could hear the echoes of marketing. >> you keep your hand so still. >> we shot that. it will be out in time for the holidays. we'll see. they're they're hyping it up. we don't know how it performs yet. >> in those sort of models not a lot are purchased. it is sort of a lost leader because of design costs sometimes. >>> several patients were exposed to too much radiation for a year and a half because of a computer error. 206 patients who had c.t. scans here got eight times the normal dose of radiation. many of them lost their hair because of it. t

dell tito, wait a minute. wait a minute. >> yes?> she had the grandmother at home where the child lived, where the other child was. so you are actually telling me with a straight face that she could have thought it was better to leave the child with a homeless man at a public bus station in south l.a. than at home with the grandmother? >> i leave open the 1% possibility that maybe she saw someone in the bus station, someone was following her, she thought she was -- >> please put del tito up. >> they may hurt the child. i'm not saying i believe that's the most likely scenario, but there may be a scenario like that boiling around here. in all likelihood, she was someone who abandoned her child, plain and simple because of her own, who knows, hedonistic interests. but we don't know. i think we should keep an open mind. >> i know what the witnesses said. and the witnesses said, ray giudice, richard herman, susan moss, that she sat undisturbed at a bus stop with the child who finally fell asleep. a bus came up, she got on, they tried to

he leaves his parents, dell bert and cheryl, two sister, one serving in the army.n brother and best friend matthew who is serving in the marines and fiance, emily. daniel hansen, an american hero. thank you so much to all of our guests and to you at home for being with us. see you tomorrow night at 8:00 sharp eastern. good night, everybody. >>> i'm aj hammer in new york. here's some of what we are covering for friday night at the top of the hour. the david letterman sex extortion shocker. new late breaking developments today after letterman's incredible on air confession that he had sex with women who worked for him. could letterman get fired over this? a brand-new star war over roman polanski. kirstie alley's rant against him. chris rock comparing roman to o.j. simpson. the roman star outrage. today's brand-new jon and kate bombshell. the fallout after job gosselin goes on "larry king live" and opens up about everything. the woman who got so mad at her husband, she fried his pet goldfish and it too. nice. >> at the top of the hour here on hln.