. >> the ya mrks arma. >> you mentioned that the school will be underground. could it possibly be above ground? >> if bombs fall, the children will be safe underground. >> if the number of illiterate people increases, syria will stop developing. the children are our pope for the future, and we have. the charity auction raised about 32,000 there are. . if illiteracy rises. the children are our only hope. we must help them. >> like millions of syrian ds. she does hold parts in gentleman japan to make period breakthrough. >>> time now to get a check on the weather. as we've been reporting, people in northern japan are dealing with incredible mts of notice t. >>> mary katherine, hef. maybe they're seeing things to tore off, however, it's going to be a very short break unless you see. a krols the rest of japan, there may be a few chasz of. and the temperatures will be on the rise. take a look at that the. with these kind of temperatures, you may need a light coat in the evening ourd. . also toward the korean peninsula as well as, making things very dry and clear an

i'm talking about one of the great american companies, merck, mrk, the pharmaceuticals giant that's stumbled more times in the last few months than a college kid on st. paddy's day. since early december, the early pharma names have roared. pfizer up 12%, bristol miers up. i'm typical of my eighth anniversary, i somehow got blue ink on my hand. and cell gene jumped 43%. meanwhile, merck has done nothing. it's actually down about 1% over the same period. right now there are reasons merck has underperformed the rest of the ones. in december, the good -- in december, the company got bad clinical trials from a new cholesterol drug that they were working on. and i thought it was going to be a big one, i have to tell you. so merck decided to stop development here in the u.s. and pull the drug overseas where it was already approved. this was one that i thought was just going to be the blockbuster. and then on february 1st, we learned that merck plans to delay submitting their osteoprosis drug to the fda until they have new data pushing back to 2014 maybe at the earliest. and just yesterday we learne

i have a roth ira and it contains pepsico, pep, merck, mrk, oracle and emerson electric, emr and sun su. and i just want to be diversified, but i wanted your opinion if i should dump sun corps energy and switch to the mondeliz international? >> no, keep the sun corps energy and once a favorite of gary kaminsky who i will miss a great deal. oracle bought that, and i think we have a good number last week and pepsico is a beverage company and snacks and emerson industrial and we have oil, we've got industrial, snacks and soft drink, carbonated and we've got water, too, and we have tech and we have drug. i don't know. that seems darn good to me. i wouldn't make any changes. >> let's go to john in wyoming. john? >> all right. i have center point energy, which is cnp. bristol-myers squibb, which is bmy, ge, ge in waste management and it's wm and kellogg. am i diversified? >> john came to play clearly from laramie? a national park, it will close because of the sequester they're worried about. we have cereal, okay? we've got consumer packaged goods and bristol-myers, my charitable trust owns

. >> does it seem the mrks is administration is upset about the trip?ey are pretty much ignoring the trip, dismissing it all together. privately, officials are mortified that not only is dennis rodman the only u.s., only american that has gotten to lay eyes on kim jong-un, but basically, that they're being asked by us and a lot of other journalists, are you debriefing dennis rodman? they say we're not going to talk to the worm about north korea, but it highlights the fact that the u.s. and north korea have zero relations. in the period since president obama took office, north korea has launched two nuclear tests, three long range missile tests and is quickly gaining the capability to put a warhead anywhere on earth. their policy isn't working. clearly, they don't want to rely on dennis rodman to do their diplomacy. >> a lot of people are making jokes, a lot of others brought up the notion of sports diplomacy, likening it to the ping-pong diplomacy between the u.s. and china. is that like that or something different? >> the u.s. does engage in a lot of s

. >>> mrk zuckerberg unveiled a new facebook speed today that promises to revolutionize the way we seen vacation. zuckerberg said with the improved new speed facebook hopes to give the world the best personalized newspaper as we can. he's playing with the word newspaper, it's not that your friend jodie went to panera bread, it's north korea planning to attack. the panera bread isn't news. >> sheryl sandberg has made it to the top of a male dominated silicon valley. >> she's written a new and controversial book about women in the workplace in an interview for this sunday's "60 minutes" she says why she thinks we're not seeing more women in leadership roles. >> women gained more and more leadership roles for many years and ten years ago the trend has been totally flat women have had 14% top jobs in corporate america and any trend i've seen in business that goes up for a while and then goes flat then goes down. that's the trend. >> you think women's progress has plateaued? >> in many ways women's progress has not plateaued. they're getting more college and graduate degrees. where they're

. >>> then the supreme court hearing arguments for and against do mrk a, the defense of marriage act.to the lawyer who challenged the law, roberta kaplan. >>> protesters taking to streets are fighting to keep 54 chicago public schools from closing. we're going to hear from both sides of that issue this morning. and in response to two ohio teens being convicted of rape a group of college students have made a video showing what you could do if you're there. this is a video right here, if a girl is passed out drunk on the couch. surprising twist in the city? we'll talk to them this morning. >> interesting video. i'm glad that you're highlighting it. thank you. >>> 45 minutes past the hour. the first full week of spring and a lot of us are still shivering in these parts. jennifer is live in the cnn weather center in atlanta. we're hope that you're going to bring us some warmer temps. >> we are. we're going to warm things up. i know a lot of people are begging for sunshine and it looks like we're going to start to see that warpiming trend happening today. it's only going to be short lived.