motorola mobility and motorola solutions, whose president and c.e.o. is greg brown. earlier today, i asked him what he thinks of today's unemployment report. >> it's a step in the right direction. obviously unemployment falling for from 9.8% to 9.4% is a good thing. i'm optimistic. i think that the trajectory is clearly the right direction. and i think there's some momentum to be excited about. obviously a lot more to do. >> reporter: what is it going to take to get companies hiring again? >> well, i think it's a combination of things. i'm thrilled that the president in a bipartisan fashion extended the bush tax credits. i think the notion of raising taxes as we are in the embryonic stages of this economic stages of this economic recovery was not a good thing to do. i also liked the president proposing ratification of the south korean free trade agreement. every billion of exports supports 5,000 jobs. >> couric: you were part of a group of c.e.o.s that met with president obama last month. what did you tell him the government could do to help spur job growth? and was

motorola solutions includes professional business lines like police radios. it also trades here-- ticker symbol "m-s-i". >> tom: the big apple has set a big record-- more than 48.5 million people visited new york last year. that's despite an outbreak of bedbugs and a volcano in iceland that grounded air travel in europe for days. tourism is new york city's fifth biggest industry. last year, it generated about $31 billion in direct spending and added 6,600 jobs to hospitality industry payrolls. >> susie: where do corporate leaders come from? a new study shows many come from the military. tim kane did that study, and shares his results. he's a research fellow at the kauffman foundation. >> the odds of a veteran becoming ceo of a major us company are roughly three times higher than non-veterans. that either means the military is overflowing with great leaders, or it is mismanaging and driving away its best captains. let me share with you the results of a survey i conducted of 250 west point graduates from the classes of 1989 through 2004, recruited blindly. 93%

. >> the motorola xoom and the motorola playbook and the xoom honeycomb is optimized for the larger screen. >> and the moral playbook will work with the 40 network and a from freezing camera. a rear facing a camera that can take pictures and front facing camera with ht video and hvm by output. and play content and what would your output within hvm like people. no price yet for the xoom and the blackberry playbook. this is for people that like a black. what they tablet with black. features. it will run on the blackberry tablet 0 s. similar to a black. with property, even now, security, and document creation. work-related. everything greed about the smart phone blackberry will transfer on to this table it. this is smaller, 7- engines, the latest. at 0.9 lbs.. seven-inches, and a front facing camera, replacing chemical record high definition video. $39- $599. the play book is set for february release of the latest release is that it could be delayed until april. $399, and if these can take on the ipad will should know by april. gabriel slate's tech report.

motorola is touting their zoom tablet and slightly larger than the ipad and dual cameras. it's supposed to hit the market in march. another big buzz word this career, 4g. vergzon says ten new smart phone advantage of the network, though 4g is still not available in many areas. >>> the san francisco zoo shows offw addition. >>> and will the cold foggy weather stick around through the weekend? a good chance it will. our meteorologist tells us whert the most. >> maybe you've seen them, the street polls or bike racks wrapped in knitted yarn. they're something known as yarn bombs or graffiti knitting. ktvu caught up with one artist. she says the idea is to bring a smile to those that see her works. mark is here now with the weathd the weekend is just about here. another cold weekend you think?h that's right. especially heading into the satd we need a storm system to mix out the low clouds and fog, and could happen into next week. and i can show you this on live storm tracker 2, and that cloud bank seeping into the bay especially around the delta where temperatures are held in c

. >> the high studies, there's a correlation, the low quality studied by motorola, no correlation. >> actually i saw a lot more people the next day were going to be arrested. we blockaded the street about three days in a row. >> i don't know how to take a smart meter off again, but i'm going to figure it out. >> reporter: pg & e saying it was not invited did not attend this situation. reporting live consumer editor tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a nice day around the bay area today, but that fog is rolling in tonight for the latest on the forecast, let's check in now with our chief meteorologist bill martin. >> it's rolling in from the central valley. and as it fills up in the central valley, the northeast winds are going to push it over into our area, so i'll pull out a little bit and you can see what i'm talking about here. you get fog out in stockton, the northeast wind which blows this way filters to the low lying ground. there'll be more of it tonight than we saw this morning. it was a doze of it, it burned off. we got a lot of sunshine but because of the start with the fog

motorola that is the top contender with its zoom but not until this summer.ell, samsung, the wind pad, acor but nothing yet from sony. tablet and tablet accessories rival the phones and phone accessories. dual window pads opened like a book. and more accessories than you can shake a smart phone at. this one is a game controller for tablets that mounts with suction cups. speaking of games, angry birds were everywhere. mattel even introduced a real life version. your digital version has an advantage though. you don't need to rebuild your pig palace after every shot. with the next step in tablets, richard hart, abc 7 news. >> 4:52 this morning as you get out of bed, what, you wanted to go back in, is that what it is. >> don't get out of bed if you don't have to. >> what are temperatures like? >> very cold. definitely. take a look outside, show you the reason why it's so cold and i'll show you those temperatures. looking down from mount tamalpais this morning. see sausalito there in the foreground. the background san francisco in the way background, probably frem

>> motorola, this is the highest horsepower device we have seen in the ipad category, the zoom. this guy has so many different bells and whistles. the first one on the back, you'll see most of these, cameras. the ipad doesn't have a camera. >> that's right. >> the ipad 2 comes out, we expect it will. one thing you look at the tablet for is it will be great for video conferencing, but on the ipad, you can't do it, there is no camera. all of thee these devices are saying we're going to be in the camera space, we can play high def video and have faster processors. it is about giving you more than apple does in the physical device. >> what else do you have? >> this guy i love here this is from seuss, huge in net books. it is a tablet, why is this one so interesting? open the back and flip it forward like so. and you get the keyboard. >> that's nice. >> right. >> that's nice. that's what's missing in all of the tablets. >> these are consumption devices a lot of us believe, more than creation devices. you want to tap out a two, three paragraph e-mail on a touch screen, i don't. this g

business group, microsoft, goldman sacks, motorola, westinghouse, general electric, coca-cola, dupont, dow, boeing, intel, carlisle group, hsbc and cargill. china's business group, lenovo, group and hire. question, china's raid surplus with the u.s. was $275 billion. so how significant, mort, is this bundle of deals yielding $45 billion? >> well it's still $45 billion, which as we see, that ain't change. it's a significant amount, but the real advantage that we are gonna have to build on is not low-cost manufacturing because we're never going to be able to compete not only with china but a whole series of companies to compete with us because they have much lower costs. we have to find a way to keep the people who have the great technological skills in our graduate schools who get to be m.a.s and ph.ds in this country. instead, we are allowing very few of them to stay. we're forcing them to go abroad, even those who want to stay. they now compete with us. in the computer industry, which was an american industry born and bred, we have 160,000 people who work here in the computer industr

while technically you can't lay your hands on half of them until later this year, motorola has the topontender in the xoom. but it won't come until this summer. around the corner are pocket book, touch screen, the kobe reader and the windows pad and samsung's galaxy, the window pad, acer iconists, but nothing yet from sony. in floor space, tab let and tab let accessories rival phone and phone accessories. there were dual window pads including a virtual book. 1k3* more accessories than you can shake a smartphone at. this one is a game controller that mounts with suction cups. and angry birds were everywhere. mattel even interest -- introduced a real life version. your game has an advantage though. richard hart, abc7 news. >> angry birds, it makes me angry sometimes. i get stuck on that. >> do you really? >> it is cold outside. >> some locations are below the freezing mark right now. it is setting up to be a cold night. this is it a live shot from the high definition mount -- from our camera. gone is the fog. we still have some in the valley areas. no fog out there, and just clear skies.

at motorola's through the village post office through it all the children here can become a part of his magical world. which is why we went to his bedroom and his dining hall and his guest room but aside from the fantasy of it all there was also a practical side to the village. helpers are part of a special college in terms programme from about the start it's all about the smile you know it's a joy to see a child smile we also learned how to make children believe our tale it is said that the land of the buildings in all of these decorations cost around thirty three and a half million dollars but it's not just for show the organizers say it's so that the people here can know the true meaning of the new year. high hopes hopes that we will accomplish more next year than we did this year hopes that we do more and correct the mistakes other people make politicians for instance we magicians have to correct the mistakes they make but life in the village isn't one long fairy tale there are some grumblings the magic kingdom is costing too much and the money could have been better spent helping c

motorola formal split into two companies is the years long break up of the pioneer. the separation began in 2008 late date by two simple businesses to investors. >> seven companies are so in toyota now to cover cost over the crush a spirit damages and $230,000 from 14 crushes threat the united states they were filed in loss angeles superior court. >> coming up the end of an era for nancy pelosi as she began her final days as speaker of the house. as a smaller meters will pg&e is planning to install the controversial meters. it could be the big day for lottery players as the numbers for the seventh largest lottery prize in u.s. history will be drawn tonight. kron 4 continues after this break. cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc we are following this developing story of a whirling new jersey. this complex up in flames this is video of the fire from a short time ago. firefighters having a difficult time. they are attacking from the air and the ground. it's a four story complex involved in flames. no injuries reported. calls of the smoke smell was as cars from manhattan. >>

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motorola ringing the bell on the new york stock exchange because they are celebrating the spin-off, the two separate companies we talked about one handling the corporate business, the bar coding and the other one handling cell phones. now you can buy two different shares. >>> big week this week. we get car sales numbers coming in any time now this morning and then retail numbers for december coming in. it's expected to be a pretty good december. so we'll get those numbers this week and we'll get you -- there's the numbers today. right now the dow jones up 18 points so far. >> that's a good reason to smile. >> yeah. >>> say good morning to you. thank you for joining us here on the ktvu morning news tuesday january 4th. i'm dave clark. >> good morning. i'm pam cook. time now 6:30. we want to update you on this  big overnight news from the san mateo county coast. right now emergency crews are still closely watching that 65- foot fishing boat that is filled with thousands of gallons of diesel fuel. it is still rocking in the rough waters of half-moon bay state beach. that's where ktvu's j

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