howard hughes. as one of larry's friends back there told me, this guy is somewhere out there where the buses don't go. that was their impression of larry. he furthered this impression by saying really odd things to people, like his best friend he told he was going to make a lot of money and move far away and never talk to him again. which his best friend sort of took offense to, and larry just thought this was, you know, totally acceptable thing to say. he told him that he was going to make a lot of money and marry a catholic girl because catholics don't get tworsed, and he didn't want to give half of his fortune to a catholic girl or, you know, to a woman. he told him various times he wanted to be an actor, and he decided he wanted to be an evangelist, so he would study jimmy swag earth late at night and got the pictures to black out everything but his eyes so he could study how this man manipulated and hip hypnotized people with his eyes. and he also vilified his mother for some reason. he would t

. >> previous winners include howard hughes and apolo 11. it can fly a record 400 miles on one gallon of fuel. >>> from san francisco -- some san francisco children got their hands dirty helping to mark a milestone for the parks. dozens raced, dug and planted this morning at st. mary's park. it was the kid's 500th tree planning at this park. >> we want to teach the kids open space sustainability and pro texting the earth. >> the tree planting project is to encourage stew war ship of -- stewart ship of san francisco's parks and it is funned by the department of environmental protection. >>> he some very warm -- some very warm temperatures, here is a look outside. looking at the golden gate bridge, we have a little bit of some chop on the water and we have been dealing with some water on the east bay hills. still lots of sunshine and temperatures are already warming back up. as far as records, as you can see, it is february dealing with temperatures getting back up and february 23rd, for today, the record is 78 degrees. we could be approaching

i get this howard hughes-y feel with the planes, hollywood. do you think about that ever?pe i don't end up in a cinema by myself watching ice station zebra over and over again. i think i've got such a diverse set of interests, movies, aviation, technology-- >> howard hughes. >> well, i don't know if howard was involved in sports teams. >> allen's diverse set of interests also led him to invest in over 100 business ventures. most of them were poorly managed or ahead of their time, so they flopped, and he slid from being the third-richest man in the world to 57th. were you just too early, or was it that you really needed a bill gates and didn't have that other person to push it through? >> look, in microsoft days, you had some great ideas and some great execution between me and bill and many other people. you know, in technology, most things fail. most companies fail. but i had some whoppers. >> some of his whoppers, however, produced numerous patents. in a move that angered silicon valley, allen sued several giant companies, accusing them of infringing on those old patents.

. >> reporter: julie, you've heard of oroville wright, howard hughes. now you can add david morris.s flown more than 300 different types of planes, logging more than 27,000 hours. but his greatest achievement has yet to come. >> to be nominated is just kind of neat to look at the list of people who have been on there. >> reporter: he's now the nominee for the coulier award. he piloted this plane to win a fuel efficiency contest, sponsored by nasa. nasa wanted to see if a plane could fly two hours and cover 200 miles with the equivalent of 1 gallon of fuel. he doubled the pilage nasa called for. >> we've shown there is that possibility, and probably within the next five to six years, there will be several airplanes that will come out with either hybrid or pure electric energy as a salable commodity. >> reporter: the plane he flew uses lithium batteries and an electric motor. it battery powered plane seemed like it would never get off the ground, because batteries were so heavy. but now there's better battery density. >> a prius gets about 200 passenger seat miles, so we doubled what

. >> reporter: julie, you've heard of oroville wright, howard hughes. now you can add david morris.re than 300 different types of planes, logging more than 27,000 hours. but his greatest achievement has yet to come. >> to be nominated is just kind of neat to look at the list of people who have been on there. >> reporter: he's now the nominee for the coulier award. he piloted this plane to win a fuel efficiency contest, sponsored by nasa. nasa wanted to see if a plane could fly two hours and cover 200 miles with the equivalent of 1 gallon of fuel. he doubled the pilage nasa called for. >> we've shown there is that possibility, and probably within the next five to six years, there will be several airplanes that will come out with either hybrid or pure electric energy as a salable commodity. >> reporter: the plane he flew uses lithium batteries and an electric motor. it battery powered plane seemed like it would never get off the ground, because batteries were so heavy. but now there's better battery density. >> a prius gets about 200 passenger seat miles, so we doubled what a prius ca

there was an incorrect graphic up yesterday in one of his top holdings is howard hughes. ticker there is hhc. want to correct that. let's get back to linkedin. a game changer overvalued. do you have a comment here? whitney is shorting linkedin, when pressed will say it's sort of the best of that class, facebook not included. yet the valuation is out of whack. >> clearly, whitney is hedging his reed positions. i may be the other way. i think netflix is going lower. there's been short covering. as the junk rises higher in a trending market that is going up. i still think their model is flawed. linkedin i think is overvalued. for me, i've got to wait for those stocks to break. >> i think that's part of the point when pressed whitney would admit is that not flawed model, flawed valuation. >> flawed model on netflix, flawed valuation on linkedin. issue is you've got to go back to 2000 when you have the internet bubble. we have a scrapbook company that doesn't know how they are going to make money. >> oil rising the third day, heading for the biggest weekly gain this year, sign

at the list of the people that have been on there. >> previous winners include oroville wright, howard hughesollo 11. morris was nominated for his work on the plane which can fly a record 400 miles on a single gallon of fuel. >> that's incredible! bravo! >>> sal, you went all of our awards because you're the best at taking care of people. >> your check is in the mail, my friend. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. let's go out and see what we have now. now we're looking at pleasant hill, walnut creek. that traffic is getting busier. 24 is also slow but if you're driving on gray from that part of contra costa, it looks good. i want to focus on 580 near high street near the walgreens there. the power is slowly coming back on, about 6700 customers were without power. but now it's down to less than 200, as pg&e on the scene. you still may see traffic lights that are not working properly in that area. high street, macarthur, that area there could be a little dicey. it's always crowded this time of day. let's go out and look now, speaking of crowded, bay bridge, crowded on 580 from 24, 80 is mode

you have osama bin laden he made himself the howard hughes of jihad. he was pacing around his compound. he was watching reruns of himself on cnn. this is one of the reasons as the 10-year anniversary happened, this is one of the reasons the doctor decided to make a leadership move. i do know some of the intelligence material indicated there are strains within al qaeda. there were strains. the doctor decides to push mr. bin laden into combat was obsequious. who knew that his future and the future of the jihad depended on osama bin laden's money? it was not surprising he made this move. >> let's go back to the audience. >> thank you for your service to the country. some of us can only imagine what he does do to protect our freedom. i wanted to thank you and all of the veterans. my son is serving as a senior chief in the navy. do you think the pakistani government and military were hiding bin laden or protecting him? >> i certainly do. i think they are completely responsible for his care and feeding. i will go on the record to say that right now others ar

in the name of the aifuater, howard hughes corporation, big ackman spun it off when it was in chap 11. the stock in mid-point of 52-week range. off to a good start in 2012. if you don't know the company, real estate deals with planned communities and if housing works itself out, undervalued aselts in beaten up areas and how can you not love the name? now to a seemingly stinky one with questionable growth prospects. pitny boes, the mail system company wreaks of slow growth, but there's a huge effort to diversify the business. the stock is down 25% in the last year. flat for the year. has a nearly 8% yield. if the stock has bottomed, you can ride preesappreciation and . move along. i don't know what to call him. skip pi. the nose knows. the final pick for our intrepid hound, safeguard scientific. okay, a small cap private equity firm involved in health care and tech up huge in the last three years but slightly down in the past year. could be a pause before another leg up. economic recoveries mean new businesses, sfe has a hand in a whole bunch of them. coming up on "street signs" we're

howard hughes ended up with the nomination. thanks to a.j.g me the right answer first. >>> the latest nationwide poll shows rick santorum leads him. we have some new numbers just released moments ago by gallup. let's get some strict numbers from paul steinhauser. tell us, really, how dangerous this is for mitt romney. >> the surge for santorum no doubt continues, randi. check out these numbers brand new from gallup. republicans, you can see a 10-point advantage for santorum over romney, gingrich and ron paul down there. this surge, at least in the national numbers, randi, has continued. some say, has santorum plateaued? has he topped out? we're going to see it first in the state polls in michigan or arizona. some of those states are voting on super tuesday. but yeah, this is traumatic for mitt romney, of course it is. but you know what matters the most? the primaries on super tuesday. if romney wins in michigan and, a lot of people will calm down. >> romney has to win in michigan, doesn't he? >> well, it was his home state. romney won michiga

howard restricts them from hughes the bed. >> right now our law provides that minors, children, can go into the indoor tanning beds, a that will increase their chances of getting skin cancer, can do it with a note. >> i have no family history, i did go tanning when i was a teen. from the surgeries to countless hours of worry that it continue, i continue to get tests all the time i wouldn't wish this on anyone. >> now -- they say there is no evidence to show a connection. they say it's not strong enough to warrant banning teens the beds. >> it's called a major breakthrough for couples like deborah and dan fisher who struggled for years to get pregnant. a boston hospital is offering a test to show which eggs have the better chance of being a healthy baby. it's a ray chg. doctors say the test lets them see beyond the microscope. >> most miscarriages are due to problems in the embroyo an extra chromosone or a missing one. we can now determine if one is normal and less likely to miscarry. >> now they can look at all 23 control 23chromosones. >> now the radar, and the forecast certified most

beaumont, theo johns and elmo willard who had just graduated from howard university in washington, and then a black lawyer from dallas, hughont. it was booker faison versus elmo beard versus the city of beaumont. that was in the summer of '55. and in order to set up the case, several of them went out to the golf shop at the terrell, offered to pay their money. they were refused, and so they got the case set up like that. and then after they set up the case, then johns and willard and tate filed the suit papers in beaumont, challenging the fact that they were not permitted to play the terrell because of their color. and the new judge, he had just been appointed recently, was lamar cecil. and so judge cecil had to handle this new case that was coming in. johns and willard and tate argued this case in the courtroom here. they brought the plaintiffs and the defendants together, and judge cecil presided at his bench. and they argued that the case of brown versus board of education did apply to the golf course, even though it was an education and school course. he ruled in favor of the black plaintiffs. he said that brown versus