erika miller looks at whether it's a sign the recovery is shifting to a higher gear. >> reporter: forget about jobless claims or housing data, if you want to know the outlook for the economy, pay attention to earnings at fedex and rival u.p.s. morningstar analyst keith schoonmaker says those companies are the first to notice changes in demand worldwide. >> both of these firms-- the integrated shippers u.p.s. and fedex-- which we are so familiar with in the us, both of them derive more than a quarter of their revenue from their international operations. so it's certainly fair to call both of them global indicators. >> reporter: today, fedex said it is seeing a "pick-up" in international shipments, particularly its higher-margin priority deliveries. but it's not clear whether the demand is coming from consumers or businesses >> i think a large part of it is going to be businesses at this point. we don't have a full revelation from the firm on what the breakdown is between these two. but, at this point, it seems to us it's going to be the b-to-b clients have been responsible for a big porti

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erika edwards, nbc news. >> the best way is dying know is to get a biopsy of the small intestines. a simple blood test can also flag the disease. >>> rob is here with us today and it's a little bit cooler? >> yeah. nice, it's the case of ocean air conditioning on overdrive. across the entire bay area, san jose, 60s at this hour. that's unusual. average time this time of year should be 85 so it's sitting at 69 degrees. northwest winds at 15. a light jacket evening, even around the south bay. look at 880 oakland. weed that a's red sox game. having a good time with the red sox in town. 60 and west wind at 16 and the camera is bouncing around. you can see the sea breeze pumping in more clouds. look at the wind. southwest at 16. some gusts up to 30. sure enough, as you see here, on the high resolution satellite view, we zoom in and you can see the low clouds punching into the east bay around the coast of the north bay, you can see southward socked in by low clouds. folks here enjoying some late-day sunshine but the fog is already pushing toward gilroy and that will set up overnight, low

erika miller, "nightly business report," new york. >> whax* a difference a day makes.big change in the wall street rally. and investor psychology about buying stocks and based on today. >> lots of sentiment changes in a short period of time. we saw the major indices make up all of yesterday's losses. let's take a look at tonight's market, folks. >> tom: it was a fast move higher out of the gate on the not-bad-as-feared home sales and day two of chairman bernanke's economic testimony. the s&p 500 opened and stayed strong, except for a slip off its high in the last half hour. after the close, the focus again turned to earnings, with microsoft leading the way. its windows 7 operating system and the new office software led to earnings coming in a nickel better than estimates. revenues also were stronger than anticipated, with sales up in all five of its business units. shares participated in the rally before the earnings news. after the close, microsoft stock saw some fractional losses. amazon shares saw heavier volume and buying ahead of its earnings. but, after the close

erika miller introduces us to two business owners with different reasons for holding back. >> reporter: jewelry designer bonnie riconda say she's one of the fortunate small business owners. sales at her company, calico juno designs, have not gotten hammered in the midst of a weak economy. she works out of a studio in the back of her store, on city island in the bronx. >> in terms of sales we are remaining steady, which is really, really good, especially in a business where it's not a necessity. >> reporter: riconda says she often needs extra help, but is hesitant to boost payrolls until sales pick up. on the other hand, she recognizes it will take time to find the right worker and weeks to train the person to make her 850 designs, which is why she is considering hiring someone as soon as this fall. >> i would like to be able to hire somebody for right before christmas and get the store stocked up, because we do get busy last year right before christmas. >> reporter: lack of demand isn't the only problem small businesses are facing, even firms with strong sales are holding off hiring fo

erika edwards, nbc news. >> interesting. this research did not take into account the quality of relationships and researchers say the benefits may be even greater with closer friendships. thank you, lisa for being my friend. >> any time. >>> logon to weight loss. the key to online weight management programs might be using them frequently, researchers saying people that logged on to an interactive website for once a month for two years maintain their weight loss better than those that logon less. participants entered their weight and how much they exercise each time they logged on to the program. the experts say findings are important because maintaining weight lost is harder than losing weight in the first place. >>> he's always colorful. that we can say about jeff ranieri. and tonight, even more so because -- we -- >> we told him, go fly a kite and he took us literally. >> he's out at berkeley, jeff? >>> you tell me that all the time and here i am. did you have something to do with today's live shot? >> always, jeff, always

host: erika loveley, any response from that -- for that caller?uest: certainly your response is similar to that of many americans. staffers have this connection to other staffers that leave the hill, turning around to come back and lobby. certainly that is an issue. it affects many people. certainly steps have been in place to curb that. for instance, barney frank recently had a very prominent stafford leave his banking committee right after a major piece of legislation had been written, essentially by that employee. he left and went to case to read and decided that he would turn around and -- k street and decided that he would turn around and lobby his old buddies office. barney frank said no and band that employee. we are beginning to see reaction on the other end. . [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] guest: each congressional office gets a different amount of money to run their offices. as far as how many members of staff neaps pelosi has, she is the speaker of the hous

america does in russia right now but it is improving the first real cold war in the history of color erika's out of the whole day looking up to cows and teaching locals such know how has multiplied genetics we're going to get over two hundred steaks out of this cow standing behind me but here rags could produce even more about four hundred embryos in a year which means a whole new form one russian businessman decided not to sell meat but to sell the potential the bone raises aberdeen angus beef which will ultimately end up on the table and steak but to feed such a country as russia the farm has to first multiplies talk to many thousands per russia right now imports one million. a year in high quality be just an unbelievable deficit because the primary source of be utilized in the in the food chain here is the very very cattle that are no longer used for milking they go to the meat plants it is not high quality meat. the farm turned from him live cattle to importing frozen embryos multiplying is quicker and cheaper the. generation of russian born halfords is about to appear soon but as the fa

. >> reporter: in a conversation with diane sawyer, erika, a recent college graduate, feared for hertay here in this country. i mean, this is my home. >> reporter: she crossed the border with her mom, sister and brothers illegally when she was 11 years old. running from domestic abuse. >> i went to bed really depressed. it's been like everything just came back. like the hope fades knowineporo happy. 60% of americans support arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants. support for the law is twice as high among whites than nonwhites. >> i was in shock and a little bit disappointed. working in the trucking business. >> just a consistent record of the federal government not doing anything and that's disappointing. >> randy pullen leads arizona's republican party. >> i think they're celebrating a little early. they might want to wait until the judge has heard all the arguments. >> repouldke men > ordets fm federal officials say a temporary cap is holding firm and there's very little oil sheen on the water's surface. if all goes well, crews could begin work on that important step as soon as

. >> i'm erika hill in for maggie rodriguez on maternity leave. we have a terrible story out of arizona. a car accident, a family is told their daughter died in a car accident. they are planning her funeral, they are starting the process of learning to cope without their daughter, then they are told a week later we are wrong. your daughter wasn't killed. awful. we are going to bring you the latest on that case coming up this morning. >>> also, we want to get to this. the stop story this morning, the white house blasting the release of over 90,000 u.s. military records on the war of afghanistan. this is the largest leak in u.s. history. mark phillips is in london this morning with the latest. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. this is not a wikileak, this is a wiki torrent. a dell luge of field report logs from units on the ground in afghanistan. much of it is released by the wikileak site. it paints a grim picture of the way the war is going. the release contains more than 90,000 reports sent by operational units in afghanistan

political reporter erika lovley focus on the u.s. employees in the capitol complex. there will be questions taken about the administration's new plan to combat hiv-aids. "washington journal" is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. the head of the environmental protection agency says that bp has used nearly 2 million gallons of dispersants on the gulf of mexico oil spill, of volume never used before in the u.s. lisa jackson that testified for a little more than an hour at a hearing on how those dispersant s are affecting wildlife and the gulf. >>> good morning, everybody. we have been advised by >> we have been advised that there will be votes on the financial reform legislation. gislation. so, while we are waiting the arrival of lisa jackson, i'm going to move ahead with the hearing. we are so pleased that dr. larry robinson is here from noaa and when he concludes hopefully ms. jackson is here, and if not, we will go to those from the community and then go forward to hearing from the able administrator from the epa who i traveled to the gulf with. this hearing is now

that's good erika for a traffic. >> we are tracking slowing in san francisco outside of camera shot ifod here but reported my motorcycle accident on the off ramp causing minor delays as you exit currently chp and fire is on the scene quick bridge check reader and lights are off as you make her way through the pay gains westbound towards the city no problem all morning 8-9 minutes from the foot of the maze to fremont a look now i riders and a tail hazy conditions but traffic why is everything looks good as a major way in the to the direction towards foster city those headlights making their way into hayward from and to and across the span we wrap it up with a live look at the golden gate bridge traffic moving well across the spanish make your way from orange county into the city ride from 37 to 580 short eight minutes. >> 10 07 rain now more than 100 people have no watering down cruise fixing water main breaks in richmond the first one happen around 630 this morning on south seventh 10 minutes later another main break reported 3200 block of regatta boulevard. that caused by a buildup of