no owner shft. >> susie: david garrity of g.v.a.esearch. >> tom: more details on sharp's plans to cut jobs in japan. the struggling electronics giant today announcing plans to offer voluntary retirement to 2,000 workers this november. those voluntary retirements are part of the 5,000 layoffs sharp announced earlier this month as it tries to strengthen its finances. important things to say about europe, and a lot of speculation. >> tom: lots of speculation, and a beger announcement come next week out of the european central bank. and (inaudible) refund back as well. take a look at a quiet trading day on wall street ahead of that. >> tom: the continued improvement with home prices didn't help the major stock indices as they continue to trade in narrow ranges. the s&p 500 crossed in and out of positive territory several times throughout the session, ending the session with another fractional loss. trading volume was very light. 515 million shares on the big board; just under 1.4 billion on the nasdaq. not much movement with the major s

first up, john garrity. i would like to have sergeant beretta, brian, morris and johnson up on the stage, please. capt. garity will redo the award citation. -- will read the award citation. >> good evening. on wednesday, october 10, circuit brother brian and melissa morris and merck mulligan and officer james johnson of the central station responded to a fire at 8 -- 824 height street in downtown san francisco. officers found the first and second story buildings involved in flames. leaving the residents, many of them students inside the six- story building in grave danger. officers immediately entered the building and began evaluating the evidence, pounding on doors and alerting them there was a fire. many of them were still asleep. essentially they were forced to withdraw from the building because the heat was so intense in the building. the fire department was still in route to the fire. not until the fire department arrived did it take over the evacuation of the fire personnel were ordered out of the buil

garrity jones, a grounder that bounces off the pitcher's glove. the pirates cheer. but the cardinals would draw even in the bottom of the 17th. tony cruz, a fly ball out to left. that's deep enough to bring home a run and tie the score at 3-3, in the 17th. tied at 3-3, in the 19th inning. pedro alvarez drives one deep to right field. pirates would hang on to win the longest game of the year. 6-3. the five people left cheered. even though they played the game in st. louis. pirates, one game up on the giants in the second n.l. wild card spot. >>> meantime, the yankees hosting the red sox in the bronx. fourth inning. ichiro, coming through the solo shot of the second deck. that would push the yankees' lead 3-0. and ichiro wasn't done. he sends one off of the park for josh beckett. two dingers for ichiro. yankees go on to win the rubber match of the series 4-1. embattled red sox fall four games below .500. and it doesn't take my ears to hear the tolling sounds from bobby valentine in boston. >>> melky cabrera may have bad judgment. but you can't fault the man for having

that that's a real game changer because germany is always the one saying no we are holding to watch garrity we are not going to do what everybody else is trying to push him to do and do you think this is a game changer for germany in the calculus of crisis politics. i really do i think that they now realize that it's not working and that it's actually risk dragging them down and that continuing to play this game of being overly tough is just stopping all business it's not just a political game anymore it's not just about you know helping sovereign debt it's about every corporation in europe and i think the u.s. wants germany to do something francis which sides really wants them to do something so there's a lot of pressure bearing down on them it's not working for the rest of europe and finally it's not working for themselves so i think this is their time to cave a little bit and i think you know it depends it's very hard to read all these comments who's the. german pundits bank he says things and they can be taken is very very aggressively negative or kind of in line he has said to me one o

david garrity says that would be a bad idea. jay of business insider says apple should wage war against google. jay, why? >> well, you can go after all of the handset makers and all the phone makers but it is going to be -- you are going to have more handsets popping up and more companies coming up. this is really about google's operating system so make it about google's operating system. >> all right. david, what's wrong with that argument? >> well, i would argue that, you know, google is not able to sell its own android operating system software unless it has hand handset oem to partner up with. if apple decides to reinvest some of the profits they made up the iphone and discouraging all the other handset manufacturers from licensing the software, you know, why bother spending money against a deep pocketed competitor such as google? if you basically scared all the fish out of the water, look, there is nothing left to catch. >> what do you say to that, jay? that's compelling. >> i would say that -- these companies still out the