founder of jacques torres chocolate. thank you for being here. >> thank you for inviting me. >> there have been some scary headlines out there concerning chocolate recently. we have heard of hershey and mars, the ceos saying they need to raise prices because the commodity is becoming more expensive. we've also heard producers saying there's not enough cocoa being planted to keep up with our demand. are we facing a shortage? >> few answers to that. the first answer is that we are producing 3.5 million tons of cocoa around the world we need 4.5 in about six years, in 2020. so we have to step up the production. buying more cocoa and that's why we use more. maybe the solution, the farmers are not paid off and a lot of farmers are abandoning cocoa and we don't want that. we want to pay a little more for the kilo of cocoa in order for them to grow it. i think that fair trade will be a solution. education is a solution. how to plant more cocoa trees for an acre. also teach how to spray the trees. the trees are delicate and 90%

pastry chef jacques perez. i love this job. "on the money" starts right now. >> t is "on the money." your money, your life, your future. now becky quick. >> here's a look what is making news as we head to a new week "on the money." >>> how low can it go? the price of oil fell below $58 a barrel this week, a five year low. partly due to increased supply from the united states the markets were jittery this week. the dow and s&p with the worst performance on wednesday since mid october. falling 1.5%. the nasdaq had the first two-day losing streak. stocks fell later in the week. consumers spent a lot of time shopping in. no sales stronger than expected. closely watched number because consumers make up two thirds of the economy. if you have an old apple computer sitting in your attic or the basement, you may want to take a closer look. in a 1976 apple one that still works sold for $365,000 at christies this week. lower oil prices are good news for the stock market and economy except when they are not. don't rule out santa claus. may

but here at jacques torres' headquarters it's an elite art form as well.elcome to santa's other wo workshop. >>> but first the nightline 5. ♪ ♪ it's a marshmallow world in the winter. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good evening, tonight a major development in case that shocked parents around the world. the two 12-year-old wisconsin girls accused of luring their friend into the woods and then stabbing her 19 times and leaving her for dead. all to impress a character they learned about on the internet. now a big court ruling. here's abc's alex perez. >> reporter: girls just 12 and 13 years old. yet accused of a brutal crime. stabbing a friend 19 times and leaving her for dead. all to please a fictional horror character, made up on the internet, today, a judge finding both anissa and morgan competent to stand trial. the judge wouldn't let cameras in court. we could hear anissa. >> i consider myself incompetent, sir. >> reporter: the judge disagreed. >> she's competent to be able to make the decisions that need to be mad. >> reporter: this testimony after two doctors. >> the court

we'll show you what jacques torres, mr.ut first continuing fallout from sony pictures' decision to pull its comedy, "the interview." >> the fbi said the threats to hackers linked to the north korean government and president obama said the u.s. will retaliate. julia nayewel julianna goldman is in our washington bureau. good morning. >> good morning. they say they had nothing to do with the attack. yesterday president obama said north korea was to blame but that sony made a mistake in canceling its release. >> i wish they would have spoken to me first. i would have told them do not get into a pattern in which you're intimidated by these types of criminal attacks. >> sony said they haven't caved and they said they still hope that anyone who wants to see this movie will get the opportunity to do so. during his press con fwrens the president indicates the threat from north korea was overblown and he dismissed the leader kim jong-un who announced an all-out assault on a film. >> they caused a lot of damage. and we will respond. w

gabriella and jacques.ittle jacques is two minutes younger, but under monaco law, he's still next in line for the throne. well, the fbi says north korea is behind the cyberattack on sony. we will see exactly how it was done and why other companies could be vulnerable as well. and another record day on wall street as the dow closes over 18,000 for the first time. what's driving investor optimism. that's coming up. be a weekender and book weekenour stay at hampton. >>> more than 200 independent theatres in the u.s. will show the controversial sony comedy "the interview" starting on christmas day. sony pulled the film last week after hackers made threat against theatres. the film is about a fictional plot to assassinate north kree leader kim jong un. police have arrested two men as part of an ongoing counterterrorism operation. both are facing terrorism charges and are expected to appear in court wednesday. the arrests come a day after australian prime minister tony abbott warned of heightened terrorist chatte

among them, in an awful state, was marc's sister jacque. >> you know, everything was wrapped in tape.nd police officers, "you can't cross here. you can't do this, you can't do that." i don't know. i just wanted to hold his hand or something. >> reporter: detective vic brooks was on the other side of that police tape. >> when i first walked in, i noticed that were some papers that appeared to be knocked on the ground. and there was some broken glass and stuff like that on the floor. >> reporter: investigators snapped photos of the chaos. drawers pulled out in a bedroom. clothes thrown into the bathtub. a jewelry case toppled over. like somebody was looking for something? >> possibly. >> reporter: they asked around the neighborhood, did anyone see any strangers that afternoon? and yes, someone did, investigators told prosecutor, scott ellington. >> an african american was seen in the neighborhood wearing a certain colored shirt. >> reporter: it wasn't just that. later somebody said they saw an aging and beat up blue mercedes circling the neighborhood. so, thieves casing the house? maybe

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i love jacque cousto and all this but as time went on and school became harder and harder and no matteror what my parents tried i was not able to fulfill that. i wanted to please them. i wasn't a wise guy to the point it got in the way of me trying to achieve what they wanted which was to go to college. that's was also the path i would have to take to be a marine biologist. as time went on i got to the point where, man, i just can't take this. high school, much less college. if i could get in or whatever. but at the same time, rock n' roll had me by the back of the neck almost shaking me going, hey, this is what you could do. >> were you already playing at this time? >> well i was playing -- playing the guitar a little bit. and i had a natural affinity for it when i picked it up. i played a couple instruments before that, nothing stuck. >> what did you try before guitar? >> i had piano lessons. and i played clarinet for two months. >> i would love to see you play clarinet. >> you know, i tried it. by the way, i'm not sure if they make left-handed clarinets, but i had no idea that they m

new parents of twins gabriella and jacques. she was born first by two minutes but he will be heir to throne "in accordance with the historic custom." >>> this was not only the sweetest photo we encountered today, but the perfect antidote to so much of the news we've been covering. happiness is warm santa. that is baby scarlet who arrived at the mall for her photo with santa sound asleep. so santa did the only thing that seemed right, he reclined with sleeping baby for a short winter's nap. >>> when we come back, lost at sea for almost two full weeks. happily it resulted in an astounding story of survival. >>> finally here tonight, an incredible story of survival on the high seas. a man missing since thanksgiving found alive today over a week after the search to find him was suspended. we get our report tonight from nbc's joe fryer. >> reporter: how does it feel to be back on dry land? >> reporter: ron ingram couldn't help but kiss dry land. after nearly two weeks lost at sea. his sailboat managed off the coast of hawaii and 12

gabrilla and jacques, she was born two minutes but he will be heir to the throne in accordance with theric custom. >>> this was not only the sweetest photo we encountered today, but the perfect antidote. that is baby scarlet who arrived at the mall for her photo with santa sound asleep. so santa did the only thing that seemed right, he reclined with sleeping baby for a short winter's nap. >>> when we come back, lost at sea for almost two full weeks. happily it resulted in an astounding story of survival. hard it can be... ...to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled... ...copd maintenance treatment... ...that helps open my airways for a full 24 hours. you know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek

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. >> i'm here with the famous chef jacque torres. so famous.uess it's national dip anything in chocolate day. >> anything dipped in chocolate is good. you have to know that. so what i did, i take some dried papaya and dried guava. you can do that on the surface of the chocolate. or what i like to do is take my -- >> how pretty. >> then you drizzle a little bit of chocolate on top of them. >> spoons. >> take two of them. >> i'm ready. >> now i have some cornflakes. we're going to cover them in chocolate. a little bit of chocolate. you just put enough chocolate to make them -- to cover them. >> this is the breakfast of champions. >> that's what it is. all you need is one spoon. you take a little bit of it. and with the other spoon you just make some -- >> little clusters? >> little mound or clusters. >> how about something a little more advanced? >> you walk on the streets and you see people doing peanut into the caramel. we're going to do something like that, and then we need to cover it with chocolate. so let me show you how to do that. >> let'

gabrielle was born on wednesday two minutes before her twin brother jacques. >> the twins are the first children born to princeal better and his wife. >> the palace was lit up in red lights to celebrate the occasion. >> beautiful. >>> mystery is washing up on beaches in western europe. 100-year-old rubber blocks all bearing the same word have been appearing for decades. >> now the enigma of where they came from may finally be solved. >> old and washed up by the shore these rectangular rubber blocks have been a source of mystery and fascination. for many in england, france, norway and spain but a close inspection shows they are more than a slab of rubbish, they are the printed word which reads -- for 30 years now, people around europe have been bumping in to these while strolling through the peach. they have been so common they have their own facebook page. jake taylor was walking on a nearby beach when he found one. >> i saw something on the floor and i thought i'm not picking that up on the beach anden then i thought it was interesting and picked the block up. it was rubber. and felt w

sublime was an international phenomenon that intrigued many artists of the time-- inspiring philippe jacquesloutherbourg's terrifying alpine avalanche... joseph wright's spectacular vesuvius... and caspar david friedrich's transcendent image of a wanderer contemplating the infinite. turner's interest in the sublime led him to travel to switzerland in search of wild landscapes that were thrillingly vast, and remote. he turned edmund burke's vision in any direction he chose. he imbued biblical subjects lie the fifth plague of egypt with the awesome power of nature's destructive forces. the swirling mists of the alpine blizzard that the carthaginian general hannibal and his army encountered while crossing into italy merged the sublime with the vaunted genre of history painting. turner was always attentive to his career. he had opened a gallery of his own where he could show his works-- and keep the sales commissions. the 31 year-old painter was appointed professor of perspective at the royal academy. he used that pulpit to promote the possibilities of landscape painting as equal to history pain

. >> oh jacques. >> keep them on standby. >> kind of embarrassing because it's not like new york city. >> oh, no, 50 degrees. >> exactly. >> lisa, thank you. coming up next, a baby panda who doesn't want to be left alone in a sanctuary. how the panda's keeper is finally . >> welcome back, everyone f you think you have the right to sue over just about anything, think about. consumer reports has partnered exclusively with "7 on your side" to look at when you have lost your right to sue. michael finney has deet tails. >> when you buy a product and something is wrong you may think i can always sue. but consumer reports warns that people often unwillingly give up their right to sue by agreeing in advance to submit any dispute to binding arbitration. >> the used car john bought seven years ago has hardly ever left the garage. there was an engine problem that the dealer first failed to reveal and then refuse today fix. it made the car unsafe. and he refuse today return the original $10,000 payment. then he found to his degree he agreed to binding arbitration and could not sue. >> i didn't ev

born wednesday, two minutes before her brother jacques. >> i wouldn't mind my children being announcedt? quite an entrance. twins are the first children to be born to prince albert ii and his wife. the royal palace was lit up in red lights to celebrate the occasion. >>> well, i'm sure you have heard the story. it is high hollywood drama. it's not unfolding on the silver screen. quite the contrary. >> we are learning details, new information about the mysterious computer attack against sony pictures. we see some juicy studio secrets are now out in the open. >> reporter: while it is still unclear if it was north korea, an anarchist group or a former employee with a grudge that breached sony's computers, what is clear is the infiltration was deep and damaging. guardians of peace are claiming responsibility for leaking the information of celebrities and scathing e-mail exchanges between producers and directors. some bad mouth ing a-list entertainers. one calls angelina jolie, minimally talented and a spoiled brat. >> i think it is a care scary trend and organizations which have sensitive i

to sort through it all our political panel, the "the washington post" aaron blake, the daily beast jacque kucinich and the hill's editor and chief bob cusack. thank you, guys for being here with me. we could do a wrap for the whole year. how was 2014 going to impact for the president 2015 going forward? bob, i will begin with you. >> well kimberly definitely president obama had a tough year. aaron blake's newspaper said back to back had the worst year in washington. so he he said in the begin fing the year it's going to be a year of action. at the end of the year he did say it was going to be a year of action. it was the year of action but it wasn't. he didn't get a lot of what he wanted to get done on capitol hill. couldn't get republicans in the house to ability on immigration reform and, of course, they lost the senate. overall, he picked some momentum after the election. his handling of sony was pretty good. his summer was a disaster. i mean the isis we don't have a strategy. the v.a. scandal, all the things that you guys just ran. tough year for obama. >> jackie, what do you think? >

but we've heard from prince albert in the past half and hour, and he has said it's jacque who will inherit the crown. monaco celebrating with a 21-gun salute. >>> coming up in the next half-hour, government policies guided by fear, misinformation, and the stigma against travelers from ebola-infected countries is still crippling the fight against the disease. fedex® has solutions to enable global commerce that can help your company grow steadily and quickly. great job. (mandarin) ♪ cut it out. >>see you tomorrow. ♪ 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about? foreign markets. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. you know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum and gets exposure to frontier and emerging markets. if you convert 4-quarter p/e of the s&p 500, its yield is doing a lot better... if you've had to become your own investment expert, maybe it's time for bny mellon, a different kind of wealth manager ...and black swans are unpredictable. and you want to get an mba. but going back to school is hard. because you work. now capella u

my name is jacques laroche. i just want to reiterate a few things, some comments and a question. i want to reiterate what the first comments were said, both the question that she asked. really like get to the point, the heart is that rational theory, rational choice theory doesn't really work. like, there was an analogy that was about food, and when you look at, like, poor black and latino communities, we don't have access the food in certain -- to food in certain places, right? that's another example of where this rational choice theory doesn't work. like if you don't have a books and books, it's easy to dismiss. well, just go to books and books.com or just go there. but the idea, the heart of that is there aren't choices for people out there, right? and the other thing is, the question is, well, there was some stuff thrown around about culture and also the word "consumer" was thrown out like nine million times. and for us to change these problems, we have to change the culture. so what is it going to take for us to change the culture of calling us consumers? what comes to my mi

gabriela and jacques. the first children of prince albert and charlene. the controversial "rolling stone" article about an alleged gang rape at uva. those details next. >>> and take a look at this, that's $1.99 gas in oklahoma city earlier this month. something that most of us have not seen in about four years. we're going to tell you what's behind the dramatic drop in oil and gas prices. and why that may not be necessarily all good news for consumers. we'll look at that. and speaking of gasoline. traffic right now pretty light -- pretty light on the rain-soaked golden gate bridge there in san francisco. we are keeping a very close eye on that monster storm that is drenching the west coast. i'm angela and i quit smoking with chantix. people who know me they say 'i never thought you would quit.' but chantix helped me do it. along with support chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it gave me the power to overcome the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal

this morning prince albert of monaco announced the birth of his twins, crown prince jacques and princess my sincere gratitude to those in monica that express their attachments to the princess, myself and my family. >> his wife delivered the twins on wednesday. they were born at the hospital named after mother, american actress grace kelly. >>> it is 8:05. let's get another check of the weather with al roker. hey, al. >> and good morning. we got the king of the elves over here. are you the king of the elves? >> i am. >> from "lord of the rings." >> i am, thank you. >> i'm king of the trollles. good to see you. let's show you what we have going on. i love this place. here in the east you just saw all of the snow. this is western new york. buffalo will pick up another few inches before it's all over. western new york, erie, pennsylvania, between erie and buffalo, upwards of a foot of snow. we are going to be watching that. then the big storm out west. this thing is going to be just epic. we are talking about a storm that six inches -- or six years has not happened. seattle, l.a., san franci

travel found helen, daisy, jacques and betty swooping through the windows to mingle with the guests andearly risers and like breakfast by 7:00 a.m. the experience isn't cheap. rooms at that hotel start at -- get this -- $2,000 a night. >> can you read my lips. that's a lot of money. >> but you get to have breakfast with giraffes. >> 0thousan 2,000 and have to s breakfast. >> and vegetarian probably. rob, where are you at. >> tyler, what did you get for christmas? >> hockey stuff and a rangers fan. that's perfect. rainfall over the next couple of days. flash flood watches that are posted. heavy rain over 3 inches for the big eas easy and southern mississippi and that pushes off toward the north and east for mississippi and that pushes off toward the north and east for other folks too. >> the snow will stretch into the mraips today to mip app list. meantime it will be pretty wet for saturday and sawnd cross the southeast and mild weekend through the north east. that's a quick check on national outlook. here is what is happening. >> thanks rob, we're enjoying sunshine here in philadelphia.