. >> tom: pepsi is another one of your choice. what makes you like pep? >> it's reliable. it's got a great dividend, and it actually sells more chips than money off of their beverages, so you've got to like that. >> tom: frito lay, not pepsi. any exposures? >> i hold them in mutual mutual funds, but i hold into individual stocks. >> susie: that's "nightly business report" for friday, july 23. i'm susie gharib. good-night everyone and have a great weekend. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

[ male announcer ] pepsi max.s-x prevention. just one before meals helps prevent gas before it starts. from gas-x, the gas-xperts. we get double miles on every purchase. so we earned an l.a. getaway twice as fast. we get double miles every time we use our card. no matter what we're buying. and since double miles add up quick... romans! get em! [ garth ] ...we can bring the whole gang. [ sheep bleats ] it's hard to beat double miles. whoa -- he's on the list. but we're with him. [ male announcer ] introducing the venture card from capital one with double miles on every purchase every day. go to capitalone.com. [ indistinct shouting ] what's in your wallet? ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, everybody. we're back with the great 50 cent. he stars alongside chace crawford and emma roberts in "twelve," a new film opening august 6th. we -- you have so many things going on. we could talk for hours. but the one thing i should talk about is g-unity. >> yeah. the foundation is great. like, i established it in 2004. an

the pepsi refresh project. pepsi is awarding grant all month long.gs for parents of newborns in neonatal intensive care units. imagine how alone you feel. so far, 700 bags have been delivered to hospitals coast-to-coast. the $25,000 grant from pepsi will mean many more parents will know they're not alone in this situation, as they wait for their children to be okay. you guys are beautiful. >> thank you. >> no longer babies. these bags, one's for a boy. one's for a girl. these will go to parents in need. thank you for helping us. all the information on the pepsi refresh project. you can vote for your favorite ideas. go to abcnews.com/refresh. let's get to the boards. one or two things to tell you about. with the high temperatures today -- are you holding on to the bags? is it heavy? are you okay? arms are good? 92 in dallas. 91 in new orleans. and heat and humidity is on in the deep south. even though we're 90 degrees in new york city and boston, this is our pick area today. it is hot. but you have a beautiful day. the humidity is not bad yet. it does

pepsi earnings beat the street by a penny, helped by its purchase of its two biggest bottlers. harley-davidson's results blasted through predictions, with its financial services unit returning to profits. this is a one month high for shares. fellow motorcycle maker polaris, which also makes snowmobiles, also had a much stronger than expected quarter with higher sales and margins. and that's tonight's market focus. >> tom: tonight, we continue our new segment with thestreet.com, looking at investment ideas ranging from mutual funds and e.t.f.'s to small-cap and under- the-radar stocks. we call it "word on the street." and tonight's word is gold. it dates back millennia, but is it an investment for the ages? joining us now from the nasdaq, alix steel. she's a reporter at thestreet.com. >> tom: welcome to "nightly business report." >> thank you for having me. >> tom: has gold changed from a defensive investment to more of an offensive growth-type of investment in this environment? >> that's an interesting question. i think that gold is playing defense and offense, which is what ma

to kurdistan to go and see for yourselves what is possible, to see for yourselves why brands like pepsi, coca cola, lafarge, rotana, lufthansa are investing and doing trade with kurdistan and iraq. >>reporter: but despite the promise of a bright future, the dark past was also present. >>bakir: the people of kurdistan have survived a difficult and tragic history. under the previous regime we suffered what has now been recognised as genocide. our people were forced to flee their homeland many times over the past several decades. >>reporter: after chemical attacks and the destruction of more than 4,000 villages and agriculturalland, it's a remarkable story of survival and rebirth: >>garner: i don't think you can find an example in history where a group of people, an ethnic groupof people, have risen that far in that short a period of time. >>reporter: but issues still persist with the current baghdad regime, including disputes over territory and how to unblock the export of crude oil and pay oil companies. >>lee: in the oil and gas sector, they have one very big problem at the moment, and

and then these artists align themselves with coca-cola and pepsi and taco bell and on and on and on. but if you give people good music, i bet you they'd buy it, you know what i mean? if they were offered interesting, complex lyrics and interesting, varied music and real-live vocals and people that can actually sing live, and when they perform, they don't need pyrotechnics and dancers and distractions, i bet you they'd love it. now, the average record buyer for backstreet et al. is seven, so it's not like they got tired of listening to kurt cobain. do you know what i'm saying? and they didn't-- they weren't listening to screaming trees and alice in chains and going, "mmmyyyeeegh. "mommy, i'm tired of alice in chains "and the seattle sound. give me boy-band corporate pabulum." you know, a seven-year-old did not turn away from indie rock. this was a niche that was created 'cause money was to be made. and the whole britney thing, it's just nonsense. you know, it's nonsense, and it, again, lowers the bar tastewise. most people are just indoctrinated into modes of thinking. you know, you a

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. >> i'm coca-cola, pepsi and them. you know? let me get my soda on. no.years ago, and i remembered it. i remember i was 24 years old. i was doing "living single" and i had a record out, and so many things were happening. all of these articles and covers and -- i was like, this is way beyond who i am. this is now gone to a whole new level. and which made me even more so want to just be me. to stick -- i mean, i still have the same energy i had since the beginning, over 20 years now. we've known each other since high school. i still work with a lot of my friends who i've known since high school. so i have real people around me. who can pat me on my back when i'm doing good and smack my hand when i'm doing something naughty, and it just keeps me more grounded. queen latifah has become a phenomenon in a sense, but underneath the queen is just la. i think that's what people really get from me, and they feel like -- when people approach me on the street, they just feel like they can hug me, you know? like they feel like they know me. and they say that to me. it

they need a little extra boost, they open a bottle of pepsi and throw in a mentos and take off. >> monday morning fun ny. >> more on that later. brentwood right now, we're talking about a truck containing -- a tanker truck filled with milk, overturned on highway 4. that's expected to block the westbound lains through 7:30. your alternate is 2nd heading back over to central or vice versa. that's also the stretch of the brentwood boulevard that is closed now. this is a sigalert. chp says it will be closed for 30 minutes or more and it is unplanned. this is not a sigalert, but also very slow. this is westbound highway 4. jams up now, every day, pretty much from a street to summersville. it is not a sigalert because we know about it, but it is a delay and a pain for a lot of commuters who deal with it over here in the east bay. sunol looks smooth right now coming down southbound with the taillights around the bend heading through the construction zone. no major problems now. clear view, but you also see gray skies. we'll watch for any fog. right now, not a problem heading through sunol to the

and they're used by fortune 500 companies for distribution, pepsi co, frito-lay. they're also used for the united states military. electric trucks with a lot be shall of -- they're very strong. great horsepower. the reason for their success is their entrepreneurial drive. but it's also partly because of a grant that we're offering companies that manufacture electric vehicles and the batteries that power them. because of these grants, we're going to be going from only having 2% of the global capacity to make advanced batteries that go in trucks and cars, run on electricity, we're going to go from 2% of advanced battery market share to 40% just in the next five years. just in the next five years. and that will create thousands of jobs across the country. thousands of jobs across the country, not just this year, not next year, but for decades to come. so it's a powerful example of how we can generate jobs and promote robust economic growth here in nevada and all across the country by incentivizing private sector investments. that's what we're working to do with the c