or is the most amazing thing about ramona pearson simply that she is alive at all? >> the bumper of the car hit my throat slicing it open. i ended up with a bunch of trauma. our ajorta comes up behind your heart and it was severed, so my blood was gurgling out of my mouth, it fomd, and horrible things were happened to me. >> math genius and u.s. marine ramona pearson was run down by a drunk driver when she was just 22 years old. the extent of her injuries was staggering. in a coma for 18 months, and when she woke up, she was blind. she remained blind for 11 years. while her body was damaged, her mathematical mind continued to grow. this is pearson today as ceo of her own startup declara, which uses mathematical algorithms to help large companies connect employees. if you're thinking to yourself someone should make a movie about ramona pearson's life, a script writer has already beat you do it. joined by alistair bar of "u.s. today," welcome to the program. kim mcnicholas of pando daily. obviously awful, awful things happened to you, and we'll get to that in a second

and first we will hear from two task force members, and courtney, pearson, and the san francisco aids foundation, and which does amazing work in san francisco and hofmann from the mission neighborhood health center and so, we will turn it over to you. >> great. so thank you, so much supervisor campos and weiner and mar, and we appreciate the opportunity to present on what took about a year, for us to pull together this recommendation document and some other documents from the hiv health reform task force and they had to leave as did other members of the task force and so i am going to represent us and i will try to speak quickly and go through it and answer the questions if there are any. and so my name is courtney pearson and the san francisco aids foundation, as you pointed out in san francisco, our task force really focused on people living with hiv and primarily who are uninsured because we saw for that population the transition would be the or would have the greatest impacts and so we are focusing on the 24 percent of clients who receive ryan white funded of the hiv positive san

pearson's expertise kick into high gear.realizes the firefighters are in imminent danger. >> the smoke has started to catch on fire. that's when everything is starting to go bad real quick. it's starting to get really hot in the room. i'm watching these signs before me unfold and i'm starting to recognize that we're about to be caught in a flashover. >> flashovers are triggered when extreme heat causes all exposed flammable material to ignite at the same time. pearson says flashovers are a firefighter's worst nightmare and almost also a calling card for certain death. >> something very dangerous to the fire service. it deals with temperatures between 1,000 and 1500 degrees. everything in that room, people, furniture, doesn't matter, is going to light. it's going to be on fire at once. >> pearson orders the firefighter to evacuate the building immediately. one makes it outside, but seconds later. >> go, go, go! >> oh, my god. >> tense moments pass. no one knows if anyone still inside is alive. but then pearson and another fir

hampton pearson has that story. >> reporter: they focus on the use on statents to lower the risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes sgl diabetes. >> this is certainly a departure from guidelines where the focus was getting your cholesterol to goal and now the focus is on trying to get started on medication and take the highest dose that you can tolerate. >> reporter: the heart association and american college of cardiology identify four patient groups for whom taking stat tents lorer risk. those with bad cholesterol levels, patients with type two die bee bee ttees and patients a cardiovascular profile. >> the new recommendations really reaffirm the importance on treating cholesterol levels in the highest risk populations. those with established heart disease, those with diabetes and those with genetic cholesterol problems. >> reporter: analysts say there is no question statents are the big gorilla, 214 million prescriptions a year, a 17% increase in the last five years. two of the biggest sellers, lipator has gone off patent. crestor go go off 2015. they say it won't offset the lost rev

hampton pearson has more. [ cheers ] >>> voters in a small city in washington have just approved a $15m wage an hour. they are due for a big pay raise. the first step in a push by organized labor to go çnationa >> people will finally be able to make ends meet without having to work two or three jobs, descent pay, descent benefits. much for the work for the airport but for this come moneyty. >> reporter: in new jersey, the only thing more popular with voters in the reelection of chris christie was a 61% vote approving a constitutional amendment to raise the state's minimum wage to $8.25 an hour in january. california is the first state to commit to a $10 an hour minimum wage by 2016 signed by jerry brown in september. what all three states have in common is a large number of low-age workers and the high cost of living. >> folks at the bottom of the pay scale have been left behind. you have to do something to reconnect their labor, their work, they are trying to get ahead to economic growth because it's not happening the way it used to. >> reporter: 19 states and the district of colombi

hampton pearson as more tonight. >> reporter: at a senate banking commission to become the first woman fed. >> i do. >> reporter: she said the economic stimulus policy but gave no hint of when tapering would begin. >> while there is no set time, we will decide to reduce the pace of our purchases at each meeting we are attempting to assess whether or not the outlook is -- is meeting the criteria that we have set out to begin the pace of purchases. >> reporter: as fed vice chairm chairman, she's been a key ally of bernanke holding key interest rates near 0 since late 2008 and quadrupling the fed's balance sheet to $3.8 trillion done with massive monthly bond purchases. the housing recovery and strong auto sales she says are prime examples of how the stimulus benefitted both main street and wall street. >> we have seen interest rates fall very substantially. lower interest rates, lower mortgage rates, particularly i think have been instrumental in the positive factor. >> reporter: when asked about fed regulation in the future, judged too big to fail, yellen says as chairman a highest prio

for "nightly business report", i'm hampton pearson. >>> the container store began trading on the new york stock exchange today and that's where we begin tonight's market focus. shares of the retailer doubled after pricing shares aabove the expected range, the cceo says he's optimistioptimistic. >> we indicated we can grow absolutely at 10% square footage growth per year minimum so we're looking at double digit growth from here on. it's great to be immature in retail with 63 stores, there is a lot of runway with. it surged to $36.20. >>> weakness in remaining, the country's number two oil company reported gas and oil output increase but not enough to meet estimates. that pressured the stock to close at 118.01. >>> madison square garden posted an earnings beat. net income jumped 16%, that made up for weak revenue generated by radio city music hall. but shares ended the day down at $58.45 a drop of 3.5%. >>> shares of first solar surged after the company boosted the profit forecast for the year. the maker of solar equipment reported earnings yesterday that came in ahead of analysts esti

for "nightly business report", i'm hampton pearson in washington. >>> stocks took off on the news. there was added good news as consumer spending rose and the market slugged off a drop in consumer sentiment. so in the dow rose 167 points to close at an all-time high of 15,761 and the nasdaq jumped nearly 62 and the s&p 500 added about 23.5 points. but interest rates spiked with the ten-year treasury bond hitting 2.75%. one question did arise, if that jobs number was so strong, suggesting the under lying economy is firming up and the markets are concerned with the feds starting to ease up on the bond buying purchases, why did stocks go higher? we asked bob. >> reporter: the surprisingly strong october jobs report pushed interest rates up again today, yields on ten-year treasuries are at six-week highs putting pressure on interest rate sensitive groups like utilities, real estate investment trusts, all of which are down for the week but the idea just because interest rates go up, the stock market is supposed to go down didn't hold water today. yesterday was the worst day for stocks i

behind this table, prime minister pearson of canada and my husband were sitted, flanked by their delegationsi remember james roosevelt and ms. grace tully, the president's personal secretary, it was a thrilling look back into the past. and then from the northernmost part of the country to the southernmost. in october of 1967, returning to mexico a small strip of land that was long a dispute between our countries. what a feeling of goodwill there was that day. the texas congressman from the border districts were here and a delegation from mexico, everyone i felt was saying to himself it is done at last. i can recall some other writing performed at this table. i was showing my guest the rooms on the second floor. we entered the treaty room and as i began my recital, i saw on the table some rather tattered notebooks and chewed pencils, a high school algebra and latin book. it was evident at linda and lucy had discovered what i too would soon learn, that this room is not as conducive to getting work done. -- mighty conducive to getting work done. almost from the beginning, i have used this room

i like your style, hampton pearson. it is chilly out there this morning. but we're going to see such a nice day. san jose at 44 degrees, once the sun starts to make an appearance we're going to see really nice skies all across the bay area. mostly clear, we started out mostly cloud sew we're headed to the upper 50s. in the peninsula a taste of the mid to upper 60s. looking good request in san francisco. look at this. richmond district, 68 degrees so comfortable conditions even in the city by the bay. 69 santa rosa. 66 in fremont. and 71 degrees out in pleasanton. so looking good for a nice finish to the day. then the changes move in. so let's talk about that, what to expect as we get through the next few days. bright sunshine for today. by this weekend it's going to stay mild saturday and sunday. a touch cooler. then as we head through next week the coldest air of the season so far moves in. if you want to know what that means, check out your sunday forecast at the bottom of your screen. we're talking about the 30s and the upper 20s in the north bay so mak

tell graham pearson said he believed japan should or could they kept me at the european pears twelve per cent. the shuttle to the french custom fonts on inference. to visit the gym and did it. chillies fry has capsized of the time result of anti anti six passengers were killed. two hundred trains for him to listen. it was nice to live the night ended around ten pm it is complete i am on sunday. good for anyone into thinking tumble and senate. we see the victims included three times to merchants and one chinese. about twenty other passengers were taken to hospital. police are questioning officials from the printing company is trying to find out what was the accident. ay ay ay ay ay ay. eight i was trying to say and don't like it entailed conveyed that the martian still up and angst. thanks to his balcony and friends cannot current biology. kent fire and attending the new plastic or consent the airline connections of fourteen three dogs when they sold the new images above and beyond spiking details to the grind and kinda laughed in impeding study the group found the extent to land to t

hampton pearson is live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning. >>> we have futures higher after the markets faded late in the day on tuesday. the dow managed a tiny gain which helped it closed in record territory and the nasdaq closed above 4000 for the first time in 13 years. investors will get several economic reports today before we all head out for the holiday. we get data on unemployment, durable goods, manufacturing and consumer sentiment. the dow rising to 16072. the nasdaq to close at 4014 yesterday. a look at the head of the markets and a quick look back. have a great holiday. >> you too. thank you, hampton. hampton pearson in washington, d.c. >>> hewlett-packard said it made more money than analysts expected. p.c. sales fell. barnes & noble said it made money as well but it came from cost cutting. the bookstore, jon and laura, has been closing stores, saving money. that is showing up in the bottom line. they also cited the thing we were citing last year. this year, there was no 50 shades of gray. last year," "fifty shades

julia pearson como su directora y se espera que las prÓximas semanas se den a conocer los resultadosna ley hablo tanto para que el presidente aniquilar maduro gobiernoe in sin limitaciones por 12 meses. aprobaciÓn final de los poderes especiales, maduro ha dicho que los necesita, para combatir la corrupciÓn y la escasez de productos bÁsicos. >>> apto la imposibilidad de combatir la drogadicciÓn en un Área de norte del mÉxico en tijuana, voluntarios buscan prevenir el contagio de sida a travÉs de un programa social distribuyen miyllones de condons y jeringuillas. >>> apenas amianece en tijuana una lucha sin cuartel en varios puntos de la ciudad. este sitio es uno de ellos. >>> te recomiendo y te invito que sivas a utilizar tu propia jeringa, y no tienes otra mÁs, la la ves. >>> una gran mayorÍa que e es inyecta drogas viene a cambiar jeringas utilizadas por nuevas, la lucha contra el virus del sida >>> en el pecho muy fuerte. y va a revivir. >>> crudeza total como revivir a un quebrado el inframundo. a quien tiene un shock por la droga. mientras esto ocurre aquÍ. la doctora remedios l

for that, and the rest of your news before the bell, let's turn things over to our man, hanson pearson. he is live at cnbc's world headquarters. he is in washington, d.c. hampton, good morning. >> reporter: how are you doing, guys? we have futures higher after the markets faded late in the day on tuesday. the dow did manage a tiny gain which helped us close in record territory. the nasdaq closed above 4,000 for the first time in 13 years. investors will get several economic reports before they head out for the holiday. we get data on unemployment, durable goods, nmanufacturing ad consumer sentiments. the dow rising a fraction. the nasdaq closing at 4017 yesterday. meanwhile, ford is recalling 161,000 of those 2013 model es skate suvs worldwide to fix problems that could lead to fires. ford has reported 13 fires in the u.s. and canada that were caused when cylinder heads cracked because of overheating allowing oil to leak on to the hot engine. the recall ford escape equipped with a 1.6 litre ecoboost engine. >>> on the car front, car dealers want in on the black friday action. they are

hampton pearson.r the last several years it seems that each time the fed announces a fresh round of stimulus, commonly called quantitative easing, the stock market moves higher. but a new study out says despite popular belief, fed bond buying has not boosted stocks. joining me is a co-author of that study, richard dobbs of the mackenzie global institute. also, dennis gartman who begs to differ. richard, you said the fed bond buying program has not led to u.s. stocks moving higher. how do you get there? >> well started off by thinking there would be an increase in valuation as a result of qe programs and interest rates. when we went through and looked at valuation levels of the stock market, we couldn't find any departure from long-term rates. so if you look at the pe ratios, price earnings to ratio, ratio to value of the stock to the earnings, or the market to book risch o ratio of companies, this is in line with the 50-year average. obviously, if you expected the quantitative easing programs to have

for more on that and the rest of the news before the bell let's turn to hampton pearson at the washingtond.c. bureau. did you have a good thanksgiving? >> absolutely. i hope yours was great as well. the businesses, first of all we're going to look into the futures are higher as investors head into the final trading day of the month. historically november is positive. december will be too. over the past 10 years, if november is positive the dow and s&p are up in december, 80% of the time. it is just a half day for the markets today, on wednesday the dow closed up 24 points to 16,097, the nasdaq added 27, to close at 4045. as you mentioned groups of walmart workers and supporters are planning protests at 1500 stores nationwide today. they hope to draw attention to what they believe are wages that are too low. protesters believe that walmart and its $17 billion in profits made last year should allow the retailer to boost and pay what workers call livable levels of wages. they say not all of the protesters are walmart workers but because some employees fear retaliation if they criticize the c

and on that video amy's brother richard pearson, an ex-con, and her son michael can be seen making any idea that michael and ric had been out to that chevron? >> no. i didn't. >> reporter: in an audio recording played in court, amy bessey appeared surprised when police told her that her husband had been shot and survived. >> i can see you are upset. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: but prosecutors say she wasn't actually surprised at all. that she had already told a friend that her brother was responsible. >> how do we know that is a feigned surprise? because remember, prior to that interview, before she'd ever been told by detective majors or investigators that her husband had been shot, she already had told julie that her son michael was innocent and that her brother ric was actually the guilty one. >> reporter: what leads people to think they're going to get away with it? >> that just goes to how amateur people are. and they watch television. and they think they can be one step beyond law enforcement. by pulling together some folks and they'll never get caught. they don't think down th

adrienne pearson works at amoeba records on sunset blvd in hollywood, california and says that record labels have worked in an extra incentive to buy vinyl. i could honestly say within the past 5 years vinyl record sales have increased dramatically. a bunch of record labels are actually putting out vinyl that also include digital downloads and you know vinyl sales are going up when you see them at best buy. rainbo records, has seen more than seven decades of changes in the music industry, from records included in a wheaties box, to cassettes, cd's and 8- tracks. sheldon says the digital age couldn't have been more detrimental to his company, but the comeback in vinyls came at the perfect time. vinyl has been the savior for us. after 74 years, it was looking pretty bleak with cds. our cd sales have dropped about 75% since 2008. i was going to scale down the company to a much smaller operation and then the last few years vinyl has taken off. we hired some employees back. 2010 we were at 90, now were at 140 employees. reporting in los angeles for first business news, i'm ky sisson. the c

pearson said that during that time his cousin had a hard time keeping themselves busy. we have no choice. we had no books. we had nothing to play with. so we know all we could do is. i watch. spiders catching flies. we i mean when you mention but of course we will have to ice and so we did he know it as such missions to go. i was planning on booking photo ice in. the as each other's heads gerson said green was even more special to happen on a free stay on at the jewish festival of lights and ran ahead of thanksgiving day you know a comical it also represents to be the traditional jewish victory over the romance of the romans were trying to repress out. and to pay anything to add it to get the nasal saline represents this symbolic the feeling of having freedom and justice fairness and be able to be what you wanted be. so i think it's in a very broken it and today in fact we were going to have a nice celebration of thanksgiving day with the family owned and together with the textile and his nephew. first it really lives in cedar first new york law politics lives in the le

for "nightly business report," i'm hampton pearson. >> and to read more about crowdfunding for dicharity, hea to our website, nbr.com. >>> up next, banks taking steps to educate their customers, but first, a look at how commodities, treasuries, and currencies fared today. gold ending with its worst november since 1978. ♪ >>> almost everyone agrees that america has a financial literacy deficit, but fewer agree how to address it. more and more financial companies are trying, but they still spend more on brand awareness than they do on consumer education. kayla has our story tonight. >> reporter: amid the bills and catalogs, a familiar piece of mail, citigroup, american express, discover, chase, saying act now and be approved for this one-time credit card offer. those letters and banks cost the industry $17 billion a year. a new study from the consumer protection bureau says for every dollar spent, $25 is spent on banks-owned brand, a staggering disparity in resources. >> we need to promote informed financial decision making. >> reporter: this means the majority of information consumers rec

trask says figures like the that compelled the council in 2011 to partner with pearson, an education services company. they formed a joint venture under name, ged testing service, and hired randy trask to overhaul the ged. what is it that was lacking in the old exam? >> if you think about what we've been testing historically, we've been testing knowledge, and what employers are telling us and what colleges are telling us is that it's less about the knowledge and more about being able to use what you know to demonstrate critical thinking skills and solve real-world problems. our new test -- >> reporter: trask says in order to keep up with the times, the test going forward will only be administered by computer. it will be more rigorous to reflect new academic standards that high schools in many states have already adopted to prepare students for college or the workforce. >> take math, for example. can you use that to solve a problem that's interesting to the employer? for example, can you go in using some basic algebra to adjust pricing for a store? it's the application of the knowledg

the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visiting moscow in order to meet with a florida man pearson and artie's to bang not say has been following those meetings for us. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is upping his efforts to get a no deal on iran's nuclear pad to with the p five plus one popping in to moscow in a bid to convince others of his argument. we believe a better deal can be reached it requires persistence and consistency it will be a peaceful solution to iran's nuclear program a solution just like the one that was found for eliminating syria's chemical arsenal but russia is not easily swayed have been repeatedly said a deal that suits all can be reached but i should think negotiations of the p five plus one with iran have shown that such a possibility exists and we're optimistic about these talks france's president francois hollande gave israel another expected shucked of support after rejecting the deal presented in geneva last week but he runs not taking it without a fight. some nations have such relations with tel aviv that they are influenced by their infl

sent a shot they reacted on the same day for this is chris pearson shirt and said i would sacrifice his life with independent of comma and peace in the region. we don't win a japanese politician should be aware of the irresponsibility and become when reflecting on history. when i make efforts to understand the feelings of people in neighboring countries. really you wouldn't know who wins. a show for nancy's post this in a home race at that time is also respected in china. tang said china's proceeding with the project according to regulations on my payment related to foreign countries i knew it is in east africa are not letting up in their campaign of terror two months ago and is a township of staunton molly and i will be shooting shoppers and taking hostages. it is based in somalia and link with al qaeda and attracting increasing number of kenyans an aged care village children who are poets the sixty people died in the attack on a rod's with the intent. it was the candy can eat it though. against a single one of kenya's economy to grow no one to two new books wilf to be pretty. some of

think is equality is a problem but i think so what is the solution and ok great let's get yours let's pearson solution in inequality ok he's going to have to take out the billion dollars a break if you've got a whole most people government you have to break up the stranglehold of the corporations and have only i agree with the bill gates is one of the biggest welfare queens in america as we would probably write we have to solve this problem because i think that libertarians and. aggressors can get a get together on these guys we've got twenty said corporatism in the system is the problem because what happens is the corporations write the regulations tom and then they and then they are captured by the government's regulatory capture that's our government has been so sure someone will agree with me that we should take our copyright laws and reduce the number three years old copy rights and pads three years later thomas jefferson proposed even lesser i mean i'm i'm very much a libertarian when it comes to that kind of thing i don't think that the government should be enforcing that sort of ok we

i was much more important over the many gangsters or corruption in our unions and the pearson he didn't care about that he cared about communism the who's somehow the deadly enemy for him that would disrupt the american way of life on this issue of grover it's pretty well known that he was head of the fbi cooper had dirt on pretty much everyone from of members of congress members of the media everyone and some have argued that he had that black male power over especially everyone because of this. we know about the nsa to spy on everyone not just for our national security reasons but also for diplomatic reasons economic reasons. has the nsa become the new fbi. the nsa makes the fbi to look like amateurs. just like the nsa makes this the stasi the east german secret police to fight the characters. he starts his motto was to know everything about everybody they couldn't do it. a worm farm worse for the new look at the nsa been relieved now have the capability to know anything everything about everybody. and they're doing that. the fact that they've got all this information is stored and th

the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu visiting moscow in order to meet with a florida man pearson and to bang not say has been following those meetings for us israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is upping his the efforts to get a no deal on iran's nuclear pad to with the p five plus one popping in to moscow in a bid to convince others of his argument that it's a bad deal it's a dangerous. because it could see iran as a nuclear threshold nation but russia is not easily swayed have been repeatedly said a deal that suits oh can be reached france's president francois hollande gave israel another expected shucked of support after rejecting the deal presented in geneva last week but iran's not taking it without a fight. some nations have such relations with tel aviv that they are influenced by their influence by the atmosphere that's been created around iran for the five plus one countries which are holding talks with iran it is unbecoming when some of them or indeed one specific nation is being influenced by told the problem cations. so what is this deal that has israel's prime

at syracuse university on monday you had a guest austin pearson whose story about the libertarian view of property rights and using the courts to sue for example a corporation that poison your water or pollute your air yet there was a man in texas who sued a fracking corporation for poisoning his water because he could light a fire and he watched his suit and then to add insult to injury the corporation countersuit him for defamation and won so how can libertarians support a system that clearly favors corporations and also happy belated anniversary to you and louise thinks well thank you that's very sweet. how can libertarians i've never been able to understand how anybody who actually understands libertarian principles can be a libertarian. i mean there was a time when i was in my mid twenty's when i thought i was a libertarian i had basically read a few bumper stickers and flyers and it seemed kind of cool you know yeah let's not have government be all involved in and let's dope and prostitution become a legal you know let's just decriminalize everything that doesn't involve. you kno

but john pearson is standing by, ready to find out who he gets to face in the finals later this week. so, patrick, anne, and becky, good luck. here we go. and the categories now in play... alex: and, patrick, you select first. i'll do movies with structure for $200. patrick. what is "castle"? yes. movies for $400. becky. what is "building"? correct. movies for $600. anne. what is "mansion"? good. movies with structure, $800. becky. what is "cabin"? you got it. movies for $1,000.

at syracuse university on monday you had a guest austin pearson whose story about the libertarian view of property rights and using the courts to sue for example a corporation that poisoned your water or pollute your air yet there was a man in texas who sued a fracking corporation for poisoning his water because he could light a fire and he wants his suit and then to add insult to injury the corporation countersuit him for defamation and won so how can libertarians support a system that clearly favors corporations and also happy belated anniversary to you and louise thinks well thank you that's very sweet. how can libertarians i've never been able to understand how anybody who actually understands libertarian principles can be a libertarian. when there was a time when i was in my mid twenty's when i thought i was a libertarian i had basically read a few bumper stickers and flyers and it seemed kind of cool you know yeah let's not have government be all involved in and let's dope and prostitution become it legal you know let's just decriminalize everything that doesn't involve. you know