♪ but actually, it's easier than you think, because general mills big g line of cereals is america'sumber one source of whole grain at breakfast. there's whole grain in every box... ♪ ...from chex... to cheerios... to lucky charms. so you can get the whole grain you want with the taste you love. get started on the whole grain you're missing with your favorite big g cereals. make sure to look for the white check. >>> welcome back on this saturday morning, about 8:19 right now. i just love it. it's mild. it's really nice out overall. no traffic or air rain delays or flight delays to report right now. enjoy it while you can. changes are on the way. meteorologist kristine hanson is in for lisa argen. hi, nice to see you. >> and you can see the clouds, it looks like it may be cool outside and mid to upper 60s, maybe 70 in some spots. so we have this moving you can tell it's coming in from hawaii. let's go outside. gorgeous day on the slopes. no problems getting up and down road wise. the snow is fresh and crisp and in the teens and 20s. and downtown san francisco, pretty day as i mentione

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here and get rid of the risk so you can do the same if you're a full buyer processor like judge general mills or kellogg's or closest and you can lock in the priced of the grain months ahead of when you actually need to buy it so that when you actually do go buy it if prices are much higher you've got it was already at a much lower price a lot of. these contracts do not remain inert they are bought and sold by profiteers and a contract might swap hands dozens of times before it expires for example buyers purchase contracts for wheat at a low price if the price we close up they have made a profit. we're transferring risk whole purpose of the exchange is to transfer risk from people that have it like farmers and don't want it to people like myself speculators take the risk because if you take a risk and you're right and make money course if you are wrong you lose money. since two thousand and six big players have begun to appear at the succumb to brain model. now there not only traditional players at the pits but also managers of huge financial institutions that until a few years ago showed no

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kellogg, general mills, hormel, pepsi, and coca-cola have all announced higher prices. but analyst scott wren says the strategy is not without risk. >> i think these high energy prices here, especially if we get much above $4 or hit $4... i think that could put a pretty good dent in what consumers are willing to spend. >> susie: which explains why many firms are absorbing commodity price increases. costco, for example, is keeping gas prices low, hoping to entice shoppers to come into the stores. others, like coach, are trying to offset rising costs by lowering manufacturing costs but stock investors beware: rising raw materials prices are just one of many reasons wren has been warning investors about a stock market downturn midyear. >> we thought these second-half headwinds would kick in. the fed talking about raising interest rates in 2012-- they've been trying to obviously engineer some higher inflationary expectations. that tends to put a lid on p.e.'s and generally makes the market a little nervous. >> reporter: how nervous? he's predicting the s&p 500 could end the

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get your first full prescription free but actually, it's easier than you think, because general mills big g line of cereals is america's number one source of whole grain at breakfast. there's whole grain in every box... ♪ ...from chex... to cheerios... to lucky charms. so you can get the whole grain you want with the taste you love. get started on the whole grain you're missing with your favorite big g cereals. make sure to look for the white check. 200 points. investors are >>> take a look at that. a lot of buyers on wall street today. a big, big rally there right now the dow up 202 points. investors seem to be upbeat about the new unemployment report that showed the number of new jobless claiming falling to the lowest level in almost three years last week. retailers are also reporting strong february sales and everybody wanting to get in on the action, do some buying. >>> prices at the supermarket are going up. prices are the highest in 20 years. you can blame it on the spike in oil prices and unrest in the middle east. the increase is mostly being driven by higher prices of cereal,

new home sales, we look to earnings from general mills. and a lot of fed speak as well. ben bernanke is speaking to bankers this afternoon. to recap the dow fell 17 points yesterday to 12,018. we were on low volumes. the nasdaq composite lost 8 to 2683. also making headlines out of cnbc, amazon opened the doors of its app store. a lawsuit from apple of course for the word app store. the online store has tons of apps for droid phones. you can use the one click payment options as well. you can test them out before you actually buy them as well. look, amazon is promoting this exclusive version of not only their app store but also a version of the popular game angry birds which is tied to the upcoming movie rio. and research in motion t maker of the blackberry of course is set to mount its own challenge against apple. the company will sell its tablet called the play book for $499 which is shockingly the same price as the ipad 2. you know this. i want to know what you have, scott? look ahead to the playbook. it's seven inches, smaller than the ipad. are you interested? it con

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quarterly earnings results from big companies like oracle, best buy, general mills, wallgreens, and tiffany>>> and this week marks the fifth anniversary of the fist tweet microblogging website twitter. it has come a long way in five years. it's valued at more than $4 billion. i'm sue herera. get all our business news on cnbc. >>> scott mcgrew will give you your tech news on "today in the bay" starting hat 4:30 in the morning. >>> the bay area is seeing a rise of the number of chihuahuas flooding animal shelters. at the san jose animal care and control shelter, 40 to of the 62 dogs for adoption are chihuahuas. expert sas the dogs are bought on impulse but the owners do not know how to carefully care for the tiny breed. earlier this month the number of chihuahuas had a program to find new homes there. >>> still more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, a balancing act for state lawmakers. our political analyst larry gerston weighs in on the lingering budget headache and why getting it done is such a head scratcher for politicians. >>> and tonight at 11:00, a real who done it. it reads stra

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but actually, it's easier than you think, because general mills big g line of cereals is america's numberwhole grain at breakfast. there's whole grain in every box... ♪ ...from chex... to cheerios... to lucky charms. so you can get the whole grain you want with the taste you love. get started on the whole grain you're missing with your favorite big g cereals. make sure to look for the white check. >>> good morning. we're just getting word of a new accident westbound 580 approaching greenville. the bay bridge toll plaza is backed up to the macarthur maze. a lot of sunshine out there, though. haven't seen that in quite a while. stalled big rig cleared from lanes so stop and go this morning from the incline towards the "s" curve. and we'll show you one more live traffic camera, blue skies this morning crossing the san mateo bridge. pretty picture what a difference a week makes. huh, julie? >> absolutely. blue skies today and later this week. take a look outside right now. it's a hazy picture from ocean beach. all in all blue skies are the story. this afternoon, breezy northwest winds picking

earnings as well from general mills. fed chairman ben bernanke speaking to bankers this afternoon. the dow fell 17 points yesterday. 1218 is where we closed, the nasdaq lost 8 to 2683. also, the u.s. auto industry could face sporadic shutdowns for months because of shortage of parts already scarce before the disaster. ford had two temporary plants -- i should say plants shut down temporarily, there's my english for the pickup trucks. chrysler stopped production at a minivan plant and gm to assure there were enough parts. so we're watching the supply chain, also watching sprint launching a new app. i'm not passing judgment but it's for distracted drivers. it's two bucks a month. it locks up features when you're behind the wheel. the government has been calling for the wireless carriers to impose rules on the use of electronics in your cars. among these it will redirect your calls to voice mail, will block text alerts so you're not tempted to text and drive and will send an auto response you're not available. you got to save yourself from yourself. >> you do. and there is always that

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general mills ringing the opening bell. they just rang the bell in new york this morning. little bit of the luck of the irish hopefully for the stock market today. there's some actual economic news helping things out. but it's sort of mixed news as well. job numbers are pretty good report that the consumer prices report a bit disappointing. we'll see what happens. watch those numbers as they open up. >>> all right. we'll say good morning to you. thank you for joining us here on the ktvu morning news. thursday march 17th. happy st. paddy's day. i'm dave clark. >> good morning. i'm pam cook. time now is 6:30. >>> in the news for you right now we're still watching japan. they are racing to restore power to a nuclear power plant that was damaged by last week's earthquake. nuclear reactors at this plant have been overheating since the quake and tsunami knocked out the power to the reactor's cooling system and also destroyed the back up generators. emergency crews have been trying to cool those reactors by dumping water on them by helicopter. but we don't know if these efforts a

but actually, it's easier than you think, because general mills big g line of cereals is america's numbersource of whole grain at breakfast. there's whole grain in every box... ♪ ...from chex... to cheerios... to lucky charms. so you can get the whole grain you want with the taste you love. get started on the whole grain you're missing with your favorite big g cereals. make sure to look for the white check. ♪ up up and away in my beautiful balloon ♪ >>> so the animated movie "up" introduced us all to the concept of the flying house, a kind of floating rv. well, a group of engineers looked at that movie and wondered if think could really do that themselves. we'll see how they've managed to get that house flying up, up and away. >> there it is. that's the real version. >> the real version. good morning, america. i'm the real version of bianna golodryga, as well. it's sunday, march 6th. >>> and i'm dan harris. also coming up, you know, i feel very lucky to have this job not only because i get to work with you but we get to work with ron claiborne who is a very good sport and yesterday i pull

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