appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> jeff smith from starboard, back to you. >> thanks very muchn hobbs here to wrap up the european close today on this monday, hey simon. >> hey carl. the rally slowed, the bulk of the market's down. but you don't see that from the headline figures. don't forget, up 20% year to date on the stock 600. what's interesting now is the european central bank which has a meeting on wednesday may find that as a result of the move on the euro, it's actually in a position where they have to lay down, talk the taper early before 2016. just above, almost negative overall, not negative, but on the verge of going negative. the global minders listed in london have had a bad day today. downgrade from citi, because of oar prices. angela merkel in particular. and s&p angle because of the negative watches. . you see those guys have had a bad day. in frankfurt, however, volkswagen stopped not really moving despite the fact that its chairman, ferdinand peach is looking isolated. you probably saw on friday he criticized martin over the weekend, you had porsche, 51% sha

and there i discovered one thing that was going on was, if your name was jeff smith and you got up and said, prophetic things about sports you might as well have been an immediate pariah because you were. and the one thing i can tell you about when jeff spoke was that people turned their heads not to listen but to somehow or other try by proving by not listening that what he was saying would go away. these were not partners at this particular moment except they were aiming for the same final end. jeff smith and mary willingham and that is that kids should be educated no matter what they were called, and the university should face up to that which it failed to do in a which which would restore the integrity which was increasingly obvious had been impinged upon by interests in creating a certain kind of sports program. i have to tell you i've been in public life in one way or another a long time. i was shocked to discover just how incredibly -- in fact disgustingly -- incapable leadership was in the university system of doing what had to be done. step up to the plate, say, we messed up a

who until recently was an investor of burger king and jeff smith which owns a steak in darden. the protesters want $15 an hour pay for lower level workers. >>> an activist investor who attended that conference in new york is targeting qualcomm and that is where we begin tonight's partner focus. potentially spinning off its chip unit from its patented licensing business. barry rosen stein says he sees a lot of value in the company. >> we made our biggest commitment to a company that has tremendous potential and tremendous value opinion this is an opportunity to inve in a market leader high quality company, dominant company, and a fast growing cell phone, mobil smart phone space. >> shares today off slightly to 68.73. >>> the apple watch could spell trouble for fossil and movado. apple could sell more than 20 million apple watches this year which would be nearly half of the market for watches, worth 200 bucks or more that certainty shares of fossil down 4% to 81.89. movado off 2% to 30.73. apple down 2 today. it was down also i should say -- down 25 cents to 126.85. >>> builders

a mystery man purchased jeff smith a new car no questions asked.e simply asked smith to pay it forward. smith a fast food worker had been driving around in a 1991 geo storm that had 350,000 miles on it. now he has the title and keys to a 2001 pickup truck in much better condition. >> love it. >> 5:57. we're following breaking news in baltimore. leaders issue a dire plea as parts of the city spiral out of control. >> smoke and flames gut a south jersey home overnight. why firefighters had a tough time tackling the blaze when "action news" continues. ♪ let's go ♪ norwegians are free to do everything under the sun. free to cruise at their own speed... free to explore their own way... free to discover a new world of taste... free to smile wider... applaud louder... free to live fuller, deeper, and closer... that's how you cruise like a norwegian. ♪ cruise like a norwegian ♪ book now and choose from four free offers including our new free shore excursion credit. >> ♪♪ >> "action news." delaware valley's leading news program. with matt o'donnell, tamala

and jeff smith, talking about a lot of his new ideas, not to mention was going on at darden. what they've done pretty well. i listen to you for low gasoline prices. >> sometimes you get the wind at your back. you know what i want to be with dupont? notched down friendly. it's not adhomefhominun, david, the acrimony is too great? >> i think it may be a little late for that. depossibility withdrew its offer of with you nominee, at least. they're a month out, this is important. it's only waged one proxy fight in its history, of course with heinz where it was successful so a lot riding on this for them. not to mention, of course an almost $2 billion position in the stock, though they have already done fairly well which goes to the argument that we've had and we've had talked about, of course it can prove more difficult times when a company is doing well to get shareholders to agree that it could be doing even better. >> i look for a mag nam muss situation. everybody wins get away from this nothing of license, i know the lead director wasn't happy with us. everybody gets in a room

the stocks went through the moon and jeff smith told you, they shook everything up. but the bottom line for the most part is the stocks only when a 4%. on the other hand, it feels like whatever you want to call it, community activists, lately they have been planning a lot of victories. and what you just saw in indiana is because of them. they have a great deal of power. so upon further review, what do you say? >> if you include community organizer to mean the entire media except a few slices of soft news, yes, they do. [laughter] >> but i think it's coming from cnn and msnbc in these idiot corporate groups like wal-mart and mac. >> ito, it's so funny because they showed apple on their website. here's the thing. why are they reacting so quickly? i was shocked. all of these corporations said we are done. does that shock you? >> yes, it is horrifying. i think -- >> they are corporations. the community is outraged,. >> the question is how much was the community outrage? because obviously most christians were not outraged but it feels like this. >> they are so fearful of

we learned today another san francisco resident jeff smith is safe in kathmandu.we spoke -- he spoke with abc news about his ordeal. >> it's safe to say we both feel very fortunate that neither one of us were hurt in the earthquake or anyone in our group. >> more than 5,000 people have died. rescuers are still hoping to find people buried beneath the rubble. >> and those who did survive need every bit of help they can get right now. >> spencer christian joins us live from the digital operations center with more on how you can help. spencer? >> there's a great effort going on here to help the red cross deliver relief to the victims of the quake here at the digital operation center in san jose. joining me is chief communications and marketing officer cynthia shaw. cynthia, tell me what's going on back here. i see posts and tweets and all kinds of stuff. >> in our digital operations center, this is a social listening center. where we're listening to what people are saying on social media to help get relief where it's needed and also to help people know what is true a

. >> if jeb bush was named jeff smith and he was being defined as the conservative in this race on hisldn't have any problem at all. >> he is not really that conservative. >> i think he is. >> he did a very good job in florida i thought. >> definitely. >> running in that state two terms. the other story that ms. dana has selected as being the most important story of the week is the isis offensive in iraq. you know, people are numb to this now. you know they don't care about what happens inside iraq. only when americans are beheaded or people are brutalized, so why is this important? >> i think it is important for two reasons. one, the administration has been trying to suggest that isis has been pushed back. and now that is true in some ways right? so if isis maybe has lost it 25% of its territory but it is making -- it has an offensive right now in a key part of sunni area the administration reluctantly and timidly has gone into an air campaign when we are using our air power it isworking very well. the isis problem is a big one but it is superseded by two others. that is that we do no

jeff smith who talked about his firm's push with yahoo! was also there and talked about that stock. have a listen. >> if you add up alibaba and yahoo! japan and the cash, that's worth more than the whole market cap of the company plus you're still getting the operating business which has a billion dollar in ebitda. it's not personal. it's not picking on the company and i don't think anybody else is picking on the company. it's just about value. >> pete, you're not in this anymore? >> this is an old story. we talked about this in the teens, literally in the teens we sat on this desk and talked about let's look at the sum of the parts. suddenly you start saying, look, how about the investment in alibaba and all the rest of it. got up towards $50 a share. now it's pulled back. now it's just one of these stories where it really trades with wherever alibaba is trading. >> also are shareholders that unhappy? it's been riding the alibaba wave and -- >> the core business is still a question for a lot of people. how is the core business and what -- some people say it's worth zero. i'm sure i

their team during this playoff run at the oracle and as sports bars like blue 42 in walnut creek jeff smithelow 42 sports lounge he says he's been warriors fan since he was growing up in the north bay. richard for reds is gazing at the warriors better above the bar in visiting his team taking it all the way. >> haaziq madyun: that kind of passion from diehard fans is that motivates where your powerful word draymond green. >>: the matter of his upper down there always supporting us. they're always lout is fun to be a part of it this is draymond green speaking >> haaziq madyun: now if you're not one of the lucky ones with tickets to the next day blue 42 is the place to bay you can enjoy a game of billiards delicious food called beer and you got the warriors games in walnut creek was the as 8 with june kron 4 news >> pam moore: we're stay on top of breaking news today violent protests in baltimore md. become just hours after the funeral for the man died of a mysterious spinal injury while in police custody will have a live report from baltimore next at 5:30 p.m. li begs wi a hl,wecrea sho shri

we bring back hank smith, chief investment officer, along with jeff. quare alternative investment president and chief investment officer. we announce the winner. our university of wisconsin runner-up is hank smith. we can put up the stock picks you both had. let's go in order of the face off you did. hank, you picked walt disney. >> and jeff picked johnson & johnson. (?) both did not very well here. right? but hank, walt disney i would have thought would see new gains with the announcement of frozen 2 and star wars on the way. but you saw a bigger loss than jeff on his pick. >> it's still a great long-term holding. both are great blue chip -- hats off to, jeff. >> hank, jpmorgan for the second matchup. you picked lendingtree. big winner for lendingtree. >> yeah. i'm very into the alternative lending trend that's happening right now. lendingtree is executing on all fronts. the company is growing exponentially. i think there will be more growth, more momentum. it's a great stock to own. >> the third match-up. this was a tough one for you, hank. you picked

they've been under pressure from activist shareholder jeff smith, for example. they cut 1,100 jobs during the quarter. i know guys who are following, there are ways to follow people losing their jobs. it sounds you can look for whose looking, all the different online postings that go on and there are people closely following this because that's a big number. the operating expense coming down. >> in many places. this accompany was really poorly run and i think it's layer after layer that they have to peel. david, i think that this accompany is in the same race as a lot of others. they call it in ibm they can call it something. mobile video social you need that. obviously, this is growth. this is similar to that part of the strategic world. you've got to be in those areas. you can't be desktop. >> of course you need to new initiatives to overtake the old at some point. it's not happening yet. >> no, in the meantime the stock just pops when they mention japan. >> right. well here's the thing. you're getting by most math that is done out there from investors based o

jeff smith and bill from pershing square, these protesters who ended up in the conference room on the the fact that folks like them they argue have made money historically by investing in fast foot companies, the likes of burger king and darden and quick service restaurants that the protesters exploit low income workers and they demand they pay $15 or a higher minimum wage to restaurant workers and they are trying to create prevention by disrupting the conference. >> the panelists looked very uncomfortable. >> always an awkward moment. >> let me tell you. that's it. good to have you back. have a nice week off? >>. >> i did. days on a boat and i am still swaying. good to be back. >> i'm swaying, but not because i was on a boat. >> we will hand it over to you. take it away. >> we are approaching 2:00 on wall street and 11:00 in walla walla, washington. oil is up and sarah eisen is in for melissa. i guarantee it's the best darn show on the network today. we will get more on the macro markets, but two big stock stories, stocks you likely very well. ge is down trading the most volume on th

. >> jeff smith, center for public integrity. there are a large-scale and small-scale atrocities.a lot of the questions you're getting from the audience are what are the criteria that you use to decide? is there a numerical criteria? what constitutes an atrocity of sufficient skill and scope to demand your attention? how do you set that, where the bar is? i understand also -- i presume you're going to say that the bar is somewhat influx, depending on other events going on in the world. i'm wondering if your work is guided by an overall consensus about what constitutes an atrocity, a mass atrocity. if you could be more specific, it would be helpful. >> i can be more specific about the terms, but not about the application of them, to be fair. because there is a time frame issue, and there is -- and there are judgments that analysts make about whether or not things are a problem. typically, when we are talking about mass atros tiscities, it's violence directed against civilians that is somewhere in the range of above 500 people over a sustained period of time. that's a very low bar,

pressures by jeff smith for better or worse. >> i don't know.he whole group, if you don't have fabulous fabulous mobile inquiry, i mean, this is the google problem. you're up against google. i can't stress to people how -- google is very much like microsoft at the top of when it was powerful. >> all right. but if i take that and then apply it to the performance of the stock price i'm probably not going to be a buyer of google. >> my trust in google has been very disappointing. very. >> if you really believe it equates to microsoft. >> you have to hope during the next conference call, not only interested in the stock beactually like it to -- here are some things that can make it go higher. it's a transition. they went from we thought not caring about the stock to suddenly caring. if they would actually do something at it then it gets propelled. >> yahoo! sthars are up today because alibaba shares are up today. >> there you go. >>> we'll get stock trading with jim in a moment. dow is up 90 points. there's nothing more romantic than a spontaneous m

a guy by the name of jeff smith. he was driving this beatup 1991 geostorm. that's a classic? >> yeah. >> had he 350,000 miles on it. look at that thing. you put a little armor all on it and you're good to go. that was his car. then he met a man at a dollar general store. that man asked smith if he needed a new ride. he said yeah, i do. they drove to a nearby dealer. the mystery man bought him a pickup truck. the pickup truck was $3500. >> before smith had a chance to get the guy's info, he had driven off. the guy told smith he just needs to pay it forward which is what smith is promising to do. >> wow, i wonder what he's going to do to pay it forward. >> probably give somebody that geo. somebody walking. >> you're always walking. >> goodness. coming up, parents, why parents may need to blame their kids, whoa. go back. what does that say? why parents may be to blame, may be to blame. >> there you go. >> for their kids playground injuries. thank you for that, alex. our wonderful teleprompter operator. >> also ahead, celebrating 20 seasons of "dancing with the

i think the biggest problem both have if it was hillary smith and jeff jones, i think people would sayfied people. i think jeb would be farther ahead. io eng he's ahead at all. i think jeb would be ahead if it wasn't for his last name and i think hillary clinton would be perhaps, you know there wouldn't be as much handringing wringing. will they get bogged down in the future? >> i think hillary clinton is the worry she's shade di. it's not her last name it's they might be shady. >> i want to ask you, chuck, mica said something about the clintons. i always have these things pop up. it always goes away. do you think that's going to happen with the serve and with all of this money? do you think it's going to be another one of these things with james car ver two years from now, yeah seriously, she was caught with $800,000 in her pocket. it happened with the serve. is this going to be another litany of things james carvel will be talking about three years from now? is this another clinton scandal they survive? >> it might. what does history show? i think it's having an impact on her sort of

smith in oakland, next. >>> san francisco rents are getting so outrageous that even pro athletes are complaining. former a a's pitcher jeff samardzija says he looked but balked at the prices. he told usa today, quote, they were charging like $7500 a month for a loft. i was like no chance, dude. >> yeah, dude. join the club. instead, he stayed in hotels while he was here in the bay area. samardzija is now back in chicago where rents are much more to his liking. just in case you're wondering, he makes about $10 million a year in salary. >> when not paying for rent here. >>> geraud moncure joins news the comcast sportsnet newsroom. the giants and the a's. >> possibly a major issue for the giants though. while the giants are focused on the task at hand at chase field in the season opener tonight, g-men are also holding their collective breath concerning pitcher matt cain. after a solid spring where cain was coming off a right elbow surgery last season to remove bone spurs, the right-hander could have bigger issues due to right forearm stiffness in his final spring start, cain underwent an mri today and will most likely miss h

that's where general smith will sign the final paper work officially surrendering the department of trans-mississippi. i want to talk about this for a minute. on the left is general jeff thompson who commanded the troops in central arkansas. by 1865, these men have been largely cut off from support. they're part of the trans-mississippi department but they are very isolated. they can't get to the main army even if they wanted to. union forces are going to start to move into upper arkansas and reach out to general thompson. at a place called chalk bluff which is river crossing there it is, on the arkansas-missouri border, thompson demands to know the exact terms that lee got at appomattox and he wants assurances that his men will get the same terms. he also wants assurances that union forces will not plunder the country side and harass civilians. once he's reassured of these things he's agreed to surrender. this takes place on may 11th. on the map there's chalk bluff upper corner of arkansas. the confederate troops are concentrated in this area northeast and it's in jackson port, right there that about 5,000 confederate troops and they're all arkansas troops are going

smith, nbc bay area news. >> they are brave. >> so did she say sharks and cold water? >> 51 degrees. >> and sharks? >> i'm a baby. i wouldn't do it. >> and cold water? save us from this jeff. it's really remarkable what they're trying to do. >> i know. i'm chilly thinking about it. that is really great what they're doing, though. you can see on the microclimate forecast right now we have a lot of sunshine compared to this time yesterday. that's the big difference. hopefully for those swimmers when they do that we're going to have some sun for them as well. you can see 63 in the peninsula. south bay at 66 and the east bay at 68. the only spot for today that really had a hard time seeing temperatures in a few select locations warming up was across the peninsula. check out our microclimate difference here. from palo alto which had a high of 73 degrees, to woodside which is not very far away. it only got up to 50 today. and that's because the fog stayed so persistent. in fact temperatures right now at 48 degrees. even picked up drizzle that equated to 1/100 of an inch. at least good enough to go over that fire danger. back here in pacifica we had a high of 61 degrees. palo al