." >>> good morning, everyone, i'm scott mcgrew. if you were to see the band boston in concert, you'd be seeing a different set of musicians from the original band in the late 70s, which leads the question, are you really seeing boston at all? ♪ more than a feeling >> we bring this up as an analogy for what's been going on on the internet. it's more than a feeling, it's fact. various popular blogs have seen a sudden exodus of their best-known writers. this has been a particular problem for aol, which recently bought tech crunch, only to see tech crunch founder leave to start a different competing blog. aol's popular gadget website, called end gaeret, has seen the last three editors in chief leave to start competing websites. tim stevens is editor and chief at end gadget, the only editor in chief in end gadget's history to not resign and start his own repeating blog. joined by farhad manjoo. is this idea it doesn't take much for a lot of the employees to run off and start their own competitor? >> i don't know if it's a concern, but i

i'm scott mcgrew. jon kelley has the day off. >> let's check in with christina loren. >> could have sworn you were going to wear red. i went with the green. as you're trying to pick your wardrobe, dress in layers. it's frigid. 26 in santa rosa. 23 degrees in gilroy. 36 in san jose. so it is coal out there. there's a freeze warning in place for the north bay. where you hit the 70s in some cities. so pretty extreme swings in your temperatures. we'll talk about that and your holiday forecast coming up. first back to you guys with your top stories. >>> pack your patience headed o the airport. one of the busiest travel days in the year. kimberly terry is life with a look at the holiday rush. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. you can see people trying to get out ahead of the crowds flying today. it will be one of the busiest traveling days. 134,000 travelers are expected through the gate here. that's 5% over the travelers last year. it's also bucking the statewide trend. this is expected to dro

back to you. >> scott mcgrew knows what he's talking about. thanks, scott. >>> holidays are sure to be awkward for a pennsylvania family. a man is charged with disorderly conduct for publishing an obituary for his still-living mother. >> really? >> the guy told police he did it just to get some time off of work. the local newspaper figured out something was fishy when the woman showed up at its office, asking why her obit had been printed. i don't even know what to say to that story. >> yeah. nice work, pal. >> yeah. >>> anyway, let's send it over to check on the weather. outside, meteorologist christina loren can tell us all about it. >> of all the excuses i've heard, that takes the cake. clearing now. showers are subsiding over the greater bay area. we still have some spots where you're going to get a little bit of rain, especially along the peninsula. that's where we're seeing the most improvement. new cell just moved right over san francisco. watch out for that. we want to show you this, though. i set this back about three hours. you can a

but scott mcgrew says it's critically porn to us. >> it is dry.ope is our biggest trading partner. a collapse would tear apart our fragile recovery. so the latest. 17 countries who use the your owe as currency have voted to centralize their economies the way the fed controls our money flow. before now the euro was the central currency, but no one group was in charge. from an economic point of view, it's a little bit like the change from countries to states. they're more like our states in the sense. the other countries in the union, notely england, are against the pan. it's worth remember there is are two europes. germany is clearly in charge of the new inner europe in ways nobody would have anticipated. secretary of state hillary clinton scolded them for applying dictatorship technology. there are several hardware and software companies that have been in the news in the past for selling technology to syria and gadhafi's libya and they know who they are. bill mair is calming to silicon valley to host a show yahoo!'s new comedy channel. it will all

scott mcgrew is not making any promises. last year tj maxx offered them for way off the price.'t say for sure. it's so early in the morning. tj maxx is not open to figure it out. but a heads up for you just in case. on the other hand. if today was the day you said i'm ready to bike a dell streak seven it's too late. dell is killing the tablet experiment. there were streak fives and streak sixes. >>> we keep an eye on europe worries about their debt. they launched an anti-trust investigation to apple. the accusations apple works with publishers to keep prices high. and here's video from shanghai where chinese workers are building china's first amichi's pizza. they have 12 locations in the bay area. now one in china. make sure to call the right one or it will take forever. >>> it is 5:57 now. still to come on "today in the bay", uc davis taking action to prevent what happened at the occupy protest. >>> and temperatures are tumbling to near record lows as we speak. we'll let you know which cities are the oldest and how warm it will get later this afternoon in your full bay area fo

scott mcgrew joins us live.ent to college in atherton on the peninsula. now he is a major investor in twitter as well. the crowned prince paid $300 million for a portion of twitter. hard to say really what percentage he owns, because it's really not clear how much twitter is worth. it's not traded on the open markets. but it's been estimated twitter is worth about $8 billion. so that would put the crowned prince's investment at less than 10%. he's also a major investor in apple. russian investor uri milner also owns a significant part of twitter. there are a number of foreign investors who have been getting involved in american media, both in high-tech and traditional media. he also owns a big part of fox news channel and the wall street journal. this gives civil rights groups some pause. saudi arabia has censored their own media covering uprises and protest. do you remember this website? the cupertino company offline this morning will not be returning to the internet. they thought they found a clever way around

scott mcgrew joins us.nds a lot like apple. >> when you settle on one, they come out with version two. >> apple and the city of cupertino have developed plans for the main headquarters using new and much better drawings to show what it may look like, some of the drawings here. the pictures are very detailed. the website is under strain this morning. >>> you saw it rear first, hit the apple app store. millions have downloaded flip board for ipad. now a different version for the smaller screen. >> we created something very special called cover stories. it's one place where you can quickly check in on things interesting, happening across your social networks and. >> now add flip board to your iphone. it's been a year and some coming. now you got it. >> scott, i do follow what you say coming to these things, i already have flip board on my iphone. i did it before coming to work this morning. >> it's great having scott mcgrew around. >> get all the tricks and inside stuff. >>> stim to come on today in the bay, t

i'm scott mcgrew. my first guest invented what became the world's most popular video camera, the flip camera. he has moved on to grilled cheese and that's not a code name for anything. it's really grilled cheese. it is truly one of the strangest of high-tech success stories. the melt. a chain of grilled cheese restaurants in san francisco is the latest effort by entrepreneur jonathan kaplan. it's his second act. in the beginning there was a flip, the wildly successful, inexpensive video camera which quickly became a best seller. in a head-scratching move, the whole product line was purchased by cisco for $590 million in stock, only to see cisco dump the product just a few months later. that brings us to the melt. kaplan took his capital and the pinch of partnership, to open these restaurants where you can order a $5 grilled cheese sandwich using your iphone. the melt has three locations. all in the san terrific bay area. kaplan hopes to expand to seattle, boston, and as many as 500 locations. perhaps j

scott mcgrew joins us now. now you've known mark for more than a decade now. >> pinkus is a long-time entrepreneur. he will turn the latest company into a publicly traded company early today. here's mark from earlier this year. with believe in social gaming. we believe this is the way that more than just us in the building, but everyone around the world are going to embrace play. in their lives. and now you are seeing a live picture out of the nasdaq. >>. >> i think i'm the most guilty of that. i'm going to internalize that. hoi ep you do. i hope you all get a moment. >> he's talking to troops, getting them fired up. trading in a new company doesn't necessarily start at the bell. speaking of hot companies, task rabbit to hem you find people to runner rands raised $17 million in funding i point out to her, connecting strangers on the internet has its risks. she says she's ready. >> from the beginning when i started the company one thing i did is bring on the crisis management adviser outside of new york. he work

scott mcgrew joins us now.his is a scathing and damaging letter. >> it is the letter that cost herd his job as the head of hp. a court released the letter. it was held as evidence in a lawsuit. written by lawyer gloria allred on behalf of her client, former actress and hostess jodi fisher. the letter accused herd of repeatedly propositioning herd as she worked as a hostess to out of town parties. they left after it was sent to the board of directors. this is miss fisher in an nbc reality show. this is the tawdry and distasteful stuff hewlett-packard would like to avoid. among the accusations he showed her his multimillion dollar bank balance. now is everything in the letter true? almost certainly not. even miss fisher herself denied the accusations her own lawyer makes. the letter was released as part of a lawsuit that wanted evidence of mismanagement. >> not a great day or great year for hp. >>> still to come, paying a fee to pay your bill. thousands of people are riled up over a new policy from verizon. and n

scott mcgrew says the maker of farmville continues to wilt on the markets. what's going on with zynga? >> zynga can't get anything going. the stock price sank in the first full day. down another 45 cents to just over $9 a share. we've seen other stocks alter, like groupon. zynga has never traded higher than the ipo price. otherwise fairly quiet on the markets and quiet in silicon valley. next week will be more quiet. many companies started a week's furlough between christmas and in year's to save money. several have kept the tradition going. >>> a website where santa sends a child a personalized message. take a look. i hope you've been a good little boy. right now you are 7 years old. is that right? >> so that's pretty cool. jacob, who is 7, is a clever kid. upload a name and free details. you can include what they really want want for christmas. you can also say if they've been naughty or nice. the website is portablenorthpole.tv. if you're going to tell santa your child has been naughty and sit them down. you can really do that? i'm going to say you have d

scott mcgrew joins us with the numbers. >> good morning. let's go to the nasdaq.with the redwood city based opened with a storm trooper and princess lea celebrating a new star wars video. the dough industrial just crossed over 12,000 so new rool rule. good day on the market. mike soft's own skype is offering free wi-fi. skype the people you're not visiting. they sent us this video. look at how annoyed the guy on the right. you can't see it, but he's talking on the computer on skype. free wi-fi. you don't have to. you can do anything you want. >> sometimes people just talk to themselves any there. thanks so much. 6:5. let's check the forecast with christina loren. a very cold start. >> you can always hop behind that guy and have your own conversation. 34 in concord. 39 in oakland. make sure to give yourself ample time to war your car up this morning. might find some frost on your windshield. cold enough ffr for that. same for san jose. we have not yet hit our coldest point of the day. we have another 45 minutes of cooling. that's where you bottom out in san jose. t

. >>> turning to business news, scott mcgrew is back. he says a few big companies hit their own i-stores this year. >> good morning. we talk about the worst of 2011, three companies come to mind. two are based in the bay area. first is netflix. that company's stock started the year at more than $300 a share. it's now around $60 a share. the other is research in motion. if that company doesn't fire the two ceos soon, i will be shocked. many people have chosen to sell the stock before the end of the year for tax purposes. there are only two trading days left in 2011. >>> san francisco based gap joins netflix on the worst customer service. an analystics company made the list. amazon is at the top. the study surveyed 8500 online shoppers. and new this morning, it looks like jack may once again try to buy yahoo!. the head has talked about buying yahoo! before. now the wall street journal reports he's hired a washington lobbying group in order to smooth the way with the federal government. right now yahoo! owns a big piece of alibaba. but it's

i'm scott mcgrew. jon kelley has the day off. let's check in with meteorologist christina loren. >> good morning. she's like the wind. good morning to you. we have no wind this morning. your temperatures are falling towards records. we already tied a temperature record in napa and we haven't hit the coldest part of the day. 21 degrees. 10 degrees below freezing. it is cold this morning. grab your jacket. you can wear the short sleeves underneath. we'll continue to track the records. we'll tell you how warm it's going to be later on. we have a nice day shaping up. and the holiday forecast is m coing up as well. today in the bay's kimberly terry is live at sfo. one of the busiest travel days of the year. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. you can see the crowds are coming in and will continue this way throughout the day. mike mccarren knows all things sfo. talk to us about the sheer numbers that are going to be coming through. today we have 134,000 people in and out of the gates. it's 22% increase over a normal day. we have g

. >>> scott mcgrew is refusing to use a four-letter word. >> i'll just say it once, mall.omorrow 2,000 websites will have free shipping day to encourage even more online buying it. hewlett-packa hewlett-packard, bed bath and beyond. bass pro shop all among free shipperses tomorrow. speaking of fun gifts, you remember these computerized blocks? the san francisco company that makes them is using a pop-up store to sell them. they will be on the shell efs of regular retailers in the mall. for now the company says selling them on the street corner is surprisingly effective and very san francisco chic. >>> you have to work with the city. the mayor's office here has been really great to us. they're helping out getting the permits set up for us. >> you can find the sifteo pop-up store on the plaza. it's also helpful because they get to show people and people get to play with them and understand what they can do. something they couldn't do in a wal-mart. >> there you go. >> thank you, scott. any foodie with his or her salt knowing some of the best restaurants in the world are in sa

. >> and i'm scott mcgrew. let's get started with check with meteorologist christina loren.ng. a lot of people traveling. a lot of people already here to enjoy the bay area. temperatures actually maxing out that day. i think we're going to see that as the warmest day in the extended period. we have near record lows across the board. 31 degrees. break out your radars. puffy coat in oakland. i have your full forecast. holiday forecast and rain in the seven day. >> we've been talking about the big holiday rush. we're live at sfo by michael mccarren where you'll see hordes of people go through there. about 2 million passengers, mike? >> about 2 million in the last two weeks of this month. it's typical for us. a little bit higher than last year. about 5%. we're doing well with 1345, 135,000 people passing through the gates. so it's going to be a busy day. >> is there anything you do at the airport as a whole. you see people coming and going all the time. anything you can do to to prepare for this? >> we just make sure everything is operational. make sure the roads are open. make

scott mcgrew say this is one may not go too well. >> jon, the first thing you want to know when a bigal firm goes broke is where did the money go. he tells congress he doesn't know. not what the congressional inquiry wanted to hear. corzine not just a senator, not just a governor. he used to be head of goldman sachs as well. he starts the testimony at 6:30 our time, six minutes for now. they are thinking of changing a law that would prohibit -- that does prohibit the video rental companies from revealing what you rent. the senate takes aup bill to allow you to give permission to post your rental information. this guy was a nominee for the supreme court when a reporter got ahold of his video rental information and published it. that so horrified congress, laura and jon, that congress passed a special law making your video rental secret. he didn't rent anything unusual. but i bet congress. >> "fried green tomatoes", "notebook." >>> still to come, facebook's new campus could impact traffic on 101. a live report is coming up. >>> and the push is on by two groups to get oakland major jean

we'll check in with scott mcgrew. >> good morning. wall street dow turning negative.t's a neat open as we see the nut cracker with the various ballerinas and a very actual nut cracker there on the right. i don't see the mouse king, i'm sure he's nearby. dow industrials down this morning. redwood city based oracle turning in lousy numbers in the quarterly financial report. oracle has fallen 13%. tibco is down 11% even though that company did nothing wrong. in site of the times, an invite-only fashion show. san francisco based klout gives everyone a score based on how influential they are. you have to score 40 or higher to attend the fashion show. it's a bit like a story we brought you by a nightclub in new york that decide whod can come in based on how many twitter followers they have. >> it's 6:58 right now. a check with christina loren. she would be in. >> i like a nice competition. good morning to you. hey, you're always welcome to add any of us. we love being your friends on facebook and of course twitter. it's cold. but we hit about 50 degrees inland by noon. 57 a

large patches of open water close to the village of new mcgrew never freeze over. according to geological evidence the white sea appeared some twenty thousand years ago. the people who first settled in this northern land find a hundred years of coast to as. fishing and hunting with their means of subsistence . many of them drowned during hurricanes and storms. locals still put up landmarks of the most dangerous sites they serve as a warning to others. along the shore of the white sea their villages founded hundreds of years ago by coastal is. the oldest one is jordan i read which means black river. it is first mentioned in historical square. in fifteen eleven. the church stands above the village it was named after some trifle the protector of hunters and fishermen. according to local tradition this church had to look like a ship. sailed north along the white sea coast and reach the shores of spitzbergen island even the women made the long distance see troops. position i look at the women when fishing in the city on rowing boats they caught fish many kilometers away

nbc bay area tech reporter scott mcgrew joins us now. not the world's most impressive jump for that stock, though. >> we've actually seen zinga's shares sink. i was talking to scott budman and said have you ever heard of an ipo that actually sink right away? we couldn't think of any. exciting first days of trading for any company in history. zinga got its money, priced it at $10 a share. they got $1 billion. all companies are under pressure to grow that stock price at the first sale, that price doesn't mean that much to zinga, currently trading at $9.35. of course, it means a lot to shareholder shareholder shareholders, including employees who are hoping to get rich. >> there's a lot of energy around our company and it's a growing energy around our company. and what we need to do is focus that back on our mission and really get regrounded in our mission of making games that we love to play and that we're so proud to offer to the rest of the world. >> 630 offices in san francisco. actual stock began trading about an hour and a half later.

scott mcgrew says that would be unprecede unprecedented. >> also like playing whack a mole. know how easy it is to set up a new twitter account. it belongs to shabaab in somalia, all written in english, taunting both the u.s. and its rival. this morning announcing they set off an ied that destroyed two kenyan personnel carriers. the u.s. government is considering a legal action to shut the twitter account down. the folks i talked to at twitter said they've heard nothing so far. serious accusations against china this morning that agents working for that country hacked into the computers belonging the the u.s. chamber of commerce. the "wall street journal" says spies may have had access for a year. now, that china spies on and violates american computers is not new. what's new is how straightforward washington and the press are being about there, naming china specifically. >>> on a lighter note, amazon sent a software update to the owners of the fire tablet overnight making the tablet faster and easier to use. it also enables parents to lock access to the store so your kids ca

scott mcgrew explains why. >> microsoft was supposed to roll out an update on its kinect system thatld allow to you do more than just play games, like they're doing here. it would allow you to manipulate media, tell your x-box to play a certain movie or wave your hand and change a channel. microsoft tweeted there would be a delay but we don't know exactly how long that delay will be. >>> from x-box to xxx. instead of dot com, you can get a website at dot xxx. you'll notice we're not showing you any video right now. i think you can understand why. the idea is sites with naughty content can voluntarily sign up for the domain and easier for those types to be filtered so that kids don't see them. >>> ever ask yourself why does an ebook cost as much as a regular book? nobody has to print it or ship it. the european union is wondering the same thing this morning, launching an investigation into apple's business practices, wondering if apple worked with publishers to keep ebook pries high. >>> i am ready to buy myself a dell streak seven? it is too late, killing the tablet experience. what

. >> scott mcgrew has the latest in business headlines. >> this makes a lot of people in san mateo veryvery rich. success factors based on the peninsula. bill mcdermott calls the price tag $3.2 billion justified. it makes business software. it's not very sexy, but $3.2 billion is pretty sexy. it allows s.a.p. to move more of its services into the cloud, just like its competitor, ora e oracle. >> the number two in the cloud and we plan to be number one. >> overall, good day on the markets. netapp folks rang the opening bell. netflix doing surprisingly well even as the post office says it will slow down first-class delivery. netflix is supposed to serve its largest customer. >>> indonesia, near riot in jakarta on the blackberry bold telephone in that country. 5,000 people in line. this is for a phone. you can barely give away in the united states. no one seriously hurt. but the head of research and motion for indonesia faces criminal charges this morning. on friday, research in motion said it would have to write down nearly half a billion dollars in losses on sales of its playbook tablet.

business and tech reporter scott mcgrew has more. >> reporter: well, good morning to you.erly financial reports. oracle's stock fell more than 13% on th%pene1 this morning. other business software doing poorly as well. tidco, for instance, down 11%. while we were shooting a story about some of the new technology shopping. look} that. you kick underneath theÑiiabump of this ford and the tailgate rises. assuming you have the key of course. just some of the new technology where you don't have to press a button. >> this is based upon a lot of the similar technologies you find in video games.q gesture-based technology. so it's almost a bit of a sixth sense. >> for you chevy fans, how about video chat on your dashboard. what could possibly go wrong? onstar relatesing this picture of a system it plans to unveil at the consumer electronics show next month. video chat would only be >>> and a san francisco company has set up a hotline for those people who need a little emergency hall and oats. let's give it añrxd call,qe1 sh? >> welcomeqq to call and oates. your emergency hall and o

scott mcgrew says facebookers are already changing their look. >> good morning.imeline was announce ad month ago but run is been able to take advantage of it until today. it totally change it is way your facebook page looks. take a look at rob's facebook. he has in his typical overachiever fashion beaten the rest of us to changing facebook and adopting timeline. one of our producers says this looks a lot more like myspace. one note, everything have you ever posted on facebook. ever, is going to show up in your timeline. you can erase what you want but do be aware of that fact. your timeline should be enabled sometime today but if it is not you can go to our facebook and we will show you how to turn it on early. that's michael kors there ringing the opening bell this morning on the new york stock exchange. kors clothing company, one of many companies to ipo this week. the next one we expect is zynga. it should price any time now and first day of public trading will be tomorrow, we think. it will trade as the nzgna. if the numbers are right it will be the most valu

. >> scott mcgrew says best buy might be getting a lump of coal for christmas this year. scott?> yeah, this is just flabbergasting. it's hard to think of a way a company could generate bad press than a failure to deliver something you paid for by christmas. but best buy says a small number of gadgets that customers bought on black friday online will not be available by christmas. the sales were canceled by best buy on the best buy support forum on the internet, one poster says "best buy killed christmas." speaking of bad press, oh, look who's opening the dow industrials and the new york stock exchange this morning. yes, it's fedex, the same company that dropped that package you've seen on youtube a million times. fedex having its busiest day. for the second week in a row, first time jobless claims were lower than expected. the lowest since 2008. acame just bought a company called contendo for a quarter billion dollars. back to you. >> thanks so much, scott. >>> santa's workshop is kicking things into overdrive today as santa and his helpers put the finishing touches on christmas

. >>> scott mcgrew joins us with what a letter reveals. >> reporter: this is the letter that cost mark hurd his job as the head of hewlett packard, a court releasing this letter held as evidence in a lawsuit. it's written by lawyer gloria allred on behave of her client, former actress and hostess jody fisher. the letter accuses hurd of repeatedly propositioning and harassing fisher as she worked for hp as a pose tess for out of town parties. here we see fisher in a reality show. there's nothing particularly new in these occasions, but it is the sort of tawdry and distasteful stuff that hp and hurd would like to avoid. everyone concerned has tried to keep the content secret. >>> among the strange accusations that hurd took actress fisher to an atm in madrid, spain, to show her his multi-million dollar bank balance. one of the most damming accusations isn't sexual. it's that heard told fisher about hp's intentions to buy the company eds for $14 billion. now, is everything in this letter true? almost certainly not. even ifs fisher herself denied some of the accusation that is her own lawy

scott mcgrew has that and a new controversy taking place in washington. >> good morning.e got the jobless claim numbers as we do every thursday morning. they were encouraging, under 400,000, the lowest in nine months. now, weekly claims are not the best data because they vary so much. but we will take the good news where we can get it. unfortunately, wall street too busy worrying about europe to notice this good news this morning. senate republicans have blocked president obama's choice to head the new consumer financial protection agency leaving the president to lash out in this press conference. republicans say they will block the head of the agency no matter who it is because they think the agency itself will be too powerful. >>> apple tomorrow will open the doors on its newest apple store the an grand central station in new york city. staffed by more than 300 apple employees and it will feature two genius bars. >>> and take a look at this video. this is melbourne, australia. it's the occupy movement here come the cops because it's illegal to pitch a tent in the park.

scott mcgrew. >> good morning to you.oftware gained about 29% or about 3 bucks as they opened the nasdaq this morning. jive out of palo alto, they're kind of facebook or twitter in the corporate setting. >>> well, it's the second solyndra auction. the first auction raised about $6 million. you'll see none of that because the obama administration structured the loans so that private investors get paid back first. the auction website, including polo shirts from solyndra. they're pretty big. they're 4 xl. not xl or xxl but xxxxl shirts. >>> paul kunz from the linear -- talking to me in 2001, celebrating the tenth anniversary of the very first american website. this week is the 20th anniversary of that very same website. if you look closely as i'm pointing there, that is running on a computer created by steve jobs. 20 years for the web. the internet itself, much older, yes, but 20 years for the web. happy birthday. >> how far we've come. >>> facebook has named sfo one of the world's most social airports. the social networking

bay area's business and tech reporter scott mcgrew joins us now. neither side is very happy with this decision. >> that's right. that's because there are two decisions. both came down about an hour ago. first the court had to decide whether the state of california had the power tore shut down city redevelopment agencies, and the answer there for the supreme court is yes, the state does. the reasoning? the state created redevelopment agencies back in the 1940s. so the state has the right to shut them down against city wishes. that decision disappoints city leaders all over california. >> we're very disappointed. the san jose entered as a plaintiff, entered into the lawsuit because we really believe in the benefit of tax increment financing. it's what brought us significant economic development to san jose and thousands of affordable housing units. >> i said there were two decisions. the second decision a disappointment to both cities and state. it strikes down a plan that city leaders call pay to play which would allow cities to pay sacramento a fee

business and tech reporter scott mcgrew joins us now. zinga is expected to make a strong debut. >> some say it will be the biggest public offering since google. he will ring the opening bell this morning in new york city. some time there after. prices at $10 yesterday. that's for insiders and barngers. he's already a rich man in companies like facebook and because he already sold quite a bit of stock on the private market. mark is a controversial fellow. we'll continue to follow this throughout the day. at 6:30 he rings the opening bell. trading that should start some time later this week. >>> sounds good. thank you, scott. we'll see you for the rest of ty's business headlines. >>> 5:08. the community center is abruptly shutting its doors. administrators say financial trouble is forcing them to shut down the 30-year-old center in walnut creek. they have more than 400 members and features a preschool and an adult day program for seniors suffering from dementia. administrators are meeting with parents at 10:00 this morning. the center will

scott mcgrew joins us. that's a serious proposal. >> with serious science behind it. what scientists and statisticians have found is it doesn't matter how you make the call, it's the call itself. so there is a serious proposal from the national transportation safety board. unless the car is prewired to make calls. no hands-free handsets. this morning ray lahood, the secretary of transportation says he won't support that ban, saying it's hard enough to get people to go hands thf free. only nine states require hands-free cell phone use in a car. some cities have created their own laws. in illinois you can drive with a cell phone, except in chik. microsoft will not go to next month's consumer electronics show. it's been the show's biggest exhibitor, sign of the times. second week in a row. first time jobless claims were lower than expected. the lowest since 2008. that's very good news. 2008 was not itself a very good year. but it's trending well. so that's nice. ampblts holiday tradition could be getting a kiss-off. >> that's right. a nationwide mistletoe shortage. droug