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laurie garrett, to you first. what is your assessment of the president's plan that he outlined today? >> well, it's a bold step forward. i'm delighted it's actually taking place, but i think everything depends on the haste with which we can mobilize. and i am aphrase a lot of people don't understand that committing troops and saying we're going to build a hospital are all very good steps, but it takes weeks to execute these things, and in the meantime, the epidemic is doubling every 10 to 20 days. we don't have a lot of time. we're racing against a clock. >> woodruff: lawrence gostin, do you have the same concerns? what's your assessment? >> i think laurie is right about timing. i am very proud of my country. we have stepped forward when no one else would or could, but there are major unanswered questions. it's not just time, but also command and control. there's chaos on the ground. it's uncoordinated. i was very pleased to see the president say that we have a command post, but how are we going to command chinese

where is laurie?speed-dialing) well, if i'm guessing, she's passed out under some loser who's naked except for his hat on backwards. charming. hey, laurie, it's 8:00. where are you? i'm pulling up. come outside. okay, i'm outside. you're not here. i am. you just can't see me. give me two minutes. (beep) hey, paper buddy, do you golf? oh, good. we're playing the obvious question game. i'm great at this. do you ever wear white dresses? seriously, do you golf with other guys? do you ever carry folders right here? (horn honks, tires screech) hi. you know, don't say "hi" to me. i'm mad at you. (whirring) look, i think it would be good for my ex-husband to make some new friends, and i think it would be good for you to, well, have a friend. (pop music playing on radi) no, no, no radio. (mouths words) i don't care what you do, laurie! you're being punished! (music stops) anyway, you and bobby should play golf. oh, well, i'm currently not looking to get set up on a playdate. all right, normally, i'd listen to

let's bring in cnn money tech correspondent laurie segal. that's scary. >> it is.nk about the last year how many breaches there have been and how much information is floating out there on the dark web. we decided to take a deep dive into what happens to your data on the dark web. take a look. >> reporter: home depot is investigating a security breach. that means if you've shopped there recently your credit card could be vulnerable. it's the latest major retailer targeted by hackers. and as more companies are breached, there's more stolen credit card info floating around the web. let's break down what happens to your data on the black market. a privacy group called the digital citizens allow alliance says they found a hacker selling numbers they posed as a customer. >> i'm calling about the credit cards. >> do you want cvss fulls? >> i think fulls. i'm trying to figure out how many i can buy. >> data, social as well? >> i don't know. i'm trying to get some cash, so i'm looking to buy some stuff so i can sell it. >> you're looking to buy stuff on-line, right? >> yeah

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lisa thomas-laury, channel 6 "action news." >>> tuesday night lets get a check of traffic report for you. >> lets go live to matt pellman for the report. >> overall the theme for the first day of fall on the roads has been falling speeds. but finally we are on the uptick on 95, serious accidents from today have been cleared out even here on the schuylkill expressway, things are moving well at the moment. although, don't forget that as of yesterday the ramp to the westbound side of 76 is blocked until thanksgiving time, can you use the ramp at girard to the one at vine and girard to get to 76. we have this crash at white marsh township blocking joshua road at springfield presbyterian village. also, a nasty wreck in ocean county on the garden state parkway approaching forked river, it's off to the side but they are bringing in a medical chopper. they will have to block the northbound traffic and egg harbor township, an overturned truck, another good spotd to avoid on this tuesday afternoon. >> thank you matt. we have some breaking news to pass along right now. chopper 6 hd is over the

well speaking about those areas with a lack of clean water that laurie was talking about here is what people came up with in gaza to raise awareness. so. but the truth is this with the. charity watchdog is quoted as saying that the als foundation which is trying to gather funds through this whole ice bucket challenge doesn't manage cash donations very well take a look at this just around a quarter of all money raised actually goes for the purposes people donate for the rust cover salaries fund raising and external donations so keep this in mind the next time you take a challenge for charity keep in touch with us on line you can tweet me at a now are to like us on facebook follow us on twitter and remember it's now or never see you tomorrow. choose your banker. clearly we could with no information will send us photos of the exotic places to choose good sense to. choose the opinions the great. choose the stories to. choose be access to. the. economic. months they belong to the old saying i and the rest of life it's a neat take it will be everything nothing. will. your friend post a phot

laurie told her daughter when the earthquake hit she was awake watching tv. the tv came flying off the stand and hit her in the face. it was an older, smaller model. not unlike this one in this pile of debris. in the hours that followed she told her family felt fine and refused to see a doctor. but the day after, she collapseed and had a seizure. >> ten days of little victory s, ups, downs. she had a mid line shift of the brain. all of which are really bad. >> there was a brain surge sxri with a second operation looming she died an emergency room physician said head injuries can be unpredictable. >> the bleed builds up to where they get too big of a hemorrhage, they can't overcome it. and they just decline suddenly. >> shannon says her mother spent her life taking care of others and in death, she would want to help others by sharing this story. shannon says this poster that used to hang in her mother's house says it all. >> this is her noto she had a lot of lemons. she constantly made lemonade. >> you're going to hear from a napa teenager when a fireplace fel

laurie clerked in the first year for the roberts court and willie and laurie in their careers have beengators and have really grown up with primarily the roberts court. i will leave the floor open an asset floor open as the two of you to react to what is already been said an additional thoughts you might have on the roberts court. i will start with willie and perhaps if you have any thoughts about arguing in front of the roberts court in particular that would be of interest. >> i think one change that we see today actually has almost nothing to do with the chief justice himself but it's equally significant to some of the developments that joe mentioned and that is the retirement of justice stevens in particular. what struck me was joan mentioning that we have four new justices. in some ways we almost have five because justice ginsburg plays a role very different than she played winfrey she first came on the court when i was a law partner and when i first started arguing for the court. but justice stevens was very much a leader on the court of justices and not rise the same justices that

it has claimed its first life. 65-year-old grandmother laurie thompson was hit by her television when. she died nearly two weeks later. nbc bay area's mark matthews is in napa tonight with why her family hopes their mother's death might serve as a warning. mark? >> reporter: shannon johnson says her mom got the best of care here at queen of the valley hospital in napa. the problem is, it took almost two days to get her here. the day of the earthquake, shannon johnson called her mom. >> she said that the tv had flown and hit her in the face. >> reporter: johnson couldn't imagine that, but when she went to her mom's duplex, the tv was on the floor next to her mom's recliner. >> she ended up with a very large black eye. >> reporter: johnson told her mother, you've got to go to the hospital. >> she kept saying, i'm fine. i have a dull headache, but i'm fine. i don't want to go to the hospital. >> reporter: johnson admitted her mother did seem fine. >> knew her name, address, phone number. >> reporter: and johnson was slammed with work. she owns a glass company in napa. the phones were rin

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laurie, i want to start with your piece on foreign policy yesterday in which the title actually saysuld have stopped this. how? >> same way we've stopped past epidemics, when it was still rural, still relatively continue find, when the strategies that had worked in one epidemic after another would have succeeded. unfortunately, by the time the world community woke up and said, wow, we have a crisis on our hands, it was well beyond the boundaries of villages and rural areas and beyond the tactical approaches that had worked in the past and had become complete economy urbanize sod the many majority of cases are in monrovia, in freetown, in the big cities. >> when you talk about that sort of the world waking up, we were here kind of screaming out early on, talking about it going on, and now i have a certain sense of, like, guilt in the pit of my stomach because i wonder if those images that we're seeing, for example, of -- you know, of someone being shoved into the back of a truck, i think, have we just reproduced that sick, dirty, awful continent of africa that no one should go to or i

. >> hello i'm a laurie work for the phone commission you probability e probably got mail visitations i'm here to answer questions about the notification process we have three people people in the office myself and maggie se maggie send out notices there is a consistency we need and we fully respect the lines of feasibility comments you're making will or about the feasibility supervisor wiener supervisor wiener we want to increase that feasibility so when we bring up the problems that 0 come into play 48 hours to issue date it makes it that much less feasibility to invite people we want a consistent as well so the reason we're stressing the 72 hours to have a high percentage of affectionate that's the key so regardless of whether it's 72 or twenty-four hours we want to invite we're not trying to withhold information is increases the respect for filming in the city so basically, the consistency in notices will increase if we have the opportunity for the twenty-four hour timeframe thank you. >> thank you very much. is there any additional public comment on item 2? seeing none, public co

. >> reporter: laurie thompson the first death associated with napa's 6.0 earthquake. laurie told her daughter when the earthquake hit, she was awake sitting in a chair watching tv. the tv came flying off its stand and hit her in the face. it was an older, smaller model, not unlike this one you see here in this pile of earthquake debris. in the hours that followed, she told her family she felt fine. she refused to see a doctor. but the day after the earthquake, she collapsed and had a seizure. her family rushed her to the hospital. >> 10 days of ups and little victories, downs. she had a subdermal hematoma. >> there was one brain surgery. with a second operation looming, she died. an emergency room physician says head injuries can be unpredictable. >> they can seem to be acting normal, but slowly the bleed builds up to the point where then they eventually get too big of a hemorrhage and they can't overcome it with their mental faculties, and they just decline suddenly. >> reporter: shannon says her mother spent her life taking care of other people, and even in death, s

lisa thomas-laury tackles common myths about shut eye. >> it's not your imagination, as you get olderou may not feel as rested and that could be due to age or your overall health. even at age 77 and retired, bob davis, is hardly idle. >> there is eight grandchildren. >> about ten years ago his wife noticed he was not sleeping well. >> was irritable and not a happy person. >> they discovered that davis had sleep apnea, when a person stops breathing periodically during the night. 20% to 40% of people may have an insomnia problem, women more than men. >> the doctor says it's a myth that you don't need as much sleep, a short mid-day nap could revive your alertness, don't compensate with sleep deprivation with daytime snoo snoozing. the sea pack machine like this one made all the difference for davis. >> sleep was enormously better overnight. >> the doctor recommends keeping a regular schedule for bedtime and turn the electronics off an hour before you go to bed to let your brain quiet down. for more tips on abling go to our website at 6abc.com/art of aging. lisa thomas-laury, channel 6 "a

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lisa thomas-laury visits with children that know firsthand what happened this day in history. >>> now the details, the woman that was beaten and raped yesterday morning and attacked so brutal and so horrible she is this critical condition. >> she joins us live from cooper university hospital. >> the family says it's touch and go for the 54-year-old victim. she remains in critical condition at cooper university hospital. collapse lung and cracked ribs. she has been unconscious but what her brothers and sisters are hoping is that there is someone that can help find the person or persons responsibility for the attack. >> if you know who did this step up. >> did they rob her? >> no, they just beat her up for no reason. >> the victim's family and police handing out flyers to get the word out and find witnesses. >> the homeless woman that freak whens mount ephraim

toll nears 2500, we will speak with laurie garrett. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. an international summit on combating militants from the islamic state has opened in france bringing together around 30 countries from the us-led coalition. the obama administration says several arab league countries have signed on for airstrikes in iraq and syria but no sustained campaign is imminent. speaking at the white house, josh earnest said the u.s. is at war with isil. way that we are at war with al qaeda and its affiliates around the globe, we are at war with isil. i am not just talking about the united states but this broader coalition including allies around the world who are united in confronting this threat. >> president obama has already asserted he does not eat congressional approval to expand airstrikes into syria. on friday, the administration said it derives legal authority from the war on isil both from the 2001 terror resolution and the 2002 vote authorizing the iraq war. the cl

laurie lowyer maureen lowe from nevada. you'll need friday's buzz word, at least 18 years old and a legal u.s. resident. >>> if have ever wanted to be an equestrian, we are riding pigeon. he is a beauty of a horse. this camera is mounted on the equestrian alex. you can hear the excitement of alex the rider. getting out of breath. comes around to this next jump. >> two rows. >> oh! >> you see the horse just pulls. you see her get knocked over. she asks the officials, do i keep going? here's the next jump. it's awesome some see her breath as she is breaking for the jump. number some a big jump. the next jump has a little bit of instruction. oh, pigeon won't jump over the shrub. what do you do? you try, try again. oh! he backed out again. pigeon now after going back around this tree for try number three. oh, pigeon. >> then you hear the bell. >> oh. >> we are tired at this point. >> pigeon was done. alex says she was running on pure adrenalin. >> there is a car on fire in the parking lot. and there is somebody stuck inside. ho

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authorities say, a television struck 65-year-old laurie anne thompson in the head. during the jolt.he did not go to the hospital until the next day. when she felt dizzy. but then her condition started to deteriorate. and thompson died friday. the napa earthquake also injured dozens of other people -- including a 13- year old boy who broke his pelvis when part of a chimney collpased on him. nicholas dillon is now recovering at home. the teen says, on the morning of the quake, he fell asleep on a mattress on the floor underneath the chimney. when the jolt woke him up. while the recovery will be a slow one, nicholas. an avid runner and soccer player, is determined to get back on the soccer field with a new outlook on life. >> i do not see this as a bad thing i see it as a setback. i realize i've had so many opportunities that have not taken advantage of. >>pam moore the 13th anniversary of the 9- eleven attacks is tomorrow. today, house and senate leaders honored the fallen heroes of the attacks. at a ceremony on capitol hill. lawmakers presented congressional gold medals for three mem

laurie dewitt is sick and tired of being a victim. after her son joshua's package went missing a few days ago, they checked footage from their surveillance cameras and saw this >> a car came up, backed up, and they acme straight to the mailbox and went right to our mail. she took out all the packages and then she walked and even did a happy skip. it really makes me upset. im tired of being robbed. the neighborhood is tired of it. the suspect clearly didn't care about the warning that there is 24 hour recorded surveillance on the property. on the social media site next door --- are pictures of more suspects that have targeted other homes in the area. >> a house was burglarized, another package was stolen, a suspicious car, another house that was broken into >> you can't do anything about it. i was disappointed because i really wanted to use what was in the package. the family has reached out to the post office and the san jose police department. for items that cannot fit in the mailbox, the dewitt's will have to fill out a form telling

laurie brings up a great point. this is the brave new world. and we're hearing about this more and more. and i think, unfortunately, a lot of the blame does fall on us. a lot of the blame falls on the companies, i'm not saying home depot is at fault, but we have to step up our technology. because now that these are happening more and more, it's going to happen more and more. now hackers will want to go after bigger and bigger targets, so they can say, i'm the one who brought down the visa network for home depot. and it's going to fall on consumers, because it will end up costing us money. >> sadly, that is true. it always ends up costing us money, somehow, some way. brett and laurie, thank you so much. >>> still to come in the newsroom, white house officials say the threat of isis is real and now many lawmakers are calling on the president to take swift action. but does the hype match the threat? up next, why political hysteria may be feeding into exactly what the terrorists want. ♪ ♪ ♪ abe! get in! punch it! let quicken loans help you save you

all the honorees are leaders and role models in the city and lisa thomas-laury reports from the hilton on city after few. >> reporter: they represent 16,000 grandparentses in philadelphia. >> with seniors representing a third of the nation's population, grandparents are making contributions to their communes that are worthy of celebrating every day. >> grandparents like former fire commission under, lloyd ayres. >> i remember my grandparents and the things that they taught me and the opportunity to work with my grandchildren, it's fun. >> and geneva black and will and frieda gonzales. and mike a crossing guard who is now legally blind. >> it means a lot. i am so happy, i am proud that i'm here to accept this. >> they represent all that is good with that traditional family values in terms of keeping their families close. a reminder if we are lucky enough we'll be grandparents too. families are becoming dependant on their children. >> we want to make sure that they are awarded for what they are doing in the community. among the honorees today. dorothy campenstein. she has two grand taurs

they are just familiar faces in the city of philadelphia and they are also grandparents, lisa thomas-laury has more on thousand these two were honored today. >>> 12-year-old lakwan macke was exercising near his house on his wheelchair and he was attacked by two kids. macke's father says its not the first time the boys have attacked the boy. >> it sounds like the case of bullying that has turned criminal. the police are now involved, looking for to boys that attacked the 12-year-old boy and robbed him. macke has been diagnosed with celebral palsy, and is in a wheelchair. he was outside doing his exercise routine and was jumped by two boys, they cornered him in the street, he tried to get away and the wheel of his wheelchair got stuck in the storm drain. we spoke to him and his father about the ordeal. >> i put my hand up to block the punch and they grabbed me and wrap it around my neck and started to choke me, which i tried to scream as loud as i could. >> any words i have to say can't be said on broadcast television and they are just absolute scum. >> the family, as you can imagine are ver

. >> i want to make sure we have a few minutes to talk about willy's and laurie's cases before we talk about what's potentially on the agenda. willy, you were going to talk about the business docket. maybe it makes sense to make general observations about those cases as well as to talk about the specifics of cases that are on the docket. >> sure. i think that the business docket is sometimes an overgeneralization, right, because there's lots of cases that some people might call a business case and other people might call for example a civil rights case. one of the cases that you've asked me to talk about this term falls into that category which is young versus ups. it's a case under the pregnancy discrimination act. the pregnancy discrimination act is one of those statutes that congress passed down to slap down the supreme court and tell them they got the law wrong. back in the late '70s the supreme court was asked whether discrimination against sbun on the basis of pregnancy in the context of employee benefits was sex discrimination and the court said no and congress said, yes, yes it

. >>> more than two weeks after the napa quake the first death is being reported. 65-year-old laurie thompson died friday of a brain injury. a falling television hit her on the head. her family says she seemed fine at first but by the next day she was dizzy and confused. she was taken to the hospital where she died. >>> berkeley astronomer joshua bloom is one of the few people who got a warning about the quake several seconds before the shaking began. he is awakened by an alarm and voice that came from a small computer he built as a hobby. >> earthquake,light shaking expected in seconds. >> those sensors wind up shaking and send their signals to the central computer. >> bloom's device uses the same software developed by scientists at the berkeley seismology lab called shake alert. he hopes the technology will become available at low prices. >>> and some breaking news down in southern california. a wildfire is burning out of control in san dimas. these are chopper pictures from our sister station in los angeles. some live video here. l.a. county fire says the fire was reported around

. >> thank you, laurie. >> laurie sea gal, thanks so much. big tech story we're following, alibaba, the chinesers commerce giant, will be begin trading at the new york stock exchange literally any second now. it has secured its place in history as the largest u.s.-listed ipo of all time. it's raised almost $22 billion. but for those who are asking what is alibaba? here's a little explainer. >> here we, go john. alibaba is one of the biggest tech companies in the world, often described as a bit of a mashup of ebay, amazon, and paypal. it is going to trade on the new york stock exchange under the ticker baba. it has little presence in the united states although many analysts are expecting that to change. i want to turn to alison kosik live on the floor of the new york stock exchange. good to see you. i know that you're expecting this to list any second here. talk to us about the access to this stock. is this something that everyone can buy or is this only for institutional investors? >> well, at this point, at this moment it's for institutional

lisa thomas-laury has their story. >> september is pediatric awareness month.ly barker realize how successful the ice bucket challenge is, came up with an idea to do the same for childhood cancer, their daughter brielle had a malignant tumor on her spine and she now has brain cancer. >> she has cancer, an insane tumor we are dealing with. the awful scary part. >> as kelly and her husband learn more about child cancer they realize how limited the funning is for research and trials. >> you start to question why. you look at how far we have come with breast cancer and prostate cancer, you wonder why there is a lack of funding for these kids. they want to bring more attention to childhood cancer. >> one day we thought how about a shot of lemon juice, you can make funny faces, they can do and and their kids can do it, she challenged her brothers to take shots of lemon juice, we posted on facebook and thank god for social media and we raised almost $20 million in two weeks, others have taken it's lemon shot challenge, including steve mason and claude giroux of the fl

. >>> 65-year-old laurie northern sop died from a brain injury. a tv hit her on the head. th family says the next day she felt dizzy and they persuaded her to go to the hospital. and the teenager that was seriously injured during the quake when a fireplace fell on him is making progress. he is getting around in a wheelchair. it could take months for him to recover after they put metal plates and bolts in his broken pelvis. >>> napa county officials are asking people who had damage to their homes and businesses to report it now. the county says it needs information about damaged buildings to see if it qualifies for federal loans and grants. the focus is on red tagged and yellow tagged buildings. >>> the napa county board of ss has received -- board of supervisors has received a report on the wineries. they suffered $80 million in losses. >> it does sound right to me. napa valley is some of the most expensive wine in the world. that is why when one barrel of wine is lost, that is a huge amount of money. >> the owners say 20% of their 2013 red wine inventory was destroyed in

laurie perez shows us: he's growing some freaky- looking fruit. right now.in a field on a 40 acre farm in ventura county.monsters life. sot/nats >>> a farmer is ready. a farmer is growing freaky looking fruit. >> right now, in a field on a 40 acre farm, monsters are coming to life. >> believe will your eyes, these are 100% naturally organically california grown pumpkins that look, yep, just like frankenstein. >> always looking for an edge. >> reporter: what he named "pumpkin stein." >> what i saw, how detailed i could get it. i knew i had something. >> reporter: he grows the frightening fruit in a mold, a simple concept, but it has been anything but. four years of trial and error and hundreds of thousands to find the right variety, the best way to grow it, a mold to provide enough air and light. he had nothing on him. >> if it is too large you are condensing it forcing it and then if it is too small, throw in all of the variables, a, mother nature. >> where can you get them? a failable right now for just over $1. they will arrive at whole foods ne

. >> and there are angels in the sky, lisa thomas-laury has the story coming up. >>> 93 yesterday and today 85 is your high, still a little bit above normal, but if you like the 90s and extreme humidity it's coming back in the accuweather forecast. >>> and jeff skversky has sports as the eagles prepare for the season openers, the details when "action news" comes right back. our dad's a plumber. a business manager. and a stickler for homework. i'm john kane running for state senate. dad says the road to a good job starts in the classroom. [ lori ] he's a great dad who sees taxes going up but schools not getting the funding they need. [ john ] so i'd put back the billion dollars corbett cut from education and make sure corporations and natural gas drillers paid their fair share. time to close the loopholes for the tax cheats. dad thinks a lot about education. i'm john kane and it's about time harrisburg did too. you two day-dreaming? (millers, in unison) yes. (postal worker) about your victorian dream home? (mrs. miller) uh huh. (postal worker) or maybe a colonial home? (mr. miller) how

then they in variable, a, mother nature. >> that was laurie perez reporting. >>> now carol we are inweek ahead of us here. >> we really are. you know, today may be the worst day of of it and it will be a great day. so, that said i think we've got just smooth sailing in the weather department. we have a couple of minor exceptions. now we have some fog out there and a few low clouds just hovering around the the casinos and we are looking for this fog this morning. we are seeing it in the reading area as well. 62 degrees there. tricky driving at this point this morning with the fog and we have reduced visibility. .8 of a mile up through trenton. so be really careful out there driving around. .3 of a mile in lancaster and reduced visability just about every place else. so this will leave. we will be left with sun and clouds today. it looks like a really nice day coming up with just a couple of little things that might impact, some areas. not all, but some areas. but 67 degrees right now. that is out at the airport in philadelphia we are milder this morning then we were yesterday morning

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laurie anne thompson died from a head injury she suffered when a television fell on her. >> i want people to know that she was an awesome lady. she was -- that she was a free spirit. that she was someone who cared for people. >> her daughter says her mother didn't think the injury was serious and hours later they realized something wasn't right. they are wandering if it would have made a difference if she got help sooner. >> she said the emergency room is going to be packed. she clamsed and then everything continues to just -- collapsed and then everything continues to just -- she had the seizure. >> they are hoping the story resinates with other people and reminds them it is okay to ask for help. >>> and we are hearing more about a story of recovery in napa tonight. a teenager who was injured in the earthquake is now back home from the hospital. ktvu's ken wayne tells us he is staying upbeat. >> i am the earthquake boy. >> reporter: he will beane wheelchair -- be in a wheelchair for two months but he is upbeat. >> after being in the hospital, after having the earthquake happen and everyt

on our panel, laurie siegel, cristina alesci, and samuel. it did not bend for you, but on social media, they're calling it bendgate. >> listen, you can bend the truth, bend it like beckham, and some people have managed to bend the iphone 6 plus. but apple says it's just nine people. it could be more than that. not everybody goes to apple with their problems. so apple is trying to mitigate this issue, was they can't mitigate the fact that 8.0.1 was a colossal failure. they had to pull back that update. already people are reporting some problems with 8.0.2. but at the end of the day, they send 10 million phones last weekend. >> if it's nine people in very tight jeans who bended their iphones -- >> and people always like to make apple seem like a little bit like a lemon, because it is kind of the leader and gets all the attention. >> and investors were not happy with all the headlines that were rolling this week. in fact, apple led a decline in tech stocks. . and this week, it hit the worst level since when we saw the hackers steal photos from