the fortune 500. fortune, of course, is a magazine. if it were a 19th century novel, it might be "a tale of two cities," because, yes, the headline from the 500 this year, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. >> it's the best of times for american big business, profits were up over 80% for america's 500 largest companies. >> reporter: if you are keeping score at home, an 81% jump in profits, that's a lot. the third biggest since fortune started counting. >> business is picking up again and they are minting money right now. >> reporter: so, strike up the band, right? well, hold off on that for a second. because that's where the whole worst of times thing comes in. >> basically big business is making a lot of money right now by making individuals, by making employees work that much harder. >> reporter: there's a word for that, called productivity. some might say a four-letter word. businesses are making more because they're getting more from us. and they're not really hiring yet. 24 million americans are still unemployed

when i was recording, when i was fortunate to be able to record bridge across the blue, i was telling them i got this air, i got it off the chieftan's album, i'm going to do it on the electric base. he looked at me and said, you're nuts. people are going to go crazy but if you can do it, i'll help you. he gave me this book of airs and went, figure it out, figure it out. it never quite jelled on the base but when hillary called today, i started to think more about the cedar flute. i said, i wonder if this particular air can fit? well, here we go. (instrumental music). >> thank you very much. i guess what i want to say about an arrangement like that is that it's not meant to use the cedar flute as a bit of exotica, but what the panelists have been speaking about. it's the use of all of it together is a way of trying to address, hopefully not in a way that homogenizing anything, hopefully not in a way that takes anything away from any of the traditions incorporated within it. we all come from jazz backgrounds, which is inherently about mixing in and of itself. but if you let that start t

>> i think we are very fortunate in district two. we have a number of great police captains that oversee the stations that touched district two. richmond and northern are the two major police stations that touched the district. we do have a lot of crime in district 2. both crimes against individuals but also against merchants along our merchant corridors. chestnut. union in particular has been hit. fillmore and sacramento. it is a big deal. we also have the break-ins. we need to be very mindful that people keep their iphones and laptops out of sight. but it is a big deal. one of the things i talk a lot about on the campaign, making sure that we do fund our public safety departments. we have to make some tough decisions this year, but to me, one of the biggest priorities is making sure that we have our police and firefighters and sheriffs' offices and their budgets fully funded so that we can ensure that public safety does not lag during these budget times. again, in district 2, i do not think it is talked about as much. we are fortun

in this in addition to the fact that numerous new terrorists were because fortune. so why do you think despite those facts and there have been a lot of people really big into the documents and looking back at the timeline and trying to get the truth out there why is that still the line that so many republicans former bush officials are saying you know even tim pawlenty last night saying that torture is what got us to osama bin laden i'm going to just deny it all . was a part of. a lot of president obama's political capital for the upcoming presidential race so that's part of. and part of it is people who were people who order the. bush or vice president cheney and bill are all trying to cover their rear end for having or does. and now that's actually the one thing out of this is that the waterboarding on that. ever got it was that you deny knowing anything career. earlier. why do you think the politicians and the pundits the people who have never actually come face to face with a detainee and had to interrogate them you know the it enhanced interrogation or not why

>>catherine: companies making big financial boost the fortunes of a convert is out.ing the biggest companies. fortune 500. >> rob: typically, these companies to pretty well some are better than others. wal-mart tops the list. >>catherine: the second to consecutive year that it is from number-one >> rob: a couple of other indicators. the one thing about wal-mart is that of the ultimately make money from volume, volume, volume. they have made a couple of mistakes. they have not expanded internationally that well. they took back from their better other items. >>catherine: oil? not surprising. >> rob: a few weeks ago about a lot of companies that earns billions of dollars. and the art reporting their best quarter ever. basically, they are considering as corporations. as entities, these companies are big, slow, like a titanic but the meat tons and tons of money. >>catherine: not just how much the money money they make? but the-make tons of money-- >> rob: with fannie mae for example. it is government sponsored. the democrats are fighting about fannie mae, sallie mae, fred

just the other day, what does it mean to be fortunate? i think i have always been fortunate. we did not have a lot of money but this is not just monetary. it has to do with two people that raised me that cared about me. dusty williams played piano for the church choir. i was inspired by my preacher and here i am preaching. i have always been fortunate and we have to redefine what that means. >> you are going to be in russia when you officially take over in july. you officially take over from mrs. jamison in july. how do you process that? >> i have never been to russia. there will be a takeover. this is so exciting. miss jamison is a remarkable lady. for me to not only be succeeding where but also to just learn from her and to be able to call her a friend, someone who i looked up to as an image is now so human to me and as a friend and confidante. this is awesome and i keep saying that. there are many young folks there and it was awesome. tavis: what is it that many years down the year from now, your legacy, do you know you wanted to be? >> i want to know that i helped to fost

we are so fortunate to still have each other. we were so fortunate to have her in our lives. she forever changed all of us. >> george huguely trial is set for february 6. family and friends of yeardley love or honoring her memory through notre dame prep and through a foundation that is established in her memory to offer scholarships and athletic opportunities for underprivileged children. you can find a link to both on wbaltv.com. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> some clouds and mild temperatures across the region tonight and still even a few scattered light showers showing up. it could produce a little thunder and lightning as it moves up to the york pennsylvania area. it is very widely scattered around here and the more substantial rains are west of the mountains where some heavy showers and thunderstorms are rumbling up through the ohio valley and down to the gulf coast. all of that is going to slowly work in our direction by late tuesday and into wednesday. around here today, temperatures were a little bit warmer than what yo

the financial services company comes in fifth on the list of fortune 500.companies. conoco philips, chevron and exxon mobil. the one i said you would get, you got it, second year in a row, walmart tops the list. >>> 12 minutes until the top of the hour. always a pleasure. one of my favorite parts of my morning to see fredricka whitfield and we have a bit of a development with fredricka right now. >> we do? >> after much resistance -- >> now you're making me nervous -- >> after much strife, fredricka whitfield is on twitter. >> drum roll, that's right. @fwhitfield. i'm at the party. >> the party is not as fun as it seems on the outside. >> i'm there. i'm onboard. yeah, in fact, i've already been tweeting a little bit and having conversations with people. >> i heard you got seven tweets out so far. >> who's counting? >> they put them up there for you. >> baby steps. one little step at a time. it's only been about a week. if it's seven, if it's one a day, that's an improvement from zero. >> i have been asking you for the past year plus. are you on twitter? are

the anti-drug official never attempted to find out how those quick fortunes were made. so who could do it. why not the anti-corruption commission. it was led by a childhood friend of president karzai. a few months ago in september two thousand and eight the commission was dissolved when something went very wrong but this was my. second chance office right here. and take. so these people. if you will give you tips i had some phones heartland cell for people to be calling in case it fell or did see something going on the by me asking people for pride and it was the telephone go flying ensued cooldowns me. is a number that there are numbers which we have a matter of mary production fake which the case is to the fabs which is nigeria see them. oddly enough the commission never investigated the sheer poor district. you must miss all those holes is is. your first serious. charge here because the fish which has imposed this was a park and has been built by people who feel majority for all the people they are working in that ministration office and this goes to say that this is

oh it's very hard as are considered to be a fixed remote fortunes to mankind. there is a balance of nuclear on a spectrum that seemed correct palace because that is exactly what scared cease that these arms will ever believed. this is the footage from the detonation of the hydrogen bomb developed by under a subset of the us assad had managed to beat the united states in developing the terrifying weapon of mass destruction samsonov became an epidemic early thirty's it's one of the bomb tests resulted in two deaths a soldier on site and a little girl in a nearby village iliffe the strong impression inside her oath despite the cost of outcome of the new high drama. class if i would also heard of comparable they threw a small party in the test side to own a saucer of the main hero and he was allowed to open the evening of course he also propose the first toast which shocks everyone you're her she says i'd like to drink all bombs exploding on test sites but never overtones in cities when you go down you've got a war that's going to. at that time some sort of became

stories now france is accused of forcing the elderly to scrimp and save all the government spends a fortune on increasing its military presence abroad and her is currently fighting in libya by every coast in afghanistan with tens of thousands of troops also stationed elsewhere. to russian nationalists have been jailed for murdering a human rights lawyer and a journalist in central moscow two years ago it was given life while his accomplice was sentenced to eighteen years jail in one of the biggest convictions of its kind in russia. the tide turns on waterboarding as american officials claim to have helped capture osama bin laden but human rights defenders say voluntary cation achieves nothing more than proof as to help techniques valuable information. but also a show stopping performance courtesy of russia's top flight aerial displays worlds as they mark that twentieth birthday he was in the infant death defying stunts such as flight less than a meeting between each plane is we. will be back with more news for another update in fifteen years another one time one hundred percent of the mosco

these statements were just offensive on the offices who are fortunate with themselves one of satirists main opponents his name just said a gay children a peacekeeper a former paratrooper who lost both his legs in the war here given that we're very shocked and surprised look or evocative behavior of this famous son. thank you. today surrogate lives in kiev and his head of the ukrainian war veterans group he still believes that sachar of was to go above and trusting people who provided him with information including that on the situation in afghanistan. overfull wishful generally speaking apart from being a great physicist who the sucker of was a very sincere and naive person he was easily deceived and believe everything he heard he was. counting his statements in a harsh manapul i think he was simply just see for the people whose rallies are numerous and chose a political course of the young surrogates stress the populist standpoint among soviets in relation to the conflict in afghanistan those who support it sacrosanct on t.v. were an absolute minority of the session but the debates we

there are so many issues and so many positive stories to report, and i feel so fortunate through the years to have had the opportunity to cover these stories that serve the needs of the community at large as well as our own apa community. the community should be proud and acknowledged for its role in paving the way for jan and for me and hundreds of others to be working in newsrooms across the city. it took activism by chinese for affirmative action and other organizations in the early 1970's to get apa's hired into radio and television stations. ever since it turned out to be more than just the right thing to you. it has improved the quality of journalism and the quality of coverage for the audiences we serve. today, we have apa's in all aspects of this production and decision making, and it all started because of you. on behalf of all of us who get to tell these great stories day in and day out, thank you for recognizing the importance of what we do, and we are all very grateful for your recognition tonight. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. each of the winners of this evening in

fannie mae, the financial services company comes in fifth on the fortune 500 list.conoco philips, exxon mobil and topping the list for the second year in a row, the one i was pretty sure you would get, walmart. >>> well, it has been a pretty busy week for republican john huntsman. who? you know, john huntsman. you know john huntsman. he's the former governor of utah and he's also president obama's former ambassador to china. he surived back home and met with lawmakers and huddled with advisors about a possible presidential bid. and today he is making a first public appearance. he is delivering the commencement address at this school. now, the school and its location are of a little bit of significance here. for that, let me bring in cnn political reporter on the line with me from columbia, south carolina. peter, would i be silly to believe that this is just the coincidence that he happens to be delivering a commencement address in south carolina of all places? >> no. why would you think that? he's also delivering a commencement address in new hampshire later this mo

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>> i think that we are fortunate in this county where they put all court records on the internet. i has been in heated discussions. there are competing first amendment issues. i don't know what the solution is that i know that there are two competing concerns. >> how many of his people -- of the people in this room have ever check their own criminal record? we have projections for your medical records why are people checking each other hoout? why is this even available. the next thing will be your medical records. they will put your grades out there. can you imagine? >> i think that this is a first amendment issue for the most part there are decisions out here to deal with this. this is public information. when it goes from the courthouse, that is where it is out of control. we're supposed to have lost to deal with this. how you plug the hole is really tough. there is another side to it. >> let's look at this in a whole different way. let's provide for the fact that you don't have any privacy i deal with people coming out of prison who are e-mail in me and calling me almost every

fortunately for us we don't have that problem now. >> it was a gorgeous day. >> it feels wonderful. couple of showers popped up ,@ >>> welcome back everybody. we've seen a couple of showers pop up in the last couple of hours. so we're going to show you doppler radar. this is what we have going on right now. this is not very much but we've seen plunging, heading back toward dc. a couple of showers up there. upstream just a couple of very isolated showers. they popped up west of fredrick and south of hagerstown. we got up into the 70s across the region. still hanging on to 70 degrees. 70 in dc. our high was 75 degrees on the day. so back above average. that's where we're going to be most of the next couple of days here. this is the over all pattern, we had this batch make its way through today. now there is still a storm track, not that far away that has stormy weather around it but nothing hugely organized. after this cycle through tonight we calm down tomorrow, and for the most part we're going to stand between a storm that's off storm spinning and one that's out in the midwest. for

>>pam: democrats have their own show with the exxon mobile is the most fortunate profitable-fortune 500mber three making 90 billion >> of the americans are paying it that americans oil profit. >>pam: the subsidy is saying that it will save the tax measures going towards reducing the deficit. the idea has no chance for approval by the republican controlled house. that did not stop the senate finance committee from calling in an executive of the top five oil companies. >> is it wise to continue these tax breaks the largest companies every year? >>pam: the unanimous answer was good for big oil is good for america. >> raising taxes will lead to less investment, less production and most likely higher costs per gallon. and less employment. >>pam: for one thing is cutting the subsidy will not reduce prices at the pump. >>catherine: new york city mayor says that they have thwarted an attempt on the senate cuts. they arrested two men in a sting operation. if with attacking-synagogues. if the rising mississippi is still causing problems federal engineers are moving closer to making a top decision

fortune magazine says that for a $21 billion in sales helped it earned its place on top.or $21 billion, $42 $1 billion = # 14 wal-mart on fortune magazine. $41 billion $41 billion $9 four two on (music) >> jacqueline: what we can expect with our temperatures? let us take a look of the fog. it is going to fill into our bay shore. this projection could be a big aggressive. and it is going to clea by the bit quicker. the fog tracker is also showing that this is offshore at 9:00 a.m. it is likely to hog the coastline. into the early afternoon. temperatures are going to look like this with 80s. tomorrow, low 70's for the most part. 76 and santa rosa. 67 and some rafeal. temperatures will be cool with the sea breezes in place and the fog in the afternoon. low 60s. 62 in san francisco and a bit warmer for the east bay. the the five in oakland. the biggest it will be in our inland valleys for the temperatures will be in the '90s. we are going to see quite a bit of big changes with 77 and inland valleys tomorrow near oakland. 75 and santa clara. a big change from 90's today. your

we are very fortunate today to have an expert with those who is going to walk us are around elevators in san francisco. can you tell us about the history of elevators in san francisco? the measure -- >> sure. the history of elevator technology evolves with the city. first elevators were installed for moving materials in the 1860's. in the 1870's, the first passenger elevator was installed, and that allowed building heights to go up to about seven floors. starting in the 18 eighties, 1890's, the first electric elevators were installed. that allowed for buildings to go up even higher, even more than 10 floors, and those were the first elevators that became representative of what we consider modern elevators today. >> so the height of buildings is related to elevator technology. >> both of these technologies encourage architects to build taller buildings. engineering and materials science provided a higher quality of steel to build with, and having passenger elevators meant it was the necessary anymore to climb a long flight of stairs to get to the top of the building. the elevator made

fortunately, he and a paramedic were able to pull the driver out of the car. police say the driver is currently recoverying. >>> in louisiana, one talented second grader is showing off his speed reading skills with his hands. 8-year-old donovan is legally blind, but has been reading braille since he was 3. now he reads at a sixth grade level and he's about to compete in the national braille challenge. way to go, donovan. >>> nascar fans at the speedway are going to be watching this weekend's race on the largest big screen tv. that's right. this wide screen giant clocks in at 200 feet wide and 80 feet high, which according to raceway officials is actually taller and wider than the dimensions of the white house. how do you like that in your living room? >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. good morning to you, bill. >> morning. we didn't have the tornados, but we still had damaging winds and hail. this time theoved through newen land three fatalities in georgia. now in

fortunately, the tenants were able to get to the point. it motivated me to continue to fight for our home. in order to win this battle, i know that we have to unite and stays strong. after 18 months of the struggle, we were allowed to stay in our homes. they wanted me to stay and dedicate myself. i realize that there are many tenants out there in san francisco who may be going through the same struggle. income is too wide. we want it so that the city can improve the quality of life of the vulnerable and low-income population. cta is the largest tenant organization in san francisco. there are several members with this mission in mind, to educate members to become their own advocates. i also have the honor to be elected as the president of cta this year, and i hope to be more active advocate and to develop our membership base across different neighborhoods to come together to fight for our rights. i would like to thank the president for recognition of my work but i would like to recognize that this honor belongs to everyone of our board memb

we are reminded that we are fortunate to have americans who dedicate their lives to protecting ours. they volunteer, they train, they endure separation from their families, they take extraordinary risks so that we can be safe. they get the job done. we may not always know their names. we may not always know their stories. but they are there every day on the front lines of freedom, and we are truly blessed. acknowledge, oblig before we begin the ceremony, two individuals who are critical -- first of all, a man who will go down as one of the- secretaries of defense in our history, secretary bob gates, who is here. [applause] sitting beside him, someone who served with incredible valor on behalf of this country, and is now somebody who i think will go down as one of the greatest secretaries of veterans affairs in our history, eric shinseki. [applause] i have to say that as commander in chief, i could not be prouder of our men and women in uniform. that is true now in today's wars. it has been true in all of our wars. that is why we are here today. long ago, a poet of the first world war

i've had the good fortune of being able to work on transportation and land use planning issues that will make this vision a reality. whatever decision i would make, it would be in the interest of this particular vision. right now, i am someone who is dependent on the transit system and i know what this is like to be left behind on the switch back, that so many of these let light rail systems are going through. i know what this is like, being left out in the cold. i would also -- i also know what it is like to be a pedestrian, having your life laid out before you in these busy intersections that are too busy for many of us. at the same time, this is a phenomenal system. this delivers people on time to where they need to go. but this needs a lot of work and i am committed to making the system successful for everyone. the system is overdue for an overhaul. this is a wonderful system that we have inherited, and i will make certain that we address these shortfalls to achieve a level of service to give us the system that we deserve. i know this will not come in a particular way. this is no sil

four apartments were destroyed and fortunately we have not heard of injuries. so far they haven't determined how it started. >> the massive tornado that hit joplin, missouri was upgraded to the most colorful category. ef 5 with winds greater than 200 miles per hour . that makes that tornado the deadliest in the united states in six decades with at least 122 dead and 7000 buildings destroid. they spent another day looking for survivors but didn't have luck. president obama plans to visit the area on sunday when he gets back home. >> our thoughts and prayers are with the family who are suffering at this moment. >> all we can do is let them know that all of america cares about them. we will do everything we can to make sure they recover. >> fema officials were on the ground to asiss the damage of the nation's deadliest tornado in 60 years. >> oh, my gosh. get out of here. massive tornado in peidmont. get out of the way. >> frightening moments in oklahoma city this afternoon. live coverage from tv station kfor as a tornado half mile wide blew through the region. it

i am fortunate not to be in any of those places. i chose to go to school. school has been my savior in real life. [applause] it has been a struggle. honestly, i could be in other places instead of your speaking to you. when you make these budget decisions, keep in mind that education is the future. education does save people. it saved me. i am alive. [applause] supervisor campos: a queue. one of the recurring themes we're hearing from the speakers -- thank you. one of the recurring themes we're hearing from the speakers is the the programs are literally saving lives. how do we deal with that as a city? last year, we added about about $1.7 million in violence prevention funding. there is a real danger that a lot of that will be eliminated t. how do we deal with that? what happens in our community? >> i am with the health department. i wanted to talk about the community-based organizations. we have several hundred organizations. it represents about half a billion dollars for the city. for the last two years, it has been bringing the organizations together to

there are so many heartbreaking stories emerging from joplin from people who aren't that fortunate. although you lost your home, you can build a new home, but you can't replace your children. >> exactly. >> i'm so thrilled for you that you found them. >> thank you very much. you really focus on what's important and the eternal things and the family relationships and you know, i grabbed my daughter to hug her, but it hurt her to hug her, because of her superficial wounds, which was kind of ironic and laugh a little bit about it now, but they're doing well and we're all happy and just feel very blessed and very fortunate. we're much more fortunate and blessed than a lot of people in this community. >> creed jones, thank you so much for joining me tonight. it's been an extraordinarily emotional conversation. my heart goes out to all of you in joplin, and i just hope tonight with this new tornado warning, that there isn't yet more devastation wrought on your town. you just don't deserve this. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> we'll be watching through all the breaking news on those