we nominated our senior painter, jeff nicole. he was with the city program 15 years ago, he basically ran it since it started. he ran it for 10 years by himself all over our city. and, so, just through all that he's never changed his dedication. he doesn't take shortcuts, repaint and color match and do all public and private property in our city. so, just his dedication in our program has made a huge difference in our city. we appreciate it. (applause) [laughter] >> congratulations. (applause) >> lisa mc kenzie. >> okay. i'm accepting this award for mike yeager and bill mcdonnis, [speaker not understood]. i think all the cities that have volunteer programs it's usually a handful of volunteers that do a majority of the work. these guys are both retired and they have accomplished so much within their neighborhood. they live in one of the biggest neighborhood associations -- excuse me, homeowner associations in san antonio, about 5,000 houses. so, he wrote his little speech so i'm going to read his speech. he would like to thank the

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let's go, we have jeff flock at the cme. nicole at the new york stock exchange. e we talking about here? >> you look good with glasses on by the way. liz: thank you. jeff: we look smarter don't we? oil is your big story today i think from the cme today. biggest pullback in oil percentage wise and point wise in the last two months. take a look at oil. look at that three months chart, it shows the way it's been running up. today it wasn't just the broader market sell off. we are at the edge of the euro dollar futures options pit here. there was a big deal today. real strong dollar also helped oil's fall, and i think vice president biden sort of olive branched that that also had an impact on oil prices. big news that came out today from the energy department, take a look at these numbers how much we are spending to fill our cars with gasoline. almost $3,000 for the average household last year. that is about 4% of our income. that's the highest that's been since 2008 and, before that, since the 1980s. that's huge. gasoline's big bite. take a look, up 3.4%, household i

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jeff flock. connell: let go back to nicole at the new york stock exchange.to take a look at the movers here. sony. now we are hearing more about the holiday season. here it is. it is down 2.6% at the moment. that will compete directly with the new xbox from microsoft. that is due to be released this summer. safeway, up 15%. verifone, which we had earlier, you talk about credit card swipe machines. there it is down 38%. we continue to follow apple and david einhorn and his fight with apple. just look at this stock at $445. it certainly has had quite a variety. apple shareholders -- many people own apple. back to you. connell: the oscar pistorius decision for nike. dagen: take a look at some of the companies who have faced similar dilemmas over the last year. ♪ all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. rify and lock. command is locked. five seconds. three, two, one. standing by for capture. the most innovative software on the planet... dragon is captured. is connecting today's leading companie

jeff: the market under pressure here as well, nicole, but gas prices is the headline.feel it? take a look at the national average. prices down today, but i tell you take a look at these numbers from the energy information agency, how much gasoline has taken a bite out of our income. it is the highest for three decades, almost $3000 per year we are spending on gasoline. going up fast. our household income. it is really taking a kick out of it. they're both down, but the headline is higher energy prices. what about earnings, what is going on? sandra: i have a picture of the dow, the dow on the unbelievable run vista with the exception of triple digit selloff we had. a lot of that thanks to earnings impressing those on wall street. take a look at the percentages so far, companies that are beating analyst expectations on wall street. companies have beat expectations. 66% of companies have beat expectations on the revenue side. the top performers, clorox hitting an all-time high of the cup an became a purported profip 17% in the latest quarter because it is a flu outbreak.

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nicole. for more on the markets and today's headline january jobs number we turn to jeff klinetop, from lpl financialoyment rate rising to 7.9% in january and the economy didn't add as many jobs as expected. dow hit psychologically important high of 14,000. jeff you've been watching these moves for some time. how do you reconcile this. >> the data was goldilocks data. it wasn't too hot. it wasn't too cold. it wasn't suggesting that the economy was starting on a new path of weakening. it wasn't hot enough to suggest the fed pull back their quantitative easing program. it helps the don't fight the federally but at the same time sluggish economic growth for the u.s.. lori: take the rally here, we've been marching on, grinding on. every time we hit these levels, even numbers, there is always one step forward, two steps back. how long do you think it will take us to hold this level safely on the dow. >> i awe greet 14,000 the same way we greet it 14,000. we hit it in february. we were up and down up and down. we didn't leave it behind until december. same thing with 12,000. we hit that in 2010. didn't lea

jeff flock, thank you so much. lori: let's have another addition of market now with nicole petallides on the new york stock exchangeu have some retail winners and losers for us. nicole: that is right. these are some of the names. the title they be a little confusing. that is retail winners. the stocks are not necessarily winners today. however, their same-store sale numbers came in and impressed analysts. macy's came in and there sale rose 11% last month. the gap also beat wall street forecasts. they have old navy under their umbrella. you saw the limited which has victoria's secret under airline. on the other hand, names like and taylor and cato came under some pressure. they talk about the payroll tax. that really affects most americans. we do about your payroll and your paycheck, you realized you had a little less money. down 5.25% for that particular name. melissa: thank you so much. get ready for a mega merger. american airlines and u.s. airways are within a week or two from finalizing a major deal. that is according to the "wall street journal." as a result of the deal, american would emerge from the graph c.

nicole brown. it's a friday, so sweet you can almost taste it. >> jeffrey! [captioning made possible by cbs television distribution] >> jeffe about me. i'm recently married. i work with my wife on the show. and i'm learning how to be a dad to two amazing kids, in a blended family. i'm hosting a talk show, because there's a lot to talk about. >> this is the adventure. jeff: welcome to the show! thank you. have a seat. have a seat. have a seat. i wish you guys could see the show right before the cameras come on, where pete and bridget are both, get up! get up! applaud! it's the weirdest sort of sense of -- that people care, because you know it's only because there's crazy people, get up! i think i just busted my shirt open. ok, i'm excited today for

jeff kleincop on the stock market peak. time for stocks as we do every 15 minutes on the floor of the stock exchange, nicole petallides standing by. the down near the high of the day. nicole: we are right now f-1437, high of the day was 1441. as you noted a couple points away from our highs of the day, we are up 137 points. it is a broad based rally. when you check the dow jones industrials, those 30 names, 29 of 30 are actually in the green with the exception of hewlett-packard, shows you we have retail stocks, drug stocks, industrials, bank stocks with up arrows on a day when the fear index is pulling back and actually down 12%. monday afternoon when the vix was surging 35% going into the closing bell, monday sold off 2 and the points and yesterday gained back some of that and here we are gaining back some more. we are almost where we started as far as economic news, durable-goods, pending home sales, ben bernanke cautiously optimistic about housing and the like and a little bit of relief pertaining to europe and italian bond auctions that went a little better than expected and as a result we are seeing a weaker dollar and g

jeff in the trading pits of the cme watching gasoline, hitting highs for february. it's early, but sandra in new york looking at disney earnings, and charles payne on a supply chain company. nicole of the new york stock exchange, up 105. nice to see it back. >> right, and back to the 14,000 marks that we hit and set on friday. we are back not five year highs we had not seen since october of 2007. yesterday sold off, a lot of kerns about europe. today, a different picture, regaining that, and here we are up about 106 appointments, a gain, by the way,. bank stocks doing well, bank of america, jpmorgan, the dow components well in the green, retail, drugs, transports higher. some of the traders continue to think the market is over bought here at these key levels as we are pushing up against our recent highs. today we traded as high as 14006. what's going on in chicago? >> energy is what's going on in chicago, not so much in the pits, but oil, and after a break yesterday, back on the rise. oil up half a buck. it puts the focus on gasoline prices which impacts the entire economy. take a look at what gas prices have done in the past week and the past month. up 5.2% in the last week on

nicole, thanks so much. ashley: zillow says chicago is the best market for buyers. the question is what can you get for your money if you're thinking about what may be good? jeff three-bedroom condo for sale in the windy city. jeff, how much does it cost? >> $574,000 plus parking. i'll tell you if you live in new york city, that is a hell of a bargain, right but we're in chicago? >> yes it is. new york buyers, owners who come here think this is the biggest bargain in the world living in chicago. >> take a look at it. i think the value is here for this unit. look at the beautiful marble in terms of the kitchen. high ceilings, nice finishes. this building you bought out of foreclosure, correct? >> we bought the building next door out of foreclosure. the land was part of the purchase. we sold out the remaining half of the building across the way so quickly that we had a pent-up demand for buyers to continue to buy these units. >> as we walk through the unit i want to put prices up in chicago and illinois. the forecast the last few months has been positive but you have to have maybe a little blip of a downturn. where do you see it right now? >> here in chicago, i'