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. >>> melissa gates is on a spending spree, spending billions and billions and billions. >> it feels lissa and her husband, bill gates, have spent at least $28 billion on causes ranging from tetanus to combatting homelessness in their home state of washington. >> i don't always come with a camera. >> what, for you, is the best part about this job? >> the best part is when you see somebody lifting their family up out of poverty and it is changing the trajectory of their life. to me, it is incredibly rewarding. >> it is not the life gates imagined when she was a little girl in texas. her father was an engineer, her mother stayed home. by the time she met bill in 1987 she was already a solo success. she had earned her mba, purchased her own home and was a manager at microsoft. gates married bill in 1994 and has devoted much of her time since to raising her three kids, the 49-year-old mom says her kids inspire her to fight for the things she believes in. one of the reasons she is determined to make sure american educators do the same thing. one of the causes she feels most passionately ab
. >>> melissa gates is on a spending spree, spending billions and billions and billions. >> it feels lissa and her husband, bill gates, have spent at least $28 billion on causes ranging from tetanus to combatting homelessness in their home state of washington. >> i don't always come with a camera. >> what, for you, is the best part about this job? >> the best part is when you see somebody lifting their family up out of poverty and it is changing the trajectory...
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melissa: investor tuning out of lion -- lions gate after investor earnings.icole petpet at new york stock exchange. >> later in the day we'll have rebalancing. there will be heavy volume going into the closing bell, folks. keep an eye on that. if it closes higher it will be 14th of year. that is big deal for s&p. take a look at lie ons gate. movie other and movies and television. movies didn't do well for lions gate. hercules and frankenstein were not great. without "hunger games" and "twilight." it was not a great time for lions get. when you talk about television, "mad men," "orange is the new black." they have a hand in that. that helps them along. it was a little disappointing. the stock is tells how people are accepting this one to the downside, down 12%. melissa: nicole, thanks so much. >>> the california senate approves a bill to raise the minimum wage to $13 an hour as lawmakers from cities and states across the country push for similar measures. charlie and james is back with us as well as our own charles payne. this is astounding to me. california a
melissa: investor tuning out of lion -- lions gate after investor earnings.icole petpet at new york stock exchange. >> later in the day we'll have rebalancing. there will be heavy volume going into the closing bell, folks. keep an eye on that. if it closes higher it will be 14th of year. that is big deal for s&p. take a look at lie ons gate. movie other and movies and television. movies didn't do well for lions gate. hercules and frankenstein were not great. without "hunger...
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gate. do you ever have too much money? melissa: investors giving a top rating to yelp's stock.hares soaring after earnings report. nicole petallides at new york stock exchange. with more on that one. got to love the chart. >> it's a beautiful one today, if you're a shareholder you're happy to see a jump you're seeing for yelp today, up about 10% as we speak at 64.14. they came out with revenue pop of 66%. part of that at least was due to local advertising. they also saw unique visitors growing more than 50%. so that was huge for them to about 61 million in the latest quarter. and they are expanding what they do from now to restaurant bookings, events management and payments. also, moving on and buying a san francisco-based online reservation. that will compete with open table. -- seat me. yelp is not just review website anymore. seems they're expanding platform and analysts love it too. melissa: nicole petallides, thank you so much. there was a big problem in medicine antibiotics happening right now. in the world health organization has made statements that antibiotics we are u
gate. do you ever have too much money? melissa: investors giving a top rating to yelp's stock.hares soaring after earnings report. nicole petallides at new york stock exchange. with more on that one. got to love the chart. >> it's a beautiful one today, if you're a shareholder you're happy to see a jump you're seeing for yelp today, up about 10% as we speak at 64.14. they came out with revenue pop of 66%. part of that at least was due to local advertising. they also saw unique visitors...
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trillionair status you have to start something starting already so bill gates is a candidate for it, 15 years down the line. melissa at entertainment, what about beyonce? they totally redefined how to be. redefined how to make money, how to build an empire. always thinking of the new way to create a new learning category. >> the first trillionair has to be innovative and generate cash in different ways that don't exist now. melissa: what about a russian oligarch? >> no. that is not a real economy. it is and oil economy, that will develop new technology, that will reward the creators and when you create things it is likely to be sold and there. i am an optimist. i'm assuming we will go back to the traditional american economic model and the pendulum will swing back from the obama era. assuming that happens we have a lot of strength, we have an energy revolution and rule of law. >> is it take related? >> technology of energy figuring out new ways to get oil gas out of the ground or beverly hills if this fracking and doesn't go through. but i think this is still place even with all our results that people want to star
trillionair status you have to start something starting already so bill gates is a candidate for it, 15 years down the line. melissa at entertainment, what about beyonce? they totally redefined how to be. redefined how to make money, how to build an empire. always thinking of the new way to create a new learning category. >> the first trillionair has to be innovative and generate cash in different ways that don't exist now. melissa: what about a russian oligarch? >> no. that is not...