there's another product called star fire, and that they're opti white is another name, that is nor clear. this is more clear. you can see on the edge, even though we're picking it up, this glass is a little more clear. there's another product called water white which is as clear as plastic, and just really, really clear. and so that's your next grade up in terms of being truly clorlless coralles coralless co. >> tiffany has a product which has as little barrier as possible. >> tiffany does not want you looking at green diamonds. the new laminated glass gives us different directions on what we can do. certainly we see that used in glass walkways. we're doing -- and of course the code on what can be used for a sky light that you can walk on, a walking surface, is very antiquated, as it's written -- >> it certainly is. it was originally written for the subsidewalk basement areas and other areas where the glazing is broken up into little squares. do you still replace those little glazing squares for the sidewalk? >> we have circles, walking down market street, which again tells you how old a

>> well, i think the problem is the is that we havehis polical stalemate in which there was no opti to expend them only for income bow $250,000. it was clear that if the republicans and democrats didn't come to this deal they were going to expire for everyone and it would have been happening at a time when the economy was really weak and there's reason to worry about what the impact would have been. we don't know but there's reason to worry. i think there's relatively little reason to worry that a modest tax increase-- either closing loophes, whi i prefer, or raising some rates, which there's a strong case for-- has on the economy. we've been through this twice. bi clinton raid rates at the top, there were all kinds of predictions of doom. larry kudlow said on cnbc it's going to throw a wet blanket over the recovery. they were all wrong. the 1990s were a great period of economic growth. the taxncreases didn't cause the boom but it didn't prevent them, either. then we had a big tax cut in 2001 and 2003 and there were these predictions it would lead to really great economic growth and in

optis s 11 options -- 1,0001 havbefoe to default. a lot of republicans being told it doesn't matter, it would actually be good for the country. kind of flummoxes me but that's what a lot of them think. we're going to need a lot of democratic votes to pass this in the house. whether they can get them i don't know. it's still not a done deal. but right now it's pretty easy to declare there's a political winner in this. it's the president. that's pretty clear at this point. maybe they'll be able to change it and turn it around but it's going to be pretty tough. >> here's why the president is not the political winner in. this if he was the political winner why is the generic republican candidate beating him by eight points in the recent gallup poll. why is his job approval dropping including gallup to the low mid 40s range? the president's number have been coming down this whole process as well. so has congress's. this is the ultimate pox on both houses. there is no winner in this whole mess. and as far as the whoelt notion of is default