jc penney is the clear western. ev -- winner. company's margins continue to expand, including a 350 basis point upcrease in t point increase. macy's comes in second, despite its earnings per share coming down 28.6% the last quarter. in third we have this dillard's which saw market erosion, but worse was kohl's. you might wonder what could be more hideous, how about nordstr nordstrom. fifth place, down 60%, actually a little lower than that. the company's spending heavily. sears, losing money hands over fist saw a dramatic last quarter. ouch. the next thing, major insight in the ability of these stores to remain solvent. dillard's comes in first place. in terms of the company's actual survival. that means the store is safe. nordstrom comes in second, even though they have $1.15 billion in debt. macy's comes in third. it has a cleaner balance sheet than nordstrom as a vast bulk of macy's debt doesn't come due until 2020. and even though it's spread out over the following two decades, macy's has over $1.1 billion in cash. however, m

penney and it flopped. macy's was ahead of the competition. largest retail apparel stores in the country, and now trying to reinnovate to keep momentum to the stores. >> i want to play off the pun on eating lunch. we have a chipotle story today. the stock, there it is, at a three-year low earlier in the day today. it bounced back. there's an analyst that warned that chipotle could have customers that are lost for good. in other words, never coming back because of the e.coli crisis. gold member -- i mean scott. is that something that you -- have you been back to chipotle? i've been back, full disclosure twice since the crisis. melissa: not me. >> were you a chipotle guy number one and you have been back since? >> that's the thing. i never really was. i've been back since the scare, i'm the wrong guy to ask. to say they've lost customers completely seems wrong to me. customers always come back unless you really blow it. i think chipotle's problem is they haven't changed the menu in years. no innovative food concepts there. that's the thing when

it shows a man using a rock to shatter a window at jc penney. he heads towards the jewelry cases. he went on to clear the cases of most of the items in just 7 minutes. >> that is quite a lot. i mean that's quite a lot of jewelry and a loss to jc peney. >> police believe the suspect had been in the mall before the incident to plan out the crime. either way they say it is always possible he could attempt to rob other stores in the area. the prospect of theft concerns jewelry rothie. he owns a jewelry store a half a mile away. >> as a jeweler, i am here in 30 years in constantly it is in my mind. security safety of my store and me. >> now, police ask if you have any information about this case, that you either contact them or the crime solvers of montgomery county. from montgomery county. john henry, wusa9. >>> montgomery county police are offering up to $10,000 in reward money for tips that lead to an arrest. >>> the u.s. navy says a pill of a blue angel jet died in a crash near smyrna, tennessee. the pill had taken off for a practice flight when the plane went down. no one on the g

penney or sears. >> well, i mean sears absolutely not. sears is sell. j.c. penney -- don't buy. walmart? i'm telling people, walmart is could. how about vincent in missouri. vincent? >> caller: hi, jim. thanks for taking my call. >> okay. >> caller: my concerns are i bought a stock called rr donnelly and i noticed in an article that they're going to go forward, i think, with a spinoff in october. >> right. >> caller: resulting in thee companies. >> right. >> caller: i own about 300 shares of it. do you have any ideas -- >> well, i pulled it up yesterday. street.com had a conference and i pulled up with tim quinlan who's the ceo. i feel more strongly than ever that the three companies are going to produce a good return. the chart is good, too. i think rr donnelly should be bought and bought aggressively. i see 18 coming. it's 16.59 now. quinlan is doing a dynamite job as his own internal activist. lesson learned, when the stories wall street watches the most are positive not negativing investors find reasons to buy stocks. right now they're investing in stocks with the best inter

penney. >> trevor: i wasn't sure you were done. >> i wasn't.ounding fathers (bleep) the second amendment. what arms are we allowed to bear? do we only get guts if we're in a militia? what's a militia? something that sounds like you name your fourth daughter when you've run out of other names. hi, i'm militia! if she's your fourth daughter, she's not going to be that well regular laid. (audience reacts) she's a fake person! (laughter) so i don't know what happened with the people who wrote the second amendment. maybe they were so excited about finally finishing the first amendment, which which knocked out of the park, by the way, or maybe they couldn't wait to run home and have some slave sex. (audience reacts) oh, don't boo the slaves! they've had it hard enough! (laughter) it's a bad amendment! >> trevor: look, michelle, i don't think i'd disagree, but these are the founding fathers! >> oh, like we all like our fathers. sure. they did some great stuff, but they had just broken up with england. have you ever made a good decision right after a b

you don't get that at jc penney. >> i know when you suit shop -- >> i get the sonoma.ou like the suit? actually it's very tight on me. >> is it? >> my wife said it looked good on the way out. >> form fitting. >> yeah. i don't like the way it feels. but the sonoma i love the way it feels, but people don't want to see me in sonoma. these are kohl's brands, david. when we shop at kohl's together it is going to be eye opening. the house wears section is going to blow you away. >> blow me away. i can't wait for that. >> do you think he knows what a kohl's is? >> i've seen them. >> you talk about him like he's not here. he's right there. >> kingsford. >> i walk by kohl's and many other stores. i don't like shopping. >> well, that's where you and i just have to differ. and that's why i showed you those pictures of pier one this week. >> they're beautiful. >> you cannot believe the closeout sales there, ten bucks for candles. that are like can last for hours. >> we will get cramer's mad dash. we'll count down to the opening bell after a break. take another look at the premarke

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penneys and kohl's. oil prices hitting $50 a barrel. fresh inventory data showing oil supplies falling more than expected and more of us driving as the weather gets warmer. amazon.com investing $3 billion in india bringing the total investment to $5 million. this as the stock hits an all-time high. and how about this one? there is an analyst telling barrons that amazon could be the biggest company in america by the year 2020. melissa: i'm doing my part. i order everything on prime. i think i may be making that happen single handedly. gregg: donald trump trying to turn the page about controversial comments he knead about the federal judge overseeing the trump university case. though he did not apologize he did strike a more presidential tone. >> i'm not a politician fighting. i'm me. you are going to see some real good things happen. just remember this. i'm going to be your champion. i'm going to be america's champion because you see, this election isn't about republican or democrat. it's about who runs this country. gregg: doug schoen,

penney store at westfield wheaton mall. now, montgomery conty police hope this video, here's a look at it. and the pictures of it, help to put a crook behind bars. it happened early in the morning. 3:20 in the morning. back on may 21st. investigators say this person broke into the store. busted into the glass cases and snatched the jewel. you could be eligible for a $10,000 reward. >>> the d.c. area nurse, accused of sexually abusing female patients, testified in court today jaished klein said any possible inappropriates contact between he and the victims was unintentional. saying it it only would have happened when he attempted to check vitals. the nurse reenacted with a pretend patient had court, using his lawyer's desk as a hospital bed. victims claim there was other inappropriate contact. >>> the police department does not recommend criminal charges against the mother of a boy who fell into a zoo's gorilla enclosure. county prosecutwiors ll make their decision after reviewing the department finding still, there is plent

penney or kohl's. especially macy's. pots, pans and dish wear.can look at macy's, williams sonoma. look for laptops and small electronics at best buy kmart and psych soft surface at best buy right now is a good deal. if you have do it yourself projects you want to do right now get the garage going get the car fixed up. you can get tools at places like lowe's, ace arred wear, true value and sears and even look at smart. a lot of deals you teout there. dads needs tools. >> sears has the best selection of tools. >> girls need tools, too. >> the time is 15 minutes to the top of the hour. it is a hat we see donald trump wear all of the time. why is an elementary school telling a student the make america great cap is a safety concern? >> this one is adorable. the story behind this video showing there may be something even cuter than puppy love. >> speaking of something cuter. that's brian kilmeade. >> there's a time not to be fair and balanced ladies. that was it. >> tell me if you have a problem. looking forward to it. on the stage shortly, the beach

the same that nordstrom, kohl's and sears and penney had to spend.ence, while walmart stock has held up bet theirton other. how do you keep up with amazon? let me think because i saw a lot of companies that are involved. you have companies that know what people are going to order, before they do it, companies with analytic, they can measure the cloud and give you ways to stay on touch on your mobile with that customer that makes you more competitive. or perhaps you need an artificial intelligence that's smarter that up the artificial intelligence that amazon already has. i cannot believe how many exist to do nothing other than make others competitive with amazon. whiechl they do a good job, amazon is relentless in innovation. who else has the street cred out here? there's tremendous respect for facebook. a business model that so many do fear, virtually infinite content that facebook doesn't have to pay for. advertisers crave, they want to advertise against its. you actually want to read it that's a license to print money. the fact that instagram gain

penney store near two weeks ago.ee a a man broke into the storeo thes around 3 o'clock in the i morning and headed to theg anhed jewelry department.eptmen he smashed the glass cases andsc took all the jewelry onewel display there. police tells the man-made off t with about $150,000 worth of jewels. jewe investigators say they wandereyr to hear from you if youfrom recognize this man.an >>> and in the district policeie are asking for help to hel identify a suspected bankctedan robber. >> the first robbery happenediry on 49th street northwest onn may 23rd. 23r the woman walked into a bank a b of america and handed thed teller a note.ller a n she left with some cash. four days later, police pic believe the same woman walkedanw into a wells fargo on macarthur boulevardleva northwest. note but walked out before get anything money.ey. stvestigators are hopingve someone recognizes this womans w and gives them a call. >> taking it outside now and n a another beautiful day. just glorious out there.. so, sue, how long can we keepe this series of gorgeousness going? >> not a whole lot longer,ger, l

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the santa clara county sheriff's office says this video is from the old j-c penney building at vallcoall in cupertino. you can see two men clearly walking across the roof with a bunch of wire. detectives say they arrested a campbell man. they say 41-year-old steven tougas was caught earlier this week. investigators say he admitted to five different thefts. they are working on identifying the second suspect seen in the video. this is a close up picture of him. this man is still on the loose. if you recognize him, the santa clara county sheriff's office would like to hear from you. >> pam:california lawmakers are making moves to tax medical marijuana growers. last year, a series of pot regulations passed. and now there is the possibility of california voting to legalize marijuana this november. the legislature estimates, the tax would raise close to 77- million dollars each year. for law enforcement and environmental cleanup. but some marijuana activists are calling the tax unreasonable. here is the proposal. each ounce of marijuana flowers. would be taxed 9 -dollars and 25- cents. each

. >> high, i worked with penney associates on their noncombustible products. i think there are a lot of misconceptions about what changes to the predicate date would mean and i don't think there is enough discussion about the other products that would come along if the date is changed. can you talk a little bit about what authorities, the fda would have over the product if the date is changed? >> everything else would be applicable to these newly deemed products. where fda to change the ,randfather date, any product for example if the grandfather date was may 10 of this year, the publication of the final rule, any product on the market by may 10 would not need to go through premarket approval but all of the other requirements in the act that are applied to deemed products would apply to those products. product listing, ingredient listing, modified risk claims, minimum age, potentially good manufacturing practices, all of those things would apply to these products even if they didn't have to go through premarket review. you would still kill subsequent innovatio

penney did. looking for a new customer, hoping to fire the one it has. canvas is still small piece of the business, the initial response has been good. >> i can feel for the typical lands end customer being left out here. i can remember years ago. i used to shop at abercrombie & fitch. this was your father's abercrombie & fitch. there was one on 5th avenue. and i'd go there once or twice a year. it was a preppy kind of store for want of a better term. >> -- a big brought iron lamp with grizzly wears and a armchair. nothing like the brand today. >> so i walked into the store one day expecting to buy more polo shirts and khakis and. and i didn't recognize. i had to go back outside and look at the name. they changed just like that. and i suspect that is what lands end is having. and they should think about what's happened to abercrombie & fitch. >> and abercrombie & fitch changed from what you are talking about and now have changed in a different way. they are getting away are the logos. they have introduced black. so, you know, change is necessary to some

that's getting your penney's worth. >> paula is a big fan of this.ing. another nice day on the way. here is brian van de graaf. >> reporter: very good morning, temperatures, 60s to low 70s. fairly comfortable start. few clouds, higher across the city. clouds and sunshine mixed, high in the lower 80s. another wonderful day because humidity remains in check making a comfortable feel throughout the afternoon. next couple days, more unsettled. we see some improvement by the weekend but there could be a few showers in between. we'll keep an eye on it, especially thursday and friday. >> reporter: for the ride we're looking at extra long drive times for the commute with more folks joining the roadways due to metro's safety surge. a live look at the beltway, these are inner loop delays from the springfield mixing bowl toward i66. over on 66, we have heavy volume delays, a crash reported within delays at the fairfax county parkway, and on the secondary rose a live look at virginia 28 making your drive from sterling to chantilly, northbound and southbound dela

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that's getting your penney's worth. >> i love that. >> oh, boy.g. getting over hump day right there. >> yeah, they are. >> so long, everyone. >> there they are. ♪ snack patrol, saving the snack world. ♪ whoa, whoa, whoa... ma'am, we can smell the bland snack all over you. but, it's just a... whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...yeah. yeah. new hershey and reese's snack mix, with chocolate, nuts and pretzels. it's snack justice. >>> now from abc7 news. >>> good morning. i am natasha zouves with the abc7 morning news. let's get a check with mike. >>> hey everybody. check out the current conditions right now. upper 50s and mid-6 o 0s and along the coast and 7 o 0s everywhere else into you get into the in land. it's going to be cooler and breezy the next two days. >>> i hope that someone scoops up the kitty cat and saves them. we're looking at a 20 minute drive with a little bit of hayes and fog there. an accident in the danville area and northbound near the stone valley and middle lanes there. >> that pour kitten. it's time for live "live with kelly

that's getting your penney's worth. >> i love that. >> oh, boy.e in times square and d.c., chicago, getting up and moving this morning. getting over hump day right there. >> yeah, they are. >> so long, everyone. >> there they are. >> this is a good morning washington update. >> anchor: spring-like temperatures today. here is jacqui jeras. >> weather: a nice day to look forward to overall. i could not rule shower. mainly mid this morning through about lunch time of the then we will see breezy conditions push in for this afternoon. wind gusts could reach up to 30 miles an hour. temperatures will be down quite a bit today. only reach i can the low to mid 70s across the region. and tomorrow will be a pleasant one. still breezy. upper 70s. warmer on friday. strong thunderstorms possible on saturday. and hot and humid for you on sunday. >> reporter: very slow flow of traffic northbound 395. we finally cleared the crash after gleeb road. now we are dealing with remnants of a crash on interstate 95 in maryland. and northbound crash just after maryland 32.

that's getting your penney's worth. >> i love that. >> oh, boy.icago, getting up and moving this morning. getting over hump day right there. >> yeah, they are. >> so long, everyone. >> there they are. >> ♪ >> good morning. 8:56 on this wednesday june 8. i'm tamala edwards. let's get a last look at traffic with matt pelman. looks like a slow down there matt. >> schuylkill is up to its old tricks giving us new gray hairs. this morning it's because of a broken down dump truck here in the eastbound lanes between montgomery and girard. they've had the center lane blocked for a little while now. at the moment it appear the right lane is also blocked. so just the left lane squeezing by. that means as you come eastbound you're hitting a wall of traffic at city avenue. bail out. head for the river drives instead. three separate problems on the southbound roosevelt boulevard. there's a broken down vehicle at somerdale by home depot. traffic light troubles near f. southbound at fox a crash blocking the left lane so it jams there coming south of broad street.

that's getting your penney's worth. >> paula is a big "serial" fan and all of you can see investigation put into making the perfect barbecue, there's only one grill that's engineered and designed with the same kind of passion, weber. available at the home depot. >>> good morning, i'm natasha zouves. let's get a quick check of your bay area forecast before you head out the door this morning. hey, mike. >> hi, natasha. the breezes have let up a little bit. they'll be back and the sunshine and high clouds and cooler conditions, antioch at 76. our coolest day, watch out for showers and thunderstorms north of the bay bridge. thursday it gets hot again for father's day. sue? >>> we'll take a look at the earlier accident in santa rosa, blocking the right-hand lane, 101 before todd road and i am seeing slow traffic. and the san jose 880 at stevens creek. we have an accident partially blocking here making things slow. >> thank you so much, sue. president obama is expected to now about the orlando shooting as well as isis. we're going to carry those remarks live here in just a moment o >> it's "l

that's getting your penney's worth. >> paula is a big fan of this.ow on this tuesday june 14. let's get that last look at traffic with karen rogers. good morning. >> good morning. checking out roads like 42 here. northbound traffic at creek road a bit of a delay. 21 minute ride from the a.c. expressway to 295. nothing terrible just a slow commute in still for some folks. we have a problem on i'm 95 northbound right at 141. it's a disabled tractor-trailer blocking two lanes and look at these speeds as you're heading northbound 9 miles an hour so really jammed coming up from delaware and i-95 northbound. you want to watch nor big delay. this is the schuylkill expressway looking live here near the blue route, some heavier traffic still nothing like what we saw earlier when we had all lanes blocked near girard. we saw a 70 minute ride earlier at 30 minute ride from there blue route to the vine. things getting back to your normal jam tam. >> thank you karen. >>> let's go out to meteorologist, david murphy. i bet it's really nice out there now. >> sure is.

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