that is jonathan browning of volkswagen. > > thanks angela. great to talk to you. enjoying the title "world's largest automaker" was short- lived for general motors. toyota is back on top after selling 9.7 million cars and trucks in 2012 compated to gm's sales of 9.29 million. both companies enjoyed higher sales this past year, but toyota edged out gm as it rolled out updated models of popular vehicles such as the camry. toyota is expected to continue its lead in 2013 due in part to a roll-out of a new corolla. thank you chuck. still ahead, we'll get a bullish and bearish take on where apple is headed. that's next. apple shares are bruised. the stock fell below $500 yesterday on word the company is cutting orders for parts for the iphone 5 because of weaker-than- expected demand. alan knuckman of option shop and scott bauer of trading advantage have some thoughts on that today. and alan, is apple losing its grip on the smartphone market? > > i don't think so much. i think people over-analyze the situation. i like to look at apple in a non-emotional way. treat it as

jonathan browning from the north american international auto show. >> tom: at the beginning of everye also see a lot of year end, best of lists. best movies, best stocks. when it comes to being successful, it's important to focus on doing your best, regardless of the task. this week lou's been thinking about coming out ahead. here's author and educator lou heckler. >> having earned a degree from the university of north carolina many years ago, i really have college basketball fever in my blood. i am endlessly fascinated with great coaches-- men's and women's-- and how they draw so much from their players. one of those i have admired for years is pat summitt. no longer actively coaching women's basketball at the university of tennessee because of early-onset alzheimers disease, her impact on the game remains profound. a few stats: 1,098 wins, 38 years as a head coach without a losing season, eight national championships. yikes! just as importantly, her athletes graduated. some went on to wnba careers and all of them learned what it took to be a winner on and off the court. she had a n

jonathan browning will join us from the detroit auto show. plus the impact of the increase in the payroll taxes. we're going to ask the ceo of family dollar stores how shrinking pay checks will impact his company's bottom line. plus ilana weinstein will join us. she's the ceo of the idw group. >> chicago fed president charles evans expecting the u.s. economy to grow by 2.5% this year and 3.5% in 2014. his comments coming today in a speech to the asian financial forum in hong kong. evans forecast 7.4% unemployment this year. easing to about 7% in 2014, and importantly evans is rotating into a voting spot on the fed policy setting panel this year. let's take a quick look at u.s. equity futures at this hour. we do have red arrows. nasdaq is off 15 points. the dow jones looks like it will open off about 10 points. and s&p 500 would open off about 1.5 points. let's go to overseas to asia where we do have some green arrows. surprisingly, shanghai composite by the way, up 3%. so that's real. and let's also fly quickly over to europe, ftse marginally

connell: jonathan browning, thank you for coming on. >> pleasure.ludes vw audie, bentley, lamborghini and my personal favorite. broke a 40 year sales record last year in the u.s. i will go for a jetty any day of the week. blackrock looking to get a steak and twitter that could value the social networking site at over $9 billion. connell: let's go to shibani joshi for the details on that. shibani: happy monday. it is definitely a deal worth reading about. making a nice cash infusion into twitter. this reported over the weekend. it is injecting $80 million or buying 1% of the company giving the six-year-old company a value of $9 billion. it is making it bigger if you look at the market cap of some publicly traded companies. bigger than research in motion. almost double the size of best buy. almost four times as big as zynga and aol. it was a way to retain employees. employees are itching to sell out. it is widely expected, though, that the company is looking to make a public debut on the public target either this year or next year. it was put on hold

jonathan bloom has more on vivian brown, one of the famous san francisco twins whose sister now has toarry on without her. >> in the small family-owned nob hill cafe, a corner table sits empty. a table that two nights aweek was home to one of san francisco's biggest attraction. >> i'm marion and i'm vivian. >> gunshots, but what's your last name. >> brown. >> they graced countless advertisements and they weren't just guests at the cafe, they were entertainment. >> they wanted autographs? >> always, they would get up and want to take pictures and the twins would love it. >> central through the gray, they were as recognizable as sir francis drake's door men. that ended when one was hospitalized for alzheimer's disease. marion visited alzheimer's almost daily, thanks to an outpouring of donations that allowed her to stay in the city. >> people would e-mail with money to offer help and volunteer to donate. services are costly when you are elderly and you need care. >> vivian finally passed away, peacefully in her sleep. >> the brown twins were so impeccable in their identicallist, even peo

abc7 news reporter jonathan bloom has more on vivian brown, one of the famous san francisco twins whoseister now has to carry on without her. >> in the small family-owned nob hill cafe, a corner table sits empty. a table that two nights a week was home to one of san francisco's biggest attractions. >> i'm marion and i'm vivian. >> i know, but what's your last name. >> brown. >> they graced countless advertisements and they weren't just guests at the cafe, they were entertainment. >> they wanted autographs? >> always, they would get up and want to take pictures and the twins would love it. >> strolling through union square, they were as recognizable as sir francis drake's doormen. that ended when vivian was hospitalized for alzheimer's disease. she was the he would by 8 minutes. ser sister alone for the first time. >> i hope they find a cure for alzheimer's. marion visited vivian almost daily, thanks to an outpouring of donations that allowed her to stay in the city. >> people would e-mail with money to offer help and volunteer to donate. services are costly when you are elderly and you

jonathan has more on 75 i don't know brown one of the famous san francisco twins who is sister will nowave to carry on without her. >>reporter: in the small family owned knob hill cafe a corner table sits empty. table that 2 nights a week was home to one of san francisco's bi biggest attraction. >> i'm marian. i'm vivian. >>reporter: what is your last name. >> brown. >>reporter: impeccable style identical between with coun countless advertisement not just guest at the cafe. they were the entertainment. people asking for the autograph. >> always. everyone would get up. want to take pictures. the twins would love it ivshtion strolling through union square they were as recognizable as the sir francis drake beef ether door mat. >> with the exact same thing smile. wave. >>reporter: those walkened when vivian the elder by 8 miniwas hospitalized with alzheimer's disease. her sister alone for the first time. >> i hope they fend a occur for alzheimer's. >>reporter: marian visited vivian almost daily thanks to an outpouring of donations that allowed her to stay in the city. >> people would e-mail

. >> gene, jonathan just mentioned sherrod brown's sense that, you know, they weren't going to go nearlements because entitlements, that's who the democratic party is. that's who they are. entitlements are now 20% think of federal spending. how do the democrats, the republicans, how does this country survive economically without addressing entitlements? and believe me, i love sherrod brown because he's a real baseball guy. how do we get to -- >> indians fan. >> huge indians fan. how do we get to the point where we survive without addressing entitlements? >> well, you have to do something -- you have to address entitlements. we either have to up the ante and pay more for them, or they have to deliver less. there is, i think, a legitimate question as to whether raising the eligibility age for medicare, for example, is that a good or a bad idea? as a measure that you can take. i don't think it's legitimate to argue that you can do nothing. but it is legitimate to argue if that specific idea is right or whether you have to, on the front end, figure a way to put more money into the system.

start to do outreach to black and brown people, to women, to gay americans, then they're sort of not dealing with what their core is looking for, and to go back to jonathan'snt with the white genocide petition which i'm not sure when this white genocide actually ever started, but i've been reading this book called "the cause," a history of the progressive movement in america. and you see over and over in there's this moment when white people rise up and say this race thing is a zero sum game. the blacks or the brown hispanic americans are suddenly winning the game. we are losing the game. wove to take back what's rightfully ours. sometimes they're doing this around busing, affirmative action. it just changes. even if you go back to the 1800s, in the first days after slavery, they're saying haven't we given them enough? how much more dot we have to give them? so you see this sort of racial anxiety coming out over and over, and this white genocide petition is just that more. like they are trying to kill us, and we must stop them. >> it's so destructive. i go back to what colin powell was talking about over the weekend and looking at how he was vilified. the

brown reports, they had an unexpected moment on the way to their reception. >> reporter: two newlyweds from n. san diego crashed their own wedding monday night. literally. >> yeah! >> oh, yeah! >> reporter: jonathansurprised him with a e unique venue for their wedding. >> she said i arranged for us to get married in a hot air arran balloon. i said i'm scared of heights.d of she said oh i am too. it will be fun. >> reporter: the trouble started shortly after the couple said "i do". >> brace. hold on. >> reporter: that's when a strong strong gust of wind took the balloon and the entire wedding party on an out-of-control ride. >> i thought it was pretty fast. we were all holding on you know, in our stance to land. and it bounced like two or threetimes. times and then -- and then we were just being drug by the balloon. ep >> reporter: the balloon came to rest atop this suburban san di diego home. am amazingly, no one was seriously hurt and no property was damaged. >> unbelievable. we're all alive. te >> reporter: despite all the panic on his wedding day, says jonathan says he wouldn't have done it any other way. >> it was so much cooler than just landing on a field and rolling out of the balloon and