emily chang just talked to ceo john chen.mpany being more efficient and elling off real estate. talk to me about what you are seeing, options-wise. highs now.ll off the leading into the earnings report, he saw a lot of activity in blackberry puts, investors betting the stock was going to looking foror protections. i think the stock looks weak today. it will put a huge wake on the top of the daily bar if it closes at these levels. it has found sellers in the range of $10 and $11 twice this year, and it took 20%. posting not gone be positive earnings until sometime next year, they be even late 2015. looking for investment opportunities, better opportunities out there. >> let us talk about a company that came out with earnings earlier in the week, gamestop. you said it reminds you of a company called blockbuster, whose business model essentially became obsolete. the stock pulled apart after the innings. it is coming back pretty good, but you are not competent it is going to stay up. >> i am not. it really is just like blockbuste

john chen is doing what john chen does best, he's slashing cost.an't keep slashing and slashing your way to revenue. >> john chen is an excellent tu turnaround guy. he's acting fast, he's telling a rational story, turnaround for the company, he's cutting costs, but you can't cut costs to drive revenue, i mean, the decline in revenue, it was precip us to, 63% year over year. it was an 18% sequential decline. the revenue was more stark than people thought. >> maybe, but when you listen to "the call," they had so many places they can monotize now. they talked about merging the two blackberry systems. they talked about mobile device management. the question i guess with the stock now becomes, do they have enough time and cash to get that turnaround? if you believe in the turnaround you have to believe that the company can be there for it. >> i don't think john chen is going to let that balance run down to zero, but the real question in my mind is, you're right, there's a lot of potential here, special situation stock, it's going to be volatile, there c

asill speak with john chen they report their lowest revenue since 2007. we go inside one of yahoos nerve centers to find out how they are making apps more personal. first a check of your top resolved, tesla has its dispute with dealers in new york over its model. tesla can keep its five new york stores open and can open additional stores under a franchiseed either law. other states like texas and new jersey have banned tesla direct sales. microsoft is once again changing its policy for accessing user e-mail. the company will not investigate the private content and will turn the matter over to law enforcement if it expect -- suspects wrongdoing. with anit would consult attorney beforehand. this stems from a case where microsoft admitted to scanning any mail to see if he was receiving trade secrets. charter communications is not going to let comcast get time warner without a fight. it is urging shareholders to reject the takeover offer saying it is vulnerable to regulatory issues. it's 37 billion dollar offer to buy time warner was rejected this year in fav

we will hear from ceo john chen.nd we will hear from the ceo of cbs outdoor. ♪ >> chicago federal reserve bank president charles evans says the central bank will probably raise rates in the second half of next year. he explained why to betty liu in hong kong. >> it is hopeful that we actually get this lift in inflation, expectations are closer to the 2% objective, but actual inflation is 1.1%-1.25%, depending on how you massage the data. raw material pressures are minimal. labor costs, of course, are not very high at all. there is not a cost push that is driving this. we really need a stronger economy to get things moving it, to get wage pressures up a little bit, to have it passed on any form of higher inflation. >> given that, isn't it too early to start talking about raising interest rates? >> i'm not talking bout raising interest rates. what we're doing is laying out the conditions that we will be paying attention to, and even a 6-month timeframe, depends on when we finished vs purposes and it takes us into well

the blackberry ceo john chen will be speaking to cnbc.nterview on "squawk on the street" and it's just after 1:00 a.m. eastern. don't miss out on that. u.s. futures, particular a little higher at the open this morning on. the s&p is around about 5.5 points above fair value. allen nukman is chief strategist at one stop option. allen, four out of five sessions we've been doing this week. the s&p barely in positive territory at the moment. but as we said, is 1840 a big level for you? >> yes, it is. and in looking at it, 1825, that was a breakout area. if you remember many months ago, that's held with long-term support. that's the recent lows that we've seen in the last many weeks. we've been trading at 1880.5 and futures at the 57 point range. we're coming to that mid point at 1852. as we get back up to these highs, that targets 1937 another 5% higher. i'm very optimistic, especially the last couple of weeks, which are the end of the earnings season. that's typically when the market fell down because there's no fundamental news. it's held up

. >> john chen, ceo of blackberry, joins us.yesterday might have been a little premature. at least given today's market action based on your cost controls in the quarter. let's start on hand sets. sell through was better than sell in. you brought down inventory. what's happening out there? people are still buying blackberry 7, blackberry 10 not taking off as much. where are you seeing relative strength in actually moveing the headsets? >> well, people are buying both. they are buying -- hi, jon. first of all. thank you. glad to be here. anyway, people are buying both the 7 and the 10. we have -- we're working out inventory in the channel on the 10. as you see now earnings released, we reduce the channel inventory by one-third. so it's -- our headset is still moving. moving quite nicely, too. >> also, let's talk about blackberry enterprise server or bes as you're referring to it now. that is really key to the strategy going forward. you're talking more about bes 12 now as opposed to 10 saying november time frame is when we should

caroline hyde talked to blackberry ceo, john chen.talks about the messaging service, bbm, this on the heels of the whatsapp acquisition. caroline began by asking about privacy in the wake of the nsa revelation. >> i think a lot of people might care less about security but they really care about the data privacy and personal privacy. that point has not really been made well enough in the market. and -- and i, i am a big defender of that. when i talk about the advantage of blackberry, the security, collaboration and communication. i never really focus on one thing we do well which is privacy. >> what about the focus of messaging, $19 billion for whatsapp? does it make you reassess blackberry's potential? is this a unit you could sell on its own? >> running a public company, anything to help our shareholders, i have to take a serious look. today, i think we need to build up the base and the engagement model. we have a very good base, about 85 million. engagement time is quite good. usually about 40 minutes. that is a very big engagement

the runway is getting shorter and john chen will make big changes. >> he says they will stop losing money in 2015 and start making money in 2016. i got a big tax refund from the canadian government and are expecting another one and they are selling up most of their canadian real estate so we don't know how much money they get the that should improve cash flow. >> he gets a lot of credit because he has done this before and i carries a lot of weight. nobody believed him that things worked going to get better but when he says things get better, he gets credibility with that statement because he has done it before. >> he is a convincing guy and charismatic. i talked to him about whether he was crazy to take this job and the first lace. investors like what they hear from him because shares are up 16% since he took over. i asked him how confident he is today versus how confident he was when he took the job. take a listen -- >> i feel better every day. the results show that. all the indicators are doing well. the cash burns are doing much better. inventories are doing much ofter in terms of mana

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caroline hyde told to blackberry ceo, john chen. he talks about the messaging service.oline began by asking about privacy in the wake of the nsa revelation. a lot of people might care less about security but they really care about the data privacy.nd personal that point has not really been made well enough in the markets. i, i am a big offender of that. when i talk about the importance of blackberry, the collaboration and communication. i never he really focus on one thing we do well which is privacy. >> what about the focus of billion -- $90 billion? ?oes it make you reassess ,> running a public company anything to help our shareholders, i have to take a serious look. today, i think we need to build up the base and in the model. we have a very good base, about $85 million. entity engagement time is quite good. usually about 40 minutes. that is a very big engagement time. usually, our $85 million, the people who are on it for activity, that was a good thing. we need to build it up and introduce or more of our features. today, we tell about enterprise. bbm. we already do

both of you, john chen and jon erlichman. you can catch the rest of the interview at 10:00 on the west coast tomorrow. we will have all of that. still headed, bitcoins greater may have been found. we will have that story coming up. you can watch a streaming on your tablet, your phone, and at bloomberg.com. ♪ >> this is cory johnson on "bloomberg west." samsung's big story, defeating apple's bid to ban smartphone sales. interesting stuff. apple had asked for 20 phones, phones no longer on the market, to be banned, and while apple lost that, it is an important role in going forward in the future of the smartphone battles that revolve around patents and all kinds of other things. we have been covering this. talk to me about why this case, about phones no longer on the market, was important to both sides. >> for apple, it filed this case about three years ago to the day. so far, they have not been able to get an order. >> they essentially won the case. the same judge had found that samsung infringed on certain patents of these de

chen spoke with senior west coast correspondent jon erlichman at a tech event in l.a. yesterday and john begin -- 10 about by asking chen about changing his. >> i never got a thought about changing names. >> something you have given a lot of thought is your future devices and you talked recently thet the cable device for keyboard enthusiast, which is going to be launched later this year. in terms of the timing, is this something you would like to have on the market by september, before september? >> i would like it to be there yesterday. but i could not get there yesterday because i have to be making sure that the user in a race -- the user interface is one that has modern technology 9900 user leading the base be very comfortable and familiar with. two am breaching the worlds. they'll take a little while. it will probably be toward the end of the year, september, october time frame. i am very much looking forward to that of vice. --what are your best known one of your best known users on the plan is president obama. not to say that he would not use an iphone was a bso to said publicly fo

john chen is off to a great start.s up he will be the ceo of the year for rescuing the company. melissa: jason? >> john chen is not off to any type of pace. looking at some sort of hopes and dreams that this is a great turnaround story which it is not. my major argument and major theme is the numbers do not live. the recent report leaked out from t mobile said when they offered their consumers the chance to change guess how many people change from blackberry? 94%. that is not exciting to put my money in. melissa: you and i are a dying breed clinging to our blackberry because we can't fight on iphones. their business is based on people who can't type on iphones and sooner or later i will figure out how to do it. >> that is why i stick with the blackberry. i hate the touch screen. now that i have the newest version of the blackberry it is as good as the i phone, galaxy or any other phone out there people start to realize this is a high-value product that has a great keyboard and is cheaper than most phones. melissa: peop

. >>> well, blackberry's ceo john chen was on cnbc earlier today after the company posted a smaller than expected quarterly loss this morning. >> we need to build up the capability both in engineering, marketing and as well as in the sales force, but we are going to be very moderate. everything we talk about being able to be cash flow positive by the end of the year, fiscal year, and being profitable the next fiscal year in some quarters, it's still right on. >> is that realistic? joining us on the cnbc newsline is peter mizek who has a hold on blackberry and a $9 target. jim cramer said they have a ton of money at blackberry. buy it as in a stock, no. going under, no. do you agree? >> yeah. that's why we're a hold. we certainly believe there's a lot of value in the parts and given that they are no longer at risk of going bankrupt at least in the short to medium term, we think the chance of insolvency is very low and therefore the shares will probably not go too much lower but they really have to tart start to see revenue re. >> is john chen doing the right thing? >> he is absolutely doi

john chen told me that's the anchor business going with some aggressive pricing trying to hold onto thehey have, maybe steal back some others. also, you know, blackberry messenger, though it's not that hot, it hasn't exactly been growing gangbusters, it still has significant share in some markets. that's got some value, especially if they can get it growing again somehow through trying to put it out on ois, on android, if they can approve that enough or attract some bidding interest. >> if facebook is paying $19 billion for whatsapp, it makes you really try to work out what exactly blackberry messenger is worth. >> that's a whole different issue. >> yeah. >> you have taught people for a decade that everything should be free and now you're going to get up on the stage and say we're going to monetize eyeballs. how are you going to do that when a generation of users won't way, i think the technical world is squat for anything. >> it's possible because browsers are free, too, but you can monetize the browsing experience through e-commerce. in all these countries where the broader web we thi

new ceo john chen is focused more on services, such as messenger, than devices. shares closed down slightly, ending the day above eight dollars. facebook plans to deliver internet access via drones. in a facebook post, mark zuckerberg revealed the "facebook connectivity lab." it will use high-altitude drones to bring internet access to users in suburban areas - and satellites to beam internet signals to third-world countries. zuckerberg's goal is to make internet access more affordable worldwide. pinterest is proving it has major potential. the social media site generated 7% of web traffic on retail sites in march. users can "pin" or link a product from a certain site to their pinterest profile, which can be viewed by other users. the site is only four years old... and is dominating web traffic , especially compared to seasoned sites--such as facebook. still to come: marching on...why small businesses are looking forward to a month. plus...is our notorious apple trading fanatic switching to samsung??? and ...an inside view on the justice department's crack down o

blackberry's john chen faces a tough road as he tries to turn around the phone maker.e spoke with jon erlichman yesterday. starting with blackberry's mobile device management. >> is very commoditized. the real competition is to offer the enterprise customers a lot more than mdm. the enterprise mobile platform, whether you build and manage applications, identity management. our bbm as a messaging layer. this is important stuff. the competition is on. there is a huge amount of market potential. >> this company changed its name from research in motion to blackberry last year. looking back, do you think that is the right name. to have the corporate name blackberry. >> hard for me to comment on whether that is a good or bad thing. not being there to see the pros and cons. i like research and motion better. maybe because i grew up with a pager with a keyword. the name is interesting. this is a joke. i will share a joke. i always tell people if my kid is not doing well in school, i will name him somebody else. and then make him the number one student, i will rename him every

john chen going to the government as if the government is going to save blackberry.ake on no one ever went out of business. tough week for retailers and for jobs. staples closing 225 stores. radioshack is closing about 1000 stores. add those up, that is a lot of jobs. space in america's high skill jobs economy -- things are a bit tighter. the chief financial officer of deloitte is with us. as you hire people into deloitte this season, how competitive is it? >> it is competitive today and it was competitive two years ago. we will hire 19,000 people this year. -- we go onires campuses, it is very competitive. we are competitive with the other big firms. we are finding students, we are finding the skills that we need. day isany of the jobs about medium duration, labor participation rate, part-time america, full-time america. your people are working 60 hours a week, aren't they? there is a part of america who a 60 40 hour workweek with on the end of it. >> it is our busy season right now. we make a lot of our money right this time of year. year,hout the rest of the it is

we will be joined by john chen, the man who runs blackberry. he will be joining us on "market makers." >> it is more than curiosity. >> how is this company possibly going to survive? it loses money every quarter. >> the moneymaker for blackberry is going to be the enterprise customer. >> the fact that you have the value and cash on the balance. they are burning through it. >> earnings at 7:00 a.m. let's do a data check right now. stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities. it is a back-and-forth week. screen. second -- i don't, cows know what 138 means. -- $138 per dollars pound? that affects everyone's food prices. let's go to this chart on spain. inflation in spain. the financial crisis. get over it. we got over it. thank you, mario draghi. off we go. under the zero line. >> it may force some unconventional options as well. >> it is not greece, it is not italy. significant disinflation. >> you understand why the fed is so concerned, so focused on inflation. you need a little inflation to have growth in the economy. deflation is a real problem. >>

asill speak with john chen they report their lowest revenue since 2007.one of yahoos nerve centers to find out how they are making apps more personal. first a check of your top resolved, tesla has

i will speak with john chen as they report their lowest revenue since 2007.go inside one of yahoos nerve centers to find out how they are making apps more personal. first a check of your top headlines, tesla has resolved its dispute with dealers in new york over its model. tesla can keep its five new york stores open and can open adon

john chen is trying to turn around the company after last year's failed launch.of the hot stories on foxbusiness.com. forget putting your money into a retirement account, your north carolina four 401k may owe you money. >> you systems emerging over employees being overcharged. could your 401(k) >> breaking news, general motors is recalling at least 824,000 more vehicles because of those reportedly faulty ignition switches. the recall is being expanded to include model years twiligh 2000 is 1, pontiac, g5 within solstus and sky. more versions dating back to tweet wer2003.we'll keep be upds story. from cars to retirement, a group of employees are now suing a company called novant health saying the company overcharged them by millions of dollars. it was costly 401(k) investments and overpaying providers. here with more, ricedelman. what happened here. >> well, this happened in many, many other departments. compani. they were giving their employees expensive retail mutual funds, far more expensive than others in the marketplace and the employees recognized this and s

blackberry ceo john chen is pleased with the progress the company is making. do you agree with the perspective of the street or is this a lot of word vomit. >> i love the term word vomit. it might be a little after a hangover. and we get up from the hospital, and losing tens of millions of dollars. and the blackberry tablet. and the competitor closed in on that. and the millions of phones, blackberry selling 1 or 2 million. it is a tough spot to be in. one of those deals where the company's parts are greater than the sum, and they -- >> the ceo is saying they will have revenue growth returning fiscal 2015. >> that is a little more vonage. that is hard to deliver on. let's see if they can deliver it again. and in total itself. adam: let's go by tombstone for blackberry and move to amazon. they are certainly a serious threat of a problem and they have the big announcement next week. shares are up, jo lin king will be covering the big announcement next week. what do you expect out of that. >> she is right. this is interesting about amazon. blackberry is going dow

john chen, who you just saw there, he was tasked with saving the smartphonemaker from extinction. took over last year and actually saw a jump in the company's share price that shows investors think he can possibly turn the firm's fortunes around. as soon as those numbers are out, we'll bring them to you. also the new ceo of microsoft right here, nadella, has been outlining his strategy for the future of the company at an event in san francisco. the big news, the company announced was the company's offered software, the suite, will now be available -- stop laugh -- will now be available on apple's ipad. but the question, is it a smart move or an admission that microsoft has lost the battle for the post pc world? we'll be hearing from the bbc correspondent at that event. you want to do markets? yes. i've been told, show the markets. european markets are up following, of course, the gains that we saw earlier in asia. what's going on? if you like my suite, tweet me. i'll tweet you back. you can find me @bbcaaron. that's it. >> i have an office suite or an office two? >> you have a lov

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ceo john chen post ad blog on company's official website venting about information links to the companye chance that is company will take legal action against anyone who disclosed confidential information. a couple things i want to point out, the chart tells the story when it comes to blackberry shares. stock is at 8.88 right now. two week-low was $5.44 a share. credit suisse with neutral. citigroup rate ad sell rating on blackberry. bbry. there you go, adam. adam: colin talked about the a race to the bottom going for the cloud. amazon announced price cuts for cloud services including the s-3 storage service and new conclude computing program. this comes after google announced price for its cloud service. amazon cloud services received authorization to work with the department of defense to host projects like public-facing websites and open data sets. cheryl: wow. all right. stalling, stalling auto sales. jeff flock will go one-on-one with ford's executive chairman bill ford. his take on the economy. what kept shoppers away from the dealership last month. adam: athlete first a student s

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ç >> if we see john chen on "shark tank" i'll know there's a problem. f -- no. >>> breaking news coming out of paris. the meeting between secretary of state john kerry and the foreign ministers of france, britain, russia and ukraine has ended. michelle caruso-cabrera has more. >> you will be shocked to hear, no agreement. there have been reports from other agencies there had been an agreement between the united states and russia, but no, senior state department official saying there is no agreement between -- after this conclusion of this meeting in paris. russia's foreign minister did say that he will continue discussions to see the best way to deal with the stabilization of ukraine and he did confirm that he did not in a weird sort of way meet with ukrainian foreign minister as well. once again, the meeting has concluded and apparently there has been no agreement reached. back to you. >> thank you very much for the breaking news, michelle caruso-cabrera. i would like to get your thoughts on this. your family is from croatia. you fled the former yugosla

its ceo john chen spoke about its turn-around strategy.s were up as much as 3% but now lower by around 2% on the day. back to you. >> thank you very much, seema. appreciate it. >>> the metals markets closing for the week momentarily. it's been a very volatile week. comex gold down $1.30. rebound in the silver market. copper, this is the second day running we have had a large percentage move to the upside in copper. keep in mind longer term, we have seen quite a breakdown in that market. palladium up $13.70, once again fears about russia which is the biggest exporter of palladium, that is spooking that market and it has been for the entire week. and platinum is down $1.40 on the day. so given what we have seen this week, let's bring in kenny pulcari, and bob pisani is with me as well. we come to the end of the quarter. tell me what you see as we go into the new quarter and you wrote about this being a dead cat bounce today. >> i think that's exactly what it is. we have been under some pressure and that's what we're going to see coming into

eastern, for a first on cnbc, with blackberry ceo john chen. >>> let's get a market slash with sheila on two names. they're moving after-hours. >> let's pick it up with caesar's. they're down in the after-hours. this is after the company said it was going to do a secondary share offering of 7 million shares. underwriters will have the chance to buy additional shares. caesars was tpg and apollo. zynga is up by 2% in the after-hours. steven cohen reporting a 5.3% passive stake in the company. remember, steven cohen had owned 7.8 million shares. he's doubling his stake in zynga. and that shock is higher in the after-hours. >> thank you, sheila. >> i think the problem, caesar has enough problems right now. if you're looking in the casino space, there's better names that can outperform, whether it's mgm or wynn. all of those have exposure to the asian markets, as well as las vegas. >>> coming up next, mike mayer, dropping a citigroup bombshell. and the impact on citi shareholders. >>> plus, the social snapback. all rallying back into the close, but with a lockup looming and earnings around

manager at skied base and you were there when john chen was there. what can he do to turn around the company like blackberry? willas an optimizer and take a business and drive out the unnecessary costs and focus. -- he is an optimizer. seeingan adept touch at this. i suspect and i see the exact same thing happening at -- as happened at sky base. >> here with the markets c in a basichurn, the ruble a little bit weaker on this week's events in ukraine and crimea. let's get to company news. audi to catchfrom bmw. it will introduce 17 new or revamped models this year as it tries to gain ground on its rival. ofhas an electric version its sports car and the audi ceo says the sales in china should top half a million vehicles for the first time. we will be so aching with -- >> you will speak with the ceo of audi in the next hour. >> meantime, bill ackman is set to launch another volley at herbalife. he plans an afternoon presentation today focusing on them in china. he says he will show how herbalife violated china's laws on direct selling and multilevel mar

blackberry's ceo john chen says there's a 50/50 chance his turn around plan will fail, but he remainse financial times the process will take time, but he hopes the company will become a dominant player again in the mobile market. chen has set a goal of blackberry being cash flow positive by the end of this fiscal year and profitable by march 2016. you have to feel like investors would prefer higher probability than 50/50 right now. in a few moments, we'll get some tech stock picks. but ahead of this segment, we've been asking you which tech stocks would you invest in today? stell apple. matter of time according to marcus. men time, josh sweets, i like int intel. facebook, that's old news and they spend money like a drunk sailor. i wouldn't know anything about that. if you want, join the conversation here on "worldwide exchange." get in touch with us by e-mail, by twitter. now, scott pedler joins me now. scott, quickly, i know you cover the big names the likes of google. where do you see value in those names in particular? >> thanks for having me, julia. so in terms of the bigger names

they say, look, john chen is doing an excellent job. blackberry's quarterly revenue did decline 64% year over year. blackberry has been putting more focus on its services and mobile device management businesses. now going forward, peter from jeffreys says blackberry's transition is still very early. now shares of blackberry were up in early trade. but other the course of the day, shares have declined. now down about 4% on the day. shares of blackberry, though, have been in rally mode this year. double digits on hopes he can help turn them around. >> if they are experiencing potential turn around, should you be a buyer here? >> let's talk about that. on the cnbc news line is avi silver. an analyst who upgraded blackberry from under sell to under perform last week. why the upgrade in the last week or so? >> as you said, you know, a sell is basically we hate it and under performance is basically that we hate it less, but that still was a change for us. we upgraded primarily for two reasons. first after all, we thought the losses would be l

blackberry ceo john chen and quar and twitter could founder jack dorsey.robably the most interesting piece of news relating to today's meeting actually came before the meeting. there had been a proposal for the largest shareholders to be able to nominate candidates for the board. that was actually taken off the table today after disney tweaked its language regarding the chairman position in its proxy statement. that language basically reaffirming that the chairman be an independent director unless it's in shareholders' interests to do otherwise. a new cars sequel is coming and a new "incredibles" film and the next "star wars" movie will take place 30 years after "return of the jedi." kelly, back to you. >> morgan, thanks very much. let's stick with disney for a moment. it's been on quite a run, up 44% other the past 12 months. >> let's talk about it. timot thinks there's more room run and abigail says the stock has gotten well ahead of itself. let's brawl it out. tim, why do you think there's more time to the upside? >> i'm the fundamental story for disney

they're clearly going to have an uphill battle when it comes to a comeback, but they have a new ceo, john chenkberries were the old blackberry 7s, not the new ones. listen to this, guys. we're just learning that blackberry in the next 18 months is planning to launch a new high-end smartphone for keyboard lovers. it's all about the keyboard. that's why i still have mine. >> i love that. >> that could be good. >> always in search. that's surprising news. bad news for blackberry, but not as bad as we thought, sarah. >> exactly. >> thank you so much. great, we appreciate it. >> sarah eisen, thank you. >> and you'll go back at the end, trying samsung now, i think in the end you'll go back to that blackberry. >> i wonder. >> i'm telling you, so easy to type on. >> we'll see. on monday's show, we'll talk to congressman jim cliburn. plus, charlie daniels. >> charlie daniels! scott: appears buster's been busy. man: yeah, scott. i was just about to use the uh... scott: that's a bunch of ground-up paper, lad! scotts ez seed uses the finest seed, fertilizer, and natural mulch that holds water so you can g

there's more optimism about what's happening there as a result of john chen coming in. >> he's done aood job. there was a lot of overhead fat and he's kind of revitalized the company. nokia came back and alcatel lucent came back and anything is possible. you want companies that bought a phone company that should be going down, look at microsoft, that stock is supposed to have gone down. they bought nokia, no, microsoft is an inexpensive stock and people are circling back to inexpensive tech. that's the nonfroth part. the banks and tech are nonfrothy, people will say, jim, are you bearish? no, it is the ipo market that is frothy. >> art cashin was on the money this morning. i'm telling you he swung by post nine and said looks like we've got a lot of volume off the open to the up side. here we go the s&p 500 hits a new all-time intraday high. the industrials are up. >> into some industrials. there was a really big call from goldman. they decided unite the technologies is the one to buy and boeing isn't. this is the way i look at these moves unite the technologies is up three on the gold

joie chen here to tell us what's coming up on "america tonight." joie. >> good evening john.we will continue the exclusive investigation into florida's invisible children. exont sheilcan correspondent sha macvicar has the story, even for parents whose children are actively fighting to give them and get them the support they need. >> other places, other states, i mean they're able to manage these situations so much better than florida. and i'm like why can't florida get it together? >> have you come to any conclusions about what the answer to that question is? >> they don't want to. it's not a priority. i they they would rather see my daughter die and quit being a problem to them. >> our "america tonight" exclusive investigation into the plight of florida's invisible children, a grim but very important report at the top of the hour on "america tonight." we hope to see you then john. >> all right joie, thank you. >>> when it comes to march madness, nothing like this cinderella story. nothing like this story. >> we'll find out soon enough. cinderella is one of the most popular f

chen standing by. >> good evening john. tonight on our program a game of risk, with the mastermind of the mean. meet ben huh. he lives off the thinking, carpe deum. an aha moment that left him with the notion he has something to contribute. that's that. cat pictures all over the web. also a lot of people making some pretty funny but dumb mistakes. a product he says is just part of the business. >> business is very simple. you want to make one dollar of profit because if you lose a dollar, if you are unprofitable every single day, there is an expiration date. if you are profitable every day, you will never run out. >> on "america tonight." we'll see you then. >> joie, thank you very much. the up and coming artists at the whitney. marp peoplpopular people takingr stage. and a walk to the ice caves. >> i'm meteorologist kevin corriveau. it is heading towards the weekend. we've had some warmer rain come in over the last couple of days, and what that is doing is melting the snow in the lower elevations. in part of montana, you can see the light greens indicating flood warnings and in western washing

i'm john siegenthaler, i'll see you at 11, 8 pacific, "america tonight" with joie chen is coming up next. >> on "america tonight," an exclusive investigation. invisible children. some of florida's most vulnerable, warehoused and neglected. inside the legal tug of war between their parents and the people charged with caring for them. >> finding my son stuck between the door, how is that facility helping him? just stuck between a door. >> also tonight. the agony of the wait for answers. as vectors sharpen their focus on the crew of malaysia air 370. what can investigators learn from the captain's hifs and his hobbies and what are they looking for now? and, who's in charge here? as russia takes a firmer grip on crimea? >> they came and said it's over he told me that putin has declared this russian territory and that we should go away. >> our correspondent jennifer glasse is caught between the old guard and new. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. walk into a nursing home in florida and there is a chance that you may see some very young, vulnerable residents there. mor

. >>> now to washington, d.c., and joie chen, japan's somber anniversary is also the topic on "america tonight." >> good evening, johnght on our program three years after return to a ghost town that is now fukushima. three years indeed since the earthquake and tsunami that lead to the disaster. our correspondent returns to the now empty streets and visits nearly lifeless neighborhoods. the dwindling lifestyle where many have decided just to leave. >> translator: my youngest son had blood in his urine and stools. but when i took him to a doctor, he told me there was no link to radiation. all of the doctors there said that. >> tough decisions, return to fukushima on this sad anniversary coming up another the top of the hour on "america tonight." >>> joie thank you very much >> for the adventurists looking to scale an ice crusted cliff in iowa. usher reports. >> reporter: for climberses a seconding the face of a frigid glacier can be the ultimate rush. but this is not the swiss alps, it's a farm outside of seeder falls, iowa. >> it has to be the first word that anybody has come into their mind when they see something li

. >> let's lead to "america tonight" and joie chen is standing by to tell us more about her interview with johnn. >> we're going to have a very special "america tonight" this evening. a full hour of coverage on the ukraine. we'll focus on the latest developments and bring background and perspective on russia's provocative actions in ukraine. now as you know, here in washington, mr. obama has been taking heavy hits from republicans who are very sharply critical of his performance so far beginning with john mccain. >> when he said the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century was the collapse of the soviet union, he meant it. >> that is coming up at the top of the hour. we'll see you then, john. >> joie thanks very much. >>> now to the uprising in venezuela. a call from the jailed opposition leader for new protests. venezuela has not been able to stop those demonstrations despite 18 deaths over the past month. paul beban is there. what are you seeing tonight? >> reporter: well, good evening, john. i'm here whereas you mentioned the demonstrations began about a month ago, and it started with a case