a unique procedure for gorillas. but that's not why the zoo keepers were worried. >> the thing is, she's a 42-year-old gorilla. a huge risk is the anesthesia. this is an animal because of her advanced age, you keep in mind, the gorillas live to be around 50, a little less. 42 is an extremely advanced age for this animal. >> the surgery went well. and once josephine heals, her quality of life at the zoo should greatly improve. >>> if this dog could talk -- oh, the tales of adventure he would tell. the old lab boxer mix vanished ten years ago. he was just found 1300 miles from home. an oklahoma family took him in as a stray. the vet found a microchip which revealed the dog's name was brindle and also his owner's phone number in virginia. when that didn't work, family put him down on facebook. dog and family will be reunited soon. >>> i'm larry smith. i have a check but that overnight party may be going on. the vibrant city will be the first talk of the host of the olympics in 2016. an announcement that was disappointin

at 42, she is old for a gorilla. concerns about whether she could survive anesthesia as her cataracts were removed were outweighed about the desire to vastly improve her quality of life. >> i think it will be a light switch difference. like waking up, putting the light on and the world is suddenly there again. >> reporter: so, in a darkened operating theater, dr. frank specter, who until now had only operated on human, went to work on a much different patient. >> no, i don't generally have patients that smell that bad. >> reporter: using a tool similar to a small jackhammer, he was able to pulverize the cataracts in each eye, remove the damaged lenses and replace them with clear ones. >> went very well. no complications at all. the cataract came out as it should and the implants are in good position. >> reporter: for josephine, the progress know sisz is excellent. >> he'll wake up, feel a little bit groggy and wonder what she did last night and realize that she can see now. >> reporter: from darkness to light in a br

it's a unique procedure for gorillas. but that's not why keepers at the miami zoo were worried. >> the thing is she's a 42-year-old gorilla and the huge risk is the anesthesia. the surgery itself isn't as risky. this is an animal that because of her advanced age when you keep in mind gorillas live to be usually around 50 or a little less 42 is an extremely advanced age for this animal. >> doctors say the surgery went well and once josephine heals, her quality of life at the zoo should greatly improve. >>> if this dog could talk what tales of adventure he would tell. the old lab/boxer mix vanished ten years ago and was just found 1300 miles from home. an oklahoma family took him in as a stray. their vet found a microchip, which revealed the dog's name was brindle and his owner was from virginia. the little girl who found him by the side of the road says it was a happy ending. >> if i didn't, then he would just be sitting there right now with no family, no friends, no nothing. >> she is the cutest. the family tracked down b

an aging gorilla at miami's metro zoo given a new outlook on life, doctors volunteering their time tor-old animal's eyes and a zoo worker says gorillas usually live to about 50. >> we had to weigh the pluses and minuses and she's almost blind and by doing it we can improves her quality of life. >> one of the doctors says the gorilla has a primate equivalent of 20/20 vision and new jersey, folks 60 years and over, getting down and -- in east ruther ford and the seniors auditioning for a dance team that performs at the new jersey nets basketball games. >> fans love them and ask for them and they perform once a month. >> 67-and-a-half years old. >> still going strong! >> absolutely! are you kidding? >> no! >> we're told a dozen women and one lucky man, won spots. colorado. a couple tying the knot, under water. at the downtown aquarium. in denver. tammy parker and lon heaton taking the plunge in front of friends and family, who looked on, from the other side of the big tank. [cheers and applause] we're told the two won the wedding in a radio station contest and had to take a crash course

that's very different than gorillas and chimpanzees. gorillas and chimpanzees are also terrestrial, but they modified their hands and feet so much that they utilized a totally different sort of locomotion called knuckle walking, and artilopithicus tells us that that sort of locomotion never occurred in the human line. >> suarez: the skeleton is being unveiled in ethiopia today. here to tell us more about ardi, is tim white, a paleo- anthropologist from university of california, berkeley, and a leader of the research team. professor white, what does this discovery do to shake up the timeline and what we thought we knew about the origins of early hopl nidz. >> actually, the discovery is more than a skeleton. hominid. it's a very act intel on the. it has hands, feet, head, many parts of the body that are very important in understanding our evolution and it's one of 36 individuals all found in one geological horizon, 4.4 million years ago. it's just one species of many pee seize found in this horizon, giraffe, rhino, slews, bats, birds, see

. >>> a 42-year-old gorilla has a new outlook on life. the delicate surgery wasn't even the tricky part of the operation. >>> as many as 4,000 people could be buried under this, the rubble. following this week's devastating earthquakes in indonesia. people are digging with chisels, hammers, even their bear hands looking for survivors. a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit wednesday. a 6.6 magnitude quake struck thursday in the same region. so far, government officials have confirmed more than 530 deaths. earlier, the united nations estimated more than twice that number were killed. with thousands still listed as missing, the death toll could easily go much higher than that. >>> samoa's government is planning a mass burial tuesday for the island's tsunami victims. medical teams are giving tetnus shots to the survivors. very devastating. survivors of the tsunami say they are trying to cope as best they can with the disaster. >> i had a lady slip through my hand. i couldn't help her anymore. at the time, i was out of the water. >> i don't know. jus

we're going to hear from the 8 million pound gorilla. how low will prices go? inquiring minds want to know. we hope to find out later today. >> i'm scott cohn. if you want to understand the real world effects of a weak u.s. dollar, make a run for the border. that's where we are. that's detroit, michigan, behind me. this is windsor, ontario. we're serving of cents on the dollar. >> while business might be improving, the online auction house still faces a pitched battle. where momentum is alive and well. what's up with skype. it's involved in litigation and it's a huge strain on the ebay cycle. >> stocks are higher on earnings news thus far. financials and technology leading the way. we also have a really important s.e.c. vote on regulating the so-called dark pools that are really important to some of the big banks out there including goldman sachs. bob pisani kicks it off. bob. >> interesting day. the big story is some of the financials. wells fargo is the most important stock of the day. they had big loan losses. the company is consisting the consumer loan loss

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. >> from the beginning, we've used chimpanzees and gorillas as our stand-ins, if you will, for the last common ancestor. we can't do that anymore. >> reporter: instead, ardi supports beliefs that chimps and humans esolved separately from the same ancestor. >> we can see that as primitive as this creature is, it has already evolved those special characters indicating that it's on our side of the family tree and that it is not on the chimpanzee side of the family tree, nor is it the common ancestor. >> reporter: experts say what they've learned from ardi leads them to think that common ancestor or missing link was likely less like a chimp than previously thought. and that, they say, opens up entirely new ways of thinking about human evolution. morgan neill, cnn, london. >>> the obama administration wants americans to take cybersecurity much more seriously. the white house is sounding the alarm, saying one of the biggest threats to national security may be the computer in your own home or office. steps you can take to increase your computer security include using antivirus software, using

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i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. >>> welcome back to "fast money." time now for some option action. rough start to the month of october, and that has the volatility index, the vix, going higher. when that happens, prices for options and protection becomes more expensive. in fact, over the last two octobers the vix has spiked by 30%. so what is a cheaper way to get some protection right now? brian sutland is the president of sutland equities. he specializes in the vix. some in fact call him the fear merchant. he is also an "options action" trader. so brian, how do you buy cheaper protection these days? >> well, one thing is that we learn from last year, actually, is that you couldn't just diversify your portfolio and then be a little bit safer if there was a market downturn. one thing you had to actually do in your portfolio is own volatility, own that as a component to your portfolio. and right now in taking a look at some of the call spreads in the vix, whe

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. >>> it's time. it's time for the lightning round. what's that all about, you ask? here's when i tell you to buy buy buy, sell sell sell. i don't know the questions ahead of time. you hear this sound, then the lightning round is over. are you ready? it's time for the lightning round. this is oh, boy. i hesitate to start with this. mike in south carolina. mike. >> caller: jim. what's going on, man? >> not much, getting ready for a couple big games. what's up? >> caller: i hear ya. a warm boo-yah to you. >> fantastic. we love clemson. go ahead. >> caller: a solid utility to pick. what's your take on aep. >> american power is 5% yield. i'm concerned with that. they don't raise their rates a lot. a coal based company that has a lot of coal base in the year 2010 is not what anybody will want to be in. let's go to brett in illinois. >> cramer, this is brett from chicago, calling with a big northwestern kellogg school o

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i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. >>> recent pronoins coming out of the fed that interest rates could rise faster sooner and stronger than we thought. a recent fed statement said rates will stay low for an extended period of time. is the fed sending mixed messages. we'll ask the former fed director and cnbc correspondent. vince, i'll kick it out to you. is this a mixed message? >> they are always mixed messages coming from the fed. chairman bernanke runs a more democratic institution than some of his predecessor. he's not the imperial chairman. what we're hearing is a bigger range of views. also, remember, that two main speakers we're talking about, they sit at the cool kids table. they send the important messages. >> is there a cool kids table? >> that's the point. >> vince, that's really the point, it's not that it's a different message from say the one from the statement. you're right. happen all time. the fact it came from kevin and it raise

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like a gorilla, maybe. ali: dracula, batman ? the cape, the mask ?uck: maybe dress up in a viking suit. nick: i don't know, an owl is kinda scary. ( owl hooting ) mock commentator: look, i got a gun, don't make me use it. nick: you know what ? it doesn't matter. if you're in a chicken outfit, or you're dressed like the flying nun, if you've got a gun, it might put the fear of death in me. mock commentator: hurry up, it's hot in this suit. come on, lady, what do you think this is, easy work ? now when i leave, you're gonna sit over her. do not turn around. brad: it's gonna be hard to do a lineup. nick: "is it the white guy, "the black guy, "the hispanic guy, or the 6-foot-8 chicken ?" "oh, i don't know..." brad: can you eat feed out of your hand, please ? nick: "the chicken kinda "looks familiar. "can you have him turn this way ?" brad: "turn to the side. "okay, and now back. can you ( bleep ) an egg ?" narrator: police clip the wings of this dirty bird after obtaining a warrant to search his home. and it turns out, he's a former employee. jo: ( bleep

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. >>> key unemployment at the highist level since 1948, there is a bright spot. a new program. janet is in houston, texas, with the story. >> good afternoon. here in the shadow of the johnson space center, a bright spot that shows there are jobs available for students with the right training. we are at united space alliance. this is a large nasa contractor. they do everything from making space suits for the astronauts to outfitting their personal laptops they take on the shuttle. they tapped into a program called genesis works that trains high schoolers who might not be in

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. >>> i'm jim cramer, and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. >> firms are going to go out of business, and he's nuts! they're nuts! they know nothing! >> i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. >> "mad money." you can't afford to miss it. >>> hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make trends. just trying to save you a little money. my job is not just to educate but to entertain. so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. today say total microcosm of what's happening right now in this darn market. we opened nicely higher. up a quick 30 dow points. and then we plummet triple digits when the key numbers showing economic weakness. then we rallied back up 40 points for no particular reason. and then we take another tumble with the dow closing down 30. what a wild one. a total, yes, yo-yo. i was never good at yo-yos. and no one can seem to grasp whether we

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life?xa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. ♪ i hope you never lose your sense of wonder ♪ promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance, ♪ promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance, ♪ promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance, ♪ promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance, ♪ and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, ♪ and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, ♪ and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, ♪ and when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, ♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance . . . ♪ i hope you dance. ♪ i hope you dance. ♪ hope you dance. ♪ hope you dance. megyn: what drives an organization like acorn, a desire to help the poor or a desire to organize radical change in america? and are acorn's efforts even good for the poor

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life?equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. megyn: no one seems to be able to say exactly how many taxpayer dollars have been pumped into affiliates over the last 40 years, tens of millions to be sure. but that appears to be chaining. carl cameron reporting from capitol hill. >> during the last election, what organization became notorious, that organization is called acorn. >> i might even stipulate acorn or some of its employees have participated in voter fraud. >> that's something we should tolerate none of. >> when an acorn employee is caught, they accuse the acorn worker. >> to understand the reluctance of some on capitol hill to investigate acorn, it's helpful to watch a remarkable back and forth from last spring. it's between the powerful democratic chairman of the house judiciary committee, john conyers of michigan, and the influential chairman of one of its subcommittees, new york's jerrold nadler, and it came after scathing testimony given by a republ

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. >>> welcome back. an auspicious start in hong kong. the stock closed up 7% above the ipo price of $10. hong kong dollars. reflecting rising optimism in macau's gambling process. the same optimism is reflected in the u.s. shares. surged 354% since the lows in march. as you can see from that chart. joining me now with steve wynn, chairman and ceo of wynn resorts. mr. wynn, wonderful to have you on the program. welcome. >> hi, maria. nice to be here. >> how exciting for you. tell me what that was like last night in the ipo in hong kong. exciting for you. and this is a first. >> my buddy allen zeman was there. i was in bed in las vegas, but enjoying it very much. >> the stock obviously did very well in its debut. what do you think is behind this? here we are looking at a really troubled economy across the board. you have been certainly fortunate enough to outpace many of your competitors in this space. how would you

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? is redefining what you expect from annuities. click today. >>> it is time. it is time for the "lightning round" on cramer's "mad money." what's that all about, you probably ask. that's about rap ud-fire calls one after the other. you say the name of the stock i tell you whether to buy buy buy or sell sell sell. i do not know the stock callers or stocks head of the time. fast. "lightning round" over. are you ready skooe daddy? it is time for the "lightning round" on cramer's "mad money." we're starting with arturo in florida. arturo. >> caller: boo-yah from boca raton, jim. >> boca raton. boca raton. how much do we wish we were there? go ahead. >> caller: with today's weather you surely would wish to be here. it's beautiful. listen, my question -- >> why don't you just rub it in? okay? >> caller: listen, my question is regarding st. c. nice move up today but i think the company's technology is still well ahead of the competition. >> there's a lot of question about that recent downgrade

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. sean: tonight in "your america" now the 2016 olympics are off president obama's plate, the world awaits his future deployments to afghanistan and one person eager to get that answer is general stanley mcchrystal who is reportedly in president obama's doghouse. according to "the london telegraph" mcchrystal's blunt statements about needing more troops on the ground have outraged the white house and will he be granted the support for troops he needs to win this war in afghanistan? we're joined by newt gingrich along with his wife hosts a brand-new d.v.d. "rediscovering god in america ii" and your wife will be joining us later, your better half. a rare new york appearance. this is troubling to me, crystal -- mcchrystal writes a report in late august that says if we don't get more troops on the ground we risk failure. the only reason we know this is it was leaked to "the washington post." mcchrystal says he's only s

i agree it's good to have another 800-pound gorilla on the block -- >> a year ago oil was going $147 barrel, in part because of tensions with iran. now we've got this new uranium location. why no reaction from the oil markets? >> i'm not sure there hadn't been a total reaction. i thought when the announcement came out on that friday a week ago it stopped the selloff in its tracks. i think there's been a lot of bearish knews that's been shaken off by the market. this is a very, very -- this is the trickiest i've seen the situation in a long time. there's hope in the sense that ahmadinejad's missteps has been not to make some kind of better relations with the u.s. that's what the opposition is all about in iran. >> let's get down toe steven. what do you think. over the next year or so, what will ewe see when it comes to the price of oil? >> in between the mid 70s and mid 60s. the head of petro brass which sits on a carable amount of oil is on record -- of brazil, is on record saying that he's happy with oil between $45 and $65 a barrel. he has his cap exfinanced for the next year as $6

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life?xa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. >>> nobody likes watching stocks get crushed. believe me i feel your pain with this awful pullback, my charitable trust was big time today but we cannot just stick our heads in sand even when the selling feels like the battle of the salm or in the hell of a very small place of -- two things that we can always look for on a down day to help counter the negativity. first is notoriously b.i.g. juicy dividend and stocks with gigantic secular growth trends behind them. i got one that i think fits both. it's first niagara financial group, close watchers of the show. know that i've mentioned this before, fnfg. it's a regional bank based in upstate new york. it's got a 4.4% yield and it's poised to benefit from what might be the biggest move in banking since the end of the savings & loan crisis in 1991. and we hear all of the time about how so many local and regional banks here in trouble. couple close almost every weekend, have you no

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. >>> welcome to the fourth quarter, yikes. live from the nasdaq marketsite this is "fast money." i'm melissa lee. stocks starting the quarter with their biggest drop since july. this gang has your way to protect and profit a midst the selling. we will stay all over this market tonight finding opportunity a midst the carnage. >> a look at the charts, with one the best technical analysts out there. he's got a brokerage stock that's bucking the trend. say will stay red not quarter. bet's get to it, get to "the word on the street "right now. we started the day off with some pretty terrible economic dat and the selling continued and continued. >> i am debbie downer. and i tell you, we closed on the lows. >> yeah. >> which you haven't seen that happen in quite some time. typically, selling off. people buying it up at the end the close, didn't happen today. first day of the month, not good. no matter how you dice it tod

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life?table is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. . in jane: and oklahoma highway patrol trooper is in trouble again for excessive force. you may remember this and video which showed him choking a paramedic. his latest scuffle and bonds this man, christopher douglas, who claims he was beaten by the officer. it was helping some friends with renovations when two troopers pulled up to deal with a traffic stop. he was questioned and the officer grabbed him and started to hit him. now both officers are under paid leave. jon: china commemorating a momentous event last week, the 60th anniversary of communist rule. they held a parade, highlighting their military and economic strength but an old symbol in that country is making a comeback. mao represents a link to the founding of communism, but also a glimpse at the 21st century china. dana lewis is with us after traveling all over the country. he is with us in new york city. chairman mao, something of a comeback? >> that is rig

. >>> an ageing gorilla goes under the might have so doctors can try and save her sight. >> we had to weigh the pluses and minuses and she's pretty much almost blind now. by doing this, we really can improve her quality of life. >> riskiest part of the scenario was not the surgery itself. toni sex extortion shocker. brand-new late-breaking developments today after letterman's incredible on-air confession. >> i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. >> tonight, what's the real story behind the alleged extortion attempt? and could letterman get fired over this? >>> a brand-new star war over roman polanski. kirstie alley's remarkable rants against roman. chris rock comparing roman to o.j. simpson. tonight, "showbiz tonight" with the roman star outrage. and the brand-new jon and kate bombshell. the unbelievable fallout today after jon gosselin goes on "larry king live" and opens up about everything. >> i had an epiphany one day. i just looked in the mirror and said, i don't want to be this person anymore. >>> tv's first most provocative entertainment news show starts right

i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life? axa equitable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. >>> hello, i'm chloe cho. here in asia, mazda narrows the forecast and says it'll raise over $1 billion by selling new and existing shares. >>> and here in europe, markets get a boost from better than expected day from the euro zone and the uk. >>> and i'm brian shactman in the u.s., investors may turn to third quarter earnings this week to e see if markets will return once again to their winning ways. >>> you're washing cnbc's "worldwide exchange," the global trend's been a little bit flat this morning as we go to european trade, but it bounced back up after an uptick in the revised pmi for the euro zone and a revised number out of the uk, as well. nevertheless, still up .2%, up .33% higher. on the currency markets, the pound got a bit of a lift off the lows against the dollar, up to 1.5971. the dollar/yen is flat, 89.79. >> ralph, you know that strong yen hammering a lot of the exporter plays over on the nikke

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i'm just the 800-pound gorilla in the room. don't worry. i'm here. want guaranteed income for life?itable is redefining what you expect from annuities. ooh, peanuts. >>> it's employment friday. investors focus on monthly jobs report increasing worries that the economy's rebound could be facing a setback. >> a season for earnings. third quarter results begin to roll in next week. we have names you need to watch as earnings central gets ready to kick into high gear. >> not in a good moody's. whistleblower tells us more. >>> "squawk box" begins right now. >>> good friday morning. welcome back to "squawk" on cnbc. i'm carl quintanilla along with joe kernen. becky is out but will be back monday. the company's whistleblower says they continue to increase rates on capitol hill. >>> jobs number 90 minutes away. forecasters believe economy shed 175,000, unemployment going to 9.#, average hourly earnings expected to rise .1%. >>> cit hope to trim $1.5 billion from the balance sheet. asking bond holders to preapprove a reorganization plan in case it is forced to file for chapter 11. the compan

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