the residents have filed suit against exxon, but exxon has a lot more money than these people do, andrkansas is seemingly on exxon's side in this. so do the neighbors have a chance? >> well, if you also look at the samples epa has been collecting inside the homes in the evacuated area, they are detecting the benzine tal you wean ethyl benzine and when they compare td to comparable samples collected by exxon contractors, for the most part contractors are getting nondetect. so it gets back to the sensitivity of the testing and clearly the chemicals that are continuing to be detected and continuing to cause the health impacts and -- >> wilma, i'm sorry, i have to interrupt you, but thank you for joining us this morning. president obama is at the white house, and he's going to announce his nominations for federal judges. left's listen. >> important responsibilities of a president is to nominate qualified men and women to serve as judges on the federal bench. and congress has a responsibility as well. the senate is tasked with providing advice and consent. they can approve a president's no

exxon is a very long-term best managed company.will probably be a few years from now doing extremely well in all the businesses, including natural-gas. that will probably begin as well. liz: okay. you just picked out comcast at the top of the show as one of these companies that has those things. let's get to your next one. it is not jay p. >> actually, it has done so well liz: wait. >> evaluation is okay. yet not own it, we for a pullback. liz: coming off of the top here from the three months. let's get to your next one. it is not morgan, but it is a j.p. morgan of insurance companies. >> once again, is directly great management. the business is pretty sound right now. someone who knows much more about the insurance business than i do, the business is pretty good. they have a great business. the valuation, once again, in -- on a historical basis is quite low. so it has the three characteristics the. liz: and of course you are still keeping intel, but everyone likes intel. liz: -- >> please explain to me the dividend yield. liz: abo

that during the two thousand and twelve election cycle he received thousands from koch industries exxon mobil and chevron and his top career donors include anadarko petroleum conoco phillips and koch industries unlike congressman burton signed congressman smith and senator coburn to have it officially asked president obama to apologize for funding climate change research but there's still plenty it's for those demands to come in the meantime i'm prepared to accept a few apologies of my own i'm prepared to accept an apology from big oil companies like exxon mobil and koch industries that are actively buying off our politicians and funding phony science and misinformation campaigns and i'm prepared to accept an apology from lawmakers like congressman britain's dean side and smith and senator coburn who are taking thousands of dollars in donations in turn for turning a blind eye to one of the biggest threats that our planet has ever faced and along with those apologies these guys should have the common decency at least to wear the logos of the corporations that own them the way that nascar

this is the scene, the exxon gas station right at the foot of the key bridge right next to georgetown university. the short version -- a woman is carjacked here at the gas pump. the thieves take off with her car. they crash it, and just a few moments ago -- we need to show you some video -- we saw her vehicle. police told it right past our cameras. they crash, a lot of damage to it. here's is what happened -- she goes to the gas pump, 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning of three guys pull up and try to rob. she runs into this door. she tells the employee. he calls police. police get here really quick. they put out a lookout for the car. another officer spotted that car and the chase was on. the suspects took her vehicle mercedes-benz, and they flipped it on the flipped it three times on the clara barton parkway. customers are pretty shaken up. >> i just usually get my guess on the way to work. but it is getting kind of dangers out here. all types of different people writing up on this gas station. i am always on alert. >> that is a live picture of a civilian -- surveillance camera so hopefull

that was also an exxon pipeline. that one fouled one of montana's legendary natural assets. and the enbridge oil spill near the kalamazoo river in michigan in 2010. cleanup costs are up to a billion dollars and counting so far. in part because that's alberta tar sands oil and no one really knows how to clean up alberta tar sands oil. up in alberta, it's the red deer river that the oil spills have been fouling lately. oil spills have been fouling a lot up there for a long time. the network of infrastructure through alberta have had an average of two crude oil spills of some kind or another every single day for the past 37 years. two spills a day. it's easy to conclude that that's canada's problem to deal with, right? president obama has to decide whether it's going to be our program. president obama has to make a decision whether or not to approve construction of the keystone xl pipeline that will carry oil from alberta canada all the way through the united states to the gulf of mexico. that project requires a presidential permit in order to go forward because that pipeline c

. >> officers say a woman was pumping gas at exxon on the 3600 block of m street and three men took her vehicle. the woman was not hurt. there was a police chase which ended with a crash. we don't know if police have made any arrests. we will have a report coming up at 5:00 a.m.. >> amid the m.s.a. scandal, facebook says they are not providing the government access to their services. >> apple may start a trade-in program to let you upgrade. linda bell joins us live. good friday morning to you, linda. >> good friday morning to you as well, scott and cynne. it is the trade-in program is aimed at getting users to use the iphone 5. there is increased demand overseas. especially in emerging markets. apple is using a company called brightstar to run this program. speaking of apple, it is among tech companies that assure americans it is not giving the government direct access to their service. also we have microsoft, google, acebook. the code name, prism and the roots to aces its former president bush. one says it puts americans' security at risk. there are few places where you can get a free

. >> exxon, xon. southern company, apple.interesting, because you know this is a conservative portfolio that will hold up better in some ways and not in others. but let's just handle diversification. we have utility, which is an actual utility. we have a telco. these are going down. they're two bond market equivalents. exxon mobile what can i say? that will go down. spider gold is going down, apple is going down, lots of people think the earnings aren't there. it's tech, gold, utility, telco and oil. this is an example of a well diverse philadelphia to portfolio that will hurt you a bit in this market. what can i do? stay with cramer. >>> a special market edition tonight for the market report. bernanke's tightening was a killer. i see more deflation than inflation. stocks ought to stabilize when long rates go up. next up on "kudlow." it's important to get away from everything once in awhile. well, everything but palm trees, sunshine and fruity drinks, that is. we've been bringing people together. today, we'd like people to co

. >> exxon, xon.rn company, so, apple, aapl and gold, gld. >> this is really interesting, because you know this is a conservative portfolio that will hold up better in some ways and not in others. but let's just handle diversification. we have utility, which is an actual utility. we have a telco. these are both going down. they're two bond market equivalents. exxon mobile, what can i say? that will go down. spider gold is going down, apple is going down because lots of people think the earnings aren't there. it's tech, gold, utility, telco and oil. this is an example of a well diversified philadelphia to portfolio that will hurt you a bit in this market. what can i do? stay with cramer. [ kitt ] you know what's impressive? a talking car. but i'll tell you what impresses me. a talking train. this ge locomotive can tell you exactly where it is, what it's carrying, while using less fuel. delivering whatever the world needs, when it needs it. ♪ after all, what's the point of talking if you don't have some

like exxon. or goldman sachs and underdog industries.how could underdog have known that giving dogs a chemical undercoat would seal their pours and cause canine dementia? bottom line: did those dogs rust or not? no. they didn't live long enough. well now, another defenseless multinational is being unfairly attacked because of a little slip-up. >> federal authorities are scrambling to find out precisely how genetically modified wheat created by biotech giant man sandt owe ended up in an oregon wheat farm. >> the wheat was tested after it was sprayed repeatedly but it would not die. genetically modified wheat was created by monsanto a decade ago but never approved for commercial use. >> the wheat was genetically modified, the same strain tested but then abandoned by monsanto from 1998 to 2005 >> stephen: a farmer found genetically modified wheat in his field that monsanto stopped growing back in 2005 which means this wheat is not only reproducing on its own but someone is going to have to tell it that malcolm in the middle was canceled. th

did you know that the exxon valdez wreck, the explosion of the challenger space shuttle and the nuclear accidents of chernobyl and three mile island were all partially the result of decisions made on too little sleep? according to research at walter reed hospital, the only thing that gets better with sleep deprivation is magical thinking and reliance on superstition. [laughter] for those of you majoring in fortune-telling, go ahead and burn the midnight oil. the rest of you, not so much. [laughter] as you can tell by now, i am a major sleep evangelist. at the huffington post a number newsroom, we have two map rooms. [cheers]ooms. at first, hundreds of editors and reporters and engineers were very reluctant to be seen in the middle of the afternoon having a nap. but now, the two nap rooms are continuously booked and we need to offer a third. i must say, the other day i was walking by one of the nap rooms and i saw two people coming out of the nap room. i thought to myself, whatever it takes to recharge yourself. [laughter] just please don't tell hr.ok? adding well-being to our definition

exxon mobil and the chinese cineplex of already got their hands on the bulk of it. at last we reach bastrop where the euphrates and the tigris meet. travel is once called the city of venice of the south. who comes to kill us and destroy our country and good it before we said it the americans but the americans have gone and now my general so who else is continuing the job of a that nobody knows of there's no work in the situation is unlivable i say yes it was better before. conversely if we talk about security and civic respect we can say it was a hundred percent better under saddam. today there's no respect for the citizens and as if we were no longer men that's the truth that's honestly what i feel for ya . we are less and less respected before an iraqi could walk by this head held high anywhere in the world and especially at home as long as the state was not affected or undermined things have changed a lot i can tell you that the situation was much better before. the venice of the self was awash with detritus of all kinds half of the inhabitants are unemployed it'

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- than two months since an exxon oil pipeline corruption in state of arkansas. residents say they are suffering. will there concerns be heard? "inside story," from washington. ♪ hello, in march of this year a ruptured pipeline spewed more than 6,000 pounds of tar sands oil. since

. >> speaking adjourning town university, the president also made clear that the exxon pipeline project should only go forward if it doesn't worsen carbon pollution. >>> they are the first thing police ask for when they pull you over, but not being able to show proof of your car registration and insurance could mean pricey ticket. now technology is making it easier. >> sue keeps her car insurance and renovation up to date, but when the busy mom was pulled over by a police officer, she couldn't prove it. >> i just could not find it at that crazy moment. >> so the officer gave her a fix it ticket. >> he said it was correctable so it sounded like it wasn't going to be a big ticket. >> that was followed a few weeks later but a confusing courtesy notice. >> i needed to spend the $1,096. i was in shock -- send in $1,096. >> california's insurance expert says while it is not always clear from police paperwork how much drivers do owe, state law is clear. any driver stopped by police is required to be able to show proof of insurance and registration and it's getting easier to provide at least so

looks like exxon will be thrown out like puppy dogs and take it away from exxon and by the way, afghanistanghanistan. nobody knew how rich afghanistan was in terms of minerals. we're fighting in afghanistan, they're on the other side of the mountain taking out all the minerals. >> brian: they're providing their own security. real quick, that's because this president wanted nothing to do with iraq. he doesn't even call up their leadership. we have absolutely no leverage with them. >> look, iraq is a whole story. we should have never been there. we should have -- you know i've said it 1,000 times, i said, if we're there, we shouldn't have been there. if we're there, take the oil. take the oil. at least pay back, at a minimum, pay back, take the oil. guess what? china is taking the oil. but they didn't have to fight. >> alisyn: donald, i'm sure you remember the moment during the democratic convention in 2012 when bill clinton came out and sort of stole the limelight and everybody -- democrats, look at this moment where he bows to president obama and they have this big hug and we now know a lit

repairs and maintanance to refineries owned by bp and exxon will have gasoline flowing again. and reports surfaced friday paula deen's career at the food network is cooked. reports say her contract will not be renewed following racial slurs. phillip streible of rjo futures joins us on this monday morning to take a look at the week ahead. good morning to you. - good morning to you. - is the summer sell-off here, phillip? - if you look at the equities, we saw a 530-point drop in the dow last week. we saw the s&p breaks some key moving averages. i think it really is. - what about margin calls? what do you anticipate? - well, what we are probably going to see is, with a high volatility, the cme group, the imx, these exchanges, they are most likely going to increase margin requirements on products like gold, silver, crude oil, a lot of these currencies, big moving products to make the products more in line with the amount of money you should have in your account in order to control them. so, i anticipate that margins get hiked, and margin calls start to come in. - it all just feeds

and the highest exxon. hawaii the high nets nation. and the slays south carolina at $3.25. >>> slide siding ripped off your house. water in the basement. it all adds up in the cost of weather. abc2 news says if you look at all the weather disaster we have had the cost is just staggering. >> hurricanes. tornadoes. fires. floods. 20120 2-was the second costliest year in terms of damage according to the data center. more than $110 billion. spread out over 11 major weather disasters. each costing more than 1 billion. >> that's just a number cow you can't even put your head around. weather is becoming more extreme. >> the most extreme of 25012 super storm sandy. 65 billion in damage. let's not forget the human cost. more than 130 lives. perhaps lost in the coverage washed away by news of san by was year long drought. the longest since the dust bowl days of the 1930s. effecting more than half of the country for most of the year and costing $30 billion. and remember, the drought leads to wild fires which last year burned 9 million-acres acros

state law says no partisan -- are allowed when appointing someone to that position. >>> exxon mobil isnd the state of arkansas. you may when this happened in march outside of little rock. an underground pipeline ruptured and an estimated 5,000 barrels of oil spewed all over this suburban neighborhoods. homes were evacuated. 22 homes contaminated. this is a pipeline that carries canadian oil from illinois to texas. it has been shut down ever since. arkansas attorney general dustin mcdaniel joining mess from little rock. dustin, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> tell me about this lawsuit, because it's not just about the spill. it's also about the disposal of the waste here. >> that's true. what we have is a really good example of the state and the united states working together to bring an action for enforcement of our environmental laws. it's not just about the spill or the damages caused to our water, air and soil, but it's also about amazingly enough violations of state law in the course of the cleanup itself. >> how much money is arkansas hoping to get over this? is ther

i know in a documentary central park 5 and after 5 young men were imprisoned and later exxon rated them. what do you think has to change in terms of the actuality cult you are culture of the criminal justice system that will prevent this in the future? >> the win it all mentality has to go. i think there is this tunnel vision and that is colloquial that is for a human being to not come up with a conclusion first and look at the facts that go to support and look at that conclusion and we all suffer from it one way or another. prosecutors suffer greatly. they commit a lot of resources to that prosecution. i'm not talking about the evil plays who don't care whether somebody is innocent or guilty. i think most of them think they are going after the correct person and they think that's what they have done and it's difficult for them to back out of that to take a hard look and step back and take a hard look at it. you are right, it's been really difficult for us to get any tracks to do that and let the judge decide. but to step up and say i'm not going to let a judge decide this. i'm going to

aaa reports the bp refinery in indiana and an exxon mobile refinery in illinois are down for major upgrades or repairs. genetically-modified wheat is at the center of a new lawsuit. a farmer is suing seed-maker monsanto, claiming that an experiment with genetically modified wheat contaminated his crops. last week, the usda discovered a test crop of the wheat in oregon and several other states, but says there is no evidence the wheat is in the marketplace. monsanto calls it an "isolated incident." china is playing a game of tit- for-tat with europe. yesterday we reported europe plans to impose a $12 tariff on solar panels made in china. well, now china reportedly is considering retaliation with an investigation into wine from europe. the european union exports nearly $1 billion in wine each year to china. a u.s. senator is asking probing questions about the chinese company planning to buy a large american pork producer. china's shaunghui international has made a bid for smithfield foods. senator debbie stabenow of michicagn is concerned about the deal, based on what she calls china and shaun

world's economy well let's get back to the oil rigs near basra where publicly traded oil companies like exxon mobil and b.p. as private entities they're legally bound and responsible to their shareholders to maximize profits so this leaves chinese state owned companies such as the sea and they're more likely to sear secure contracts that are less profitable as they are not they're not only backed by their home government but they're also more willing to take on projects with a sliver of profit margin but now we're seeing that china is gaining increasing control of not only oil rights in iraq but of resources you all over the world such as in africa could it be that the state model is more profitable in the long run. you know i think history will tell but you know it's certainly true that basically our companies and this was certainly true with our solar companies are not you know fighting chinese companies on equal terms i mean china went from no where in the solar industry to dominating the solar industry and the reason was that they were able as you just pointed out to under bid everybody i

building berg and according to its own tax documents received sizable donations from corporations like exxon goldman sachs and b.p. according to its website build a bird two thousand and thirteen will be attended by the head of the international monetary fund the president the european commission prime minister of holland chairman of swiss induct national banks and a multitude of trans national c.e.o.'s yet despite this same powerhouse gathering there is virtually no coverage from the mainstream media about the policy summit which is especially interesting considering how media moguls have routinely attended the build a board meetings over the years in fact steering committee member david rockefeller allegedly said that he's grateful to media outlets like the washington post in the new york times for keeping the meetings discretionary for almost forty years so what do we know about the build a bear group the severe lack of transparency surrounding the event has fostered multiple theories and much speculation about what's really going on behind the meetings closed doors many journalists now a

economy well let's get back to the oil rigs near basra where a publicly traded oil companies like exxon mobil and b.p. as private entities they're legally bound and responsible to their shareholders to maximize profits so this leaves chinese state owned companies such as this sea and they're more likely to sear secure contracts that are less profitable as they are not they're not only backed by their home government but they're also more willing to take on projects with a sliver of profit margin but now we're seeing that china is gaining increasing control of not only oil rights in iraq but of resources you all over the world such as in africa could it be that the state model is more profitable in the long run. you know i think history will tell but you know it's certainly true that basically our companies and this was certainly true with our solar companies are not you know fighting chinese companies on equal terms i mean china went from no where in the solar industry to dominating the solar industry and the reason was that they were able as you just pointed out to under bid everybody

about china ross nafta been drumming up the lente of deals head today they've been speaking to any exxon and also as well so it will set in the head of the company has been a busy mt. i want to talk about so gas because putin approached this topic in his hand when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia let through the. resolution revolution i should say so he said the main reasons why it's not. that in the energy world is simply because it's costly it's more costly to produce the natural gas and as well as that is also environmental concerns as well to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so far as producing was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called stale gas boom. he's critical been reporting right now if you kind of stay with us here and see you just a moment i'll be martin no nonsense news and breaking the set that's in just a minute. you know what's worse than a crop bureaucrat a crook bureaucrat who sucks at being corrupt a scumbag bureaucrat in veronese russia

about china ross nafta been drumming up her plenty of deals here today they've been speaking to any exxon and also that's all as well so it will set in the head of the company has been a busy mt. i want to talk about show gas because putin approached this topic in his hand when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia slept through the. resolution revolution i should say so he said the main reasons why it's not in the energy world is simply because it's costly it's more costly to produce a natural gas and as well as that is also environmental concerns as well to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so far as producing was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called gas boom. thanks for the software we won't surely have a martin talks by the future iran's relationship with the west stuff the country's elected a new president obviously right after the break. the news that secret laboratory tim curry was able to build a new most sophisticated robots which fortunately doesn't giv

macbook pro according to apple it will be available later this year it has the latest and greatest of exxon processors fire pros. ok let's lots of great stuff in there but i think people were a little bit disappointed that cook didn't have anything really groundbreaking to share and he's filling some really big three d. printed shoes here now that steve jobs is gone people expected a little bit more apparently what does this bode for the long term future of apple stock we'll have to see and i'm sure these these innovations are going to help people who are already in these products who want the new ones but you know it's not the next i phone it's not the next i pod what do you have to offer well he hired lisa jackson who was the old head of the e.p.a. and she did a lot to influence environmental agency i would even say she was chief of staff under john corps. and of course of the most global thing just to throw that in there a lot of a lot of ties but if you're not happy with your i phone product apple announced that they are going to introduce this apple phone trade in program supposed to s

equates to actually they want to really extend their presence as well they want to get hold of oil giant exxon mobil's presence in the iraqi feels that they want to expand and if we just go back to before the war during saddam hussein's time during then there was lots of or sanctions that really affected the oil market because it meant that it was cutoff from the markets and since then the market's been more open and more friendly business environment for the likes of china to take advantage of china did exactly that absolutely but makes the chinese so attractive as well they've got plenty of money lots of disposable income but really it's the way that they handled the iraqi government they really had a relationship going on the contracts are strict they've dealt with lower profits in order to win these billion dollar contracts in the long run and there's lots going on they seem to be very committed in the long run china has set up an airport on the iranian border to actually transport these iraqi workers into the oil fields there's also talk of direct flights going from beijing into iraq into

building berg and according to its own tax documents received sizable donations from corporations like exxon goldman sachs and b.p. according to its website build a bird two thousand and thirteen will be attended by the head of the international monetary fund the president the european commission prime minister of holland chairman of swiss induction national banks and a multitude of trans national see yet despite this same powerhouse gathering there is virtually no coverage from the mainstream media about the policy summit which is especially interesting considering how media moguls have routinely attended the builder board meetings over the years in fact steering committee member david rockefeller allegedly said that he's grateful to media outlets like the washington post in the new york times for keeping the meeting discretionary for almost forty years so what do we know about the build a bear group and the severe lack of transparency surrounding the event has fostered multiple theories and much speculation about what's really going on behind the meetings closed doors many journalists now