the marriott soma mission bay hotel will have 17 stories, 250 rooms, conference spaces, anda a rooftop lounge. so why there? very good reasons. the rooms will feature views of at&t park, twin peaks and it's being built across from at&t park and about a half mile walk away from the warriors new arena development. >>> iphone users will be happy to hear this. apple says it has fixed the slowdown issue on older models. >>. >>> there are new developments this morning about the man found in northern california. he's accused of running away with a minor. >>> never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. here's a look at the holiday weekend. record highs possible today. a wind shift, a little bit cooler as we head through the weekend. you'll notice it most at the coast. coast. the

. >> reporter: at marriott headquarters in bethesda, maryland, researchers are working to replace hotel rooms that once looked like this to smart rooms that start off looking like this with a few voice commands, lights, tv, the room springs to life. >> we start to understand preferences. >> reporter: everything in this room is essentially wired. >> if i would like an icebox of a room to sleep and i'm not in the room, the room knows no one is in here. >> reporter: guests can go to their personal private -- personal profiles, request other updates, set a workout schedule, and all that data including your location and those voice commands can be saved for future use. >> when you have these smart hotels, they have a token on your phone so they know where you go, what type of coffee you order, what you order in the restaurant. >> reporter: eric cole is a cyber security expert and security expert -- advisor to obama. >> the problem is, huge violations of personal privacy. >> reporter: like marriott, hilton is also in on the technical revolution. both chains now offer perks like electronic key

ii at the marriott i 4:30. >> it's going to be marijuana. [laughter] [applause] >> this is why we lost world war ii. it is not marijuana, i will take you that much, but it is pretty good. >> maybe me after the show, in the back. thehere with dave rubin of rubin report. dave has emerged over the past couple of years as one of the great defenders of free speech, and even more importantly, open, honest civil discourse, which is a twin with free speech. dave, i will ask you a couple of questions and, if you would like to ask a question, tweet to me all one word,pie, it is up there now, and i will feed your questions to dave, assuming he is not high as a kite by then. he was smoking like a chimney in the back. why i have such a nice demeanor. can be so why you civil, you have no idea where you are what you are talking about. dave: it is in the cap. -- it is indica. let's talk about freedom. net: you started out as a standup -- ick: you started out with the young turks and political commentary and you had a break with them over various things. peo

last year through the incredible work of the marriott family and others who bravely testified before our legislature, we passed and enacted four bipartisan bills to put them into law that protected the rights of victims of crime. we are all united in this fight across party lines and will keep working together to ensure that every state in crisis has the help and legal protections they need. bob and melissa, thank you for being here today and thank you for your courage. [ applause ] >> and we're not done. we are not done. when the victims of crime find strength to come forward to engage in the criminal justice process, we must ensure that they have the basic rights and protections in place. victims of crime deserve equal constitutional rights, the same rights as defendants. no more, no less. that's why marcy's law is so important. working together -- [ applause ] working together, marcy's law will pass through these chambers and go before you, the voters of this state, and it's a rare, but critical constitutional amendment that the people of this state will see on their ballot in nov

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so -- please be at marriott 2 and 4:306r7b8g4 4:30. i think it's weed, people. it's marijuana! libertarians, supposed to applaud weed. what's going on here? [ applause ] >> you know, this is why we lost world war ii. it is not marijuana. i'll tell you that much. >> oh. >> but it's pretty good. >> meet me after the show, in the back. >> pretty good. >> take care of you guys. >> i'm here with dave rubin of "the rubin report." dave emerged over the past couple of years as one of the great defenders of free speech and even more importantly, open, honest civil discourse, which is a twin with free speech and dave what we're going to do, i'll ask you a couple questions and then if you would like to ask a question, please tweet to me @nickgillespie. all one word. @nickgillespie. it's up there now and i'll feed your questions to dave. assuming he is not high as a kite by then. smoking like a chimney in the back. we'll get to those questions. >> people ask how i have such a nice demeanor. you know? >> why you can be civil. because you have no idea where you are or who you're talking to.

some of us take slower than others in the shower, get ready for marriott's water bill. >> oh, okay.ody could take the digital key and you wake up and there's somebody standing in your room. >> like that i can put pictures in my room, pictures of peter greenberg. >> paem will like the voice commands, close the shades. >> especially controlling the temperature of your room before you get there. >> that's a good one. >> thank god they got rid of the tacky bedspreads. >> technology will help you there. remove the bedspread immediately. >> yeah, right. >>> a new biography on tiger woods offers surprising insight into the legendary golfer's life. ahead, the golfers will join us in studio 57 to share what they learned in three years of research with interviews with 250 people. >>> plus a massive avalanche on top of europe's mountain. why the snow looks orangele you're watching "cbs this morning." now buried more than a dozen cars at a popular ski resort in russia. the snow blanketed this parking lot here. it didn't hit any major buildings and no one was hurt. the snow's unusual orange tint

one of you may win a prize at the marriott tomorrow at 4:30 pm. and here is one, as a person of color -- >> where is my buddy? >> what do you think of muslim -- >> how do you respond to something of that? >> is a huge problem that goes to the bigotry of expectations. although many credit bill marr with a phrase that came from george bush. so he came here, he moved my racket, was a secularist fighting for freedom. he has become one of my best friends and a great person. hope you get to meet him after. he has fought for all of the intervals here. what school did you get the platform this week? not university of oklahoma? so because he spies as a brown man born a muslim from iraq, survived saddam and everything else. because now he talks about these ideas and the problems with radical islam etc., because he talks about that he is not being d platforms. this is soft bigotry. this is, everyone should be judged as an individual. the more we say there is one set of ideas, you can market christianity all day. all of that. you can mark mormonism. we will p

statalked about marriott stow, her father was a pollutionist as well -- ablutionist. put them in ifles, a case and ship to kansas in the support of the abolitionist movement. this is not an exact quote but close. can't d that if he convinces the slave owners through the world of god that the enslavement was wrong, perhaps he could convince them of aooking down the barrel rifle. he'd pack them up, put them on them on but marked bibles so you wan be splashes suspicious, as they were transported to can't assist. sass. also talks about the formation of american bible is still which today in the world. even though there's bible societies in virtually awe countries. the american bible society is the largest and really helps to fund a lot of the other bible societies around the world. and many of the founding fathers were members of the american bible society. bibal re officers of the society. supreme court justices were. a great story. >> the chief justice jon jay member of the american bible society. talked thomson who we about the first american sit self-defence to transl

the marriott soma mission bay hotel will have seven 250 r50ooms and a lounge.t's being built on channel street, right across the third street bridge in at&t park. >> mission bay is transforming san francisco. this is one of the most exciting neighborhoods that we're literally seeing being built from the ground up. i can just envision going to the giants game at night and people wanting to stay here. people going to a warriors game at night and wanting to stay here. >> that hotel is expected to hope in 2020. >>> a mechanical cka mexican cu and well in a new exhibit. the exhibit features murals that played an important part in the chicano rights movement. some of the murals were painted over by city governments at the time and needed to be restored, while others faced sensor ship from the communities they were in. >> all of these murals are featured here in the gallery, we're telling the murals' story, using drawings that the artist made in preparation for the mural, views of the mural when it existed and views of the site what it looks like now that the murals a

oakland police say more than 60% of their cases happened west of lake marriott. fewer homicides, more burglaries. its the opposite in east oakland. fewer burglaries, more homicides. why the upticks? well the things left in cars have gotten more expensive over the years like laptops and smartphones. also chances of getting caught are very slim. in san francisco its less than 2%. >> my car has been broken into four times already and -- i just feel frustrated november -- because there is nothing being done. >> if you are wondering what are the police doing? in san francisco the d.a. is asking the city for $1 million to form a burglary task force. in most bay area cities its a low priority crime and the truth is very few car break-ins get solved. >> fremont police arrested a man suspected of targeting vehicles just out said a funeral. three cars were broken into in january. the 38-year-old suspect was arrested. police say soon after the car break-ins he made several purchases with these stolen credit cards. that is how they were able to track him down. the suspect is

right american open just before the bicentennial in 1976 and was originally owned by the marriott corporation. >>> the seven cisco giants, at&t park this year it is not just garlic fries and chicken strips. mary lee shows us the new grub. >> reporter: cannot wait for the season to start, we are here at at&t park, a beautiful day to be out here. we are ready for baseball season. the giants hosted their media day open house here, they talked about how excited they are for this season to start. they also talked about all of the food that they have to offer here at at&t park. there are the classics. they also have a lot of healthier options this season. if you would rather have more of a plant -based option, more vegetarian options, they have that. something to try is this impossible burger, it is entirely plant -based. if you still want that burger. also, if you are a meat lover, they have this juicy cheese filled burger, as well. a lot of people were talking about this at media day. the season starts next thursday. the home opener here at at&t park is tuesday april 3. can't wait. mary lee , kpi

marriott with the third goal for them. a huge win for west ham.s clear at the bottom three. as for southampton, their troubles really did continue. one wing in 18th and they were very poor today. let's have a listen to at the managers had to sit. david moyes in particular. we had a great start, we had great support from the first minute. it inspired the players as well, they had a good go at the start. thankfully we got a few goals. shows you how quickly the picture can change, 14th in the table. we think we are good enough. we have dropped down over a recent results which have not been good enough, thankfully today's was. the opening period, opening 1015 periods of any game, clearly, the periods of any game, clearly, the period on either side of the half—time break. ‘and ‘ and closer with a poor - relegation. andy with a poor run of relegation. andy last today. every game, it looks like another step closer to relegation for west brom. and alan pardew, one win in 13 out for west brom. 2—1 they were beaten at home today by brenly. two goals, one fr

you go to the marriott because the first couple hundred people i'm here to interview -- this is why we lost world war ii. >> it is not marijuana. but, it's pretty good. >> i'm here with dave rubin of the ribbon report. dave has emerged as one of the great defenders of free speech and even more importantly open, honest, civil discourse which is a twin with free speech. and ask you some questions and if you would like to ask a question please tweet to me at knit g.i will then feed your qus today. >> people asked why had such a nice demeanor. because you have no idea where you are who you're talking with. >> one of the things interesting is that you started out on the left is a standup comic in your from long island so you have to laugh. otherwise everybody would be crying. you started off in political commentary and you had a break with them and people change in disagree but a lot has to do with identity politics. what is it, how do you define them and why they so problematic to a free and open society. >> it is truly the scorch of our time. there's one thing you have to fight its identi

that route to the new normal, what marriott draggy said, whatever it takes will continue.k? our technology guru, rory cellanjones, will be here to talk about all that. you're with business live from bbc news. next has revealed an 8% dip in annual profits, and warned that 2018 will remain challenging. the clothing company trades from more than 500 stores in the uk and ireland, and becomes the latest high street chain to send out a warning signal. joining us is david beadle, vice president and senior credit officer at moody's. the odd thing is that we've actually got a fairly strong figures coming out of the retail sector today. on the other hand we get tales of disaster on the high street. how can you square that circle? there are a number of different place —— things at play in the retail environment. the results of the 0ns figures out yesterday were broadly positive. but in line with our general expectations of moderate growth to continue overall. what it is being driven by though is online penetration. people are buying more things online. that to some extent is also bei

phone and e-mail support if you have any questions ok so this is a start up exactly right and roger marriott well we are all over the place right now we we have. people in multiple states around the united states ok so good luck with that will keep close tabs on it let's talk about. the big picture here so twenty seventeen was the year of a theory m i c e o's the great big coin civil war which resulted in the summer of fork not the summer of love what do you have to look forward to in twenty eighteen a lot more of the forking for sure in fact you know there are some people who have said that we could expect as many as fifty fifty different forks as it becomes easier for people to do that for the uninitiated out there quickly a coin fork is what we're specifically talking about is a big coin block change for there have been software forks a big point for many years but the idea being that you say you know at a specific block specific date we're going to create a new divergent history of the big block chain and everyone who had big queens at that time now has the new tokens on the new chain an

. >> marriott, the hotel company. what drew your attention here?lay the economy than the hotel space. last year, the s&p 500 was up 20%. if you look at the hotel lodging sector, it was up 25%. this is a way too rebound off the business community and what's going on. if you do believe that all the trade tariff talk is over, you want to do a risk reversal in marriott. you're leveraging a great management team that has digested and will continue to ajest the starwood acquisition. $250 million savings in partnerships -- savings. partnerships with alley babba. >> thank you so much, appreciate it. >> still ahead we're going to be talking about a chief strategist talking about the stocks leading the way. from new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i'm mark crumpton with first word news. nato secretary general says the aligns will expel seven staff from the russian mission. the action follows this mono's never agent penniening of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. he says russia has underestimated the unity of nato. >> the way we have responded,

campaign related clashes have stopped fears of a violent past something the election umpire say marriott. to force the challenges definitely and then one of them is. i mean possibility of. the candidates last sixteen or don't want testing for president and what do you think back to the wind elections when you and i would add only one fact to one candidate that would mean a presidential elections a candidate needs fifty five percent of the vote to win outright but with three main contenders that include the anointed candidate of the company president a former u.n. official and an ex-military ruler many here expect a round of sixteen political parties are fielding candidates for president there are also parliamentary mayoral and council elections all on the same day. after more than half a century of quality come independence providing basics such as water electricity roads education and health care remain the growing influence in this election as in many african countries corruption can greatly impact on the delivery of such services whoever gets elected in winces will also have to conten

later i attended the celebration of black american history event held at the marriott. that was a very well attended and enjoyable evening. one of my colleagues. the general manager of the public commission was recognized for his service to the city. he was happy to represent the department at that event. i did want to note that president cleaveland for your consideration for adjournment we -- a number of us attended the funeral service for the retired firefighter her man wyrsch. he retired in 1997 after 30 years. he had two son this is the department. one is currently active. at station 36, battalion two and retired son. there were a number of us that attended the service on monday. the firefighter passed away on february 14th. we want to thank him for his years of service to the fire department and acknowledge his sons that contributed. upcoming the st. patrick's day parade next month on march 17th. all members and commissioners are invited to attend. thank you vice president for bringing to my attention spur, a wonderful organization recently acknowledged the fine wo

. >> marcus and i will be the emcees at the fremont marriott silicon valley from 10:30 to 2:00 p.m.e tickets are still available. the proceeds will go to supporting officers with networking and training. so come can on out and have lunch with us. >>> we're looking past fremont, a fine traffic flow. a disabled vehicle is moving from the berkeley curve. san pablo avenue where i showed you the live look there, we'll follow this pursuit at kirk lane. because of that crash at that intersection a major roadway. they'll reroute these buses we talked about here. we have delays for b.a.r.t. coming out of the mission station in san francisco. some equipment issues that tends to happen. >>> the weekend. >> so close we can feel it. >> yes, it's thursday. we had a very soggy week and you're probably, like, is it still going to be raining this weekend, kari? >> yes. saturday is still looking like a day when we'll have chilly temperatures and scattered showers. sunday is looking good. low 60s inland. and we'll get some sunshine. this will be our break from the rain. a good day to get outside. now,

the event begins at 8:00 at the oakland marriott center.an show up at 6:30, which is past now, and will be allowed in if seats are still available for the event. >>> british military is being called in to investigate the mysterious poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter from a deadly agent. more from london. >> reporter: the secretary of defense and many members of the intelligence community and others met today in london to discuss the investigation. meanwhile, in salisbury, about 90 miles southwest of london, troops trained to deal with and equipped to deal with chemical weapons were at a cemetery where the spy's wife and son were buried. that's because the father and daughter may have gone there to their graves to pay their respects and contaminated the site with a nerve agent they themselves were poisoned with. video of a stretcher at the wife's grave has sparked speculation the police may exhume her body, though there's been no confirmation of that. she passed away in 2012 of cancer. the supposition is that they may want to

police arrived to the 'courtyard by marriott hotel' on shellmound ...and contacted the suspect ... who is a convicted felon... he allegedly told officers he had a gun in his jacket pocket... which was then removed .. he was arrested. (steve) tonight the california highway patrol is taking aim at those who have targeted tech buses traveling up and down the peninsula. the buses have been hit by b-b's from b-b guns and chp is now using decoy buses and undercover officersto try and catch the shooters. kron 4's j.r. stone is following the story and talked with riders in san francisco. you wouldn't know it by just looking at this tech commuter bus but there's a possibility that a officer with the california highway patrol is on board. chp is going after b-b gun shooters who have been opening fire onthese buses...leaving shattered windows and dented sides on buses traveling the peninsula and the south bay.sot it's concerning like i said you know it's bb gun today and who knows what is gonna happen tomorrow so it's good that we're getting in front of it and at least getting the word out th

names you'll see marriott, costco, dollar tree, even biotech is having a strong day. the biotech indexing has seen its strongest day since january 26th this rally is broad based and helping the nasdaq propel higher of course, dominated by those tech names that really saw the brunt of the selloff last week, outperforming in today's trade lastly, semiconductor stocks, lam research, intel, all higher on the day on this report that china may, in fact, look to buy u.s. semiconductor chips in an effort to bring down its trade surplus. something to keep an eye on. the semiconductor index, up 4% >> seema, thank you very much for that. >>> we have just about three minutes to go until the close. quite a miraculous rebound we were down 1100 points on the dow on just thursday and friday's session we've recovered well over half of it today. we're up 690, near the highs of the day. as seema told you, the nasdaq is up even more the s&p just behind the dow in percentage terms they're all up a healthy 2.5% or 3% let's have a look at the s&p intraday chart we're closing near the highs

. >> marcus and i will be the emcees at today's events at the fremont marriott silicon valley.2:00 p.m. there are some tickets still available. join us for lunch. the proceeds will go to supporting officers with network and training. it's a nice event. looking forward to it. >> you should come out with us. >> free lunch is all i heard. you know those tickets will go like hotcakes once they find out laura and marcus are hosting. get yourself a seat early. a great drive around most of the bay. that little build, a typical pattern there. the same thing for the tri-valley. mild slowing. the top of your screen, highway 4 at bailey, the crash moved off if it's there anymore. no major problems. in the south county an easy drive, slowing for 101 through san martine. heading up to morgan hill around. and there's the approach to the bay bridge. an easy drive, 23 minutes from highway 4 to the bay bridge and back up at the toll plaza. >> it's nice when you don't see the red. >> i see the weekend on the horiz horizon. >> that's green. >> green light. it's friday eve. we're starting to make

from participating in matters involving your former clients, which includes companies like amazon, marriott, pratt and whitney, is that correct? >> right, yes, senator. >> good. and i also want to ask, mr. emanuel gave me exactly that same assurance. do you understand that you must recuse yourself in any matter in which your former law firm, morgan lewis, represents a party? >> that's my understanding of the ethics rules, yes. >> okay. and in order to ensure that you do so, will you commit to providing me and other members of this committee a list of cases currently pending before the nlrb in which your law firm represents a party? >> senator, we discussed this earlier and i want to just say that i take this issue very, very seriously, and for that reason we are compiling a list for the very reason you discussed, because i do not want to be in the position that member emanuel finds himself in and i don't want to put another cloud over the nlrb. >> i'm sorry, is that a yes you will provide this list? >> yes. >> the only reason we know about mr. emanuel's apparent ethics violations is because

you go from "fire and fury" to marriott sitdown is unpredictable and erratic. >> the south koreans saidg and they said they were surprised at his behavior. that he was jocular, he was newsy, their confidence they said. and they said he did pass along his offer that he would agree to denuclearization. i don't think you'll ever delete the rest is about some people say. what do you think? >> in that case will be no worse off than that after the 1994 framework agreement or the 2005 agreement. no one has had any success getting this machine to do we want them to do. let's let donald trump have at it! >> others are saying, it will be a failure because they will not come out with agreement. is that really necessary? what is necessary to make this a success? fdr sat down with stalin who is responsible for killing millions of soviets. is it morally proper to sit down with a dictator like kim jong-un or is there something else that we should consider? >> we sitdown dictators all of the time. he sitdown with people with whom you oppose pre-sitdown with an enemy and rival, you do not sit down to di

they are added to the jw marriott in washington, d.c., and all of this after the president is going to be speaking after jeff sessions made that announcement, let's listen in. >> president trump: so many of our incredible leaders in the latino business community, and you guys are good business people, i know that for a fact. i have had to compete against you for a long time. [laughter] in fact i said i want to get out of that, i want to be president, it is easier. but i especially wanted to thank chairman hector for the invitation and many years of his leadership on behalf of america's small businesses but i want to recognize secretary chow, who is joining us today, elaine, hello, elaine. you are doing a fantastic job. thank you very much. most of all i want to thank all of you, the latino business communicators who are living through the american dream. it is back and stronger than ever. the latino community embodies the pioneering spirit of american, we are a nation that loves adventure and you love adventure. that celebrates risk-taking and that embraces faith and family as the true

he said i met with you a few weeks ago in the lobby of the marriott hotel in downtown portland and iwas telling you how my father, blessed be his memory, was born -- excuse me, was buried with w his rose bowl ring on. i said, yeah, you told me that story. he said, i've got to tell you something. you got me thinking about the 1942 rose bowl and i wanted to go online and by some member billy for my and my grandkids. so my children and i went online and we started googling and went on ebay and there was a rose bowl ring for sale. and it just warmed my heart as he telling mear the story that meant so much to them that he wanted to buy this ring. but then he said, you know, we looked at the rink more closely and it was dad ring. and the said i don't understand. he said, ,ea many years ago it d been a robbery at my parents house and unbeknownst to me one of the items taken was his rose bowl ring. so while i i believe this whole time he beenhi buried with the ring on, in actuality someone had stolen the rain and now with selling it for thousands of dollars onar ebay. he and his family calle

the marriott soma mission bay hotel will have 17 stories, 250 rooms, conference spaces, also a rooftop lounge. developers say rooms will feature views of at&t park, twin peaks, and the bay. it's being built on channel street, right across the third street bridge from at&t and just about half a mile away from the warriors' new arena under construction. the hotel expected to open in 2020. >>> apple addressing the iphone slowdown. there's a new setting available to iphone 6 and 7 users. >>> space junk hurling back to earth. it is a problem we may see more of in the future. what's being done to stop it? >>> we want you to have a better day, so here's a feature you'll only see here on nbc >>> coming up on 5:14 on a friday. and you may not have a great chance of winning the lottery tonight, but we have a better chance of getting some rain. thursday, that's pretty impressive for april. 60% coverage right now. of course, we'll keep you updated on that as we head through next week. >>> now a live desk update from abc 7 mornings. >> tennessee authorities say this morning that police have shot an

we heard from marriott draghi briefly yesterday. --talked about full risks four risks and one of them was protectionism. he said is the european economy. in terms of the size and scope of this fear risk, the fact that draghi put that the top number one suggests it something the ecb is watching closely. i think that's potentially encouraging for european stocks. it means that interest rates in the eurozone at the caps on the floor. the language is fairly dovish at the last conference. that the qes program is going to end in september but he was at pains to say that doesn't mean interest rates are going to be the next step. and i thinktay low any fear of a trade war will keep rates even more low than market currently anticipates. that could be good for equities. anna: anna: -- anna: some of the measures are driving a productivity. those on the sidelines are coming back to the workforce and your business government more flak which me to continue growing without creating inflation. of course that makes the ecb's job more difficult. juli

it will be held at the oakland marriott center.t rsvp can still show up at 6:30 and will be allowed in if there are seats available. >>> the white house says north korea's leader kim jong un must take quote concrete steps to denuclearize the country if he wants a face to face meeting with president trump. the president says a deal with north korea is in the works and if an agreement is reached, everyone will benefit. there is speculation that a face to face meeting could happen as soon as may but the u.s. says kim jong un must make the first move. >> let's be very clear. the united states has made zero concessions. but north korea has made some promises and again, this meeting won't take place without concrete actions that match the promises that have been made by north korea. >> the president tweeted the deal with north korea is very much in the making and will be if completed a very good one for the world. time and place to be determined. >>> and in australia, severe flooding has forced the government to declare a disaster situat

from creating programs p and g and marriott international to creating a program for muslim woman in afghanistan and iraq. i volunteered my time to those who lacked opportunities. on the advisory committee and information policy at the department of state. i developed long distance mentoring programs. as noted by the senator udall. more than 30 years of experience in the private sector and small business and as a full time university professor. if confirmed, i aim to strengthen our people to people ties further. i'm honored to be appointed to this important position and will focus my efforts on improving the vital missions of these programs. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator. mr. chairman, and mr. ranking member and members of the committee. it is an honor to appear here. if confirmed i'm committed to representing the president and the american people and their national interests in a country so key to our security and prosperity in the western hemisphere. i would like to thank first, my wife carol and our son chris for their support. without that support, i would not be h

sam: that was before marriott but starwood. we had a big position and starwood.our seasons. i don't know that was ever realistic. david: have you been in business with the prince before? sam: no, i've been to riyadh and in his office. david: you met with him? sam: i met with him and he's very, very bright, a very confident guy. i think his orientation is very non-saudi and that is what made him as accessible as he is meant. david: does that mean that you would be more likely to consider doing business with him? sam: that's a question i can't answer. alix: also taking place, mohammad bin salman is in the u.s. and he is also looking to buy stuff as well. you met with him. what was your take? sam: i've not met with him yet, but i know a lot about him. i've been a student of what's been going on over there. doing isay what he's extraordinarily brave. i think it represents the right decision if they were is going to be a future to saudi arabia. i think if somebody did not do this, i think we would see saudi arabia disappear. david: to draw a possible parallel, saudi a

police arrived to the 'courtyard by marriott hotel' on shellmound street...d the suspect... a convicted felon... he allegedly told officers he had a gun in his jacket pocket... which was then removed .. cornn was arrested. (steve) another big story we are tracking tonight... retail giant-- walmart-- will now only sell guns and ammo to those 21 and older. the company is also removing assault-style rifles from its website. the company pledged to continue to serve hunters and other sportsmen in a, quote, "responsible way". in a statement, walmart says it stopped selling weapons similar to the one used in the florida shooting back in 20-15. (steve) walmart's decision comes hours after dick's sporting goods announced it would stop selling assault- style weapons. (pam) dick's sporting goods also raised the minimum age to purchase a firearm in its stores .... to 21. kron4's teresa estacio has more on what the c-e-o of the sporting goods chain says, factored into his decision. here in plesant hill, the ceo of dick's sporting goods took to the air early this morning t

from creating programs at cal-poly pomona, p & g and marriott international to creating a program for muslim women in afghanistan and later iraq, i have volunteered my time to those who have faced discrimination and lacked opportunities. as a private sector pointing to the advisory committee on international communications and information policy at the department of state, i developed long-distance mentoring programs. as noted by senator udall i have more than 30 years of experience in the private sector and small business, and as a full-time university professor. if confirmed i would aim to strengthen the people to people ties evening for thor. i am very honored to be appointed to this important position, and i will my efforts on this. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator. mr. chairman and mr. ranking member, members of the committee, it is an honor to appear today as the president's nominee for u.s. ambassador to the republic of colombia. if confirmed i am -- in a country so key to our security and prosperity in the western hemisphere. i would like to thank first

we have a lovely marriott on the beach.love that. >> who would argue? >> they have deals under 200 bucks. >> everything we're talking about is well within reach. under $200. you picture yourself there and you can afford it. >> and finally, new port, rhode island, which is beautiful. >> the mansions, the cliff walks. the reason i would send you to newport is a family destination. there's a great hotel there called gurney's. a new hotel surrounded by the water. phenomenal kids club. baking cookies, decorating them. >> it's cold this time of year there. >> exactly. but you're going to get a lovely beach destination. great for the whole family. >> mark, thank you. great ideas. >>> coming up next, our pal sunny's first week in studio 1a. we're going to catch up with his adorable brothers and sisters coast-to-coast. >>> and we are back with "today puppy." sunny wraps up his first week as a member of our family. >> when he entered our studio, his brothers and sisters were behind him in cuteness overload. the rest of the litter mak