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ikea and gap are among the major bumping up hourly pay. >>> a packed house on the controversial meeting on the penn east pipeline taking natural gas from the pennsylvania shale. and many voiced opposition to the plan. >>> no opposition here the philadelphia flower show getting ready for its close-up. this year the theme is "celebrating movies". crews hard at working side of philadelphia convention center setting up displays for the opening. more than 20 exhibits are inspired by disney and disney-pixar films. and disney is the parent company at 6abc. and please join us for a special show saturday at 7:00. >>> hard to i am -- imagine that spring is not that far away. >> not that i am counting. wintery weather first. and double scan showing right now we are dry from flurries just beginning to crop up south of baltimore but the snow moving in through the overnight hours. where the action cam was this evening on the banks of the schuylkill river. it is quiet, clouds are increasing, and temperatures are starting to drop. the high today 38 degrees. 8 degrees below normal. at least we managed t

ikea, gap, aetna and other big companies are a step ahead already paying more to keep hourly employees. >> it's likely that walmart and other companies are increasing wages because they have to because the labor market is not as bad as it was a few years ago and now it's becoming a more competition labor market. >> reporter: there is also political pressure. seven states, plus the district of columbia, already have a minimum wage of $9 or more. and new york and minnesota will do the same later this year. for walmart's hourly workers, the boost in pay is a boost in confidence. >> very exciting. everybody's just smiling. it's just really great. >> reporter: after some tough years, finally a reward for the people walmart says are vital to running a good business. anne thompson, nbc news, new york. >>> we've got a lot more to tell you about tonight. what to eat, what to avoid in your diet. re-writing the rules for a lot of foods we love. and a surprise about cholesterol. >>> also a rare peek behind the curtain drama at "snl"'s 40th anniversary bash. why eddie murphy refused to be part of a

retailer one of ikea's suppliers has certainly been hit hard. jane wells has more on that.eden, the suppliers. >> no. it's amazing, something made in america sent to sweden. first, simon, early this hour we told you the reports from the journal of commerce a deal had been reached between shipping operators and dock workers. my understanding is that is not true. we have heard so many times of both sides being close to be told not really and that appears to be the case again. here's the continuing story. even if a deal has been reached, it will take weeks, months to get things back to normal. at the port in portland, for example, master craft mourn fewer manufactured upholstered furniture for ikea has seen delays for raw materials and that is a problem that will continue to ripple through the business. >> this is the production line most impacted by the port slow down. >> reporter: that's ceo marty olson who says they diverted some containers to the east coast and put them on railcars which added a three-week delay and deal or no deal the damage to his employees has been done

walmart, ikea, and the gap have also recently increased employees' pay. >>> if it's up to kfc, you'll to scarf down your cup. they're introduce edible cups called scoffee cups. they're wrapped in sugar paper and infused with freshly cut grass and wild flowers. they plan to introduce those cups in their uk franchise. >> where's the love for us in the u.s.? i want my dessert and drink in one. thank you. >>> madonna said she's doing fine after taking a tumble during a performance. she fell backward off the stage at the brit awards. she landed awkwardly down the set of stairs. the 56-year-old was closing the ceremony with the song living for love. after the fall she got back on stage to finish her performance. she blames the large cape she was wearing saying it was tied too tight. >>> when we return google games. artificial intelligence takes on the old atari games with the results but the computer struggles with one video game classic. just brush whiten, and go! its stay-on formula deeply whitens for whiter teeth in 2 days. optic white toothbrush plus whitening pen. brush, whiten, go! at

walmart, ikea, and the gap have also recently increased em employeee pay. >>> and, lauren if it's up you'll soon be able to scarf down your cup after you finish your coffee. that's right. kfc is introducing edible cups called scoffee cups. they're edible lined with sugar paper and infused with freshly cut grass and wildflowers. they plan to introduce those cups in their uk franchise. >> where's the love for us in the u.s.? i want my dessert and drink in one. when is it coming here? we'll wait and check on that one. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. jill, thank you. >>> madonna said she's doing fine after a performance in london taking a tumble during a performance. she fell backward off the stage at the brit awards. she landed awkwardly down the set of stairs after her song "living for love." after the fall she got back on stage to finish her performance. she blames the large cape she was wearing saying it was tied too tight. >>> when we return computer games. google's artificial intelligence takes on the old atari games with amazing results, but the computer struggles with

. >> walmart is following the lead of other national retailers including ikea and the gap, which bothised their minimum wage in the past year. >>> medical marijuana dispensary owners marched into vallejo city hall to try and pay their taxes. the city has refused to accept pot club taxes ever since the city council voted to shut down the businesses. that was last month. yesterday, dozens of people stood on the steps of city hall in protest of the shutdown. >> we're not putting up with this unfair harmful abuse anymore! we will not be banned or shut down! not without a political fight. >> they called upon the mayor to stop fighting medical cannibis but instead take the tax money from the businesses and spend it on infrastructure in the city. >>> just getting going on a friday morning at 4:56. coming up, a deadly bacteria at an l.a. hospital has patients on high alert right now. why health officials say the hospital dropped the ball. >> reporter: there is a shiny new proposal to move the oakland raiders down to l.a. coming up, how east bay leaders are responding. >>> naturally they have

it comes after similar moves by walmart, ikea and the gap and other retailers are expected to follow suit. >>> new york state is worried about an armageddon cyberattack on banks. the state's chief bank regulator warns there could be a, quote, cyber 9/11 on financial institutions within the next decade. he wants new rules on big banks, many of which are chartered in new york. he also wants to hold executives personally responsible if their banks allow money laundering operations. >>> the supreme court is signaling that it will side with a young muslim woman in her lawsuit against abercrombie & fitch. the woman showed up for an interview with the upscale store wearing a black head scarf and filed a religious discrimination suit after she didn't get hired. abercrombie says she never mentioned religion in her interview. >> well, go go gadget, what, arms and what do you have -- go go gadget all kinds of stuff. ♪ da da da ♪ ♪ inspector gadget ♪ >> yeah remember this? the bionic police detective, please keep that doing while i do this read. "inspector gadget" is one of the classic 1980 cart

wal-mart ikea and gap of have raised employee pay. >>> google is taking on expedia and travelocity with its own travel service google swipe. you plug in your destination and travel days and flights give you best prices and dates to fly. there is another cool future a interactive map for inn decease i have. google says 60 percent of people who wanting to a away don't know where they wanting to, so it will list flights, across the the globe. ukee and erika. >> i had no idea there were that many. >> how about that take me away somewhere. >> somewhere warm right. >> reporter: somewhere warm. i'm with you. >> thanks, jill. >>> still ahead a major drug bust in montgomery county to tell but with ties to columbia. we will tell but the the unique way police were able to catch the suspects. >>> more problems for robin thick's hit song blurred lines but this time it is not over the contend. we will explain coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ yoplait. with a smooth and creamy taste your whole family loves. don't miss yoplait's exciting new flavors -- creamy caramel and cookies 'n cream. a womanas shot and killed a

it comes after similar moves by walmart, ikea and the gap and other retailers are expected to follow suit. >>> new york state is worried about an armageddon cyberattack on banks. the state's chief bank regulator warns there could be a, quote, cyber9/11 on financial institutions and wants new rules on big banks, many chartered in new york and wants to hold executives personally responsible if their banks allow money laundering operations. >>> the supreme court is signaling it will side with a young muslim woman in her lawsuit against abercrombie & fitch. the woman showed up for an interview wearing a black head scarf and filed a religious discrimination suit after she didn't get hired. abercrombie says she never mentioned religion in her interview. >>> go go gadget. ♪ inspector gadget ♪ >> the bionic detective, inspector gadget is one of the classic 1980 cartoon series that netflix is bringing back with new episodes. they start next month with the reboot of "danger mouse." disney which is our parent company producing new episodes of "duck tails." >> and this newscast will self-destruc

ikea and gap said the same thing. this puts pressure on other retailers to do the same thing to keep good worker from going somewhere else. higher wages means higher prices for customers. that might be an upshot of all of this. >> i love home goods. >> me too. and t.j. maxx and marshals. >> one company is soon to be selling edible coffee cups am. breakfast and dessert in one. >> it is exciting. kfc is the company. they plan to serve customers coffee in a cup that you can eat. it will be made out of a waiver that is lined with white chocolate then wrapped in sugar paper. they are called scozi cups. they will sell them later in the u.k. no plan for the u.s. yet. we have no idea how many calories are in those. let's show you stock futures. the dow set to set new records today. ainsley? >> thank you, loren. >> sugar paper. probably a couple calories. >> the kids would love that but they can't drink the coffee. >> 19 minutes after the top of the hour. growing terror threats, beheadings kidnappings, but john kerry says we a

ikea did it. gap did it. now walmart is doing it.n the economy because of walmart's sheer side. they will have more money in their pockets, pumping more money into the economy. 5,000 employees will have more money to spend. that's what we really like to see going into the economy. >> absolutely. more with walmart. toeupt get reaction from a couple of walmart employees on all of this. take a listen. >> i think it means a lot just to be noticed that they are noticing they do acknowledge the associates and how hard they are working. i think it's great. people cannot just worry about making ends meet. they can actually have a little bit of their money. >> it's a nice incentive to stay with the company and go farther with the company. >> it can actually help walmart. >> when employees are paid better they are happier. they take more care when it comes to customer service. that means great things for walmart's numbers. in the last couple of years, walmart has been struggling. this is a good shot in the arm for the company. a lot of employe

aetna, ikea and gap, they're all raising free wages. is this the free market at work or is this time to stop the embarrassment. >> over the past five years, the longest stretch of private sector job creation in american history, businesses adding nearly 12 million new jobs and in perhaps the single most hopeful sign for middle-class families in a very long time wages are beginning to rise again. america is coming back. >> don't you get a feeling the democrats are like the most modest people on the face of the earth. what would republicans, if they had the power, be doing if they were behind these numbers? look at wall street. today the dow closed 154 points up at 18,140. it is the dow's first record close. another record close, but the first record close of 2015. economy is on a roll. rising wages are proof that activism and protests work. we have had a big discussion about income inequality in this country. minimum wage protests have taken ahold. retail stores have been under enormous pressure. hey, let's give these folks a raise. i th

the jug handle near ikea will be removed. >> coming southbound on the blue route, you get off right nowit's easy to get-g westbound but you can't go eastbound unless you go west first, catch the jug handle and catch another left turn to go eastbound. >> project planners expect work to begin in 2017 and last until 2020. >>> some pomp and circumstance in north philadelphia today. >> jeffrey scott -- >> police commissioner charles ramsey overseeing 162 promotions within the department at sh ceremony on temple's campus. congratulations to all of those who were promoted. >>> newark taxi cab driver hailed a hero. he was presented with a letter of comen addition. the cabbie took an 85-year-old man to the bank to make a withdrawal. customer said he needed to go to a parking lot to meet an irs agent to settle a debt. the driver smelled a scam took the man to the police station instead to report what happened. >>> as investigators search for answers today, today is a day of profound sadness in upstate new york. funeral services were held for the driver whose suv was struck by a metro north train

>> the mass market retailers ikea walmart, cost less. fewer choices. person ture chains, if you're -- furniture change worried about fabric choice check it out. we have interactive guide on "consumer reports".org, shameless plug but it is good tells you how to pick out up holstered furniture. make sure you don't feel wood in the arms. that there is enough stuffing. if you take a nap you will not hit your head. gerri: i hate it when that happens. >> do nap on my couch occasionally. gerri: we could go on and on. manneddy, thanks for coming on the show. >> okay. my pleasure. gerri: many of you have been asking me on twitter what is the latest with united airlines? you remember the mistake that company made selling super low air fares across the atlantic. we spoke to the department of transportation today. it is still ininvestigating the case but it hasn't said yet if it will force united to honor the low low, low fares. united of course is still refusing to. we'll keep on the story. stay tuned. we'll have more. later in the show what mistakes to avoid to

walmart is following the lead of other national retailers including ikea and gap which both raised their in the past year. >>> software that changed how we view and edit photos turned 25 years old today. adobe photoshop first hit store shelves on this date back in 1990. the software is used to not only create logos, but manipulate photos. besides touchups and fixes, it's frequently used for jokes. thus the term photoshop was born. the creator thought it would sell 500 copies in a month. never knew it would become a household item. >>> sea lions stranded along the california coast. coming up, they are in trouble. >> it is a breezy 45 breezy 55 degrees on treasure island. view is excellent, marine layer summer-like but it's only february. let's find out if we can get some rain in this seven-day forecast. i'll have it coming up in four minutes. >> i'm larry king. where in the world is vern glenn? >> hockey night? in santa clara. where we're lacing 'em up for the stadium series. don't move. >> sticking with levis narrative, what did the 49ers head coach say in his second press conference? >>

ikea, gap, raised pay recently. good news for the working class and retail. >> absolutely.releases annual survey of the most dependable vehicles lexus one folds by buick, toy oath, a honda cadillac. a lot of people say porche. >> but you say porche? >> well, porche owners will tell you it is porche. and the dealership will say it is porche. on the flip side, i'll stop there. on the flip side fiat, lan rover, jeep, mini, dodge performed the worse and landover not cheap. >> i like those too. >> beautiful. >> not a good car? >> didn't perform well. 34,000 people owned 2012 model year vehicles, question about overall problems in the last year for the a for sean mentioned vehicles, hat ones. multiple shootings in philadelphia leave at least four people dead. the latest from police straight ahead from steve kyle nay live report. >> other big story live look at the radar tracking snow this morning what to expect, where you live, coming up this is the "name your price" tool. it gives you options based on your budget -- it's a piece of cake. i was told there would be cake. get a fre

you've mentioned gap and ikea costco has long been known to pay their employees up to $20 an hour.raised its minimum wage last year to $15 an hour. so i think that walmart has, i guess, just kind of caved, i guess you could say, under pressure to recognize low-wage workers. >> and when this happens, domino effect, you've got a "time" magazine article that says walmart will put pressure on mcdonald's. does this force the fast-food giant and others into rethinking their salaries now? >> i think it could. walmart is a huge player in the retail space. and when they make changes like this, it definitely can have a trickle-down effect to other retailers or even low-wage workers in any field. >> okay. hadley malcolm, thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> the red carpet's ready but what about all those acceptance speeches? the most thanked person in oscar history next. you stay up. you listen. you laugh. you worry. you do whatever it takes to take care of your family. and when it's time to plan for your family's future we're here for you. we're legalzoom, and for over 10 years we've helped fam

it's concerned its biggest customer, ikea will become impatient. employee david underwood doesn't make dockworker wages and doesn't have much patience left. >> there's little sympathy for the american people, i would think, on this thinging with somebody making that amount of money and the rest of us living paycheck to paycheck and happy to have our jobs. >> even if there is a deal today, it's going to take a long time to work through. piper jaffray says most at risk are shoe companies like croc steve madden toy companies like mattel and hasbro. also companies like rubbermade and jarden which sells outdoor equipment, and two restaurant chains, not sure why, maybe it's supplies ignite with john's macaroni grill and cheesecake factory. potential beneficiary ross stores because once all that apparel finally gets off the docks there may be a glut, and retailers may not need all of it anymore, but for ross. tjx too. >> jane you know also the west coast, this is an orange farmers worst nightmare. california citrus crop getting squeezed by not one, not tw

it follows similar moves by wal-mart, ikea and the gap. >>> abercrombie and fitch is making headlinesthat made it to the supreme court. >> a young woman is saying she was denied a job because of her religion. abc's ryan smith has the story. >> reporter: abercrombie and fitch selling a lifestyle of preppy youth and skimpy clothing known for their sexy sales people across the world. when samantha elauf applied to be one of them she was rejected. abercrombie told her, they had a quote look policy. no headscarves allowed. she took her fight to the supreme court saying she was discriminated against because of her religion. her lawyer reading a statement on her behalf. >> observance of my faith should not prevent me from getting a job. >> reporter: abercrombie said she never told them she was wearing her headscarf for religious reasons an explanation some justices didn't seem to buy. this case began several years ago and abercrombie since abandoned their no headscarf policy. ryan smith, abc news, new york. >> all the way to the supreme court. a lot of people are watching this to see what ro

folks are well familiar with this big bright sign by the ikea. we're looking at a smooth drive. we don't have a lot of headli t headlights. peninsula, palo alto. very smoothly. here's san jose. silicon valley. northbound commute route, that will eventually be the commute right now. not much of one throughout this area. as we move our maps to the north, we're looking anywhere north of the san mateo bridge. bayshore moving nicely. top of your screen. from the north bay, no delays for 101 or approaching the bridges over here. we're looking toward interstate 80. a smooth drive toward richmond and the bay bridge. antioch, typical slowing off of the bridge. over here for the tri-valley, we're looking at slowing out of the altamont pass. a live look shows you the sensors are yellow, but not a big concern as far as that volume of traffic. there we are approaching that same area. an easy flow of traffic. a clear view right now. we saw some low clouds and fog rolling yesterday. sounds like may be similar today? >> yeah, same exact deal. good morning to you. good morning to you at home. te

in case you missed it forget furniture, ikea is taking on the emoji, swedish retailer unveiling its smartphoned that comes with custom emoticons. help men and women communicate better. i wonder if there are meatball emojis by the way. >> on android and ios. >> stools, beds, home furnishing, no assembly required, thankfully. >> two desks and a fewton. >> like we don't have enough emojis already. let's get to the cme group. rick santelli has the santelli exchange. >> hi, carl. the yield curve has been a real home run along with those who have been long the treasury market really starting about a year ago in november in full earnest, but i want you to look at a chart. look at a chart starting a few days before january 30th. this is 10s minus 2s. what you'll notice, it's been steepening. why would it be steepening? we covered for quite a while all the flattening that was going on and, of course, it was flattening, maybe initially the catalyst was removal of qe but normalization of rates was putting more sellers in the short end, more closely tied to the rates that the fed has direct control over o

it will be largest freestanding furniture store in the world, bigger than any ikea. that is bet early on perhaps great housing numbe sales, things like that. what do you see when you have people still rushing into the treasurys because they're scared? which is exactly what ron and warren would say, don't do? >> well, the reason why the rushing into treasurys, go look at euro yen screen, a euro swiss screen or libor screen. look what their rates are, look what the five and 10-year rates are. suddenly the makes the u.s. look fat, number one. number two, last year, because i say buy a 10-year bond doesn't mean i will hold it for 10 years and lend my money to the government for 1.7%. what if i want it tore six months or 12 months? last year, depending what bond you were in returned 25% and stock market returned 11%. last year bonds were a better bet. relative value, being long our bonds, not only bonds i think equity market will have some legs to it. i like our bond because our rates compared to the rest of the world are relatively high on the rhetoric of a rate hike. i

raising its wages now, is because it is facing competitive pressure from other retailers like gap and ikea, that raise their minimum wages last year, costco that pays a $12 an hour starting wage and nearly $20 an hour average wage. so walmart is responding to this, realizing that it can't retain a workforce when it has to compete with companies that pay well and also provide, you know, good schedules, which is another issue. >> so let's talk about that in a second. but first, the big question to me also is, are we seeing the fruits of sustained political activism, organizing, and pressure, or we're finally seeing some tightness in the labor market, particularly at the bottom of the wage scale, which is what raises wages in a kind of econ 101 sense? >> we're seeing both, tightness in the labor market and competitive pressure meaning that walmart is responding to it. we're seeing the fruits of very intense organizing activity over the last couple of years and walmart workers going out on strike and raising awareness to things like walmart doing a food drive for its workers, because its worke

. >> have you had other companies in recent weeks and months start to raise wages a gap, ikea, aetna, were you sensing retention was going to get tougher as the job market moved into this cycle of improvement? >> it's great to see the job market getting better and the market works so we're adjusting to that market, trying to make sure we're appropriately ahead of it and we'll continue to move if we need to. at the end of day we have to have great talent. we have about 75% of our store management in the united states that comes from our hourly ranks so today's cashier is tomorrow's store manager. tomorrow's store manager may have my job. we want to make sure that opportunity is there for people as it has been for so many of us in the past. >> i don't need to tell you, looking at a map of minimum wages in this country, 19 states now have made a move. arkansas had a vote. >> i voted for that increase by the way. >> you voted for that. >> yeah. >> people will say look they saw it coming, they saw it was a political inevidentibility they're trying to get in front of it and look like the go

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raising the wage is similar to what is going on in states across the country, subway, mcdonald's, ikeathe left of their back? short sharp answer, we like that. in case you missed it, that is the name of this segment, lauren simonetti, three stories involving changing tastes. >> in case you missed it is lunchtime. this has to do with lunch and changing tastes. like nestle it wants to be considered healthier so it is shifting to simple, easy to understand ingredients hershey kisses will no longer have lactose and artificial flavors, they will shift to non genetically modified sugar among other changes. this is a big deal from the nation's biggest chocolatemaker. her she says it does not plan to raise candy prices, shares are down 1/2%. another company moving in the opposite direction is little caesars making a pizza crust wrapped with a 3-1/2 feet of bacon. so look at that. every single time you bite it you get bacon. we love bacon. bacon sells at $4 billion, you can buy this new high next week for $12 would cover your years, 450 calories 23 grams of fat, what ever. you might have to wai

ikea did it. walmart was late to the party. realizing in order to maintain employ whether es in the retail profession, they had to raise raises. >> not that they're hugging, cumbayah. it was going to hurt brands. these brands were starting to get effected. the brand of the people everyday low prices. >> right. >> so there is another thing. >> we have mark halperin here as well. mark you made news yesterday with rudy giuliani. rudy seemed to back down on whether i loved america or not. >> interview last night about you and the president loves america. >> thank god. i was holding my breath there for a second because we all know, i mean if we're all judging how much we love america by what rudy giuliani says. >> he's got -- >> we're going to get to that story. >>> also, very excited to have david ignatius here. he's been on a whirlwind tour. i do mean whirlwind tour. we're going to talk to him about a lot of stories including libya, now dealing with a setback in efforts to fight the islamic state militants. the united states and b

microsoft, ikea rob black-by calm is not one to get hit too bad but the collapse six years ago that advertiserecently at 1849 year-old people who shop at people for going it is a little surprising to see there is good money and tech news. i would think about this >>: to think of football players you're yelling get into a lot of cash. and percent are brought within three years in the nfl. is are making a huge mistake like what causing its huge money. is it a the time to buy pepsi stock? rob black i would buy pepsi every five years the last 35 years and every five-year. pepsi has gone higher. a $50 stock now is well over 100 this morning i like the name because pepsi is not just pepsi pepsi is mountain dew but is also for jews there rates out of frame water frito-lay doritos chills ruffles reiser raleigh is a san francisco treat. they're not going to go bankrupt any time in my lifetime. is on of an average five-year periods >>mark: thank you jonathan for the question if you have a question for him--pasted posted on facebook send days. (vo) at jennie-o, we heard of a place in iowa where every thu

so ikea opens up a manufacturing plant for furniture. where? right in the heart of the north carolina-virginia border the same place that was written off for its capacity to build furniture and you're being told in the neighborhood you have to do different things because your life as a furniture person is over. all of a sudden robots as co-workers, automation you can actually compete on a more effective footing. we're seeing that in-sourcing trend now all across the country. manufacturing jobs are coming back. they're not the same labor intensity they were when they were previously here but that's still net positive. i would say the third observation if i had any is this democrization of entrepreneurship is pretty much the most exciting thing i've seen. in that same north carolina-virginia border there are people who used to have parents and grandparents work in textiles as well. now, they're building designs for clothing that can be 3d printed or their intellectual property can be transmitted over the internet to textile production all over th

ikea that have already voluntarily raised the minimum wage.ts a larger trend it impacts i've said in a lot of ways the biggest way being interest rates. the fed has kept its rate near zero because it's not seeing that wage inflation that it wants to see. should walmart trigger a bigger reaction within the market, monetary policy, kelly, could be back on the road to normalcy. >> sure. jeff, thank you. dave zerbos your thoughts on this one? it goes back to the question of whether walmart is doing this because it feels like it has to and there's finally a moment when all of these private sector companies feel like they have to? >> i think it's a lot more about expectations and sentiment than it is about a significant amount of money being put into the economy. >> very correct. >> that expectation that you highlight is something that could cross a lot of businesses and a lot of areas that get this moving in the direction that the fed has been trying to get it moving for a while. >> when you say they have to you mean competitively in order to retai

obviously the companies we've seen raise wages in the past few months gap, ikea it does raise the questiona where we're seeing jolt surveys show that workers are more willing to make a leap leave a company, try to get a higher-paying job somewhere else. doug mcmillon did agres this topic with employees in a short video. take a listen to this. >> we're making changes to our pay, strengthing the opportunity to progress within the company, and offering more choice in scheduling. one of the most immediate changes is that we'll raise our starting pay and we'll provide opportunities for further raises based on performance. for our current associates we'll start by raising our entry wage to at least $9 an hour in april. and by february of next year all current associates will earn at least $10 an hour. >> reporter: remind yourself who is on the board of walmart. marissa mayer, who tweeted, so happy for walmart associates proud of walmart management. a great leadership decision by doug mcmillon. so we'll talk to doug about all of that. u.s. comps, guys positive once again, up 1.5% how much of an i

it manufactures upholstered furniture for ikea. >> we lost business starting right in january.aw materials, and master craft had to lay 180 people off for 2 1/2 weeks in january. >> the fact is that we are working probably three days a week which has put a real krism in the paycheck. we work paycheck to paycheck. >> if no deal today, the labor secretary has reportedly told both sides they're going to have to come to washington to continue talks on monday though it's not clear why they can't talk through the weekend. also what we do not know yet, and this is important, will the employers, the pacific maritime association, stop work on ships loading and unloading again this weekend because that's extra pay and there's such a backlog. we have had no word on whether they are going to stop work again this week in making a bad situation worse. guys? >> like they did on president's day week. >> because the pay would have been too high for the overtime. thank you, jane wells. keep us apprised -- >> maybe they should send them to brussels. >> why is sending them to washington going to h

the story about the expert craft furniture maker who now put together ready to assemble products for ikea, maybe this is too nostalgic for an economist but something seems lost in that to me. eric, i'm going to open this to you. this must be something you've thought a lot about. >> this is a great question and those who haven't read the great article, he talked about made preductions about what happened to our generation, he was more or less spot on in terms of gdp per capita. he extrapolated those funds exactly right and got that right and he inferred that he looked around people who were that wealthy and inferred people wouldn't want to work a lot. they would go fox hunting, but there wasn't much else to do without wealth. he got that wrong. people are not working 10 to 15 hours a week. mostly those who are working are working a lot more than that. there are r a number of reasons for that. part of it is we have a lot more we can spend our money on now. lots of new goods that people enjoy. part of it is to sociology. a lot of people enjoy working. there's a meaning that it gives to life

. >> ikea. >> the full interview you can see on today.com. >> exactly. >> thank you, guys. >> send itling screen writer who takes a job as a college professor. take a look. >> i have written short stories and poems. i love writing and i have an idea. i know the deadline was yesterday. but i stayed up last night and i wrote this and hoped you would consider me. >> thank you. thank you. >> i love paradise and still watch it with my girls. >> your girls. are you lesbian? >> i wish. >> welcome back. >> thank you very much. >> you have been doing okay? >> i have been very happy, thank you. >> the movie is a romantic comedy but it forces you to take stock on the viewer to take stock of their lives a bit. >> yeah. it's a comedy in part history of a man who is was very successful and can't get a job. very reluctantly has to teach screen writing in the middle of nowhere. >> let's not call at this time middle of nowhere, there may be people up there. you said he is a bad man. i didn't get that. i don't think he is a bad man. he is clearly not doing what he wants to be doing. his students may no