. >> i have the choice of retiring, buying an island somewhere, sipping mai tais, but that was not ofnterest to me at all. >> it was really what we're going to do next. in elon's case, it was really just a stepping stone. money is in a database. >> he was very rich. more money than most people could dream. he took almost no time in between that sale and starting the company that became paypal. >> the goal was to create -- >> at the time, transactions were very slow. it could take weeks. >> he founded a company that could make electronic transfers possible. there was a rival payment company. >> the real enemy at the end of the day was ebay. >> we combine our efforts to compete against ebay. >> and the new company, paypal. >> his goal was not to create a place where you could to person- to-person payments. his goal was to transform the financial industry. >> the online payment system, and ebay threw in the towel and acquired paypal in early 2002. >> they sold paypal for $1.5 billion. he walked away from the deal with $180 million. he was 30. >> i could afford a chain of islands. again,

they're sucking mai tais. >> in scots valley, matt keller abc7 news. >> we may complain but check this out. nothing compared to what is going on in the mid west. a storm dropping blizzards on new mexico and colorado bringing freezing temperatures. wisconsin digging up from 17 inches of snow. forecasters there predicting lows of 25 degrees below 0. snow is turning into rock hard ice in dakotas. national weather service is posting advisories for wind chills the bay area is suddenly not that cold. >>> an american teacher has been shot to death jogging in benghazi. ronald thomas smith the second taught chemistry. a libyan security official says smith was shot while jogging near the compound where chris stevens and three other americans were killed last year. no one claimed responsibility for this killing. >> highs man hopeful was not filed charges the case reopened last month and turned over to state attorney willy megs, concluding there was not enough evidence to move forward. >> we have a duty as prosecutors to only file those charges if we have a reasonable likelihood of a conviction. a

for the folks not headed to hawaii for the holidays, a mai tai does it.t will warm you up. >> turn up the heat, i suppose. >> let's bring in jennifer grey. >> jennifer, my parents just left yesterday to drive home from atlanta to ohio. and i'm so grateful they got there. >> good. >> yeah, because they really, really got in before it got bad. we are seeing the second wave continuing to push up into the northeast. and so already seeing snow across portions of the south even and northern arkansas and into missouri. this is just around now we're expected to see the ice and snow continue to develop as we go through the day to dayment and then by 5:00 this afternoon, you can see freezing rain, sleet, really pushing into the d.c. area. they could see anywhere from a quarter inch to eye haa half in ice. we could see power outages anywhere from northern virginia through d.c. and then up into the northeast. and then by the time it makes it to new york city and boston, it will be more of a wintry mix. they could still deal with sleet and snow though as we go through

may have used two segments that weren't cleared. so how do you protect your copyright or content? tayhe case of chocolate rain, i had a license that allowed people to reuse it for free. >> do you feel like there are companies out there that are unfairly capitalizing on the works of these artists to go back online? and what are you guys doing to protect yourselves? >> this was made for a network, so there are obviously quite a lot of paperwork already that had been done there. and i'm so glad i'm not sort of the -- in the music industry, because they try to hard to have control of everything, and we just hired somebody with a baseball bat and just send him around. >> in terms of viral contend and if it is successful, everybody is trying to get a piece of it. >> that's a really great point, i'm glad you brought it up, because a lot of people making this video aren't in an industry where they are going to get paid millions to do it. and that's something we have to think about. >> it's a perfect segue, because i'm going to show you this video that went viral. >> obviously we have a rapist