and that's not true. >> i'm looking back at the original deck from jeff smith at starboard.us with on cnbc during an interview last october, i think talking about, you know -- and very positive ways what he hoped would be a real embrace by the company of margin improvement and making the point they have a leading market share across the many businesses. but they don't make as much money as the peers do in the same businesses. and talking about margins. jim, you had mentioned recently that there were a number of potential activists there. in fact, we had a conversation i think on thursday or friday you said at least three. >> yes >> now we noel know elliott and there was one that indicated, jeff ubben, his firm owned a significant for them stake in the company has been talking to bennioff as well he's been on so many different boards he is focused on succession. unclear what his presence will mean but yet another kind of activist i wouldn't term jeff a, you know, sort of a -- thoughtful. yeah, someone i dealt with many times. most recently with his presence ott exxonmobil boa

let's get to jeff smith from our new york station wabc with the national picture. , good evening. >> reporter: whit, i do not envy those revelers in times square. check out the rainfall over the northeast. the steadiest rain will be over around midnight. a little too little too late. a lot of people are going to be getting wet. speaking of wet, let's check out out west. san francisco, highways under water due to flooding. that's translating into three plus feet of snow in sierra and the rockies. there could be blizzard conditions in denver and high plains. at the same time, a severe weather threat developing over the southern states as we head into the day monday. wind and large hail all the way from shreveport to little rock. whit? >> jeff, thank you. >>> new to the new details on the university of idaho murders and the suspect under arrest. police saying today they believe bryan kohberger acted alone and don't anticipate additional arrests. the 28-year-old graduate student was taken into custody yesterday in pennsylvania thousands of miles from the crime scene, no

let's get right to jeff smith from our new york station, wabc. what's next for this storm? >> linsey, the storm will be kicking into a whole new gear as it heads from the rockies to the plains. let's track that snow for you. first, denver area getting snow tonight, into the day tomorrow. a few inches, but this evolves into an almost all-out blizzard over northern parts of nebraska, iowa, more than a foot possible tomorrow into early tuesday. just south of that zone could be up to a half inch of ice. a bona fide ice storm north of omaha as we head into tomorrow evening. the severe threat is another big aspect of this and we're talking about houston to shreveport around midday tomorrow and intensifying as it moves into northern louisiana, southern arkansas, into tomorrow night. storms especially dangerous at night. tornadoes, damaging wind, flooding all threats with an enhanced risk. and in that slight risk of esiky huntsvle, ba sevejeff, thk you.> turng w to . a show of bipartisanshipbut he's facing several challees including a new republican house t orities. alex presha is

whether it be starting off with starboard, where we know they had constructive talks, although jeff smith mentioned, a well known activist. his old firm, value act. and then you've got elliott. leaving elliott at this point, but you've got three new directors who will take their seats, beginning of march, and mason, its president, as an activist, is somebody who was involved at microsoft, for example. it's got to be seen as a fairly significant one. maybe they've done enough here where they can say to elliott, we're happy to talk, but you're not going to really get that far, and we're happy to even do more board refreshment, but you're not going to win a proxy fight if you choose to go to it. >> i tell you, marc's approaching this as i think the most ceo playbook, and the playbook that he has is, i'd like to talk to the l.a. people. i think i can probably learn from them, become better at my job if they have really good ideas. i will certainly embrace them. marc is -- look, he's more zen-like than most ceos, and carl, when you speak to benioff, benioff is like, wow, every one of these peo

marc's going to go with it people think that somebody's going to duke it out he actually -- i mean, jeff smithat starboard, he thinks jeff's view is terrific. he welcomes input, and it's not for show he doesn't say, i welcome input and then text me, i hate these guys, theit's not like that >> you think any activist interaction at salesforce will be less combative than disney. >> yes, i do that's a great example where i think there's no meeting of the minds whatsoever between nelson peltz and bob iger i think that marc will listen very closely to what elliott has to say and say, listen, if you've got good people with technology, i am happy to augment my board look, he got rid of allen hasan feld, checwho had been there sandy, a titan, had been there very long. they don't understand marc at all. marc wants to make a lot of money for people, and he wants to do it right, and if you present someone who's terrific or even several who are terrific, marc is going to take it now, laura albert was appointed, and i think she's amazing. she was williams sonoma, but once again, you could say, williams sono

value act started by jeff smith in the fall with us on cnbc when he announced that position at salesforce elliott. elliott the largest in terms of the dollar amount of their ownership -- >> i guess people are buying it at 140 to me when you have this many activists, it says stay tuned. i started liking salesforce at $8.00 because i thought the product was great, and everybody says the product is great. i think there's just a question of attention to detail, whether there's just too many people -- >> right listen, add another potential activist fight, still. don't want people to believe that wrapped it up on friday with that announcement it did not we've got disney and pelts we've got salesforce and elliott. >> caterpillar below call, china still not coming back. they are saying there's still chip availability problems again, if you study cat, they're not saying anything that's different, but the stock is up a great deal and it's in free fall now. maybe that -- this is the opportunity you've been waiting for, this is the break in caterpillar stock. >> down some 4%. one of the worst laggard

jeff. getting reldy for the next one, in san francisco an important part of helping prep is the adopted drain program. as christie smith explains, those adopting the drains have found a way to take it to the next level. >> reporter: here in san francisco one of the first problems you often see when a storm hits is because a storm drain is clogged with debris. not this one, though. the adopt a drain program asks residents to be part of the solution in their neighborhood. this civic duty comes with a great perk. each adopted drain can be renamed. this is a common sight today, people cleaning up and keeping an eye on storm drains. >> i used to clean the drains out anyway because i know what happens. >> reporter: dave lang has lived in san francisco for years and volunteers with the city's adopt a drain program. it's pretty straightforward. pick a drain, adopt it and keep it clear so water doesn't back up. >> people go to the park, they come to an intersection that's flooded. you can navigate it. you want them going in the street, people are in a hurry to go places and it's not safe. i said, let's do this. >> those behind

jemmy page, paul samuel smith, who was the bass , samuel smith, who was the bass, went on to produce all those cat stevens albums. and then jeffck group with rod stewart and ronnie wood and aynsley dunbar. and it was a turning point . it and it was a turning point. it was this unfold , the untimely was this unfold, the untimely departure of beck, who was a brilliant guitar player. yeah, i quickly tell you that. spoke to phil manzoni of roxy music's guitar player , who said guitar player, who said unequivocally he was the best he ever saw. absolute the best ever saw . but that melting point of saw. but that melting point of 5 to 68 produced the english psychic , delicate rock scene psychic, delicate rock scene headed by led zeppelin . clapton headed by led zeppelin. clapton came back with cream . jeff was came back with cream. jeff was on tour with rod stewart in america on the cruise. he was an extremely , very influence figure extremely, very influence figure in english progressive rock , and in english progressive rock, and then went on to work with various other people and was many, many great records. for example, not many