joining us now to discuss those results-- klaus kleinfeld, chairman and c.e.o. of alcoa. and, klaus, so nice to have you back on the program. >> good to be here, susie. >> susie: based on what you saw in the third quarter, what can you tell us about the outlook for alcoa's earnings for the rest of the year and into 2012? >> well, i think first you have to see that, as you just said, earnings and revenues are up year on year, down quarter on quarter, and the impact is clearly two things. the one thing is the drop of the metal price, and the second thing is that we clearly see the euro zone coming down. at the same time, we do see the end market demand and most of the end markets pretty strong. we actually continue to believe that this year's growth in the aluminum demand is going to be 12%. we upped our demand forecast for china up to 17% from 15% originally. currently i'm more worried about the lack of confidence than the situation. confidence sucks the air out of every economy, and it can create one of the largest self-fulfilling prophesies that i've seen in my business

klaus kleinfeld joins us to discuss the results. later in the week, we'll see results from google, j.p. morgan chase and pepsi. >> susie: big news in the corner office at the house of mouse and its all about planning for the future. robert iger will add chairman to his title in march and step down as disney c.e.o. in 2015. during his six-year run as c.e.o. he increased disney's value by a third. he's also credited with reinvigorating the company, highlighted by the acquisition of pixar animation and marvel entertainment. >> tom: another big american company general motors is putting the brakes on plans to add a second shift at the factory making its chevy volt electric cars. g.m. will make one shift more efficient so it can produce the same number of cars as two shifts. fewer than 4,000 volt's have been sold far less than g.m. sales 2011 target of 10,000. its main competition-- the nissan leaf currently is outselling the volt with more than 6,000 sold between december and august. >> tom: a rally through june, a summer swoon and then

klaus kleinfeld joins us to discuss those results. contract negotiations between chrysler and the united auto workers will resume tomorrow after an around-the-clock bargaining session failed to secure a new national contract. neither side will discuss the progress on negotiations. chrysler is the last of the big three u.s. automakers to sit down with the union in is year's contract talks. general motors workers have already ratified a new contract and their counterparts at ford are voting on one now. >> tom: if you were expecting a message from a blackberry user in europe, the middle east or africa today, you may still be waiting. the service had a hard time sending texts and emails today from those locations. blackberry maker research in motion is investigating the problems. they apologized for the outage, but no reason for the problem was given. dpite competitionrom ple' ipho, blackber usage remns high thrghout europe and the middle east. >> susie: the senate takes up the president's jobs bill tomorrow, but tonight's commentator has