jetblue had been the only major u.s. airline without unionized workers. >>> whatsapp has reached a major milestone. the mobile messaging service now having more than 500 million active users. they share 700 million photos and 100 million videos per day. facebook acquired whatsapp this year for $16 billion. whatsapp plans to offer free voice calls in the next few months. >>> two students at syracuse university are attempting to fight smartphone addiction with their new app. it's called talk. once it's downloaded, users create a profile that links to facebook and twitter. you then create a game. and the object of it is to stay off your phone as long as possible. they say it might help people stop living in the virtual world and start living in the real world. >> power button can do the same thing. just shut it off. >>> lobster may not be much of a bargain for long. the number of baby lobsters is about half of what it was seven years ago. it takes eight years for lobsters to grow big enough to harvest. experts blame warmer

itches the age of unionization has come to jetblue.he airlines pilots have voted to join the air line pilots association. 70% of the jetblue pilots cast a vote saying they will be joining the union. this is the first worker group within jetblue that has voted to join a union. again the pilots at jetblue have voted to join the union, 70% of the votes cast in favor. back to you. >> phil, thank you very much. >>> is all the government help in the student local market actually hurting the students that are in the student loan market? we're going to talk about that. >>> and what is killing the world's bananas? should you be concerned about a worldwide banana short an? stay with us. ♪ [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn't fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today...and tomorrow. so let's see what we can do about

>> and then we all just erupted. >> flight 292 jetblue has landed at l.a.x. safely. >> meanwhile barbara is a wreck. >> i wasn't able to get to a television, so the first thing i did was dial dave's phone number. i dialed it a few times. that was the worst ten minutes of the my life because i had no idea what was going on. >> at last barbara's call goes through just as the plane grinds to a stop. >> he picks up the phone and i hear in the background, "yay!" [ applause ] and i just thought, are you on that plane? and he says "yes, i'm on the plane. i'll tell you all about it, but i can't talk now." >> the nightmare flight is over. >> yeah, good job! good job! thank you! as i was exiting the plane, i actually got a wonderful shot of the landing gear completely shaved in half. >> when barbara arrives home that evening, dave shows her the message he taped. >> i love you, and everything is going to be groovy. >> i felt really special, and i understood that he loved me, so i was very thankful to have him sitting there next to me on the couch. >>> whoa! >> two years

not good news for jetblue yesterday.irline pilots, majority of them, 71% voted to join the airline pilots association union. the company already warned earlier in the year that could put benefits and pay up. that is a concern for jetblue at a time of increasing competition. back to you. >> appreciate it. still ahead on "way too early from wrigley field," understanding the significance of the 100th anniversary. we'll talk to mike barnicle about what this field means to baseball and chicago. this field is fantastic. >> and the ruling on the pirates/brewers ball. we'll talk about that when we come back on a special edition of "way too early" from wrigley field! all stations come over to mission a for a final go. this is for real this time. step seven point two one two. verify 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 companies to places beyond it. siemens. answers. oh, there's a prize, a

united well below expectations, and then jetblue.united, because this number stands out at a time when so many airlines are doing so well, because of the pricing power they have, united posted a first-quarter loss of $609 million. in fact, the ceo came out and said hey we're well below what we should achieve. look at shares of united versus american year to date, and there really is not much comparison at all. american has it going right now in terms of a number of factors. united, on the other hand, a lot of people are looking at this company and saying, everybody's making money in the airline industry. why are you guys losing money? hard questions. >> what's the answer to that, phil, as best you can tell. what's wrong with united? >> a couple of things. one, the pricing is getting a lot of questioning in terms of how they're pricing the product. are they not getting the right pricing on the right routes, and they haven't finished the complete integration of continental and united and that's got a lot of little issues that are out t

you own jetblue. i think it's cheap and going to be momentum in the name. i do like the space. jetblue to me is the beta trade. >> up next, tesla, the company planning on pour more money into china. >> spending money as fast as we can spend it without wasting it. we'll probably end up spending hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> so far he's done pretty well for himself. how you trade tesla at this point in time, if you're down on this name, as it approaches 2:30 i would start to lighten up. if you get a pop tomorrow morning, use that volume to protect yourself. i would be careful. >> does tesla have competition in china we're not thinking of, chinese company that is make cars that run on batteries that the chinese government will vote to support? >> i think they actually should be looking to china or korea on the battery front. the company needs to be very careful. i wouldn't be buying the stock here. i wouldn't be -- i wouldn't go near the stock. competition from the global auto space is what these guys should worry about. >> sara is following yum brands. >> on the bottom lin

jetblue, they have so much low-hanging fruit available to them. team just decides to not pursue it. net promoter score is a very important metric to them, one of the drives of the compensation. that's effectively code for brand loyalty. socially a strategic decision to be nice to your customers in the hoping of driving a fair premium. we believe customers buy specifically on choice, buy specifically on price, is driving the vast majority of choice, so it's really a strategic difference between what we think drives value and what they think drives value. >> thank you very much, hunter. >>> coming up forget the moon we're going to delve into the dark side of bitcoin. mary thompson looks at more. >>> and michael bloom better has a new antigun effort, backing it with $50 million of his own money. when a politician does this, do they encourage people to buy guns? stay with us. ♪ ...work with equity experts... who work with regional experts... that's when expertise happens. mfs. because there is no expertise without collaboration. afghanistan, in 2009.

or jetblue at $168.pare them to the big boys where the average domestic ticket will set you back $224 respectively. even though it offers the cheapest flights around it's very profitable in every single year since the economy peaked. when the business fell off the cliff with the great recession, they were still making money. meanwhile the rest of the industry was hemorrhaging money and where spirit was totally in the black, you have more than a does up domestic -- dozen domestic airline bankruptcies. so the question always comes back to with this company a very simple one. how the heck did they do it? how is spirit been able to consistently make money in the industry that until a year ago was very difficult. even though it charges customers less than the competition? spirit is the one airline that ran like a business before the others got in the game. the company may have only 55 planes at the moment but they use those planes more efficiently than the competition. keeping them in the air for 13 hours a d

>> well i would fly on jetblue. i fly on jetblue whenever i can.they're expanding too slowly for my space my taste. i'm a loyal american airlines flyer. i get automatic upgrades to more comfortable seats. become loyal to one airline. fly them all the time and airline will treat you better. >> george, you fly more than i do. you fly more than i do. you probably have more frequent flyer miles than i do. what else can i do? >> well you can use the miles to upgrade to business class. i do that, 15,000 miles on some airlines will upgrade from $189 one weigh fare to $2500 business class fare. that is great way to spend your mice. you can get those miles by getting a credit card of the those how i do it. of the get a credit card. 40,000 bonus miles. i keep the credit card for a year. then i get rid of it. it doesn't really affect that my credit score badly when i get rid of it. gerri: i would not go that far. i'm not a fan of loading up on credit cards. too easy to forget about them. too easy to use them when you don't want to. >> yep. gerri: but i think

. >>> a jetblue flight bound for ft. lauderdale was back on the ground 15 minutes after taking off, six people were treated and reportedly injured while evacuating. >>> in the indian ocean this morning, planes are once again crisscrossing the sea looking for the missing passenger jet. in just a few days now the batties on the plane's black boxes will run out silencing their locator signals. abc's nikki perth, australia, with the last on the mystery of flight 370. >> repter: ten planes and nine ships are looking for debris fr days 24. as search teams continue to scour the southern indian ocean, we learned the final word spoken from the cockpit. malaysian sport ministry says it was "good night malaysia 370." they're still trying to determine who it belonged to. this signoff is routine and provides no new clues in the mystery of flight 370. now in week four of the search there is greater you aurgency td the black boxes. today australian ocean shield is on route carrying these navy devices for listening and look under the wa

jetblue, man, especially for kids.in a few years. >>> now with us from chicago, who do we have? >> we have the chief white house correspondent for politico, michael mik mike allen. >> good morning, guys. politico is doing an event tomorrow with mayor emanuel. >> let's talk about what's on the site today. politico magazine has a feature called "harry reid's kryptonite." it notes how much trouble the senate majority leader can get in, quote, when his safety net fails him. this stems from the report that reid used campaign funds to purchase holiday gifts from his granddaughter's jewelry business. mike, take us inside this. >> by the way, leaving her last name off, leaving reid off of there. >> tell us about the piece, mike. >> yes. so last month harry reid agreed to pay back that nearly $17,000 that went to his granddaughter's jewelry company. he said it was just a couple gifts for friends. the search light spirit. but this piece for politico magazine by john ralston, the long-time las vegas reporter, someone who's covere

the news sent shares of jetblue lower yesterday.hough you can see this morning up by about 8 cents. >> i don't see how this work out. it was the same day that -- not the same day but in the last week or so we've seen the situation down in tennessee take care of itself. the uaw abandoned efforts to -- they were talking about corker and whether it was everything happened. there was a reason they did it. it looked like if they were to try it again they couldn't lose. >> is this me? >> this is you. >>> congressman from l.a. community is seeking to lure the factory that makes that stuff i showed you, the best selling sriracha brand hot pepper sauce. he's trying to get it to his district after residents in its current location complained about the smell. tony cardnes, he wants to convince david tron, the owner of huy fong foods to relocate rather than fight with the residents of the city of irwindale. i used to live next to irwindale. i can't believe they'd be complaining about anything in terms of smell. cardnes says the company grows 60

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jetblue pilots overwhelmingly agree to unionize. major airlines to have non-union pilots. joining us is the founder of jetblue. welcome back, good to see you. i can't believe you are happy about this unionization. >> i am down in brazil, started a great airline down there and yesterday we started -- is one of these things that the pilots, there were some issue, worried about if they merge with another airline how would their seniority be, there were other issues than pay. life goes on. stuart: you can't like it. you found it to. it is x huge success. you can't be happy about this. >> delta is a great airline. everyone else is a union. one of the facts of life. involved in management since 2007, it has been a long time. i think it is a great company still and the people are great and i talked to a lot of pilots and they had certain frustrations but life goes on. they voted one day and concluded the next. won't change a lot. stuart: sounds like you very much in the camp that says it happened, move on. >> exactly. stuart: when you want

joining us exclusively this morning is the jetblue ceo david barger, who joins us on the phone.always a pleasure. thank you. >> i was thinking about the winter. we know it hits all the airlines, but is there something about your route structure that may have hit you especially hard? >> there's no doubt about it. in the first quarter, the weather we had on our route network, if you can believe this, 4,100 flights cancelled. put that in perspective, we cancelled nearly twice as many flights in the first quarter as we cancelled in all of 2013. >> wow. >> so, carl, a tough quarter. >> razm up just a fraction. load factor down. do those numbers turn in the next quarter? >> well, they absolutely do. when you start to normalize for the first quarter -- by the way, there's always noise, easter, passover, where the holidays fall. when you look at the strength into the month of april, and what we're seeing was strength into may and the summertime, we're enthused by what we're seeing going into the summer. >> we saw costs rise, operating expenses up, human-related capital up 18%. what do y

. -- jetblue and the entire industry. we like organic growth. the right partnerships.t the end of the day when you end up with bankruptcies and then mergers and acquisitions, rightsizing the capacity, we all benefit. that is difficult for those types of cities. those are real tough situations. i like to do it without gouging the public. that is what we will continue to do. went to ask you about the missing malaysia and jet. what has that done to make you rethink your safety operation? first of all, from a headline perspective, it is unacceptable in today's day and age to not know where an aircraft is. there is technology available today to know where airplanes are as they traverse the world. as we take a look into our safety program, there is always lessons learned from every event. we do not know what the causal factors were. we are still at the point where you start to reach out to those with members on the aircraft. i'm -- there will be lessons learned i am sure. it might take a while to further embed into the safety program. >> no doubt technology innovation front

. >>> and jetblue voting to join the union, about 70% of the company's pilots were in favor of the move. shares fell almost 2%, 8 dollars, 59, and the fda cleared the davinci medical system. the surgical procedure will be used with intuitive robotic machines, the stock went to $422.33. >>> general motors is looking for even more protections against potential lawsuits over faulty ignition switches in its cars. the automaker filed a lawsuit in the federal bankruptcy court, asking to be shielded from a potential avalanche of claims related to crashes and fatalities that took place before gm came out of bankruptcy in 2009. >>> another big car maker taking a big step today, tesla selling luxury cars in china, eight of them in all, throwing in the converter. the ceo was on hand in beijing to announce plans to build a nationwide network of charging stations and service centers as quickly as possible in china. he hopes to sell as many as 5,000 vehicles there a year. >>> as far as our sales in china, it is difficult to make precise predictions. what we see right now is pretty strong demand. i th

. >>> jetblue pilots have voted overwhelmingly to unionize.rline's roughly 2600 pilots will join the airline pilots association union which represents about 50,000 pilots. jetblue's stock dropped after the announcement because of fears that costs could rise. >>> coffee lovers may be in for a jolt. coffee bean prices have jumped to their highest levels in more than two years. it's thanks to the drought in brazil which severely damaged coffee crops. the big coffee companies buy their beans way in advance so these sky high prices haven't dripped down to customers just yet. but unfortunately, experts say we will see higher prices in a couple of months. ouch. frank and juliette? >> hurts at these hours. who knew skechers would be the huge winner at the boston marathon along with the men's champion? >> reporter: well, that's right. when you think of skechers sneakers, you probably don't think about long distance running but it turns out that the boston marathon winner meb keflezhighi crossed the finish line on monday wearing not nike or adidas but s

jetblue ends its run as the largest u-s airline without unionized pilots. pilots voted "yes" late yesterday to join the airline pilots association. jet blue employs about 26- hundred pilots who had rejected unionization in 2009 and 20-11. in today's cover story---one measure of how happy consumers are with various industries--- the american customer satisfaction index says airlines as a group are falling out of favor with customers. the american customer satisfaction index found more passengers complaining of cramped seats. airlines have been installing so-called "slimline" seats---lighter with thinner cushions that take less space. helping southwest airlines, for example add one more row, boosting revenue four percent while cutting fuel costs by ten million a year. but tony rubit doesn't see that savings passed on to him. "they're adding more seats but raising costs (to passengers) and it forces most consumers to find an alternative means of travel." one carrier, allegiant air is monetizing this trend in reverse. it's installed two rows of larger seats for

virgin atlantic topped the list with the best performance for the second year, followed by jetblue, hawaiian, delta and alaska airlines. american came in 9th. united 12th and american eagle in last place. a non profit that helps women "suit up" for job interviews is reporting solid success. "dress for success" is a nationwide organization that helps women navigate the job interview process by providing resources -- right down to the clothes on their backs. we spoke with ceo joy gordon who says prior to the recession the non profit helped women on public assistance... but everything changed when the jobless rate spiked. "i think 2008 and the great recession changed much of the face of poverty. so women who are unemployed, women who have been unemployed who need the support, who need the hand up. that's who walks through the door at dress for success." gordon says the job placement program has a 60% success rate. yahoo is going hollywood. the wall street journal reports.. the internet company has ordered a slew of tv shows to air on its website. the paper says there are half hour comedies with

the smaller upstart airlines such as southwest, jetblue, and air tran are doing well, while the largeed and us air are in trouble. probably the single biggest complaint about flying these days is congestion. flying on an airplane feels no better about flying these days than a glorified bus ride. howevepackedirplanes and overcrowded airpor are not symptoms of the failure of deregulation, rather, they are the consequence and oof itsuccess.rpor e problem is tt the feral, state, and local goverents in the u.s. have not upgraded and expanded airports and air traffic controsystems to meet the spectacular increase in demand triggered by deregulation. this edition of "economics u$a" hasa region of big business,me onon-price competition,s, anprice-makers, a kind of twilight zone in our economy where the usual rules of competition work a little differently. there's not much price competitiore because, as every good oligopolist knows, that only leads to uncertainty and lower profits. much safer to fight over convenience and style. it's a zone that makes up a good chunk of any map of our economy,

. >>> the usual to unionize is spreading at jetblue.ore than 10,000 flight attendants are lobbying to hold the vote on whether or not to unionize, they are working with the transport worker's union of america after a similar drive last year fell short of the necessary number of yes to force a vote. earlier the pilots voted on the union. >>> and coming up, the influence on how a lot of social media customers are actually getting paid by brands to post photos and comments on instagram touting their products and services. and it turns out being in insta-famous can be a pretty good living. >> six years ago if you said your favorite brands in stores, they're going to choose you to be the face of an event, or for an advertisement in a magazine, i would be like okay, sure. >> once my following kind of passed 400,000 it was a little crazy, because they wanted to pay me good money to mention them and to do what i do naturally. >> justin livingston and daniel burnstein make it their full-time jobs on social media. a job that can play between 65,0

collective bargaining may drive up costs as jetblue negotiate pay rates and work rules.o not like the news. gainse shares erased following the announcement yesterday. the question is how far up it will drive costs. short term, it is really not an issue. it is more cultural than it is with having to do with costs. the pilots already make more than american. they get $189 an hour. i do not know exactly what was on the union agreement. >> we do want to get to the facebook numbers. a beat on the earnings per share. >> $.34. the analysts were wrong again on the guessing that it would be $.24. the cfo is going to step down later in the year. you see that after an ipo, someone gets the company away.hape and then walks >> as long as he keeps all of his options. >> indeed. revenue, $2.5 billion for the quarter. i will pour through the numbers some more. >> there has been a lot of concern. this is a company that has become somewhat staid and older people are using it and the kids are flocking to other things. >> this is a global company, one point two 6 billion users and a lot of

a jetblue flight bound for ft. lauderdale was forced to return to jamaica after people on board smelled smoke. the plane with 98 passengers was back on the ground 15 minutes after taking off. six people were treated. they were reportedly injured while evacuating. >>> in the indian ocean this morning, planes are once again crisscrossing the sea looking for the missing passenger jet. in just a few days now, the batteries on the plane's black boxes will run out silencing their locator signals. abc's nikki battiste is in perth, australia, with the latest on the mystery of flight 370. >> reporter: ten planes and nine ships are out looking for any debris from flight 370 as this desperate search enters day 24. the weather here today is poor meaning lower visibility and an even bigger challenge. as search teams continue to scour the southern indian ocean, we learned the final words spoken from the cockpit before flight 370 disappeared. malaysian's transport ministry says it was "good night, malaysian 370. authorities are s

jetblue, hawaiian, delta and alaska airlines round out the top five.wer passengers from flights. but there are still issues. on-time performance got worse last year, and more people arrived at their destination without their bags. >> i've taken ten flights this year and maybe been late seven of them. >> reporter: customer surveys show plenty of gripes about air travel, but researchers say passengers may be complaining less because they've lowered their expectations. >> people have maybe gotten to the point where they say i just don't care anymore. it's going to be what it is. >> reporter: united improved its standing in 2013, climbing out of last place and leaving express jet, sky west and american eagle at the bottom of the list. american eagle along with southwest both showed an across-the-board decline in performance compared to the year before. craig boswell for cbs news, reagan national airport. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," an update on the deadly storms in the southwest. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning

jetblue no longer union free. they have voted to join in the pilots association.on the support of 70% of jetblue's pilots. investors did not like the move. a prediction of massive job cuts at barclays. it could slash 7500 jobs. about 5000 of the job losses may come from the fixed division. that is today's company news. it still gives pause -- the president of the united states will be greeted in tokyo by the imperial family at a state dinner. we will look for that in the coming days. margaret, what is the goal of the president? what is the number one goal as he comes to japan? goal is to try to breathe some progress back into the tpp. the other one is to convince the allies in asia and china that what has been going on in russia and the ukraine is not a roadmap is to proceeds. in china gets more aggressive with the islands. >> what does it mean to president obama? >> he have been trying to pivot to asia for several years and keeps getting pulled away for situations in syria or egypt and now it is the ukraine and russia. the pivot is supposed to be the u.s. and red

followed by jetblue. number three being hawaiian. delta and then alaska airlines moves in to the number five spot. and as long as you're talking about who was the best we have to show you who was ranked at the bottom of the 15 airlines in the u.s. frontier, united, expressjet, sky west and american eagle. no surprise that you have a lot of the regional carriers at the bottom. they always bear the brunt of complaints. >> all right, phil, thank you very much. phil lebeau reporting on airlines from chicago. >>> investors love a good dividend and they like it even better when a company increases and that's where we begin tonight's market focus. procter & gamble upped its quarterly dividend by 7% today marking its 58th consecutive year with a higher output for shareholders. shares of the consumer products giant which makes everything from pampers diapers to tide detergent rose nearly 1% closing at $80.49. but lands' end off to a rough start in its trading debut on the nasdaq today. the clothing retailer was the latest unit spun off from s

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jetblue has started direct service to columbia.nnection, you find airline to our expanding service to the kinds of resort locations that you want to be in and then you say we can start the trip because people are not going to go two or three or four stops. >> that is the heart part. they do not want to spend their vacation time in an airplane. so yes. the better the flight connection and destination or if your stopover can be a mini vacation as well. people are more interested. and so columbia specifically is -- it takes less time to fly there from new york than jelly. these are things that are attractive. it is on the water and it is warm and people are ready. >> your are getting carol's attention. >> ok. you just got back. thank you. areng up, literary classics up for auction. what makes a book an estimated $20,000 question mark you will find out next. did you know the most expensive codex?s the $31 million. ♪ >> heritage auctions is said to put on the block over 1000 rare and valuable books. some estimated to sell for over $40,0

it comes on line flight, mishandled baggage, customer complaints, best at all that virgin america, jetblue, hawaiian airlines, delta and alaska. >> i do the back from chicago with my wife, we likeed united and american as well, today of, market down triple digits what is going on. joining us now arthur laffer. you notice i almost said the president. >> it is nice being with one ivy league grad, i feel sorry that you went to harvard, we had a good education at yale. lou: fine, i know. a great thing, the education they offer those of you at yale. my executive produceer who went to cornell was sputtering as col colonel ralph peters. >> he was there before and after. >> anyway, great to see you. >> good to see you lou. lou: talk about this jobs report, obama recovery most personally, lawrence summers calling for more infrastructure spending, your reaction? >> the jobs there is no recovery. you had a huge fall in employment as a population hit bottom in two thousand 9, been there -- in 2009 it has been there 5 straight years flat. there has been no recovery, every person off unemployment roll a

jetblue airways ranked second, followed by hawaiian airlines, and delta. >>> a 7th grade student from san carlos is headed to the national geography bee. he won with a correct answer about canals in ancient persia. it earned him $100, and a trip to washington, d.c. next week. he is a student in hillsboro. he also represented california at the national geography bee back in 2011. >>> drivers say it feels like they're being gouged. in three minutes, the changes to one city's parking policy, and where you can still park for free. >> warm today around the bay area. the trend bill martin is tracking in his really... so our business can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues& great terms& let's close. our best ever value plans for business just got even better. now with free broadband for a whole year. >>> new at 10:00, the institute fo

. >> where does jetblue go from here?it's finally taken it's medicine with all the exposure to all the cancellations. >> how about pilot unionization. >> there's been some headaches they have had to face. after the punishment it's taken, i think it's a good opportunity for the up side. >> on "mad money," home away has gotten crushed this year. but actually the perfect time to book some shares after the stock sold off. cramer talks to the ceo at the first of the hour. stay tuned. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ tires screech ] chewley's finds itself in a sticky situation today after recalling its new gum. [ male announcer ] stick it to the market before you get stuck. get the most extensive charting wherever you are with the mobile trader app from td ameritrade. wherever you are with the mobile trader app life's an adventure and it always has been. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready

airlines show virgin america is top for performance and jetblue is second and third is hawaiian airlines. ben & jerry's celebrateing 35th anniversary with free cone until 8:00 tonight. >>> that is america's money, make eight great day. >>> happening today, former secretary of state hillary clinton will be in san francisco to deliver a keynote address scheduled to speak at the marketing nation shut at the mascone center. she will address challenges the companies face in marketing and how you can dress the issues. the keynote address is scheduled to get underway at 12:30. in sacramento law mays will debate a bill that will force seaworld san diego to stop using kill are whales in the shows. animal rights activists including three girls dropped off petitions signed by 1.2 million people at the state capital yesterday. ten-year-old said she is against the shows after seeing the movie "black fish." she faced strong opposition but succeeded in having her school's annual trip to seaworld canceled. >> my brother was mad and i said would you rather see whiles not treated right or would you rather

quick check on the airline stocks today, jetblue, united continental, southwest, delta all moving lower2.6%. investors do remain on edge, you have to wait to see what happened in the last few hours. most of the indexes started to come back up, but the edge comes from everything in the you -yard line and thin sol -- ukraine and thin volume. our next guest says embrace it. with us now, leah bennett, south texas money management's co-investment officer. that got scary today, leah. >> it certainly did. there are definitely some things to be concerned about, but overall, we're optimistic about the rest of the year. liz: when you see a day like today when the nasdaq is up 51 and then loses 61 to just remain calm and stay invested? >> yeah, actually, you tend to see volatility towards bottoms. it's been since the third quarter of 2011 since we've seen a 10% pullback be, so it wouldn't surprise us to see market pull in more, but we seem to be trying to put in some sort of bottom here. liz: not necessarily 15%, more like 7-10% correction. >> more normal. liz: all right. so we proceed knowing tha

it was number one two years ago followed by jetblue, hawaiian and healthcaalaska moves into t tooif. the worst, includes american eagle. when you look at shares of the airline index. look at this, you can't compare what they have done to the s&p 500. off to the races as i like to say. it's been a spectacular year. >> for those on radio, that's a 51% gain in the airline index. thanks so much as always. >>> another rough day for investors. so which stocks do some of the biggest heng funds have on the figure money out there. .c dominic, you fill many shoes around here. >> i do. >> you've been looking at these stocks. >> it's always kind of fun to watch what the smartest guys in the room are doing, right? >> absolutely. >> so they have taken a look at the 50 biggest hedge funds out there. there's no surprise when you look at the stocks popular among them. many of these investments haven't worked out so well in 2014. shares of gm given all the news around the recall, 18 of the 50 top funds held a position as of the end of last year. that stock is down so far 15% in 2014. then there's city

. >> jetblue pilots are voting to join a union after regeneralling it twice before the first young members for the sixth largest carrier. passengers should not see difference in prices. >> 1,100 i.r.s. employee whose did not pay taxes got a bonus and went to another 1,400 workers with disciplinary problems. and manchester united is not so hot this year on the field they are doing very well financially. sponsorship is up 39 percent as they sell more ticket and merchandise than any other club in the entire world. >> they are called antithigh gap jeans that fit athletic bodies and the makers measured strangers to come up with the sizeing that those with round rumps, will love the fit. they hit a goal $15,000 in 47 minutes. >> how can you say those words in a newscast? >> not often. >> pg&e is asked for more details before working with the community to c.h.p. down hundreds of trees, the vice president of pg&e dressed the board last night about the dangers that trees and roots posed to the pipeline and says crews need to remove vegetation to ensure access to the natural gas pipeline. residents

jetblue has operated without unions for years. but the airline may have reached a tipping point. pilots voted to join an union. now the flight attends may not be far behind. reuter's say the transport works union of america is working with the flight attends on collecting authorization cards that would allow them to hold an election. employees can authorize a vote if 50% plus one person signs the cards. they have 4,000 flight attends and this is the second time that the union has tried to organize them. >>> today was an historic day for college sports. just outside of chicago cast ballots to decide if they want to be represented by an union. the vote came after a regional director of the national labor relations board stunned the sports world by ruling the players are employees 6 of the school and entitled to organize. it could be the first step to the end of the traditional student-athlete almost diane estherbrook is in chicago with the latest. >> ali it could be months before we know how this vote turns out today. the labor relations board impounded the ballots until they could

jetblue airways ranked second, followed by hawaiian airlines, and delta. >>> a 7th grade student from san carlos is headed to the national geography bee. he won with a correct answer about canals in ancient persia. it earned him $100, and a trip to washington, d.c. next week. he is a student in hillsboro. he also represented california at the national geography bee back in 2011. >>> drivers say it feels like they're being gouged. in three minutes, the changes to one city's parking policy, and where you can still park for free. >> warm today around the bay area. the trend bill martin is tracking in his complete forecast. >> suv's put to the test. we have some crash tests just into the newsroom tonight. find out which cars scored well on a tough test to pass. the great american novel. so you can happily let life get in the way, while planning for tomorrow. so you can finish the great american novel banking for the life you have investing for the life you want chase. so you can [sis when i said that...wed i weren't ready to have a baby, we're actually eight-weeks pregnant. [women] shut u

. >>> jetblue shares taking a big hit.ndants at the carrier taking steps toward a union vote following a successful effort by the pilots to unionize earlier this week. >>> kellogg 6.5% beginning in the third quarter of this year. >>> and nokia completing the sale of its handset unit to microsoft separately there are reports that the company, nokia, will name a new ceo next week. sue? >>> ty, the threat of china's fall constantly on the mind of retailers. what is bad for the chinese may be really, really bad for beverly hills. jane wells is live on rodeo drive. >>itis at the guittard chocolate company. beverly hills is increasingly dependent, as the still prepares to sell the 100th anniversary. the visitors bureau says receipts are up over 10%. stores claims 60% of revenues come from chinese visitors. what about spending outside china? >> well, we're not seeing any impact from the slowdown in china. i think part of that is because it's such a young market. so people are just starting to get their feet underneath them to tra

jetblue came in second out of the 15 airlines studied in the report.ds has issued a recall of more than 75,000 pounds of frozen chicken nugget products due to complaints that small pieces of plastic and ore other, quote, extraneous materials were found in that meat. and that's today's speed read. liz: virgin america launched when we did. dave: we love it. liz: first quarter earnings season kicking off this season, so what's ahead for investors? we have tree -- three names that could beat and three that could miss. david: joining us know, thomson reuters senior research analyst, and he just always gets it -- not always, but 90% ain't bad. >> thank you. david: first of all, the lowest expectations in three years? i'm just wondering if expectations have gotten a little too low, that is, it'll be with easy to beat. >> it's been a trend for the last few quarters. but these lowered expectations are actually the lowest we've seen in a long time. so financials, they've seen a negative growth rate of 2.7%, mortgage rates are higher, they're not seeing as much b

the regent jetblue situation about two years ago, the captain had a breakdown. co-pilot was able to coax him out of the cockpit. he locked the door. the captain is running up and down screaming we're not going to las vegas. to visually see what is going on in that cockpit is important. >> hurry up. >> ed, one more thing, the issue of the live stream of the video i think is a good idea. it can be triggered along with the idea of flight monitoring if the plane deviates from the flight path. >> here's what people don't understand when it comes to pilot against cameras in the cockpit. if you work for a company they give you a cell phone. everything in the phone belongs to cnn. they can take it at anytime and uss it. everything in my e-mail belongs to cnn. if i walk in the building if i'm late, they can use it for disciplinary actions. that's no different than any other profession. michael kay, why is it so different for pilots? the director of the show, the audio track, which the director talks to me it is recorded. >> don, cameras are not the essence of the issue.