our jamba in schools is counter-seasonal. if you think about the peak periods for schools, it's going to be the period leading up to back to school and this time of the year is the second back to school, so that's another seasonal play for the business. and really the final as it relates to our core business, we've added food products like our oatmeal, which is a more habitual item. >> reporter: as you know greening is a threat to the industry. are you worried what that could do to price prices and your profit margin. >> what we source globally, all the fruits and ve vegetables we've been at it for a long time. >> reporter: jamba juice hopes to become a healthy lifestyle brand. what will jamba juice look like three years from now? >> we'll be global in terms of size and scale. you'll find more better-for-you options for the whole family. you'll see us available in schools so young people have healthier options that they'll actually consume. >> reporter: james white, thank you so much. >> thank you very much erica for having m

our jamba in schools is counter-seasonal.if you think about the peak periods for schools, it's going to be the period leading up to back to school and this time of the year is the second back to school, so that's another seasonal play for the business. and really the final as it relates to our core business, we've added food products like our oatmeal, which is a more habitual item. >> reporter: as you know greening is a threat to the industry. are you worried what that could do to prices prices and your profit margin. >> what we source globally, all the fruits and veg vegetables we've been at it for a long time. >> reporter: jamba juice hopes to become a healthy lifestyle brand. what will jamba juice look like three years from now? >> we'll be global in terms of size and scale. you'll find more better-for-you options for the whole family. you'll see us available in schools so young people have healthier options that they'll actually consume. >> reporter: james white, thank you so much. >> thank you very much erica for having

joining us now, jamba juice ceo james white.to some people, but a minnow in terms of stock market capitalization. welcome to the program, sir. i hear that you ran the nasdaq bell this morning. and i know that you've got now a new product line, which is healthy meals for kids. which surprised me. because they seem to have titles like, cheesy stuffed pretzel and pizza swell with turkey. >> thanks for having me on. and we're absolutely thrilled to introduce our jam ba kids' meals, which are a healthy meal for kids that bring four great smoothies for young people. and the meals also have two and a half servings of fruits and vegetables. one full serving of whole grains, and a great source of protein. so we think it's really the perfect complement for busy moms and kids. >> you should be congratulated. this sa big turn-around story for you over the past four years. i'm fascinated as to what the ultimate aim of the company can be. i see that you're kind of doing a -- you believe you should be taking up -- offering products in the eati

of smoothie and juice chain jamba juice. and our friday "market monitor," kate warne of edward jones expects solid corporate earnings this year. we will hear how that plays into her investment strategy. finally doctor mcdreamey, is going toe to toe with starbucks. "grey's anatomy" star patrick dempsey in seattle today leading a group of investors trying to buy tully's, a bankrupt, seattle coffee chain. the actor has spent several year's filming in seattle, and he has some big competition, starbucks is also bidding for some of tully's assets. dempsey says buying the coffee chain is all about saving jobs. a judge will decide who get's tully's next friday. >> how much you wajted to bet if they get it will you see a lot of product placement on that abc show. >> tom: more than a cup of coffee is what it will be worth. that's "nightly business report" for thursday, january 3. have a great evening everyone, and you too susie. >> susie: goodnight tom. thanks for watching everyone. we'll see you online at: www.nbr.com and back here t

i find it odd that the chai cart was rejected because jamba juice with cold drinks had chai on their menu and therefore it would be a competing product. what we just heard on 2nd street, [ inaudible ]. so if a juice store has chai and is too much, why is a coffee street across from a coffee cart not too much? i wasn't notified. i agree that consistent application of guidelines should be practiced by all departments of the city. and this is a really egregious, i think is the word, bordering on arbitrary. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment? >> anybody else? thank you. >> thank you. i'm jim patrick with patrick and company of we have a store which is very close to 79 new montgomery street, probably 150'. i don't know 200'. we were not notified and the first thing i heard about this is when i saw it on the agenda when i got here. what is going on with the notification? it just seems like it just doesn't exist. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. kwong, anything further? commissioners the matter is submitted. >> i am inclined to deny the appeal, uphold -- i'm sorry, deny the ap

. >> they are celebrating their fit week and they're also launching some jamba kids males so they'reaying hello, emeryville bay area based jamba juice. >> i'm going to tell james you were talking about him. >> we'll smile and say good morning to you. thank you for joining us on ktvu morning news. it is friday january 3/4. i'm dave clark. >> and i'm pam cook. time now 6:30. the power is still out. dozens of people in san francisco affected after a driver crashed into a power pole. ktvu's claudine wong has been on the story since 4:30. she's live on townsend street. i know pg&e is working to get the power back. >> reporter: yes, they are. i just talked to pg&e and we can update you with a lot of new details. i want to show you what's happening bind me. crews are hard at work. we have a crew up high trying to stabilize the lines and they're trying to get the pole out of the way. it was attached to those wires. it is now being held up by this big truck and it's hanging up over the street. the problem has been they wanted to get this power pole out of the way. it feeds one of the building

i jamba juice is one i like even though my ton wouldn't let me pour everything into it.learned from his dad. charles payne. >> thank you. ashley: queen elizabeth two, getting set to become a luxury hotel in asia. the grand ship has spent the past four years idle at a port in dubai after the state purchased it for $100 million at the height of the city's boom. it was supposed to be a hotel there as well. qe2's destination is unknown. speculation bound for china, a seaport such as shanghai or hong kong. queen elisabeth the 2nd launched ship back in 1967. since then it has made at least 26 around the world voi ans. there is some rumors it is going to china for scrap which could be so sad that some one paid 20 million for it to get the scrap. but hopefully that is not the truth and hopefully it will con to live on as a hotel in asia. tracy: a stagnant hotel parked at a dock? ashley: reconvert it will be floating luxury hotel which is what it was supposed to be in dubai. because of downward, we know what happened economy i'm flowedded in dubai as far as expansion so we'll see

what jamba juice likes about that, gives better service to their customers and makes payments almost. >> what do you need though to stay ahead in that -- in that business because you've got lots of people sort of nipping at your heels right now trying to do just, that square and the deal that they did with starbucks? >> well, we start with some pretty strong advantages like 120 million active accounts, active digital wallets, where consumers have at least two financial instruments in them all over the world. we start with direct relationships with over 9 million merchants all over the world. we start with a risk system that allows us to approve a payment on the spot and scale all over the world in ways that other companies can't do, so we're leveraging those assets and then innovating in our mobile area and offline so we feel very excited about this opportunity, and we're very well positioned because consumers like paypal. >> not in the 20th century anymore, toto. >> absolutely. this is great. >> before we let you go, wanted to ask you about reports that ebay and craigslist had agree

of smoothie and juice chain jamba juice. and our friday "market monitor," kate warne of edward jones expects solid corporate earnings this year. we will hear how that plays into her investment strategy. test test. starbucks is also bidding for some of tully's assets. dempsey says buying the coffee chain is all about saving jobs. a judge will decide who get's tully's next friday. >> how much you wajted to bet if they get it will you see a lot of product placement on that abc show. >> tom: more than a cup of coffee is what it will be worth. that's "nightly business report" for thursday, january 3. have a great evening everyone and you too susie. >> susie: goodnight tom. thanks for watching everyone. we'll see you online at: www.nbr.com and back here tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

and you will not be getting endorsements or advertisements from jamba juice. >> jam bough sounds toome anyway. >> all right, paul, you want to know how this guy is going to differentiate between liberals and conservatives. that's easy because liberals are spending other people's money. you have to just look on the credit card and easy to find out. >> or they are using the ebt card. >> exactly. that could be as well. i want to get to the longer school year. i was a teacher for a longtime. brooke, you say that quality not quantity is important. i cannot stress that enough how right you are. after about two hours or three hours kids start to look like this. they cannot be motivated. >> jedediah, what is wrong with our educational system? why are our students falling behind? what is it? >> teachers tenure, lack of merit pay, i could go on for days. but the yment of time they spend in the classroom is not it. i can tell you what the teachers would probably wind up doing is sticking in a video to distract the students and get some rest on their own. >> good point. >> on that same note, rus

facebook users can send their friends gift cards to jamba juice, target, and they're reusable and can hold multiple balances. new facebook gifts are automatically added to the card. this is unlikely a game changer but another attempt on facebook's behalf to make money from online retail and convince consumers to use the social network to buy gifts. this announcement comes on the heels of facebook's better than expected earnings although the stock is trading lower as the company invests in r&d and increasing its head count and the fact that mobile revenue did not grow faster. ceo mark zuckerberg said on the earnings call the company is trying to figure out the gift and online retail business. zuckerberg made a point to moderate expectations saying online retail and some of the other things they're working on will not impact the company's bottom line any time soon. scott, still an interesting experiment. >> no doubt, julia, thanks so much. it's not a needle mover. they're trying to figure out graph search. their next big thing is not out there. >> yes it is, mobile is their next big thi

you can use it to buy the orange dream machine at jamba juice. will be able to order a dream machine ahead of time on your iphone. not sure what we're seeing here. i don't know. so any way you'll be able to pay with it by paypal and walk into the store and pick it up. one thing i make my kids admit is that it is just ice cream. as long as you do that i will buy the orange dream machine. >> healthy ice cream. >> with protein sprinkled in. you go. >> scott, thank you very much. cool app i have here. instant weather. >> why do you need that when we have christina loren? >> let him use it. >> happy to get to you. >> we'll go with that, jon kelley. go ahead. trust that thing. trust it jon kelley. you don't need me. i have to admit though at least twice a week people tell me how i am accurate versus their smartphone. i'm not stroking my own feathers this morning. that's the truth. 30 degrees in napa. 32 in sonoma. 37 degrees in san francisco. it is cold out there. just as cold as yesterday. some cities are colder especially out in the east bay. we had

target, jamba juice, sephora and olive garden. about getting your credit card number.is what they're trying to do to get the credit card and buy music and gift people stuff and buying stuff on facebook. they're trying a lot of different ways. lori: they need a revenue generator. thank you. melissa: so coming up tonight on "money", dean atkinson, ceo of sum all. he joins me to how the companies keep their salaries on a shared drive viewable by all the employees. i can look online, how much does that lori rothman is making a year? i'm going to look. they think this a great idea. lori: nothing is sacred. melissa: builds morale. lori: builds morale? melissa: i think it is insane and pits people against each other. we'll talk about it 5:00 p.m. eastern on "money". lori: i'm sitting in with lou dobbs. he wasn't with us today. he is a little under weather. i will sit in and host. melissa: good for you. lori: the market is still underway in trading hours. europe expert nile gardiner, says americans should pay close attention to the european crisis. tracy byrnes and ashley webs

in this case, in this same precinct, there was also one occasion where the paper ballots leader was jamba -- ballot reader was jammed and we could not reload it. we had to call for technical assistance. we had to rely on of hillary -- auxiliaries systems for people to vote. it looked disorganized. this is all very situational and very localized. i'm not sure what broader issues can be drawn from about. the technical people were there and responsive and were able to fix our jams on a timely basis. it was just unfortunate that it happened both at once. staffing equipment was a big issue on our case. -- staffing and equipment were the big issues on our case. and we started behind the curve that morning because the voting books, which are paper books, there is only one purple used by -- one per poll used by the special about clerks. -- ballot clerks. those were inaccurate. the names of early voters were supposed to be excluded from that, and that was not the case. it was realized before the voting started. and the area represented -- representatives presented the captains, the names of people