. >> cnbc's expert jon fortt joins us live. sit dazzling or sit as some fear a dud? well, it's definitely not a dud. they've already got a million preorders. folks definitely want it. it's got a duo core chip and a camera. that's saying something. they improved the sensor, they've got better lenses on it. that's great. but the biggest feature on this is new voice control. let's see if i will work for me out on the loud street. areally any good indian places nearby? >> sorry. i don't understand. >> a little bit too loud. aisle try again. >> is it going to rain today? >> yes, it's likely to rain today. >> and it gets the weather forecast. so, you know, when the trucks aren't driving right by, it can hear you and will answer quite a few questions. i've asked a number of things. you can ask siri, the feature in this if it loves you. you get interesting responses back. it's not the same every time. it's something new, something in technology that hadn't worked really very well ten years ago when companies first trying it out. apple hoping that this time it catches on and

cnbc's jon fortt has more about the life and work of steve jobs. >> reporter: visionary.ule breaker. creative genius. steve jobs, more than any other figure, shaped our digital era on his own terms and created hundreds of billions of dollars of value along the way. his story has an unlikely beginning. steven paul jobs was born in san francisco in 1955. given up by his birth parents, he was adopted by a family in the heart of silicon valley. he dropped out of college to pursue his ideas and teamed up with a friend to build a new kind of computer, one anybody could use. the company they founded was the first to make computers truly personal. at a time when pcs were green text on black screens. apple brought graphics and the mouse. at a time of beige boxes, it brought design. along the way, jobs reinvented music with a little gadget called an ipod. >> i have one right here in my pocket, in fact. there it is right there. >> reporter: and from there, went on to reinvent the phone. >> i think this is where the world's going. >> reporter: apple's total market value recently reac

jon fortt, thank you. >>> not so long ago a lot of people dreamed of a retirement of travel, hobbies,laxation. now not the only are a lot of people delaying retirement, a shocking number of women are wondering if they'll be able to afford to retire at all. research shows single women of the baby boomer generation are the least prepared financially for their later years. terry has been a nurse for 32 years. the last 12 where students have medical issues. it's rewarding. >> look at this. one of my kids is in the hospital. >> and exhausting. >> it's caught up with me. i would really like to slow down a little bit. >> but at 64, she has no big pension coming, no real savings. after a divorce with two small children, she lived paycheck to paycheck. >> i don't want to be dependent on anybody. that's my biggest fear. >> so now she's not sure when she'll be able to retire. terry lives here in cleveland but her story is playing out in neighborhoods across the country. 40% of boomer women, 17 million of them, are single. and for many retirement is a financial time bomb just waiting to explode.