i'm standing at kaplan's the surplus store here on market street. some people call it an institution here in san francisco. guess what. the family is saying good-bye. >> i'm shocked. very shocked. >> devastating for the whole community of san francisco. >> reporter: after 75 years, one of the oldest family-run businesses in san francisco is saying good-bye. [ inaudible ] >> so i have a lot of nice customers here. >> kaplan's. >> reporter: kaplan's surplus and sporting goods carries everything. the regulars are life long customers. >> school clothes, school shoes, parkas, longjohns. everything. >> 42, man. >> reporter: even worker christian moeller says he got his first shoes here as a baby. in the spirit of full disclosure i have to admit as a teenager i came to kaplan's to buy my first navy bell bottom bluejeans! wonder if they still have some! >> haven't had those in probably like 7 years? camouflage, regular jeans, skinny jeans. >> reporter: skinny jonahs. >> yeah, weird. >> reporter: kaplan's grandfather started the business. they have been thro

kaplan's. >> kaplan's surplus and sporting goods carries everything. regulars are lifelong customers. >> school clothes, school shoes, parkas, long johns, everything. >> even worker christian muller says he got his first shoes here as a baby. in the spirit of full disclosure, i have to admit as a teenager, i came to kaplan's to buy my first navy bell bottom blue jeans. i wonder if they still have some. >> haven't had those in probably seven years, camouflage regular jeans, skinny jeans. >> skinny jeans? >> yeah. >> then kaplan's grandfather started the business. they've been through a fire, good times and bad, but one thing customers could always count on, the family's compassion. army veteran evan graham remembers 13 years ago when he was living on the streets. >> gave me cold-weather gear. >> just gave it to you? >> gave it to me. >> kaplan says it's his rule, pay it forward. >> sometimes people just need a little help, and we have, you know, enough customers. we make do. >> in fact, did you recollect this interview, a man came in with gift certifica

kaplan. >> first of all, thank you, mr. chairman. the best answer that question if there's a lot of success as dirty as medicare advantage. everybody on the panel tonight and today has that medicare advantage is a program to look out with a very positive reactions. what i think happens fundamentally in the medicare advantage program is that it allows for more of the freedom of choice among the different competitors and insurance companies offering those programs and allows for the members you choose to go into those programs to navigate themselves around to different programs to make a choice than to define what estimate their needs. that sort of freedom of choice has allowed for the programs to prosper based on what they offer to the members to sign for their programs as opposed to mandating things in different ways. so the competitive model amongst the different insurance companies who offer different programs in different states is a strong model that is allowed for the growth of the progr

: the kaplan family has agreed to sell the property to make way for a nine-story hotel building. now their loyal customers are saying goodbye. >> thank me for being so wonderfull to the community and we never looked at it like this" >> catherine: the kaplan's sold their store to g-and0m hospitality. if approved.the new hotel will have 100 rooms. >> reporter: on a normal day in a process to 600 t of paper and plastic holidays aken jump by 15 to 17%. >> and lots of cardboard boxes because people ordered items on line and may come and pay cardboard box. >> reporter: it is not over now because it is the peak and you still have new year's weekend. we >> are in the thick of it and this will continue for several weeks. >> reporter: january setback through january 15th at the annual christmas tree recycling program if you placed your treat on the curb the company will pick them up. >> it is only about 15% to many in the air so it is a safety issue >> catherine: more details with that big data had for target. target hack! >> catherine: dramatic video as a man was rescued after being burie

kaplan, i totally agree.tatement analysis is also a balance sheet come i think it is called goodwill. i would suggest it is almost bad will now. is there any value on the value sheet away from cash? >> know, other than what we talked about, there is some interesting technologies in this platform,nd their operating system, elements of their system -- the problem is when it gets down to the consumer to buy their device or a smart phone or an android phone, that would rather today by somebody else's. but they can use those strengths to serve corporate's and user companies, and it got to figure out how they want to do that. it made me -- it may mean withdrawing from a couple of things they'd currently do. >> robert kaplan, thank you, joins us from harvard business school this morning. scarlett, you have one more thing on blackberry? >> it looks like blackberry brand about $600 million in cash and a quarter, if i did my math correctly. >> a lot of moving parts there. there are a lot of moving parts in brooklyn as

kaplan. seniors may lose benefits and access to doctors and be forced to pay more for the coverage, plain and simple. and i yield back. >> the gentle lady for five minutes. >> thank you mr. chairman. welcome to the panelists this morning. from what i have read over all the medicare beneficiaries should expect and responded to the question that we are answering today. in part those improvements are made possible by the savings that came from equalizing the reimbursement of medicare advantage and those of traditional medicare. as a family physician and an old fee-for-service, i especially think that with the reform that the outcomes from both can be equally beneficial to the beneficiaries. but i represent a territory of the u.s. virgin islands and sometimes we have unique circumstances and suffer unintended consequences. i want to ask a question on behalf of my colleagues from the puerto rico. with the revised methodology for medicare advantage plans using benchmarks based on the fee-for-servic

the mayor dropped to second place in a separate mock race that gave council member rebecca kaplan 20%. she's recently deflected questions on the matter. >>> a fund-raiser is planned for a young woman hit by a stray bullet. she was watching television in her home when a bullet came through the wall and lodged in her spinal cord. she's been moved out of intensive care, but no visitors are allowed except for immediate family. donations will be collected outside the coliseum on sunday to cover medical expenses. >>> the taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in afghanistan that killed three nato service members. a suicide car bomber carried out the attack about a half mile from the base in kabul. 12 coalition troops have died this month, including six u.s. soldiers who died in a helicopter crash on december 17th. >>> a chinese ice breaker ship is slowly making its way to a russian research vessel trapped in the ice aantarctica. the ship is care rig 74 professional and amateur scientists researching climate change. it became stuck on tuesday about 1500 nautical miles south of t

. >> meet dr arthur kaplan, the head of bioethics. he said the move by gsk is a game changer. >> it will be a shift in how drugs are marketed. i think for the better. i hope other companies choose to emulate it. glaxo has a big footprint. when they say no more free meals, it's a good thing for patients and it's a sea change in terms of how we pay patients. >> drug firms worked out how to target consumers and crucially by internet. that is why they announced a deal to role back from a practice of insent vising the doctors. >> john terrett reporting. glaxosmithkline reported third-quarter sales topping $10 billion globally. >> after serving the u.s. and afghanistan, iraq and other places across the globe. young veterans returning to the u.s. find themselves at more risk than when abroad, according to a "the los angeles times" study, finding veterans twice as likely to commit suicide. they were twice as likely to die in car accidents, and 25% more likely to be involved in other incidents. researchers hope the study will bring attention t

maria kaplan of the gapa has been critical in getting us here and ann -- anchor for this development and christy and to the mayor's office our gratitude goes out to elizabeth. our financial partners mept and their advisors kenny, of been a big part of making block six a reality. it's an environmentally sustain able urban project in dedication for real estate investment helps propel the market for sustain able real estate market block six. i would like to thank ed for his incredible innovative building design and chuck pally from ko construction, our contractors. i want to personally thank brian lawrence and bruce am as -- armstrong for their incredible assistance to getting us to this point and lastly my partner and brother-in-law lee for his tireless work for nearly 4 years in bringing all of the pieces of this amazing puzzle together. thank you everyone and everyone i did not mention. before i bring up the mayor, i would like to discuss something. we also install a time capsule. we want to make the time capsule more meaningful. in addition to burying it on the sight, -- site, we pl

little did they the wife norma and from our region that we selected the kaplan said that when you said oh so but it's quite the footy give the fe. they hope to read the official council would you say a kind of battle. of course the only way to know for sure is to expose the blood samples from the clinical trials to the actual flu virus is right here in this play with them and for all we do not have it the landfill but we're hoping to get in there for the study would think you read this the field and when should it. any response that the piece i have used their site they have been a day. i think. david looked into it between work and how we would be fine. it was even a success with them. that's all that's left to plant some seeds tools and kids out to get them out to be a chicken stuffed with different kind of people attention and they cute. you're expecting i still have the chicken choking the remote region of south east water tank the cia. it's five. it's not enough house chief of the dutch cheese to melt the children of the costs thank you. she is now dependent on the weekly supply o

kaplan raised. some of the concerns regarding spectrum coordination along the northern and southern borders. the fcc is handling it in fans of the auction. where are they in the coordination efforts with canada and mexico? >> the commission is recognizing the root requirement to coordinate with mexico. we have had more than over the last six months technical meetings with canada. more recently with mexico, who has recently had a substantial change in both its constitutional and statutory foundation for its regulator, we are pretty pleased to report that both countries have publicly recognize the significant advantages of a canadaband plan with the aandpoint, and mexico in recent conference, has stated that. we have placed high priority upon these meetings. technicalsome sort of solution with respect to canada and mexico's border, acting chairwoman clyburn made this such a high-priority. help make a great breakthrough. chairman wheeler has met with both canadian and mexican representatives. we have a

. >> reporter: nationally known medical ethics expert arthur kaplan told cnn despite whatever went wrong or the family's feelings, brain-dead means dead and it's time to move on. >> we don't treat the dead even when a mom says, please, give me a chance, i want my daughter to somehow come back. death is that end point for treatment. >> reporter: but still, where science intersects with faith, things can get complicated. and sometimes, good questions come with bad answers. >> i just want them -- i feel like they owe her another chance. >> reporter: so as a family battles a hospital, a little girl and what's left of her life remain in limbo. the family's attorney tells me the hospital is supposed to notify him if they have any plans to take her off life support and he hasn't heard from the hospital as of yet today. tonight at 6:00 we'll take a look at tonsillectomies and the possible dangers with the surgery. live in oakland, brian webb, kpix 5. >> the hospital says it can't discuss what happened to jahi because her family has not given permission to do so. >>> people 60 and older don't nee

charities are still itching to stitch in its cost and kaplan had my headlamp minute wrapping. i did. did you do today. since down to earth. sch. i was the sprinkler down to it every street stopping to use every resource of one piece points out of sight due to the weapons to the doctor to his feet. we didn't have the chance he'll start his temper and on the tickets can be and which cleans the season. we're here to be rubbish prompting everywhere and sixty residents would be happy. both are just trying to replace the seventy one seats to the wisdom of bonsai visit with them but if we knew we were in bed that we upgraded their way walk. it was. i played the lead. i decided to walk. it's one of the guilty if i said hi aside from the clients and back. it's the status. robbie is suffocating. ttling people. one of the race. my life. it has been taking the internet. with the beasts of the month. the rookie from egypt to break into a snail the seat. he said he is one of today's what's the party away yet. this site. follow our oral form of id bet that they did or that the position to do

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mitch grass, avi kaplan and kevin olusola. >> wow. >> you know what's great about you guys, you weren'te singoff." how did you get together? >> the three of us grew up together, so we were going to try out for the show as a trio. but my friend was like, you should have a bass and a b-boxer. >> kevin we found on youtube. he was a cello beat boxing video. >> are you guys surprised at the fame, sold out concerts? >> yeah. >> it's been great. >> are you guys watching the show now? >> it's crazy. >> there's some good groups there. >> and is pitch perfect your favorite movie? >> anyway, you guys are going to sing angels we have heard on high, right? >> yeah. >> here they are. ♪ ah ah ah ah ♪ angels we have heard on high singing sweetly o 'er the plains in reply echoing their joyous name ♪ gloria gloria gloria in excelsis deo ♪ gloria gloria gloria in excelsis deo ♪ ♪ da da da da da da da da da da da da da da ♪ ♪ shepherds with your joyous strength ♪ ♪ gloria gloria gloria in excelsis deo ♪ gloria gloria gloria ♪ excelsis deo ♪ ♪ come adore on bended knee, christ the lord the newborn king ♪ ♪

robert kaplan, a harvard business school professor, offered this perspective. >> we talked off camera with general managers of sports teams. they have all the normal challenges that business leaders have. they are in a very unusual kind of business. i think, for the inky, jacoby ellsbury basically takes one of the starting players for their archrival and brings it to them. it is not one of the -- an accident that they made a move like that. all that matters is wins and losses to the public this year. they have to run a business and it takes all that into account. it is a tough job to be a general manager of a sports team. that is why a philosopher of how you lead is critical. good general managers of sports have a philosophy and they think long-term. but they realize that you've got to have a plan. if you're 2-8 is your football team, you look like a even if you have a strong philosophy. using public companies have to deal a short-term shareholders. -- you think companies that are public have to deal with short- term shareholders. sports teams are even worse. >> and bad calls by the r

and, of course, one of the people we talked to was mitch kaplan. one of the things we discovered is the successful ones are very entrepreneurial. they're very creative, they're willing to try new things, and mitch kaplan is the visionary amongst visionaries in a really impressive group of people, and i cannot tell you how much we have learned from him over these past two years and hope to learn more. but the other thing, and you'll -- the thing that's really great, he is so generous. to people like us. and it's just great to see fellow booksellers who are so supportive of the newbies on the block and really want the success for everyone. brad said when he introduced mitch earlier, there is literally no one as admired and beloved among his fellow booksellers, and i'm glad to repeat that. it's such a pleasure to have him here. he's the best be, and you'll find out in a minute why if you've never heard of. but one of the things we learned from mitchell and others is the most successful independent bookstores are those who really retain deep community

and jeremy kaplan, good stuff even though you don't like twitter and amazon's drones.>> when the drones come around. stuart: when the drones come around you'll be around. check the dow, 28 points just below the 16,000 mark. then we have the architect of obamacare, zeke imemanuel. and yes, you can keep your doctor, but you have to pay for more him. it's the latest sticker shock after the break. ♪ i don't care what you say anymore, this is my life♪ ♪ go ahead with your own life, leave me alone♪ . (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly utheir quick trade bar lets myd account follow me online so i can react in real-time. plus, my local scottrade office is there to help. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) ranked highest in investor satisfaction with self-directed services by j.d. power and associates. if every u.s. home replaced one light bulb with a compact fluorescent bulb, the energy saved could light how many homes? 1 million? 2 milli

. >> jonathan kaplan, education superhighway chairman. inc. for joining us. -- thanke right back you for joining us. we will be right back after this quick break. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. he agreed to produce some of hollywood's biggest movies, including star trek, pretty woman, and shrek. where does jeffrey katzenberg see opportunity for future films? china. event anmberg interview last night, he explained a very unique market. >> five years from now, china will be the number one movie market in the world. in americabillion today. they are 3.5 billion dollars this year and in just a few years will surpass us. they will surpass us sheerly on the numbers. >> as discussed earlier, hollywood is not the only area expecting growth from china. won today, china mobile state approval -- china mobile w approval to bring in the iphone. this will give access to apple to 1.3 billion subscribers. i should say there are 1.3 billion people in china. china mobile has 760 million or so subscribers. the potential is huge. >> it is a huge

and carla kaplan will profile black women in the renaissance. and david finkel talks about the war on iraq and thanks people for their service. and the life of foster care. chris bean examines what life is like for children in the foster care system. and the science between the human digestive system in gulp.

> "new york times" looks at the friends, relatives and journalists attending the funeral of peter kaplanbe a great editor. >>> follow up to a story we told you about yesterday, about actor paul walker who was killed saturday in a car crash. nine years ago a california couple met walker at a jewelry store and that led to an amazing moment. >> hewe started looking at rings and what not and he kept wanting me to go bigger and i said no look at the prices. >> when we were talking we exchanged names and kind of talked about what each of us did. >> when he found out kyle just came back from iraq, i remember seeing the look in his face. it kind of transformed. one of the ladies came out holding a bag and just simply said, here is your ring. the most generous anyone has ever done for me. >> gives you the chills. the couple always suspected it was walker who bought the ring for them paying $9,000. the jewelry store owner confirmed their suspicions this week. >> what is so great, he had not told anybody he had done it including his father. >>> "denver post" looks at a pair of bronco fans who invit

i spoke to daniel kaplan from the sports business journalt. between serena williams and sharp maria sharah pov re. >> serena williams left ing and was the only sports client of william moris, and is now under the corporate umbrella as maria sharah poefa. while that might sound catty, i don't believe the two of them would like the see the corporate resources of their agency directed to their competitor. it's something that largees sis have to handle. how does it affect peyton manning? >> peyton manning is all about football. i don't think you are going to see a great deal of difference in how people consume sports. the athletes may have hollywood opportunities, perhaps, than they otherwise would have. this is really not about getting peyton manning a book deal. i believe it will be a good thing for sports. you get efficiencies of scale, the athletes should be better served. there'll be some that break out into smaller niche emerge. a number of clients. when you get a big new competitor like this. you will see smaller niche firms emerge. >> why

disapproved of the performance but the mayor dropped to second place if a separate mock race that included kaplan. >> former secretary of state hillary clinton and new jersey governor chris christie would be neck and neck in the next president am election. the poll has christie leading hillary clinton 48 percent to 46 percent among registered voters. >> hearing over whether a judge should block a decision to revoke the accreditation of city college of san francisco will continue on monday. a packed house attended yesterday's hearing in superior court and the teachers union and the city of san francisco are suing the private agency that acredits community colleges in the united states. they wanted to reevaluate the financial and academic changes. the city and the crown want an injunction to prevent city college from losing accreditation in july. lawyers for the agency filed a countersuit asking the judge to toss out the original legal action because it says that the city anddown have in standing to sue. >> now a check with mike nicco and another warm day heed. mike? >> another warm day, indeed. we

our superguest dan kaplan joins us now. what does this merger mean to the average sports fan?>> this is more a b to b merger not b to c. the average sports fan is not going to see a great deal of difference how peyton manning plays the game. fans overseas might seen something. img has been very active in developing countries like indiana brazil asia, starting sports leagues, funding sports leagues, with its new backer william morris you'll probably see lot more of that. >> why does william morris and endeavor need i mg. >> it had to be sold. it had to pay off the shareholders. img had to be sold. for william morris and endeavor, the bottom line is shrinking. that is a very profitable area for img, even though those stalled in 2013, although that is a hiccup. it is a much more lucrative business, with rising television fees and something every agency wants to get in on. >> the conflict between serena williams and sharapova. >> veena williams left william morris several years ago. now she's back under the nemesis of her rival, maria sharpova. it's something that large agencies o

to help us navigate through the ethical land mines of this case, art kaplan.s an ethicist, when you read about this story, when you see that interview with the husband, what, if anything, here bothers you the most? >> i think that texas law is too restrictive. it doesn't make room for the situation in which the fetus isn't viable. at 14 weeks or 18 weeks, fetus can't live outside the mom's body. fetus may also have been damaged by this terrible incident that happened to this wife in terms of going without oxygen. so the law says you've got to put everything else aside and keep going in order to save the fetus, but when the fetus can't be saved or may have been fundamentally damaged, i think that's too restrictive. i hope this guy challenges this law. >> yeah, that was my next question. does someone need to challenge it in order to get it amended? i'm curious, do you know the background on how this law even got on the books? >> basically, as states began to allow living wills or advanced directives, those documents we sign to say, this is what we want, some leg

talking to our tech guru, jeremy kaplan. says whatever it is, it is a massive gamble. gamble?rself. >> this accompany that is known for take these massive gambles. sometimes they succeed, sometimes they don't. this is evidence -- look at that. it's amazing to watch. >> it is fantastic to watch. >> one of the biggest projects google has planned yet, and it's going to be a fantastic one -- >> is it a gamble when you buy a company that makes something like that thing that is running across our screen? surely there are all kinds of uses for a robot like that. >> that's exactly what is going on here. the small usage, a $10 million contract with the army. 10 million, small potatoes. nothing to company like google. i think they're talking about a row -- robot army. not attack robots. just build giant robots and see what happens. >> this is a company that has virtually unlimited resources. their stock is $1,000 a share. they have billions in cash and can afford to develop new industries. its reminds me of am sewn. loaded with cash that goes into all kinds of new industries. it sees an

kaplan. we've heard the bipartisan concern to, and we want to make sure we take care of our seniors. but we can say over and over again the affordable care act is so negatively affecting our seniors with their medicare advantage plan. just coming from a completely bipartisan perspective, what can we do now moving forward? what would you like to see in medicare advantage that we can move to that we can actually make a difference? because we are going to have to make changes in medicare, yes, and i would like to know from both of you what your thoughts are on what we need to do in medicare so that we can make it better for our seniors. >> well, i think it's very important that we have a sustainable social safety net for seniors. medicare needs to be a different program in the future both financially and because of the care that seniors need that's different than when medicare was founded. medicare advantage is a great steppingstone to the future. it's not the end but it's a great steppingstone

. >> reporter: nationally known medical ethics expert arthur kaplan says, despite whatever went wrongwhat the family is feeling, brain-dead means dead and it's time to move on. >> we don't treat the dead even when a mom says please, give me a chance. i want my daughter to somehow come back. death is that end point for treatment. >> reporter: but still, where science intersects with faith, things can get complicated. and sometimes good questions come with bad answers. >> i just want them -- i feel like they owe her another chance. >> reporter: so as a family fights a hospital in a battle that will be decided by lawyers, a little girl and what's left of her life remain in limbo. >> she is a big part of my heart. i won't give up. even my shirt says, i won't give up. i can just see her face saying, mom, don't give up on me. i will never give up on my daughter. [ crying ] >> she deserves to live. >> reporter: that was jahi's mother speaking to the media just moments ago. the family says they are praying not only for the little girl, but praying for more compassion from hospital staff. live

we're talking about kaplan's, a store that's been a mainstay for everyone from military surplus fans, to hippies. after more than 70 years in business, it has now struck a deal to sell its market street property to a company that plans to build a boutique hotel. the army surplus and sporting goods store has been in business since 1939. the store also has an interesting history that includes the time the fbi called about the patty hurst kidnapping and bank robbery. >> they said, wanted to know what kind of peacoat was she wearing. you know, she's wearing a peacoat. i says, i can't tell by seeing it, i have to -- where it was manufactured, came from. >> they are currently having a retirement sale and will close after the first of the year. >>> the american humane society rang the closing bell today at the new yorking to exchange. after days of gains, the dow jones ended the day flat. the nasdaq closed down by 10 points. one of the tech stocks, twitter shares went down ending today at 64 closing. a financial service firm downgraded the stock. twitter's stock has gone, quote, too fast, to

mitchell kaplan. doris goodwin and scabbard. it's so wonderful to have you here. welcome to miami. our premier annual cultural event. is good to have the year. in most of the bucks about presidential. and really, it was started by the roosevelt because he is known as teddy. and so how did he start the progressive era jack what propelled him to act? and what were his successes that are still with us today? >> i may, indeed, : teddy. he did not like to be called teddy. he lost that battle with history. teddy roosevelt came into power at a time when the aspects of the industrial age have not been dealt with. there was no compensation. women and children were exported in the factories. huge monopolies. the gap between rich and the poor and grown wider. sounding somewhat familiar to situations today. the digital revolution may have produced a similar kind of economic change. even though he was a conservative when he started in a certain sense and certainly a republican when he started, you realize that the republican party would not be able to continue as a major force in the majority f

the rams just kind of mediocre, kaplan catherine >> catherine: there are plenty of people still doing-minuteif you're one of them --george howell has advice on 11th hour deals. >> reporter:it's just that time of year -- >>"merry christmas!" >> reporter:the countdown to christmas -- is just hours away. and last minute shoppers are on the hunt. >>"i think that the best deals are right now. and maybe right after christmas. i don't go shopping right after christmas. i do all my shopping right before." >> reporter:that has retailers pulling out all the stops, in the competition for customers. like the bargains keya ramirez found on chicago's michigan avenue. >>"i've regretted shopping after thanksgiving because a lot of the deals are going on now." >> reporter:and in new york, stores like macy's and toys r us -- staying open -- around the clock through christmas eve to give shoppers a little extra time. >>"very convenient. it definitely helped save my holiday shopping. it wasn't too many people. you go in early, and you get everything you need in there." >> reporter:the national retail fed

my name is kaplan freund -- my freund, anderine i'm president of the first and only nonprofit transportation service for america's aging oblation dirt i want to begin by thanking senator collins for her long-standing the poor for sustaining senior transportation and i would like to emphasize how much the independent transportation network anditn -- and itn re: collaboration of public drive it. my three-year-old son was run inr by an 84-year-old driver 1998. ryan survived and is today a healthy young man, but others are less fortunate. in 2011 alone, more than 5000 180r people were killed and 5000 were injured in vehicle crashes. with support from aarp, the transit idea program, the federal transit demonstration, nine -- national highway traffic safety, the southern main industry on aging, private philanthropy, and the people of portland, maine, we created a social enterprise that uses efficient business practices to build transportation that will scale with the aging population. we call our enterprise into printed -- independent reservation network or itn, and we built it with a replicable m

my name is jon kaplan. backgroundalth care of over 25 years working closely with nonprofit and for-profit health care entities throughout the health care industry. year, i led a team that analyzes the differences in health care outcomes between those enrolled in traditional medicare and those enrolled in private medicare advantage health plans. we found that patients enrolled in the medicare advantage plans had better health outcomes than those participating in traditional medicare. there are three key findings from our research. receive higher levels of recommended or vented care. they had fewer disease specific complications. episodes requiring hospitalizations, patient spent more than 20% less time than those in traditional medicare. they have less readmissions into the hospital. the percentage of people who died in the year we studied was substantially higher in the traditional medicare sample than those in the medicare advantage sample. this is a striking finding. one that we hope to explore further in

and carla kaplan will profile black women in the renaissance. and david finkel talks about the war on iraq and thanks people for their service. and the life of foster care. chris bean examines what life is like for children in the foster care system. and the science between the human digestive system in gulp. a ... there's certainly no shortage of professional health care in the news right now. we've got democrat seriously defending the affordable care act, republicans. the attacking it. i think we would all argue that they are missing at the health care care system is broken. spend more and get less than virtually every other country and neither party are really talking about what we would do about it. i would argue that our ability as a country to rein in health care spending is going to determine this is the largest single factor driving our debt. it is bankrupting this country. if were not able to get this under control, we will have money to spend on anything. this is the underlying rationale. we firmly believe evidence should he what is dr

robert kaplan will join us from harvard business school and we will talk to him about a very interestingment right at the top of our 7:00 hour. blackberry will be coming out with earnings. this of course is a very troubled canadian company with all new management that has a lot to explain at 7 a.m.. >> tom, we have a shopping team here. what is tom keene expecting for christmas echo what would you like for christmas e >> i would like a child that doesn't ask me for money. that is the number one thing i would like for christmas. you know what? the kids are all home. what is really great is everybody is spun around the globe and various offspring will be in the united states here that is a great christmas present. francine, for you? what are you looking at? botega? >>ld now actually i would like to have a day away from the husband and son. >> that is a bit green sheet. >> yes it is. >> equity markets are rising. they've had the best we can almost six months. driven high by financial services heard with got a nice set of numbers from the u.k.. that is helping things. london is up 2.4% or it

jeremy kaplan is still here. you say 3-d print something the most interesting industry of the justify your point. >> this is something that didn't exist for consumers two years ago. now, bang it is here of the we keep talking about it. remarkable things you could do. a lot of stuff is still emerging technology. complex, slow, expensive but it is remarkable. the fact that you can print out a chess piece. think about the future your kid wants a new action figure. print out a action figure. remarkable. stuart: that assumes every home will have 3-d device at home to print out small items. do you see that day coming? >> there are handful of names. maker, most people don't know the name. they're one of leading forces. 3-d systems is a company doing all sorts of very interesting things. this is to be accomplished for this to work as industry. right now mainly for designers. in the future, not too far off. we'll see a lot of very cool things here. stuart: i think the word printer is misused. that chess piece on the air,

start with the schools, the university of phoenix, it's the biggest, devry out of illinois is second, kaplan that used to own "the washington post" is third and there are lots of other ones. the interesting thing about these colleges and universities they could not exist without generous subsidies from the federal government. here's what happens. they lure students into enrolling in their schools and the students because they're low-income qualify for pell grants and student loans. the pell grants and student loans flow from the government through the student into the for-profit schools. it turns out there's a 90-10 rule. imagine this. these for-profit schools can't take more than 90% of their revenue from the federal government. 90%. they're 10% away from being a total federal agency. but they make amazing amounts of money, huge amounts of money. they pay their c.e.o.'s millions of dollars because this is a very lucrative undertaking. but there are three things you should remember about for-profit schools, three numbers and if you remember these three numbers you'll know what the challenge

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stuart: let's bring in jeremy kaplan from fox news.com.t? >> i think that's absolutely the case. stuart: the future? >> i did not go into a single mall in the past couple of days, not a single store. i did my shopping on-line and i had a bunch of things to get, they were accessible. stuart: accessible on-line and easier to shop on-line. and don't have the traffic. and i said it's a revolution and a triumph for on-line and retreat for bricks and mortar. i'm calling it a triumph revolution, too far? >> i don't think so. you're absolutely right. and the other aspect, it's a triumph for stuff like ebay and amazon clearly succeeding and also a massive triumph for companies like apple and android and the google operating system. stuart: why? >> of the on-line sales, one in three purchases was done on mobile devices. one in three. not only are we buying the things we knew we were buying them. they've transformed our lives and we're browsing the internet and shopping and putting the credit card numbers in the phone and don't have remorse about it.

stuart: and kaplan, your political correctness is just too much. >> i apologize and i'll say cruel thingss down big, the company announced lower profit outlook and that always gets a stock and says the long-term global outlook is at risk. whoa. investors don't like that. that thing is down 5%. a big move for a company like that. check the big board, now we're up 44 points, maybe investors like my prediction or tres knippa's prediction on what the fed is going to do. you'll find out at 2:00 eastern this afternoon. dow is up right now. question, what kind of house do you get for $1500 a night during super bowl week if that house is close to the stadium? what do you get for $5,000 a night? we'll have the answer for you after the break. ♪ i'll be home for christmas ♪ you can plan on me ♪ please have snow and mistletoe♪ clients are always learning more to me their money do more. (ann) to help me plan my next move, i take scottrade's free, in-branch seminars... plus, their live webinar i use daily market commentary to imove my strategy. and my local scottrade office guides my learning every ste

. >> bob kaplan from the inter-america foundation. i don't think you'll have time to answer my question so i'll just post it as a comment. it's been wonderful to hear your remarks on a whole range of subjects and the breadth of brazil issues but are still as you said is a continental country. i've just wanted to ask if you could comment a bit on the tensions within the country and some that come along with improvements in social inclusion and growth and improvements across the country, within the country instead of treating brazil as a single country that is doing remarkable things and things that are affected different chile and have different opportunities? >> okay, well thank you. all good questions. with regard to usaid we have done something remarkable with the aid mission in brazil because it was on the chopping block as it has been several times in the history. but we were able to convince our colleagues at usaid and wishing 10 and elsewhere that now was the time to move from the aid mission which was effectively a development

and kaplan had said last year she would not run against quan but has deflected questions on the matter. >>> time is 8:16. and president obama took time off from his hawaii vacation to sign a bipartisan budget deal and a military spending bill as well. the budget deal with fund the government through 2015 a and ease some of the sequestration cuts. the bill gives military personnel a 1% pay raise and cracks down on sexual assaults in the military and gives more protection to victims. >>> federal unemployment benefits ends tomorrow for 1 million americans. that's when a program is set to expire. 850,000 workers will lose state unemployment benefits over the next three months. a bipartisan proposal for a short-term extension could be debated when congress returns to work next month. >>> it's 8:17. american shoppers spent $603 billion in stores this holiday season. that's according to the national retail federation. bay area shoppers certainly did their share boosting that bottom line. brian and i contributed also. malls are expected to be jammed this weekend. retailers say they are relieve