. >> take lennar acosta.ving time in a juvenile detention center in caracas. he was 17, had a violent criminal background, and the scars to prove it. when the detention center started an orchestra, lennar tried the clarinet. ed bradley asked him about it. >> tell me what it was like the first time you picked it up to play it. >> it's completely different than when you hold a gun. >> do you think that your life today is different because of the clarinet, because of the orchestra? >> si. mucho. >> yeah. a lot. music taught me how to treat people without violence. >> that's not all he learned. we caught up with him one morning on his way to work in germany. the system sent him here to work as an apprentice learning how to build and maintain organs. back in venezuela, lennar will be responsible for maintaining the organ in the system's new headquarters. the day we were there, the national youth orchestra, made up of the system's best musicians, was rehearsing. their conductor, gustavo dudamel, is the orchestra's

we have a great program for them all set up with a new lennar development at candlestick park. i think they will recognize that and come back. >> was there anything magical that happened in your district as a result of the world series? >> i imagine there were a lot of districts in district 7 he sat and cried when they watched the celebration like i did. i think those are the magical moments. a lot of parents and children region that whole week of the world series was one i will never forget, particularly the day of the parade. it was not just my district. that was a magical time for this region. >> in your regdistrict, deal have any particular projects to give us insight on? >> one was a basic infrastructure thing that was a big deal. san francisco circle. not a lot of people realize that more cars travel through one of those intersections than any other in san francisco. we had to shut that down and completely rebuild the intersection for the muni winds utilities, and overheads. we pulled it off. we got through it. now we have pedestrians walking through safely. we have the t

horton and lennar rose 3% or more. and finally, we see plus signs across the board for each of the most actively traded e.t.f.s. and that's tonight's "market focus." buy online or go to the store? that's a common question for parents and kids this back-to- school season. a new study shows that online saves time, but stores offer bigger savings. joining us with more, jordy leiser. he's c.e.o. of stella-service, the company that did the survey. >> jordy t was a very interesting survey. let's go down the specifics of it. starting with shopping time, on-line versus shopping in the store. what did you find? >> well, as you would expect it actually takes alot long tore go through the process of buying a product in the store. you have to get in the car, you have to drive to the store. so of course the contrary shopping on-line it doesn't take too long, you page a few clicks and check out and the shopping process is over. >> all right. and when it comes to choices of things that you can buy, the selection process, on-line, sto

horton rallied 4.1%, pulte group rose 3.9%, and lennar gained 3.8%. these may be moving tomorrow as well when the monthly new home sales data is released. a strategic tie-up in the financial industry today. e-bay's paypal electronic payment system has a deal with discover financial to issue payment cards. it gives paypal access to millions of stores over discover's payment network. paypal already accounts for almost half of e-bay's revenue. e-bay shares were up 2.5%, closing at a new 52 week high. discover saw a 3.8% pop, also hitting a new 52 week high. the deal gives discover the potential to generate revenue for paypal by using its payment network. there was a more traditional buyout offer in the health care real estate business, focused on senior living properties. health care reit has offered to buy sunrise senior living. the price is $845 million, or $14.50 per share. sunrise senior living stock jumped almost 60%, closing just below the offer price. this is a four year high. the proposed buyer, health care reit fell 2.7%, falling to a two month

hang on to standard pacific, pulte, lennar, keen kbr home. i' not a fan of etfs, but anyone holding the philadelphia housing index, you let that bad boy run, too. if home depot is saying the hardest hit areas are us being, that means more new homes are coming. they need supply, which means frooft profits for the california and florida-sent rick home builders. these people become people that you count on after all of these conference calls. lumber, kitchen, appliances, paint, tools, bath, flooring, plumbing. the company got double digit positive numbers, more than 10% year over year. painting, carpet, doors, locks, wood flooring. before we start buying, though, we have to do one more field check and that's whether home depot is going to be ordering again. what does it mean if they have the stuff in their stores. it's not going to help the companies. do they need more supplies? they give you some grand lairty of how each months were and the last month july was the strongest month. and the company makes it clear that the inventories are nice and

is it too late to buy into lennar? >> buy half here and half on a pullback.looked at the housing stocks. when they pull back they pull back so viciously. you need half now, half later. eric in virginia. >> caller: hey, jim. a big cap city boo-yah. how you doing? >> great. how about uh you? >> caller: i'm good. my question is about rovi corporation. >> no. no. they fail to deliver. [ sell, sell, sell ] ftd, fail to deliver. we are not messing with them. jim in north carolina. >> caller: a big new investor boo-yah from north carolina. how you doing? >> we're ready for you. >> caller: all right, man. i have been reading your book "getting back to even." i love the way you explain stuff. >> thank you. >> caller: my company is nxp semiconductors. i just wanted your feel on the company. what do you think? >> i don't know how it is doing now. i have to come back. why? this is an area, like skyworks solutions where they go hot and cold. i can't say, hey, it's fine. i thought nvidia would be higher. it's not going up. let me check on nxpi. let me speak to georgeann in

top 20, as well as, as i hand it back, lennar, a hot stock, and considerably cheaper.. all right. coal stocks have been slammed. natural resources down nearly 80 percent, but a court ruling striking down an epa pollution rule. giving stocks a boost, but will the gains continue? joining me now, stern ag senior research analyst. welcome. there you are. and buy rating on some of these stocks for months. >> certainly after a losing streak since last november when they decided not to show up in the united states and with the natural gas prices collapsing and inventory levels building, some good news for the sector. it is certainly longer term. it allows a little bit more coal consumption in the united states than we would have seen otherwise. psychologically it is a little more important than what we have seen, what will happen in the market today. it will drive cole fundamentals to more demand, supply, higher exports which i think we're starting to see the u.s. lori: the obama administration has been quite tough for many years. even just last week, with the environmental p