n're's nick thompson. ne reporter: amazon's choice of new york and the d.c. suburb of arlington, virginia, had been a poorly kept secret. but with today's official announcement, the retail giant n tailed what the two cities ,0t: $5 billion in investments and 50,000 jobs, each earning an average of $150,000 a year. jay carney is amazon's senior vice president. >> we need a lot of tech employees, software developers, computer scientists, tech hgineers, and both cities have available talent locally. en reporter: the news ended a grand, 14-month marketing campaign that inspired 238 cities to go to enormous lengths to win the prize, some of it bordering on the absurd. the mayor of kansas city, missouri, wrote 1,000 amazon product reviews and posted a lfdeo of himself doing it. but amazon may be the biggest winner, getting more than $2 billion in tax giveaways, as well as a massive amount of marketing data that the 20 finalists handed over, all of which gives the online retail giant a leg up on its marketing, icipping, and logistics decisions. the cities clearly be

here is nick thompson. >> reporter: amazon's choice of new york and the d.c. suburb of arlington, virginia, had been a poorly kept secret, but with today's official announcement, the retail giant detailed what the two cities get, $5 billion in investments and 50,000 jobs, each earning an average of $150,000 a year. jay carney is amazon's senior vice president. >> we need a lot of tech employees, software developers, computer scientists, engineers, and both cities have available talent locally. >> reporter: the news ended a grand 14-month marketing campaign that inspired 238 cities to go to enormous lengths to win the prize. some of it bordering on the absurd. the mayor of kansas city, missouri wrote a thousand amazon product reviews and posted a video of himself doing it. but amazon may be the biggest winner, getting more than $2 billion in tax giveaways as well as a massive amount of marketing data that the 20 finalists handed over, all of which gives the online retail giant a leg up on its marketing, shipping, and logistics decisions. the cities clearerly be

nick thompson/resident"pray for paradise."d the fifth day that thousands of evacuees have been out of their homes because of the camp fire. a whole section of the parking lot at walmart in chico, is dedicated to clothing donations.. fire victims sort through the racks as more community members drive in to drop off more supplies. evacuees say they are thankful for the people taking the time to help. the volunteers say they are here for as needed. ( james ) the devastation in paradise is also affecting the firefighters who are working to put out the flames. david hawks has served as the fire chief for paradise for the last five years. now he says 90 percent of the town is in rubble. even his childhood home is lost. ( james ) hawks does say he is optimistic for the rebuild of paradise. saying the city w

think there's a risk that's even broader and larger than that jared lanier has an interview with nick thompson"wired" magazine this week which gets to it, it is idealism why they want to google and other social networks google famously in the ipo and original manifesto said don't be evil that was put there by people that wanted to make sure it stayed in the dna, but it has been pushed down in later company statements i think what you're seeing, whether it is twitter, facebook, and google, they're just doing things that are destructive to our social discourse, allow bullying, false things to go online it is not something that can be government regulated, but people at these companies went there for idealistic reasons and some of them have to be waking up every morning and saying am i still doing a good thing >> indeed. thank you. issues we'll continue to wrestle with for awhile. >> thanks. >>> major averages in the red. dow down almost 200 points, close to session lows, led lower by cat, apple, boeing. crude is obviously a story managing to hold above 60, but fell below it first time since marc