. >>> he's not protecting gotham city -- the guy one of the world's best chain saw carvers, simon o'rourkeade something pretty spectacular with that piece of wood. >> i'm seeing it now. >> you're wondering where -- what -- apparently this piece was commissioned by phil and lia to place in their apartment in the uk. very close to the church so people could see their apartment. >> somebody commissioned this just to sell their apartment? >> yeah. what do we need that will make this apartment sell? a wooden batman sculpture. >> that's not that bad of an idea because they wanted to use social media to get the word out about their apartment so they created this video of this guy sculpting this thing. it's getting a lot of attention. people now know this is really cool statue of the dark knight next to this church. >> awesome piece of work. that's funny that's what it was made for to sell an apartment. >> it's all about thinking out of the box. >> yeah. >>> you're out by a body of water and you see a whale off in the distance. i on the think the first response that you have is i want to jump in a

. >>> the dark knight is not just protecting gotham city, but expanding into real estate.a big block of wood and the guy is apparently one of the best chainsaw carvers, simon o'rourke, and he is creating something spectacular with the piece of wood. >> i'm seeing it now. >> and you are wondering, batman and the block of wood and what do they have to do with real estate? well, apparently this piece was commissioned by phil and leah to place in their apartment which is close to st. giles church so people could see it from the apa apartment, and raise the allure and then they could sell it. >> so someone commissioned this to sell their apart mement? >> yes. and were they saying, what would make this apartment sell? a little wooden batman ul i abad idea, because they wanted to use the social media to get the word out of the apartment so they created this guy sculpting this thing, and it started to get some attention, and so now people e know that there is a cool statue of the dark knight in the property next to the church. >> funny that is what it is made for the sell an apart

. >> batman fans thinking of gotham city. 880, traffic flows smoothly, easy drive past the coliseum.orth, slowing in both directions, right at the 5th slowing over the ten minutes indicating crews from both directions are tarting to get on the move and that's what's going on for oakland. casto valley, earlier debris cleared from the reports. >>> 4:57. breaking news. a plane crash in alabama early this morning. we're starting to get new details and images into our newsroom. a live record coming up continue to follow verying news in egypt. more than a dozen people killed in clashes in cairo. dozens others injured. details coming up next. >>> bre birmingham, alabama a u.p.s. cargo plane has crashed. brand-new images into the newsroom. we'll have the latest coming up. >>> not your ordinary bike. stolen from a blind man, it was part of his plan to help blind people all over the world. >>> we want to help you get out the front door, prepared for the summer heat today. starting out in upper 50s to low 60s headed towards the mid 90s. we'll let you know how long the summer sizzle stays in you

but the debate about whether he is fit for gotham city. >> he know it bad -- enough to be batman.affleck. >> give him a shot. >> part of the issue, affleck played a superhero, not a well received one. you remember "daredevil" right? >> that's a character from the marvel universe. batman is a character from the dc universe. you will create all kind of problems in the comic book space-time conten yum. >> a box office flop. and affleck is behind the recent smashing success of "argo." >> i fly into tehran. we all fly out together. >> he looked pretty hot if you ask me, "argo" i dig the hairy look. let's have a hairy batman. >> on the other hand there is gigli. >> i'm the bull. you are the cow. >> how will he suit up as batman? >> when you become a trending topic it will do something for your brand. in this case the movie. the movie is not out until 2015. already everybody is talking about it. great free premotion. >> stay tuned. same bat time. same bat channel. >> i feel like the luckiest guy in the world. >> for the record, if john hamm wasn't going to get the role, i'm pretty cool w

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back here in detroit, the latino review saying the motor city could sub for gotham in man of steel 2. the motor city experienced a production boom right now as a result of the generous tax incentives offered to film companies. transformers 4 is here now and disney's need for speed was here earlier in the summer. morocco is also scouted as another alternative. it's very early. we're still talking about ben afleck in that movie. since we're talking about detroit, let's get back to ford. we all know it's an iconic american brand but one thing coming in the company's turn around and the time i've spent here is the pride. the pride of making the mustang at this plant and the new pride in working in the auto industry. >> it's easy to see the headlines and think detroit is a city in ruin but there's also imagines of this. new jobs in what once made detroit great, the auto industry. a job at a place like ford is not about being on the line or punching the clock. it's about one thing, opportunity. >> this is a career. when you come into ford you're guaranteed. you've got your life set out ahea

. >>> from gotham city to motor city, the is up coming superman/batman movie will be filmed in detroitwhich will star henry calvill and ben affleck as batman will employ 406 workers. it will begin in the first few months of next year. >> kind of a lot of money, $35 million for 400 jobs. that's getting towards $100,000 a job. which presumably is for about six months. >> exactly. >> we know what some of the film subsidies did for louisiana after hk urricane katrina. >> i had to google henry cavill. >> don't google ben affleck. >> meantime, dow continues to waver in the red. seeing some pressure -- i see jcpenney at a fresh 12-year low after the walmart price cuts earlier today. there's a look at what's going on. if you're just joining us this morning, here is what you missed earlier on. >>> welcome to "squawk on the street." here is what's happened so far. >> every time the oil price spikes, the economy gets weaker. and that's the real outcome here that the global economy suffers the high price of oil and if we stay on this path, we're not going to have a very good decade. >> increases h

is he the right choice to save the gotham city?have a war going on in afghanistan. every time i sign a letter for a casualty of that war i'm reminded there are costs. >>> what you just have to see. >> if you feel it in your heart, just go for it. you will make it. >>> this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning, welcome back to "new day." 8:00 in the east. i'm kate bolduan. >> a big -- i'm chris cuomo here with michaela pereira, as always. more of our exclusive interview with president obama. address the violence spiraling out of control in syria and egypt. we discuss his plans to help students pay for college amid sky rocketing costs. >>> is this the end for san diego mayor bob filner. he is expected it resign as part of a deal with city officials. what happens now with the sexual harassment lawsuit and are taxpayers going to be stuck footing the bill? >> we need some good stuff on this friday. you are about to meet a high school basketball star from goodigoo georgia always dreamed of pla

gotham, another -- arresting capitalists left and right. can play the class warfare cards which majors which mayors have. it's the biggest citycountry. >> neil: if he were the nominee in this very democratic town. michael bloomberg is a big -- and then rudy giuliani. the feeling he wins the nomination, deblasio, it's his to lose? >> it's any to lose. democrat us outnumber republicans in the time five to one. this guy is more liberal than any of the others, particularly in economics. more liberal than christine quinn and bill to -- bill thompson and back to a denkins era of economics. he is totally against the police and stop and frisk. i grew up in the city when i was a kid, moved to the suburbs, been here this part of the country almost my entire life. this was a dangerous, desperate place in the are 70s and are 80s, -- '80s. if crime comes back and if businesses leave and businesses look to shelter income, and they cut their employees. that's why we had a fiscal crisis in the '70s. crime and bad business. >> neil: way ahead. that could change but right now sitting pretty. thank you. >>> how would you like to stay at this fi

city. bringing ben affleck into the story will bring it to detroit. >> detroit will stand in for both batman's gotham superman's metropolis. it will make it a super deal for both sides. >> welcome to "cbs this morning saturday." i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm vinita nair. the batman movie will no doubt give detroit a lift. it's also getting a lift from another source. cars. ford's first american build fusion rolled off the lines in detroit this week. it came after the maid inde in the usa campaign. >> we look at the global economy. it's titled "american-made move." >> the truth is in an increasingly global economy it takes manufactures from all over the world to make things necessary to have a baseball game. so no matter whether you realize it or not, we all have a loin with the things we make and buy in this country. >> we got greedy and that's why we're where we're at now. that's the sick part about this place. >> u.s. consumers would like to buy american. >> the idea that we have to make things in this country is back. >> we can compete on a global market if we make the choice to. >> and we have to

city. isn't this just the most beautiful place? seriously, it's gotham.middle of july and fall's here before the middle of august. fantastic. so kelly, what are we looking at as far as weekly job claims go? >> we saw despite a small uptick the pace of claims other the past month, new claims for unemployment benefits, is running at its lowest since 2007. definitely a sign the pace of layoffs has slowed. the u.s. consumer is still under pressure. it goes back to the payroll tax cut -- the payroll tax hike i should say to some extent. mcdonald's july sales up just 1.6% for the u.s. doesn't see an acceleration in the back half of the year. a lot of retail names reporting a similar theme. what it takes to do well in this kind of environment is a hit. that brings me to today's important news. the pretzel bacon cheeseburger. >> i'm certainly going there. >> are they great? >> phenomenal. >> they are driving went yip's to what could be a 5% increase in sea sales for the third quar. so wendy's shares up 60% this year. mcdonald's up 10%. now analysts are excited th