pea body, sandisk and verizon. very nice gains there.hat's it for us at "power lunch." >> i hope you'll come back tomorrow, will you? >> i liked it so much, back tomorrow. >> save some of those oreos for me, will you? >> i will. >> "street signs" will begin right now. >>> the good news is we have a debt deal. the bad news, t minus 90 days until we're back at square one with the same fight ahead and more bad news, we still have the same congress. we're hitting all kinds of stock stories but we want to hear from you. what do politicians need to do to win you back? >> okay. with a deal in the books this is where the markets are standing. small and mid caps are at all-time highs. the s&p 500 has taken out its record close of 1725, and it is really only a few points from

pea body, sandisk and verizon. very nice gains there. that's it for us at "power lunch." >> i hope you'll come back tomorrow, will you? >> i liked it so much, back tomorrow. >> save some of those oreos for me, will you? >> i will. >> "street signs" will begin right now. >>> the good news is we have a debt deal. the bad news, t minus 90 days until we're back at square one with the same fight ahead and more bad news, we still have the same congress. we're hitting all kinds of stock stories but we want to hear from you. what do politicians need to do to win you back? >> okay. with a deal in the books this is where the markets are standing. small and mid caps are at all-time highs. the s&p 500 has taken out its record close of 1725, and it is really only a few points from its all-time intraday high of 1729.86. as for the dow see it's a little red there, it would be higher if it wasn't for ibm, unh and goldman sachs. let's get straight to the trading floors. bob pisani at the nyse. let's move over washington for a second, at least for a while

so take the size of a pea and spread out a city block, that's how atoms are, most of them. so these things go right through our body without ever making a direct hit. you get, maybe, one direct hit per year on the average, one got me, okay? very, very seldom, okay? you know what? 1987, the supernova-- the supernova in the heavens-- and showered the whole universe with neutrinos. and neutrino flecks were so enormous that about one out of every 248 people, something like that, got one of those neutrinos, caught one and the rest went just right by through us, right through the other side, never, never making a direct hit. why? because the space between the little particles of the atom are enormous compared to the size of the particular nucleons or electrons. kinda neat, huh? so if there's a great big beam of neutrons coming right by, you just walk right through 'em, and they go right through the other side and they'll register just as much on here whether you're on the beam or not. do neutrons have more effects than neutrinos? it turns out-- i should say, a beam of neutrons, you would have more hits with a neutron tha

he said, yeah, a very -- it's a just as prestigious as pea body. so i said temperature two prestigious awards. i said, don't you think it's odd you got it wrong about a journalism award, and he says, al do you want to good after me, go ahead. so i say, okay. so, -- [laughter] >> so i called the "washington post," and i tell him the whole thing, and he called bill, and bill says, al has a jihad against me. so i got a poke. now, bill -- i had sort of expected bill to go gee, al, thanks. okay, i'll finish for now. i could go on all day. >> i know you could. >> and i know you could -- >> just about have. just about have. >> you tell 'em, bill. >> supposed to be on for 15 minutes, this idiot goes 35. all he has gotten in six and a half years i misspoke, i labeled a poke aired of pea boyd. he writes in the book -- >> no, no no. >> shut up. you had your 35 minutes. shut up! >> this isn't your show. >> this is what this guy does. >> take control, pat, come on. >> i think -- wait a minute. i think i need a striped shirt and a broom. >> maybe i went on along

[laughter] and i said i saw you on c-span, you said you -- inside edition won two pea bodies, well, we did. i said, well, you really should talk to the peabody people, because they don't think you did. you remember this? he says, okay, it was a poke. i say a poke? he said, yeah. it's a very -- just as prestigious as the peabody. i said so there are two most prestigious awards in journalism? he said, al, it's very, very prestigious. i said, okay, don't you think it's odd that you got it wrong about a journalism award? [laughter] and he says, al, if you want to go after me, go ahead. so i say, okay. [laughter] so i call "the washington post." i call roy grove at the washington post, and i tell him the whole thing, and he calls, calls bill, and bill says al has a jihad against me or something. now, bill -- see, i sort of expected bill to go, gee, al, thanks. [applause] >> okay, i'll finish for now. i could go on all day. >> i know you could. >> and i know -- >> you just about have. you just about have. >> you tell him, bill. >> we were supposed to be on here for 15 minutes. this idiot goe