judith: want to get e door, herb?! herb: stop yelling at me! i'm not yelling!oh, hi, alan, charlie. herb. hey. this a badime? the spanish inquisitio was a bad time. this is hell. come on in. so whas going on? a little pre-wedding jitter we could call ithat, but we'd jt be sugar-coating hell. oh, don't worr as soon as judh puts on that beautiful white gown and startsarching down that aisle... she doesn't want toear white. says it makes her look fat. oh, well, that's nice. e wants to look trim and fit for e honeymoon. you're sugaroating hell again, alan. hey, you want to help the guy, stop talking andmother him with a pillow. judith: ohgreat. hey, there's the blushing bride. she esn't look fat at all. go ahead. give her t check. what check? oh, uh, well, i-i figured as long as i w here, that i would give you your last and final alimo check. goit. what the hell are you doing? just a little souvenir. i'llo find jake. see? she's being a good sport. let's get one with the big check. forget the big check. so, um, you knowuh, i-i read an interesting story the other y.

herb says, no.isagree a little bit. >> of course you do. >> let's talk about why you're wrong. >> brian, look. when -- i almost fell off the elliptical this morning reading the op-ed. using staples as an example of what he learned at bain. while the average guy or average shopper at staples may not have a clue, the reality is this. after 20 years of great growth that shook up an industry, did a bunch of really good things from the perspective of an entrepreneur, staples fallen on hard times. over the past two years its stock tumbled 42% and almost metric sales growth to cash flow going the wrong direction. as i write right now on cnbc.com, if nothing else, from a financial standpoint, it's almost as if staples is a metaphor for america. yes, a great success but romney could have and should have picked a different example. rather than one whose future is uncertain. >> yeah. i mean, i have to agree. i did my back to school shopping last weekend. i went to a stap ls store. >> of course you did. >> it's

military economic agenda ok herb you want to get in there is have air time gentlemen herb go ahead well i was going to say i mean this this case i disqualify marxist analysis is really absurd where's the united states where's the evidence of the united states' involvement in syria i mean obviously the united states would love to see assad fall but we're not entirely happy about what the consequences of that might be and that is a continuing conversation that is taking place in our state department at the moment the idea that the united states knows what it wants to achieve in syria is ridiculous well heard you want to see in all fairness sure you want to hear in all fairness the secretary of state this has assad must go so the united states does have an interest in the fate of syria one way or another ok and what is the united that is it is a city in the middle that it wasn't really something every and i wonder if you please please every time the united states says somebody has to go you know what they do eventually john in boston you want to jump in. yes yes i want to go back through a

we stuff it with herbed rice and steam it in a white lemon. absolutely delicious. >> can i take this? >> absolutely. help yourself. we have on there spinach pie. just pop that on the grill and it's ready to go. >> that is so easy. >> we have spinach pie. we have middle eastern rice pilaf with the aromatic spices and ground meat in there. over here we have the long kabob. we have chicken kabob marinated in lemon, garlic, herbs and spices. absolutely wonderful. lamb and beef kabob wrapped in fresh pita bread with all the condiments. over here we have sweets that our parrishiers have been working on for weeks from respect mes that have been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. they're all homemade. the table is about a mile long. come on out and try it all. >> besides great food, what else will take place at this festival? >> we have traditional music and dancing. we have events for the children. we have events for your grandparents so pack your car. bring everybody out. you can-- >> september 1 and 2. that's saturday and sunday f

herb is here to tell us why amazon should buy best buy.b, explain. >> this is such a nutty idea, it may make sense. i was talking to one of my retailing sources about this today, he was talking about the concept, that you want to touch and hold it, but the show room is already there. why not go out and buy the bricks and mortar. if you're best buy, think about it. the sales tax issue is becoming less of an edge. the stock price is really high, they can come in there, restructure the thing, take all sorts of charges and it may not matter at this point because they're always thinking about the future. so you end up with something -- >> it would be a great deal for a best buy, but a bad idea for a amazon. >> it would saddle them with a lot of long-term issues in leasing. they have less traffic, but it takes amazon away from it's core competency. it's an internet retailer, not bricks and mortar. what they do better is warehouse products, ship products, collect money. and operating a fully fledged store with sales people and payroll is a big de

this is a -- hey, herb. welcome. just popped up.erally. >> crept up behind me. >> a company has a problem and the sales growth slows to only 28% year over year it's the incremental numbers here that count. i was on when you were on vacation and nielsen numbers. showing this deceleration ahead of the quarter. turns out that is case when the numbers got it right and acknowledged the deceleration on the call. >> sun power. >> anything else for the solar sector, guys. wall street consensus is for a one cent profit. sales also seen well below plan. this is a big miss here. stock's down 10%. other solar stocks like first solar down in sympathy. he's gone. >> he's gone. i believe they're focusing on consumers, as well. roof tops. rez didn't shl sector. it is a beautiful day for elizabethard arden. >> citing strong sales. fragrance line including one by justin bieber, apparently not a cologne but a fragrance. more than just a perfume. it's a fragrance full of energy, passion and confidence that pushes them to the top of the charts and descr

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his hour to talk >>> and later, putting your herbs to use. derek thomas is here to show us that they don't always have to go in your food. summer drinks and other fun recipes are coming up at 9:45. >> look forward to that and everything during this 9:00 hour. also look forward to our friend tucker barnes in the weather center joining us. good morning, tuck. >> good morning. in for a hot one today. temperatures this afternoon in the middle 90s. and i promise you'll feel it because it had been bright sunshine for your thursday. let's get to it take a look at radar and satellite. look how quiet it got overnight. cold front tried to roll through overnight. honestly just kind of fell apart across the region so we don't even have any cloud cover associated with it, very quiet. later this afternoon just sunshine maybe a few clouds from time to time. but the general theme around here will be sunny and hot for your thursday and indeed for your friday, too. temperature right now reagan national 78 degrees. 77 in baltimore and at the naval air station a

you have, for example, at the top of the board, herb! >> he should have his chest puffed out. >> my goodness. middleton at the second and the rest of us down there. i did as you said pick facebook. >> you are in dead last, actually. >> thank you. thank you for pointing out that. my chest is not puffed. let's get to the olympic worthy retail picks of a man institutional analyst six years in a row. the specialty retail analyst. brian, great to have you with us. since it's the middle of the olympics and going for gold here, who deserves the gold medal? >> yeah, so, we put out the top ten, you know, list last week. you know, really talking about how coach, you know, we think, got a little overslammed last week and gave coach the gold medal but before that it got our bronze medal for taking couponing out of their factory stores. which you can't do right now. the consumer's fragile. you have to give them promos. but they put it back in. coach, they have a gold medal. stock's probably going back to the 60s. >> there's always a few names out the

>> well, but herb, it's a -- is that sully? i'm sorry. >> this is herb. >> got it. i'm staring at the blank screen. 40 years is a long time but if you're the state, wait a minute. i got money for myaa rating in california and spread it out over 40 years so, yeah, accrue and cost me a lot more but like -- part of it is like signing on a mortgage. 30-year mortgage. i called mark richards at td, the mortgage guy. $417,000 loan at 4.8%, over $700,000. we all do it. >> this is public money and the other issue here, i'm getting harangued by people on this saying, you know, in the en, it is going to work out for the guys and look like geniuses. the bet is fabulous. inflation takes over. property taxes go back up and making a mountain out of a mole hill. >> they might be right. but i mean, i think the larger point is we're creating more debt and we're not curtailing debt. right? i mean, we are not -- we say we know that we're going to have a fiscal cliff. we know we'll have to accept authority. but on somebody else's watch. at the end of the year, after the election, every

herb, what's your beef? wrote today, i almost fell off of my elliptical when i read that this morning. when he used staples, he could have picked so many other companies i suspect. it was a great success for a period of time, they're now on the backside of the mountain, it's stock is off 42% over the past five years, well beyond it's peak, it's lost it's way, and it's the fact that he picked it. to me, it's like staples of all companies is like a metaphor for america. >> you're not necessarily saying it's his fault that things turned negative, but you don't like the fact that he chose staples. >> not at all. >> i think it's true that staples would not have exited without bain capital, and i also argue that private equity plays a more important role in the economy today. they've been so short-term focused an impatient, it's private equity with the patience for investing or building a company. most consumers don't follow the market the way that herb does, but most do go and buy back to school stuff for their k

. >> we have herbs. everybody thinks about sicilant. i have the mint here, i he .e thyme. >> jimmy: confetti? >> it looks really beautiful in there but it gets stuck in your teeth. i don't recommend it. here's the thing. we got some of that marinade to add to this salsa. >> jimmy: going to eat more of that. >> you get a little bit more of it. >> jimmy: let's get guillermo up here. guillermo, you're mexican. come check this out. >> okay. now we have our thing here. you want to turn -- >> jimmy: turn them over. they look nice. >> beautiful. okay. now, i'm going to switch places with you here so i can get this guy up in here. >> jimmy: this is relatively simple, true? >> super simple. and to tell you the truth, i made it for some friends last week, had a bunch of people over, went, i grow a lot of tomatoes, herbs, i whip this kind of thing up. everybody loves to have grilled tuna or any other kind of fish. >> jimmy: that is nice. >> so, we have our salsa here. >> jimmy: nice and rare. guillermo, do you like fish? >> yes, i do. >> rare tuna? >> yeah. >> guillermo likes

let's bring in herb. herb wants to talk costco. costco -- >> i do? thought he was going to talk about navistar. no. it's costco. >> a joke i hope. i'm easily startled like a sheep. costco shares hitting all-time highs. the stock up over 18%. but as you might say, sir, on a stock basis, walmart and really target are beating costco over the past year. walmart is trouncing. do we have the comparison chart i requested, guys? much maligned? bribery allegations and walmart crushing costco. >> what was it doing? >> crushing them. get an analyst take and herb, as well. >> thank you. >> managing director of david schick joining us now. david, why is -- as much praise does krsto is, why isn't the stock doing well or better than wall start in. >> you're talking year to date. look at the multiyear. i mean, krcostco over time is a stea steady model. >> trading back to the all-time highs to the ipo in 1995. >> yep. >> you stay you would still buy it. why? >> we do. if you think about the building blocks of the costco models it is a membership fee, that's the bulk

determine the primary, they are battlegrounds seeds that the republicans are targeting, wisconsin, herbe's democratic seat that republicans feel very good about because of the environment in wisconsin, because of the success that governor scott walker had. they nominated tommy thompson as a throw. back to the past. you have connie mack, the fourth the son of the former senator down there who has uniform name i.d. because of his father going up against bill nelson. now, connie mack has not run the best campaign, but because of the national environment, bill nelson's numbers aren't very good, and the polls have shown him in a statistical dead heat. these are two of the three that are very key for the republicans. >> eliot: as you pointed out herb cole is retiring. he would have held that seat with some ease. he's very popular. when he announced his retirement, it set off a flurry, and at that point it looked like a democratic stronghold, but then scott walker pushed back successfully, and then the republican party is energized there. tommy thompson somewhat of a moderate could pull in vot

herb on the street time. herb, sitting here in the cozy control room. a bit of a new stage for us but that's what happens when you have technical problems. we have developments on herbalife. >> evolving things going on. the s.e.c. companies mundane questions about the quarterly and annual filings and show up on the website under something called correspond and upload. a recent exchange of herbalive and the s.e.c. hardly appears to be routine. they zeroed in on one of the same questions of disclosure that is hedge fund manager ihorn did on the company's earnings call. notably, the agency wanted to know why the company stopped breaking out details of sales to different types of distributors and why the company doesn't give disclosure about something called the 70% rule which gets to the heart of the controversial issue about how the herbalife products are sold to end customers. herbalife told the s.e.c. it doesn't believe it's relevant. they told me it's closed and no investigation. but as i write on cnbc.com, with the s.e.c. asking the same questions as

herb, you helped find this story yesterday. good work as always, set the stage.now this is what happens. this municipality doesn't want to raise taxes but needs to spend a bunch of money. in the case of the poway school district, it was to float a new bond issue. not just any bond, a capital appreciation bond, which means a free ride today others will pay for tomorrow. it's the ultimate subprime loan. and it works like this. poway gets that $105 million today. it doesn't have to pay a dime for -- wait for it -- 20 years. then it starts paying $50 million a year in interest and principle for the next 20 years. so what you've got here is a 40 year loan that is so toxic that the los angeles treasurer wrote a letter to school districts last year saying he will not support any loans saying he will not support any loans like these. >> herb, stay right there, let's bring in will, the staff writer at the voice of san diego, he broke this story, do you have any new details? >> yes, social securityit's can. >> okay, fair enough. ive heard it all before. i guess the newest

bring in herb now and talk about navistar. lots going on with navistar. this week, a leadership change and now what's the latest? >> it's taking an interesting pop today but kind of interesting because on very light volume or lighter than usual because of the day and the news last night that the company's going to be fine if it sells noncompliant epa noncompliant engines. >> what do you mean? >> listen. fined $3,700. up from $1,900 in the past. they love it because they were expecting a fine of $19,000. >> good news? >> bad but not as bad as feared? >> not as bad as feared. the real question, though, on the noncompliant engines. is it a wash? be careful. wash or no wash, you have two other things to look out for. one is a possible lawsuit by mack and others just upset playing by the rules and a slap in the face to them. also, we're still going to have earnings pretty soon. watch the earnings. look at the cash burn. you want to really find out how's the company doing fundamentally and on a day like today, maybe more than it appears. >> but if they get thei

. >> i use the herbs i've ground together here to cure stomach ache.l have to mix them with other ingredients. i either buy them at the market or look for them in the forest. >> fatunde ojo lives in kuruduma, a suburb of nigeria's capital abuja. he has to walk quite a distance from home to gather the ingredients for his medicine. many grow in the forests, but the forests are dwindling fast. abuja is expanding into the surrounding area as more and more people come here seeking work. right now it's the dry season, and few trees and leaves are green, so fatunde ojo has to go to the market more often. most of the herbs he buys today come from far away, and that makes business more expensive for him, but he needs the money. he wants to invest. >> i want to modernize my business. i'd be happy if someone could help me package my products and enlarge the business. >> abuja is crowded. the traffic roars, but everything is drowned out by the clatter of generators. because of the regular power failures, they run almost constantly in front of the shops and busines

this is an increasingly competitive market and a very expensive product. >> thank you very much, herb you want to know what is dumber than watching porn on your work computer? well, googling how to inside trade before you allegedly do it. eamon has the unreal details. what was this guy thinking? it's almost as if he wanted to give himself away, right? >> it's a very good question in this technological age that we live in. you'd think that you want to cover your internet tracks. robert ramnarine was arrested at his new jersey home this morning. the insider trading case against him reads like a how to not do insider trading. take a look at the things that he allegedly searched on his computer before engaging in the trading. he searched can stock option be traced to purchaser. he searched illegal insider trading options trace. and he viewed an article called ways to avoid insider trading. the government says he did all this before engaging in insider trading himself. i can tell you that the criminal complaint in this case says that he made some of these alleged insider trades from his wo

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herb is also with us. you have been complaining, really, well, for a decade now about this -- about nest egg returns. welcome. >> and various other things. >> actually everything. we'll get to that later on. mark, you write about the trend. people day trading? this is really bad idea? >> i couldn't agree more. it is a really bad idea. one of the biggest challenges and risk that is our investors are facing is longevity risk and the risk they'll outlive the assets. the assets have to outlive the investors and so i advise my clients in that group, i have a handful of those type of clients this is a high-risk proposition. that we have to very, very careful and this is not what you do with your core investment strategy. >> well, let's be clear on something here. if you talk about day trading a 401( 1 k, you have to have something to trade. we're talking about the trend of etfs in 401(k) and then -- >> are you against more etfs and 401(k) plans? >> i'm not but the high frequency trading or investors at that leve

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. >> his former employer, san francisco herb and natural food company sells tea, herbs and natural foods. >> the public is buying this product. >> yes, they are. >> do you think they have any idea? >> not at all. nobody would know. >> within days of a bay area investigation, federal and state inspectors moved in, posting this embargo sign on the door, closing down the business since july 11. >> you shut down the facility. why? >> because of the massive rodent infestation, the evidence that the product at the facility had become a dult rated by filth, including urine and feces of rodents. >> the most disgusting thing i ever seen was mice living in there, mice reproducing in there, making babies in there. what they did was just take the babies out, throw them away and resifted the product and put it back in stock. >> he said direct contact with mice and mice feces is regularly sifted, removing the feces and sometimes dead mice and then repackaged and sold to unknowing customers. and it's supported by a second former employee. >> product that was contaminated with mice feces was resold. >>

i want you to welcome chef herb holden. and today we are doing an orange salad. i'm not familiar with hiccama. >> it's a root. i do have one there. it's native to mexico. the taste is a cross between a potato and a water chestnut. >>> you don't have to cook it? >> you don't have to cook it. you can peel it and eat it raw. >> what do we do? >> we have the peeled hiccama. >> can you put one in my hand? i just want to taste it. oh, it's crunchy. it has flavor. it's good. >> thank you. we have some fresh oranges. some seeded tomatoes. >> all righty. >> some cilantro and some red onion. >> the recipe is on jchayward.com. it's going to be there. this is hiccama orange salad. this is the vinegarette? >> yes. >> it's easy to make. just stir it up? >> just stir it up. it's best to let this chill before you serve. >> this is how it looks. >> that's the finished product. >> that's beautiful. that is nice. what else did you bring? >> that is chicken wrapped asparagus sitting on a bed of tricolored couscous. >> what's the other dish? >> asparagus tomato salad. >> i want all t

exactly. >> herb, where are you on this?se it is ultimately leadership here that we are p putting center stage. >> george bush had the mba and not a chief executive officer of a company. knowing business is one thing. i'm an observer of ceos but the hardest thing it would seem to me and john touched on it, you know, when gordon ran continental, he could get anything done or attempted to get it done. quh you're running a country and you have a congress and you don't know where that congress will be so you have that issue. plus, when it comes to the economy, you have a world economy now. it's so much bigger than this place. it is europe and everything else. so you can be the best ceo in the world. you can provide leadership but it doesn't mean you can really i don't believe necessarily move the needle on the economy. >> i think -- >> sue? >> that's something more -- forgive me. i think there's something more fundamental, gordon, about the differences of the two. you know the job as a ceo. maximize the return to the sharehold s

people had the idea thinking they were herb blue-collar the bill sponsored by the common man so in the beginning it was a ploy eight? >> absolutely. while the bill was debated some went before the public and did to viewed by journalist and said this bill they had written will not be good for business and bad for america. knowing full well they read that in the paper. the bankers do not want it. it must be good. >> host: in your book "the creature from jekyll island" what is your answer? >> it is a cartel. not a government agency. it does have the power of government because it does give the power of the enforcement nothing different they and the banana or more sugar cartel. they drew up rules and regulations to self regulate then sent it to congress with the federal reserve act. that is why rethink it is it government agency said you go to prison but it is a banking cartel. >> when did you get interested in this topic? >> in the '60s. what was the cause of inflation? so started to do research and never produced the documentary but eventually i got the box back out there is no great mil

the federal government is stepping in and sending a strong message to the owners of san francisco herb and natural food company. chief investigative reporter tony cove less ki broke the story for us. they're seizing more than $14 million in food from duct, right? >> the fda taking the action after what it calls widespread contaminati contamination. the facility remains closed indefinitely. >> go deeper. >> federal investigators confirming they have found proof of a massive rodent infestation first reported by two whistle blowers talking to nbc bay area. >> this is san francisco herb natural food company from california. >> why are you sitting there now? >> as a person who can't bear this anymore. probably have to stop what they're doing, stop the process because this isn't right. >> we found gross conditions of rodent defiled products. >> first state, now federal investigators confirming. >> in this case we're talking about a warehouse that has live and dead rodents in the facility in product with rodent defiled many excreted pellets throughout the product. every pellet seemed to be co

employees contacted nbc bay area to expose the filthy conditions they witnessed inside san francisco herb and natural foods. >> most disgusting thing i ever seen was mice living inside there. mice re-reduesing in there, making babies, and what they did is just take the babies out, throw them away and put the product back in stock. >> product contaminated with mice feces was resold. >> mice feces, dead mice, urine, hair. repackaging. >> occasionally or all the time. >> our investigation uncovered two critical documents. records apparently showing. managers required employees to clean mouse droppings from product before repackaging and selling them to unseptembering customers. >> the owners of this facility, are they aware of how bad this problem is? >> yes. >> are they aware that they were instructed to sift mice feces, myths from product and resell that? >> our sources said the owners told them to repackage contaminated product and sell it to the public. >> have you confirmed that? >> we have confirmed that there is documentation that they were cleaning some product for rodent fecal conta

contacted nbc bay area to expose the filthy conditions they witnessed inside san francisco herb andatural foods. >> the most disgusting thing i ever have seen is mice living and reproducing in there, making babies in there. and what they did was just take the babies out, throw them away and resist it and put it back in stock. >> reporter: product that was contaminated with mice feces was resold? >> mice feces, dead mice, urine, hairs sifted out, repackage it. >> reporter: occasionally or all the time? >> all the time. >> reporter: our investigation uncovered two critical documents, records apparently showing managers required employees to clean mouse droppings from products before repackaging and selling them to unsuspecting customers. the owners of facility, are they aware of how bad this problem is? >> yes, they were. >> reporter: are they aware that you were instructed to sift out mice feces, mice from product and resell that? >> at times the owners were the ones that gave the orders. >> reporter: our sources said the owners told them to repackage contaminated product and sell it

. >> this is herb. this is the concern obviously before the deal.ple wondered whether it would be done rightly. and then you end up with the problem and you wonder how much of this is because they really were penny pinching and didn't want to go the extra mile. >> reporter: i have heard of people working on the merger it is not a case of penny pinching, herb, but did not fully integrate the processes and think the processes through. >> how can they not -- >> reporter: i understand what you're saying. now, ultimately, what you would really need to do is sort of a forensic investigation in terms of putting the two computer systems together. i have not seen something like that done yet but there's no doubt that almost everybody that you talk with in the airline industry bringing this up they roll their eyes and like terrible, terrible across the board. >> do you feel, herb, we are kind of an all-time low in terms of customer satisfaction with airlines? we are doing this with the nickel and diming going on with frequent flier programs, cutting back on b

of course not. >> thank you, herb. >>> in the bidding war for top talent, nothing is off the table.s the most important incentive for most of us? it is food. and our own jon fortt is taking an inside look at the catering world of silicon valley's hottest player. >> reporter: google made food a cultural touchstone offering it free to employees more than a decade ago. twitter, facebook and now yahoo! have all followed suit. >> this is unique. >> reporter: the man behind the infamous food culture here, co-founder of caterer bon appetite. the radical vision 25 years ago was to make restaurant quality food on a massive scale. >> my dream was to create a restaurant company with great flavor, great chefs that could customize every location and food was going to be the cornerstone of the company. >> reporter: how? he hires top flight chefs, res the demographics like ebay. >> how's the indian food here? >> great. >> good? >> reporter: his achievement is itself a silicon valley success story. it was founded in palo al to serving 140 million companies inside schools and corporations around the

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herb is really hot on the trail of another multi-level marketing company trying to go public right, herb? you don't like what you're seeing here. what is the company? >> the company is called visalis a part of blithe, a publicly traded direct sales company, best known for its candles. blithe is up about 18% today spinning off visalis coming out of nowhere for weight loss shakes and nutritional supp supplement supplementals. the president is from herbalife. the deal is done under the jobs act and a lot that doesn't have to be disclosed. in fact, the ipo filed under the name fva ventures. now, in the controversial world of multi-level marketing, this one is note worthy for a number of reasons. first, its sales in first six months of the year rose astounding 450% to $326 million. the customer count up 500% to 1.2 million. it's got a 71% gross margin. but -- there's the but. a small number of sales people and aptly enough calls promoters making up more than 10% of sales. one who's one of the founders makes up more than 50% of sales through the upliner down line and the 35-year-old ceo and co

mcc, i couldn't wait to get out here, but herb slid me out of the seat. he is bigger. >> good to see the horse and buggy still works. >> they shut it down, but they shut it down in the wrong side. they actually shut down my side. >> aren't you coming in by helicopter? >> sometimes. >> guys, i think pete might be double parked in the cnbc parking lot. let's move it along. >> we are glad to have you here. >> it's great to be with you. coming up, unusual activity. not quite pair normal, but enough to raise eyebrows in the financial sector. and the storm looking up higher diesel prices. the impact on trucking stops as a result which have already been battered by rising fuel prices. we'll be right back. looking for a better place to put your cash? here's one you may not have thought of -- fidelity. now you don't have to go to a bank to get the things you want from a bank, like no-fee atms, all over the world. free checkwriting and mobile deposits. now depositing a check is as easy as taking a picture. free online bill payments. a highly acclaimed credit card w

good story, herb. thank you. >>> all right. hit the biggest pops and drops in midday tradeling. pop aol 2%. stevie grasso? >> a couple of bullish headlines. accelerated buy back. a special dif debd. technically it looks okay. i'm not in the name. probably wouldn't buy it. i don't like the name. >> dollar thrifty. joe? >> big deal? what do you do with hertz and avis? i don't know if that's the places to go to. go to rush enterprises here that works in this environment. you can look at penske. >> all right. best buy, a pop. what do you think, stephanie? >> the company and the founder back in discussions again. really who knows if this deal will come about or not? i think that the fundaments, problems. >> all pops today. hudson city banc. guy? you hit the nail on the head. i think it's pretty stock specific and if you're looking to buy something in the hopes of something to happen barking up the wrong tree. >> all right. for all of you who are really in to the grateful dead, a pop for air guitar and american air shredder named nor

now i store the memory in a drawer along with bitter herbs and rhinoceros horns we dine at restaurants on the better side of towns with pink table cloths and real flowers in the vases. we hardly go to china town. before i came here, i held his hand. now my heart is a chinese box of riddels, no one understands. i blew hot soup for her on foggy nights. she trims the ends of my thinning hair, still she can't forget that day she faced the interrogation officers and said she was my sister. i have not told anyone we move like shadows in a haze of secrets and lies. now stairs fascinate her. she knows the neighbor's house by heart. 21 steps to the door. 9 windows. 1-1/2 bathrooms. she counts every timely visit just to make sure. in case one day she has to know. before i came here, i had a name. >> ships of wind. softly size the swaying trees in the secret place stilled by time. we toil between the deep brown earth crumbs past frommant toant in orderly procession surrounded by crushed new born grass and flattened flowers. many of us have died here. who's secret [inaudible] we do not know. nor t

we bring in one of the biggest critics with herb greene berg. >> it's not realistic.hings reported samsung says it has no plan for a deal with the blackberry 10. we talked about this going back in time, and this looks like melts ice may be the case, watching melting ice it what you talked about. i talked about getting my cnbc e-mail on my iphone, you had a blackberry and what happened? what are you using now? >> i admit it, i completely changed, now i have the iphone. i'm still getting used to it, but blackberry let me down too many times. i had to give it up. >> that's what's happening and that's why blackberry 10, when jeffreys was on, he tried the blackberry ten, and he said you know, it wasn't an enthusiastic response. we said too many times it's too little too late. why would somebody want to partner with them? maybe to get the keyboard or some of the technology, but we have seen this before. just because you have something really good, and something we all loved and liked, doesn't mean somebody can't come along, leap frog you, and leave you in the back of the pa

this is herb greenberg.ines gone wild in the market is still working its way through the system. it's interesting. there's a lot of talk about knight securities. we've talked to traders who say they havesh did you tom joyce the ceo of knight tells scott wapner, he has no comment on anything yet regarding the trading. it's just such a wide number of so many stocks. dole, juniper, corning, molycorp. it's just dozens of stocks, but trying to get an explanation, all you need to find from everybody, as bob pisani as mentioned, it's algos, algos, algos, algorithms in the market. >> and melissa said the name being associated, but nothing confirmed, is knight capital group. to highlight the point, all we have is chatter, but knight capital group in fact is down 11.5%. what have you heard about that? >> well, again when you talk to traders and they say they receive messages from knight, talking about, you know, technical issues, but we can't get that confirmed from knight, even though you talk to people who are clien

at a quarterly herbings report. most are cuply cats. some are facebook kaws the rest of the fake counties undesirable and yaysed for spanning. if that -- genuine trying to distance herself. statements appear in online articles in the new york times magazine. mayor quan is voted seaing -- however mayor quan says the reporter tried to put words in her mouth and she did not want to criticize oak lands police. >>> a memorial will be held today for a local rodeo star. 25-year-old brock won a number of competitions. he was found dead in his trailer at the cheyenne rodeo last weekend. the cause of his death has not been determined. this afternoon's service starts at 4:30 at the wells fargo center for the arts in santa rosa. >>> time now 5:17. sal is back. you ready to take care of folks -- what do you think on a friday light? >> we hope so. any way. we want it to be friday night. so far it is. it's early though. we'll see what happens later on. right now certainly we are starting with contra costa county. traffic does move along pretty well. a

. ♪ fruits of the tree, the herbs of the field. ♪ >> mostly i smoke it if i feel like it.ng my bible or playing a song. that's what i feel like to do. that's another story. >> reporter: ziggy lives in l.a. with his wife and kids. his sister karen lives here, too. so you guys have how many brothers and sisters? >> i think it's 12 -- no, wait. >> reporter: the kids, the band mates, the wife and the girlfriends agreed to tell bob's story in a mammoth documentary called simply "marley" released this month. >> from jamaica, bob marley! >> this is what i did. >> he would call to get woman out of his dressing room. i became his guardian angel. did you know his dad was white? i didn't know he was discriminated against because of that? >> i didn't know that. >> reporter: you didn't know that either? >> no, i didn't know that, like that. the songs have a certain style of dressing or dancing. his music is timeless ♪ two little birds on my door step ♪ it's like i'm listening to his music and it's good now. this music is bad now. in 3013, this music is bad now. ♪ everything little thin

confiscados por agentes federales de un almacen en fremont que pertenece a la compaÑia "san francisco herbds co.". ---la incautacion se ejecut a raiz de una orden judicial girada por un juez federal tras presentarse una demanda del gobierno federal en contra de dicha empresa. stop for open blanca ---el gobierno federal aumenta sus esfuerzos para informar a la poblacion sobre distintos tramites incluida la "accion diferida". take vo ---hoy, el servicio de inmigracion realizo una sesion en la que estuvo contestando preguntas por telefono y por internet sobre la directiva del presidente barack obama. ---una de las preguntas hechas por algunos soÑadores al panel de expertos fue, cuantas veces se puede alguien reinscribir? he aqui la respuesta... take sot gabriela melero uscis in: 00;13;24;21 --- out: 00;13;42;09 senora dice: "de ser aprobada, esa primera solicitud de accion, esa primera peticion perdon, de accion diferida como les comente, tienen dos anos, se puede volver a reinscribir una persona a partir despues de esos dos anos siempre y cuando la persona siga cumpliendo con todos los requs