he really weighed in on what i was trying to pass a "farmville" in 1995. -- farm bill in 1995. he supported more police on the street and a ban on assault weapons. but there was a whole another section of that bill that provided more funds for young people in troubled neighborhoods and engage in positive i to these -- activities. then he wrote me a whole bunch of letters over three years basically saying i have not done enough on that. one letter co-authored with a distinguished harvard professor and another. saying it was imperative to give young people who had gotten in trouble a second chance, that they should be given a chance to do something else. if they got their ged stayed up drugs, the record should be sealed and convictions should be purged so they were ever asked if they had a criminal conviction, they could honestly say no. you have to give people a second chance. and there was a letter about the holocaust memorial. his unfailing support of israel. it was a fascinating letter about the importance of not giving up on missile defense research. this do it. the scientis

after the bell, zynga shot up as the farmville maker copes with online gamers. >>> and chipotle was also high on online sales as it continues to span. cable group liberty global struck a deal with virgin media for about $20 billion and buts john malone up against rupert murdoch. >>> the fbi arrested 18 thieves tuesday, ringleaders in a massive credit card scan who created thousands of identities to steal millions of dollars over the last decade. >>> meanwhile, the federal reserve is admitting one of its servers was hacked. the bank said no functions were compromised. >>> the state of florida is in hot water with executives over a $380 million ad campaign designed to attract new business. instead, it's getting called sexist because the "i" in florida has been replaced with a men's neck tie. >>> researcher at kansas state university claim between 60% and a whopping 80% of the time at the office is spent cyberloafing, the official term for watching cute animals or shopping online at the office. >>> according to a pew survey, more and more web users some like 60% taking breaks from facebook,

i will emphasize again we did pass permanent livestock disaster is part of our farmville and senator baucus was the leader in making sure that happened ever committed to having the farmville as we move forward. the major say in conclusion that we've heard an economic and other experts about not only the trout of 2012, there bifold that era, but unfortunately, it appears we can expect conditions that could be even worse this year. that is something that is certainly very sobering today. ..

she was like, "this used to all be farmville." [ laughter ] and finally police in california are investigatingcious 911 call that was made from the playboy mansion yesterday. but when they got there, hugh hefner said, "false alarm, it only lasted three hours." [ laughter ] we have a great show for you tonight, give it up for the roots, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: a huge show tonight. we are absolutely thrilled to have her here. first lady michelle obama is our guest. [ cheers and applause ] plus, she's a tony-award winning actress from "cat on a hot tin roof," scarlett johansson is stopping by. [ cheers and applause ] she is the best. and we have music from the avett brothers. [ cheers and applause ] it is a hot show. a crazy show. so excited about this. awesome. guys, today is friday, and that's -- [ cheers ] that is usually when i catch up with some personal stuff. you know, i check my inbox, return some emails and of course, send out "thank-you notes." [ cheers and applause ] i'm running a bit behind today so i thought, if you guys wouldn't mind i'

that is the term, a tip a citizenville," -- "citizen ville," and my friend, mark pincus, developed farmville. if you are 20 years old, you spend more time online playing games than you do in the classroom. it is about meeting people where there are in terms of technology. people with mobile devices are increasingly social. we are in the cloud. that is where government needs to be. we are still stuck in this giambi model, and then we see our nieces and nephews designing web sites and applications we have never heard of. we have to meet our constituents. tavis: we have to allow people to bypass government and solve problems themselves. >> i have been thinking a lot about this. i am a progressive democrat, and prod of what i have done, but you put in $1, and we do it. if you do not like what you have gotten, you kick the proverbial vending machine. protests, generally. to this notion instead of government as a platform, where we are -- it is about active citizen engagement, not doing everything for you, but doing things with you. tavis: your last point is we have to create a more entrepreneuria

. >>> the maker of farmville and other social media said it lost $48.6 million in the quarter. that's a big improvement from a year ago when zynga lost $35 million. zyga shares rose more than 7% in after hours trading. >>> in sa -- sacramento a new strategy has followed a hit-and- run debt. katherine was leaving flowers for a man killed by a suspected drunk driver when she herself was struck and killed. the accident happened last night near the scene of the first fatal crash on el camino avenue. >> she was a wonderful woman. just trying to show some love. and an accident happened. >> reporter: police say the driver in this case pulled over and is cooperating. witnesses say a street light in the area was out and that may have contributed to that accident. >>> san francisco police released surveillance video of a burglar today who stole computers from home near at&t park. police say the man forced his way inside through the back door of a home on third street 12 days ago. he stole 3mac book computers, cash an antique tool chest. police are putting out the video as part of a large

zynga has had a tough time replicating the early success of games like "farmville" and "words with friends" after closing up 7% in the regular session, zynga shares were higher by as almost 6% more in after hours trading. this comes after losing more than 70% in the past year. make-up company estee lauder led the consumer sector with sales growing across the globe. shares gained 6% to close at their highest price since october. the company raised its profit forecast for the year. a strong place for estee lauder is china, with quarterly sales up 28%. the same cannot be said for yum brands and its k.f.c. brand, and sales at those store open for at least a year in china were down 6% in the fourth quarter. k.f.c. was the target of a chinese government investigation into the use of antibiotics in chicken. it expects earnings per share to fall this year, sending shares down 2.9% to their lowest closing price since july. as we reported earlier in the program, the u.s. government officially filed civil fraud charges against s&p credit ratings services, and the shares of its parent company took ano

zynga has had a tough time replicating the early success of games like "farmville" and "words with friends" after closing up 7% in the regular session, zynga shares were higher by as almost 6% more in after hours trading. this comes after losing more than 70% in the past year. make-up company estee lauder led the consumer sector with sales growing across the globe. shares gained 6% to close at their highest price since october. the company raised its profit forecast for the year. a strong place for estee lauder is china, with quarterly sales up 28%. the same cannot be said for yum brands and its k.f.c. brand, and sales at those store open for at least a year in china were down 6% in the fourth quarter. k.f.c. was the target of a chinese government investigation into the use of antibiotics in chicken. it expects earnings per share to fall this year, sending shares down 2.9% to their lowest closing price since july. as we reported earlier in the program, the u.s. government officially filed civil fraud charges against s&p credit ratings services, and the shares of its parent company took ano

be so much better off. >> the rift on the book, "citizenville," farmville.nd more time playing games than you have in dallasroom between sixth and 12th grade. so you have to meet people where they are. we have a chapter "angry birds in democracy." ultimately, look, this book is about more choices, more voices. it's about demo momock kra advertising and engaging citizens in a two-way conversation, not the one-way conversation that and transparency. >> tran parency and openness which leads to trust. >> thank you, gavin. always geed to see you >>> well, you know what's interest about this is when you come to work and your job is great. a job is growing and you know little about it and you take advantage of cbs news and everything else and this is an extraordinary thing. >> or the rundown looks one way, something comes in, you rip it up from scratch and you start to do it immediately. >> that was my last question. when was the last time a pope resigned? it was 1415. that's why this is so extraordinary. most popes throughout history have died in office, but pope

the>> the new ones is smurf village, smurf berry and farmville. >> if you are 3. >> or me.apparently carses no longer affordable to buy. >> many of us are cruising in new wheels we can't really afford. the median income in 25 major cities last year was just over 57,000 dollars. using that salary households can afford a car payment of up to $410 a month enough to buy a new car that costs less than 21,000 dollars. here's the problem. the average price of a new car is more than 30,000 dollars which means the average new car buyer is paying some $200 more a month than he or she can really afford. since the average age of a car on the road is 11 years right now record high we are seeing a lot of people buying new cars. auto sales are good. >> people spending more money than they have. kind of like what happened with the housing crisis. remember that? thank you lauren. appreciate it. the time is 26 after the top of the pour. coming up would you board the titanic to replatrace the fatal voyage in one businessman is hoping a lot of people will. we will explain and our live coverage

this is why it could be beneficial for revenues, obviously, for zynga known for farmville.ant to look at another name, and this is a 3-d printer computer, 3-d systems. you can see it's down 8%. they came out with a quarterly report which was disappointing missing the animal -- analyst's expectations, not good news for the particular company and that's why shares are tumbling. back to you. dagen: thank you. connell: a major storm slamming parts of the central plains today, blizzard warnings in effect in oklahoma and kansas. hey, maria. maria: good morning, everyone. this is just after a week we saw blizzard conditions over a similar area. last week on thursday, we saw over a foot of snow in portions of kansas, oklahoma, and now, again, over a foot of snow expected in the areas. many people don't have anywhere to put the snow, but here we go. we have a snowfalling heavily in portions of the texas panhandle, oklahoma panhandle in central areas of kansas which could see over a foot of snow. amarillo, texas, a city in particular, that could have 20 inches of snow, and reporting

one game recently that came out farmville 2, a sequel to their flagship game.t seems to be hanging in there, and zynga poker, a couple of positives. however, when i'm most worried about, mandy, is the change that's going to happen between the relationship between facebook and zynga effective march. what that change will do is it will no longer give zynga the preferred status it's had forrist entire history. it will be reflected in the cost of acquiring customers going up significantly. i'm not sure if everybody has modelled that yet. it will be interesting to see guidance for 2013. we're modeling top line to be down 20% and earnings to be down 50%. >> okay. you've gotten it currently. what should it do to be more positive, restructuring, head cutting or something much more strategic here? >> i think for them to get investors back into the stock, what they need it a hit. it's a hit driven business no matter what anybody says. secondly, i think restructuring, head count reduction unfortunately will be needed as well. the level of revenue they are doing right now,

maker of past hits like mafia wars and farmville company still lost money $48 million not as much asas little. and also revenue of $311 million topped expectations anywhere between 50 and $100 million. interesting stat that sink da talked about one quarter of its 300 million users access their games vie were mobile devices for zynga and that's a big key going forward making sure it can make money off that now that its reliance on facebook has lessened over the past year. investors seemed to like those numbers. zynga shares up 5% in early trading right now. they were up 7% yesterday in anticipation of that report. market on a roller coaster ride the past few sessions. a couple of triple-digit swings. the dow is back up 99 points yesterday, once again closing in on 14,000. let's see how the numbers are doing in the early going. a little bit of selling after some pressure in europe. dow dropping 47 points. nasdaq down 8. s&p moving lower by 4 points. facebook benefiting from zynga's earnings, its shares up by 2%. and hp up by 1%. frank and michelle, back to you. >> thank you, kcbs radio

. >>> want to check out zynga, the creator of farmville, higher on the news than new jersey governor chris christie who signed legislation to legalize online gambling in his state. zynga is expected to benefit from that move as some casinos in new jersey do form partnerships with online entities. meantime, look at dow and nasdaq for the week so far. we are positive for the week. we have fully erased monday's losses. as the dow had a pretty steady climb during bernanke's testimony. dow is up 101. and s&p is up more than 12. that does it for us. to the apple shareholder meeting about to start and "the halftime" about to start at hq. >>> carl, thank you. welcome to "the halftime show." we're following two big events at this hour. ben bernanke's testimony on the hill. and it has largely mirrored what we have heard yesterday, there are new and interestinging new fre nuggets from the q&a session. the dow looking poised for another gain. apple's shareholder meeting getting under way. we'll bring you the headlines from both of those stories as they happen. let's get right to steve liesman, m

hour director, bruce rattner and 611 media to produce a series of 30-minute animated shows based on farmvillei will let you judge that. the stock is up today. we'll see what it does if it gains back the 74% of the its value it lost over the past year. back to you. nicole: thanks, lauren. david: five seconds ago the s&p futures closed. let's go back to the pits. larry levin is there. sort of getting a judge what will happen tomorrow in the opening. did you get any sense of that from the close today the? >> yeah. i don't think you will see much action on the open. in fact there wasn't a whole lot of action on the closed. it finished just unchanged. to keep in mind the s&p futures set a new high of 1517. yesterday's high, 1517 in s&ps. see if we get above that or not. nicole: you break through 1517 you think it is up, up and away or you think the pullback everybody is talking about is coming, larry. >> i don't think up, up and a way but we've been grinding higher. you're forced to buy the highs but at least you hold on for a couple points here and there. the market like i said, keeps grinding hi

better than expected profit, this week alone, the stock is up 28% so when you think of zynga and farmvillen up 11%. let's look at how we are fairing with major market averages. it is below 13 per day. the dow jones industrials hit a pair dean thousand mark and pull back a little bit but still a gain of 51 points with a majority of the dow components holding green arrows today. and wall street across the board for retailers to drugs and transport higher oil services. dennis: thank you. the real estate story, new york style, the newest nickname neighborhood. cheryl: sandra smith joins us, you are standing at an apartment, $2.3 million. nicole: it is and it is 1900 square feet, and actually in charge of selling this particular property. two bedrooms, 1900 square feet, this is man hadden, this is what you pay, selling these quickly in this environment. >> absolutely. we have people coming from all over, demographics, big demographic change. we have some international, deciding not to move and sustain -- the young professionals who want to work very nearby. basically every single demographic in

farmville, another online game, says it took in $261 million.s almost $50 million more thane analysts reported. >>> new research shows many americans suffer from what's called facebook fatigue. 61% of all u.s. facebook users have taken a break from the social network for several weeks. more than 20% of those account holders say they were simply too busy. another 10% decided it was a waste of time. but the number of people actually quitting facebook is small since psychologists say that would be like leaving all of your friends. >>> 7:45. san francisco police will be holding a news conference and tell us new details in the kevin collins case. pam pam cook's in the newsroom. you have new information and video? >> yes. kevin collins is the 10-year- old boy who vanished nearly 30 years. last night, we took pictures of police leaving the concord apartment where kevin collins' mother lives. investigators say they showed pictures to kevin's mother, his sisters and brother of the lead suspect in the case. now, he's dan ther leon who die -- dan therrien

. >> bookings not bad, adjusted ebitda, and farmville 2.han we think? >> that's what the quarter does show, if you execute, you can do well towards these older games. the company is going more towards mobile and the company is aware of this and transitioning them to meet that challenge. we need to see if they can execute before we get too excited but clearly the market likes that so far. >> is the primary catalyst new game launches and what does that pipeline look like at this point? >> i think they're trying to redo the whole company around mobile, franchises and network effects and profitability. we think if they can get the network effects correct you will see the franchises do well and profitability come back to the company. >> you point out stocks still not cheap. what's your view at $3? >> it is ahead of where we expected it to be. a $2.75 target. people excited about it. in general, investors are taking another look at the whole space. with mobile and new concepts coming more and more people are playing games and up to the e experts