and i would cringe at the thought of riding around in a hummer. but i really desire if i can afford one the next tesla. >> does seem like it hurts the prius perhaps more than the tesla. in northern california nobody is getting a the hummer stepfather a tesla. there are neighborhoods where you can get your house wrecked parking a hummer in the driveway. >> i have a preou o prius. and i think people understand that just burning fuel unnecessarily even if gas prices go to $2 and something a gallon, you know, i'm not sure we're going to get back into that whacky consumption mode. >> i have a image of you in a hummer. >> never happening. >> finally google is testing a new buy button looking to go after amazon in the online commerce market. if you try to shop on google you will be refer to the many merchant's individual website. this aims to keep users searching on google instead of moving to amazon. >> dangerous territory. google is already running into the issues with the likes of yelp and others saying they are prioritizing their own interests ahead

. >> reporter: it was father lawrence hummer's first execution.omething was going horribly wrong. >> he after two minutes began to gag audibly. and literally gag, and you could see his stomach begin to bloat. this was simply monstrous as far as i was concerned. and it was contempt table. >> reporter: the lethal injection to dennis mcgwire lasted nearly half an hour. it was ohio's fourth botched execution in recent years, european drug makers now refuse to supply the toxic cocktail used for executions some doctor refuse to participation. so ohio's legislature has come up with a plan that is popular in the state capital. make the details of executions and many of the participants secret. >> we think when they were talking about something that's certainly the ultimate punishment, it's deserving of the most transparency. not the least. and it's already a very secretive process to begin with. and what they are doing is saying, more secrecy is the key here, not more transparency. >> reporter: legal analysts are calling it the most extreme execution meas

father hummer says he knows why politicians have been so elusive. >> they are trying to make it easyecute people in the state of ohio by hiding the information from necessary parties, they are afraid somebody might know what they are doing? that reeks to me of sort of a secret society that i don't want to be part of. gracious sakes. >> reporter: if the measure passes the law could become tied up in court battles, as a long line of men on death row continue to wait on news of their fate. >> the president of brazil has broken down in tears after a report was released on human rights abuses that occurred during military rule. the report details illegal arrests, torture, executions, and forced disappearances, and shows how the regime was responsible for the murders of more than 400 people. an amnesty law prevents military command frers being prosecuted. >>> the worldwide web foundation has launched its annual web index. 86 countries were assessed. the darker the color, the higher they scored. the lighter shade shows throws with poor connectivity. denmark topped the list. at the other end

. >> it was father hummer's botched execution. he knew something was going wrong. >> he, after two minutes, began to gag audibly, and literally gag, and you could see his stomach begin to bloat. this was simple mons rouse as far as i was concerned, and it was contemptible. the lethal injection of dennis maguire lasted half an hour, it was the fourth botched execution. european drug makers refuse to supply the toxic cocktail used for executions. some doctors refuse to participate. >> ohio's executioners calm up with a plan - make the details of executions and participants secret. >> we are talking about the ultimate punishment is deserving of the most transparency, not the least. it's already a secretive process to begin with. what they are doing is saying more secrecy is the key here, not more transparency. >> reporter: legal analysts call it the most extreme execution measure. if ohio's governor signed it in a law, on february 11th, almost nothing about the state killing ronald phillips would be accessible to the public. not the

. >> quickly, is the hummer coming back? >> that's funny, we were talking about that yesterday what general motors would have done if they would have stuck with the hummer. i don't think it's that big of a market or that size. it tends to be the smaller base sport utilities, sort of what used to be a family wagon a few years ago. it's not the huge sport utilities. while those are selling well, they're not like the old hummer days. >> scott adams, thank you so much. >>> and let's take a look at your futures that are trading ahead of the wall street open. transfers leading the decline yesterday due to the rebound in crude prices. right now, the dow indicating a higher open by around 14 points. >>> and european markets largely in the red where the ftse 100 is bucking the trend in the green. the energy-heavy ftse 100 up in the green. that's all we've got time for on today's show. i'm wilfred frost. >> i'm seema mody. thank you so much for watching. "squawk box" is next. >>> good morning. oil shock. prices are weak again today af

. >> it was father lawrence hummer's first execution, but he knew something was going horribly wrong., after two minutes, began to gag audibly and literally gag and you could see his stomach begin to bloat. this was simply monstrous as far as i was concerned, and it was contemptible. >> the lethal injection of dennis mcguire lasted nearly half an hour. it was ohio's fourth botched execution in recent years. european drug makers now refuse to supply the toxic colorado cocktail. some doctors refuse to participate. ohio's legislature has come up with a plan that is popular in the state capitol: make the details of executions and many of the participants secret. >> we think when you are talking about something that is essentially the ultimate punishment, it's deserving of the most transparency, not the least. and it's already a very secr secretive process to begin with and what they are doing is saying, more secrecy is the key here, not more transparency. >> reporter: legal analysts call it the most extreme execution measure of any death penalty state in the u.s. if ohio's governor signs

some showing interest in the used hummer h1, about 9 miles per gallon. >>> hersheys is talking about changing its chocolate. wait. hear me out first. to replace the high fructose corn syrup. they are considering using more sugar and doing away with the controversial corn syrup that has a nasty reputation for fueling weight gain and diabetes. there's no time line. >>> and costco, offering some of the best beef in the world. members can purchase japanese wagu beef for the bargain price of $109 a pound. the catch here, however, you can't just walk up and say give me a pound. you have to have a minimum purchase of 11 pounds. yes, there's the catch. >> that's where they get you. >> it comes out to about $1199.99. beef lovers and i say it's worth it, however. >>> well, the 1977 pontiac trans am that burt reynolds drove in "smokey and the bandit" is up for sale. it was given to reynolds after filming to be a part of his car election. and now he's getting rid of it. the legendary muscle car has a powerful v-8 engine under the hood and just 12,000 miles. the current bid is at least $75,000. >

car cans even with oil prices low it is no longer in our dna to want to drive around in suvs and hummers and burn gasoline. so i think you'll see alternative transportation fuels. obviously unconventional sources of natural gas is huge for this country. i hope we will start to export more oil, exporting liquified natural gas. this will be a great thing for our country and that help us fooirnltd find ways to do things like solar, wind, batteries, new electricity. we'll become a more innovative nation as we experiment with other types of energy production. >> who are other innovators you would watch alongside elon musk? >> i was reading "fortune" magazine's piece on larry paige. not some google and larry paige a good innovator but when i talk about how steve jobs disrupted the computer industry or whatever, i think can a big, established company be innovative and disruptive. i like how google looks for ways to be innovative and disruptive. we had a lot of social media plays over the last ten years. maybe the next ten years will involve physical objects like batteries, but also health care,

some showing interest in the used hummer h1, about 9 miles per gallon. >>> hersheys is talking about changing chocolate. to replace the high fructose corn syrup. using more sugar and doing away with the controversial corn syrup that has a nasty reputation for fueling weight gain and diabetes. there's no time line. >>> and costco, offering some of the best beef in the world. members can purchase japanese beef for $109 a pound. you can't just walk up and say give me a pound. you have to have a minimum purchase of 11 pounds. yes, there's the catch. >> that's where they get you. >>> it comes out to about $1199.99. beef lovers and i say it's worth it, however. >> well, the 1977 pontiac trans am terrified and a woman recovering after an exotic cat goes on the attack in an american city. [ kevin ] this is connolly, cameron, zach, and clementine. we have a serious hairball issue. we clean it up, turn around, and there it is again. it's scary. little bit in my eye. [ michelle ] underneath the kitchen table, underneath my work desk, we've got enough to knit a sweater. [ doorbell rings ] zach,

even a renewed interest in buying the used hummer h1, which gets about nine miles to the gallon. americans now saving nearly $250 million a day on cheaper gas. that's $1,100 a year for the typical family. savings that can go towards everything from food to travel to holiday gifts. >> a lot of motorists i've talked to said the added income is going right under the christmas tree. >> reporter: and another gift on the way, david. these prices expected to drop another 10 cents by christmas day. the first city to drop below $2 a gallon, analysts say, will be oklahoma city, that should happen next week. david? >> oklahoma city first. all right, reba ka, thank you. >>> there's still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this tuesday. the high speed chase, the wild ending caught on tape. and the tv star who suddenly played a role in the capture. we'll hear from him coming up here. >>> and the roling stones this evening. remembering an artist who performed with them so often. >>> and the stunning images tonight. the base jump gone bad. the daredevil crashing into a building. unbelievabl

that isil fighters are trying to push up and they are saying this morning that they have been seeing hummersers pushing up more and more fighters in ever greater numbers, they have four positions overlook that go ravine but they are loo they arn heavily weaponry to hold back the isil forces, the general is asking for air strikes, the only that can hold them back is the air strikes from the coalition forces, there is terrible weather at the moment it seems to be quite a race against time and as you said there are as many as thousand yazidi now on the sinjar mountains it's a kind of ky top of 65-kilometers long they are getting very few aid parcels coming in and very few able to be airlifted off at the moment. >> sue, i understand you were further down with fighting broke out close to your position. tell us more about that. >> reporter: we went down to the foot if you like of the sinjar mountains which is where the main commander's base is and they are just a few kilometers from the isil front line there and it's much lower, much flatter surface down there. we were in a town that has the mania

. >> it was father lawrence hummer's first execution. and he knew something was going horribly wrong. >> he after two minutes began to gag audibly. and hit rally gag, you could see his stomach begin to bloat, this was monstrous, and it was contemptible. >> the he that will injection lasted nearly half an hour. it was ohio's fourth botched execution in recent years. european drug makers now refuse to supply the toxic cocktail used for executions, some doctors refuse to participate. so ohio's legislature has come up with a plan that is popular in the state capitol. make the details secret. >> it's deserving of the most transparentsy. not the least. and it is already a very secretive process to begin with. more secrecy is the thing here, not more transparency. legal analyst are calling it the most extreme execution measure of any penalty in the u.s. if it is signed into law, almost nothing about the state killing would be accessful to the public, not the drugged used not who made them, not the identities of the doctors in the room and unlik

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they are paying for energy now for the future, and will they go out and buy a previous tomorrow or a hummer>> thank you both for being with dr. tony ingraffea is professor emeritus at cornell university and president of "physicians, scientists, and engineers for healthy energy, inc., and sandra steingraber is an activist, biologist and author. she co-founded both new yorkers against fracking and concerned health professionals of new york. she has been named woman of the year among many other things. -- i andh the quote of with the quote of rebecca's home at who says the governor did it -- pushed hard. look at the weathervanes, what respect the wind. ben we come back, we will joined by two leading attorneys to talk about the cia intelligence report and the latest complaint filed in europe to try to try bush administration officials for torture. they with us. ♪ [music break] "to the unknown man," evangelos odysseas papathanassiou a.k.a. vangelis. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. >> a human rights group in berlin, germany, has filed a crimina

they were buying hummers for cash, at the dealerships we were at.oday and they have increased prices 10 to 20% on cars in the past couple of weeks. so if you were going to buy a $20,000 car, a week later, it's $24,000 cars. you can see why you'd attack all of your savings and buy whatever asset you could, even though cars depreciate in value, that's why they want that asset. you're seeing that happen with iphones, with cars, with everything. >> it's incredible. how much have these sanctions worked? >> so they have worked. putin hasn't decided on whether he's going to run for re-election, which is really incredible. a lot of people said it was impossible for him to be able to do that and it's also impossible for people with absolute power to give it up. he's been in power since the spring of 2000. >> i heard a man say to me, he definitely won't be re-elected, was his point of view, and maybe he'll even be gone before that, implying some kind of a coup. obviously people don't think that. there is question about his stability, whether he can keep peopl

even renewed interest in buying the used hummer h1 which gets about 9 miles to the gallon.mericans now saving nearly $250 million a day on cheaper gas. that's $1100 a year for the typical family. savings that can go toward everything from food to travel to holiday gifts. >> a lot of motorists i've talked to have said the added income is going right under the christmas tree. >> reporter: and another gift on the way, prices expected to drop another 10 cents by christmas day. so those prices going to be even lower. another gift under your christmas tree. the first sea to drop below $2 a gallon expected to be oklahoma city. that should come some time next week according to analysts. rebecca jarvis, abc news. >> that's pretty good. >> oklahoma city, next week under two bucks. is that right? is that right? >> oh, yes. that's where i'm headed with my white hearse. >> your what? >> seriously. oh, it's a rolls royce. >> i thought the "r" was for reena. >> go with whatever you want to go with. >> i don't know my cars. i thought it was a sign from the graphics department about my chri

i don't pay attention to the newsroom. >> the hummer is dead.es. >> all i'm saying is people driving the wedge shaped cheese prius things, they're feeling pretty stupid right now, don't they? not only does it look awful, they should be embarrassed. they got suckered into that. now it's all for naught. it's going to be $2 a gallon. >> i will agree with you we'll see suv sales go higher. now compared to the last time when oil was much lower and gas was down around $2.50 a gallon, we have far more fuel efficient crossovers and suvs than we did back then. so people buying them now are feeling much better. >> don't you want a fuel efficient vehicle? >> they're on sale. they're going to be discounted. the priuses. >>> fury in hollywood. several big movies leaked on the internet. and david blitzer joins us with his market pulse and what he is expecting in 2015. "squawk box" will return in just a moment. (vo) watching. waiting. for that moment, where right place meets right time. and when i find it- i go for it. (announcer) at scottrade, we share your p

hummers are selling off the lot. >> and we have guys that are shorting tesla as a result.saying, where's the demand going to be? the pump is so low, what is the incentive? >> but to be fair, anyone who not buys a test that will worry about gas prices. >> i think that is fair. that is not the primary motivation. but it changes the economics. the propensity for gasoline savings, like if you were my wife, it's probably more than 100%. >> you got that right. >> etc. the savings. it's about the wealth -- >> it's not about the savings. it's about the wealth effect. the suggestion that this is a depressed purchase, some the people have been waiting for a long time, will we see this with other appliances? people will finally make the leap and do it? we will see that. the consumer discretionary sector will be one of the big winners in 2015. it's one of the areas of the market that has not participated in the rally. the multiples are somewhat higher, but i also think the withyment situation gasoline prices will be a big tailwind. >> are you confident of sustained gdp likely seen in

get the hummer one. >> i need to worry about elon musk more than anybody else? do you think this will have an on renewable energy? is the tesla high status by? both. >> we look at face back in apple here in a bit. on surveillance, petsmart has been acquired. we will discuss the financials next. this is "bloomberg surveillance here co we are streaming on your phone. >> good morning. we are in better shape than we were thursday and friday. futures are up 101. here is olivia sterns. >> the biggest deal of the morning is the largest of the year. petsmart will be acquired. tom is on the brink of buying a cockapoo. that is a 39% premium. we have not really seen a lot of private equity leveraged buyouts this year. the stock market has been doing so well. it made little mergers and acquisitions a little bit more attractive. this was a very competitive option to buy petsmart. they beat out apollo and kkr. nobody could figure out why petco has been doing so well versus petsmart. petco has already been taken over. for like the website petsmart. you are not supposed to feed

. >> for the first time ever offroad enthusiasts got the to buy a hummer.ned off a variety of humvees. surprise, surprise, matt miller took part in the auction. >> i have to give credit to truck yeah.com. this is a website i frequent. >> that's amazing. used to know an all-women hockey team called the mother puckers but -- >> truck yeah. there's a kid on there, andrew collins who is a fanatic for scouts and he started to bid for a humvee, so i was following along to see how he did and i found this a fascinating story. here you see one of them. a lot of these were used in battle. in fact the government is going to auction off about 4,000 of these bad boys and started the auction at $10,000 a piece. so the first round of auctions happened over the last couple of days. they auctioned off 25 of them and the average sale price was $30,000. >> look at the size of these tires. can these trucks even drive on the highway? >> well, you could possibly ive them on the highway if you could get a license plate. >> wait, if you're going to-by-them without the right to use

but i guess my advice to anybody thinking about running out and buying a hummer or suv right now basedd probably think twice. >> let's take a look at the spending bill together. politics aside, do you see this being a good plan? >> you know, i understand the kind of compromises. you had a great discussion with senator carden. i don't like this plan. i would have been a no vote. it would have been a close call. because as the two of you were saying in a gridlocked environment like this without compromise, you don't go forward. but i would have had to hold my nose way too tightly to swallow some of those changes, especially, you mentioned de-funding the irs. i think that's big. but the change to dodd/frank is a big deal and very problematic one. >> why is it so dangerous in your mind then? how does it work? >> so what it does is it basically allows banks now to trade derivatives and not just any derivatives, but these risky bets in the part of the bank that's insured, that's backstopped by the u.s. government. so taxpayers once again backstopping these risky derivatives. one of the thing

no longer cool to drive down putnam avenue in a hummer. i get that.the economic growth or the driver has been. it's been in the producing countries. so, yes, it's very good to sit here in connecticut and great to fill up my prius at whatever price but let's look at the instability that we're now creating in the world. we're looking at the middle east with the income of oil and only reason to placate their masses is with the subsidies to give off of oil revenue. take that revenue away from that region of the country. take it away from brazil, from nigeria, west africa and we are looking at a powder keg in the years ahead if we persist down this road. >> thank you. important point. and we need to keep following it heading into 2015. steven, merry christmas, as well. >>> should investors worry about this rally? david tepper says, yes. he says 2015 like 1999 when stock valuations were out of control and the details next with the hot list. stay tuned. >>> markets, markets, markets. that's what we've been focusing as the dow crossed that all-important 18,00

. >> no, doesn't mean we're not going to do bill hummers. >> meantime you guys talked about copper, goldten year below 3% for the first time in a couple of years. the ripple effects are clearly happening well off of our shores. >> copper and iron, the commodities that were chinese building commodities, they're saying that china is going to decelerate dramatically. i still find that hard because of the secular shift from rural to urban. there were periods where it was secular. it's not the chokehold. it's not the heimlich. what's heimlich in chinese? >> might be heimlich. >> it says everything. >> i think it was sustained. >> no sales tax on the heimlich over there. >> there's the opening bell and the s&p at the top of your screen. a little bit more red than green. the big board, california resources celebrating its spinoff from occidental petroleum. celebrating cyber monday. >> it's interesting. nice piece by credit suisse that was out november 14th. crc, this is not the market to be an orphan spinout without debt. november 14th wasn't the market, this is the real not market to do this t