he says, i want a porsche. he says, when you go home tonight, there will be a porsche in your garage. and he says, i want a million dollars. he says, done. when you go to the bank on monday, there will be a million dollars in your account. thank you very much, i have to find my ball. so he goes looking -- hold on a minute, lad. please hold on. i see you are golfing with your wife. do you mind if i go into the shrubbery with her for an hour or so? he says, let me ask her. it's a million dollars. so he goes up and asks the wife and she says, what? you don't mind if i go in the bushes with the leprechaun? he says, no, no, go ahead. it's a million dollars. she says, i don't care about the car but a million dollars that could help us a lot. so she goes into the bushes with the leprechaun. about an hour later, they are coming out, she's adjusting her skirt, fixing her hair, and the leprechaun says, thank you very much. how old is your husband? she says, he's 44. he's a little too old to be believing in leprechauns, i

the takeover ultimately failed, and portia was itself bought out by vw. -- porsche itself was bought out by volkswagen. >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and lift off. >> on board are one american, one russian, and a canadian. it will take a crack about to be would days to reach the iss. -- it will take the craft about two days to reach the iss. vulcanologists in russia have been able to get a glimpse of a spectacular eruption in siberia. it began erupting in late november. >> huge areas of the surrounding tundra and wildlife have been destroyed by the lava stream. it is pouring out thousands of tons of law every second. the volcano last erupted in the 1970's in one is -- in what is one of the world's most volcanic regions. >> stay with us. you are watching the "journal" coming to you from dw in berlin. after a short break, we look at how more and more journalists are coming under harms way than ever before. >> welcome back. every so often, we are reminded that journalism can be a dangerous occupation. reporters without borders says 2012 was the deadliest year for journalists since it began collecti

i'm not susceptible to being lured by pools and porsches. i got a '79 chevy. mean, it's running good. (narrator) joel and ethan coen captured critical acclaim with their debut film, "blood simple," a thriller in the tradition of film noir. i saw "blood simple" right when it came out. and it just was a startling picture. (gunshot) (joel silver) they shot a scene in this room where they shot bullet holes and these big shafts of lightame in. i make lots of action films so i said, "why didn't i ever think of that?" i've had plenty of gunshots, i never had shafts of light. so i was just really impressed with the first picture and i thought these guys were really something. (gunshots) (click) we were much more involved on a personal level with people who are making sort of low-budget horror movies, exploitation movies than with any kind of avant-garde, new york art film or anything like that. i mean, we didn't know any of those people, whereas we knew people who were doing exploitation. (joel coen) i had been working as aassistant editor on a horror movie named "evi

we're seeing porsche move up 6% the last time i moved.hat else is driving markets here in europe today? >> lonmin was an issue. markets looking at that story right now. also, it's one of those stories where with the mining sector, given what's going on in south africa, it goes on to that. overall, it's busy on the corporate front and, again, it's just about the fiscal cliff talks and that's something that we would be looking after in the course of the day. >> we'll leave it there. appreciate your time. >> let's get some final thoughts from our guest, jonathan allen, senior washington correspondent from politico is still with us. jonathan, i'm looking at the euro/dollar trade today. and i think it's curious the euro is now at a session low of, what, 1.3166. we've got the fiscal cliff negotiations. do you think that the dollar is going to see any big movement here over the next two weeks or so? >> i'm really not good at predicting that kind of thing. if i was, i would invest one way or the other. but it might be a good time to go to london.

this is the porsche, right? we can't really buy you one, so we thought this was a mini version. >> this is good. >> you use your device. power it up. 79.99. so it's not cheap, but it's a whole lot cheaper than a real porsche. >> not as green but more fun. >> anita, for you and your family i suspect you need a cell lockup, right? >> what is that? >> using the cell phone during dinner, no more disturbing the peace. so you open this up and you take your cell phone and put it in there. i'm not going to do it because it's actually going to lock. you press this button on the side. we find your cell phone guilty and you can put your cell phone in here for a designated amount of time. 19.99. you can't get in there. >> let's say you have got a teenage textaholic. >> the only way to do it is to block the signal in that thing. >> don't tell them that. hello? >> >>> not only are redskins fans in love with rg3, his opponents some to be in awe. we'll hear what jim harbaugh has to say coming up. >> but up next two teenagers de

even companies like daimler and porsche say they will be downgrading their forecasts for the coming year. at the moment, berlin is saying is not one to try to rescue opel once again, but we do have an election year coming up in 2013. perhaps that could change. >> thank you so much for that. >> we will be back very shortly. we will be looking at human rights in afghanistan. we will get the latest from egypt. we will revisit that nobel prize for the european union. barack it is un's human rights day. we will take a closer look at that as well. stick around. >> welcome back. the nobel peace prize is not the only award being given out today. a swedish committee also acknowledged outstanding achievement in literature, medicine, chemistry, and physics, as well as economics. those prizes were handed out today in stockholm. >> but the spotlight has been on the eu leaders who accepted the peace prize on behalf of the citizens of europe. our brussels correspondent asked of you eu -- asked a few eu citizens what the prize means to them. >> these students come from every corner of the eu, bringing a

but she ran into trouble be the law on -- with the law on both coasts in addition to slamming her porsche into the back of a truck in california, she was charged with hitting a woman in a new york nightclub. moore moore report -- demi moore reportedly suffered a breakdown in january over her split with ashton kutcher. tom cruise and katie holmes went through a break divorce. robert pattinson broke up with kristen stewart after she admitted to having a fling with you they were back together -- but they were back together for the premiere of the final brew see. fresh off playing cat woman in "the dark knight rises" she tied the knot with an actor. blake lively married ryan reynolds and jessica biel married justin timberlake. brad pitt popped the question to the mother of his six kids, angelina jolie. the biggest names in movies and music delivered a celebrity baby boom. reese witherspoon, drew barry more, jessica simpson adele and beyonce all had babies this year. on the music scene, taylor swift was the grammy's golden girl. while the grammy's snubbed south korean superstar psy his hit "ga

. >>> mean meantime, news from porsche now. i'll see if i can bring it up correctly, that is. we're still showing -- german prosecutor has issued charges against former porsche executives. if we get more details on this story, we will bring it to you. charging them with market manipulation. plenty of charges to go around this morning, for sure. >>> if you have any thoughts this morning, want to respond to thing you've heard on the program, you know how to reach us. e-mail worldwide@cnbc.com. >>> we'll check markets. first to asia and singapore and the details. hi. >> reporter: hey. prim good session here. still optimism that a deal will be reached over the ploifiscal f stateside. domestic factors in place starting with japan. this is the real star of asia. for the last month or so the nikkei 225, shattering the 10,000 level, up 2.4%. the jen weak against the dollar -- yen is weak again the dollar which is behind the gains. more than 116% in the last five weeks. all eyes and pressure is on the boj governor. they began their policy meeting today. expectations are very high for s

dagen: it is spectacular while porsche has been able to do in terms of expanding its brand over the pasts. there is a car for anybody in your family if you have the coin. it had a record year in sales. >> it was not that long ago where they were basically making one car. [ laughter ] dagen: the old bathtub porsche. >> now, they have everything. next year will be the plug-in hybrid car. $845,000. it has a racing the eighth engine in it. three electric motors. it will be able to go over 200 miles per hour. when you are running it in electric mode you can get a lot of miles per gallon. dagen: you can have the performance and you can have the fuel economy. last thing, -- >> this is aiming to be the best car ever made. they made the fastest car ever made. they will not try to make the fastest car here at top speed, this will be the best car in the world to drive. probably $1.5 billion. listen to this, the rent which dealership, they are taken $120,000 deposit on this. if you do not like with actual production production version looks like, they will give you your money back plus 2%. you can't

it did not take long for the water to porsche gray skies by nightfall the rain had stopped but the roadway was still covered in water. the wet road could be seen by the headlights of the oncoming traffic. friday's storm left standing water in several places in larkspurlike here, in front of the big five sporting goods store. you can see that the rain was almost to the top of the curb. but, it passing car to wash over the curb and onto the sidewalk. earlier in the day, damage from the friday storm could be seen. christmas decorations were knocked to the ground by windy conditions abd small streams arose as the rain came down. gray skys obscured the sun and traffic was reduced to a slow crawl. busy commuters tried to make it back home for the evening but were delayed some time because of the weather. it's hard to get around when it rains. i know we need the rain but it is hard to get around. despite the difficulty to get around, those in marin managed to do sojust not as quickly as some may have liked. who wants to be rained on? san francisco saw its share of showers throughout the day. this

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but she ran into trouble with the law on both coasts in addition to slamming her porsche into the backtruck in santa monica, she was charged with hitting a woman in a new york nightclub. >>> demi moore reportedly suffered a breakdown in january following her split be ashton kutcher. who's now dating a younger actress mila kunis. tom cruise and katie holmes went through a quick divorce. twilight light co-stars robert pattinson broke up with kristen stewart but they were back together for the premiere of the final pricey. anne hathaway walked down the aisle in 2012 fresh off playing cat woman in "the dark knight rises" she tied the knot. blake lively married ryan reynolds and jessica biel married justin timberlake. brad hit finally popped the question to the mother of his six kids angelina jolie. his exjennifer aniston also got engaged. some of biggest names in music and movies delivered a baby boom. they all had babies this year. ♪ on the music scene, taylor swift was the grammy's golden girl while the grammy's snubbed south korean superstar psy his hit "gangnam style" sur passed justin

police officer and obstructing an officer from performing duties after an accident in which she-- per porschedump truck in june. low-end not appear in court today. the next hearing is set for january 15th. >> dr. phil coming up next thanks for joining us this

and you think, well, factories can make dog food or they can make porsches or great cars or something like that, you know? so the process is not -- i think it doesn't matter how you get where you're going as long as where you get what you want as an artist. >> rose: and you want what? >> it's different. sometimes i go in the studio and i think look at all this stuff, this guy's insane. one minute i want to spot paint and the other minute i want a spin painting and i kind of imagine it's almost like there's a lot of crys in here. >> rose: what do you think people don't get about the spot painting? >> probably the simplicity. i think -- it's funny -- there's a big difference between art and craft as well. i get asked a lot where people go "you don't paint your own paintings." but that's never been a problem to me. in the same way i said architects not building their own houses. but the ones i did paint myself sell for more money. so i it's a strange quirk of the market tooo me. i always go for perfection. the ones that i paint look kind of awkward. >> rose: what about posters? >> what a

porsche, 0.2% of the u.s. market in terms of autos. they're going to make a lot of money this year.lackberry device is being tested by 120 companies in beta, by 64 fortune 500 companies which the big investment on their part to get i.t. in order. i think it is going to be very good device, it's already the fastest web browser there is. >> yes. >> so i started to buy it back today. i nibbled on it. i'll wait until it settles down and then buy more. >> can i make this simple? let's just make what steven said and make it simple. john najarian at the beginning -- hold on one second. you got to get off center stage for just a moment. 2012. okay? 2012, john najarian told all of us the best trade was that r.i.m. was going to get taken out. he is now arguing the bear case for r.i.m. do you know what that means? in 2013 r.i.m. is getting taken out. >> that's right. microsoft, baby. >> all right. also want to point out to you guys that senator reid is going to speak at 1:00 likely when he finishes speaking with steven weis probably. >> he is not coming to cut into my air time is he? >> senato

that i intend to porsche. if we're going to take things and changes it is going to take a wave of merits, pop bothers, daughters, brothers, mental- health and yes, gun owners. standing up and sang it, enough. , on behalf of our kids saying-enough's. and we would say that this is a tragedy, and never again. we do not have the sustained attention span to get this done of the next several months. it does not make sense. >> this does not make the first violent incident. where have you been? >> i have been dealing with the worst economic crisis since the great depression and two different wars, the bottle industry on the brink of collapse. i do not think that i had been on vacation with the -- automobile industry other bridge collapsed. on the brink of colle the automobile industry. -. the next big moment comes this from the one the political powerful national rifle association will have its first press conference since the elementary school shooting. the massacre at sandy hook the issue of gun control may never kn

the rainfall will begin to porsche towards the inland valleys and showers to the north bay.of that shower activity will be south of the golden gate concentrated to the south bay. wrap around showers for early saturday morning but it is going to dry out as recall for the later morning hours. notice, no showers by 8:00 p.m. and even clearing skies by 2:00 p.m. here is what we can expect with this system. right now, between six, with one half inch of rainfall for the entire bay area with the exception of in. of rain fall and snowles levels locally troublingsnow levels -- dropping lower than that 1,000 ft.- three dozefeet 3,000 ft. it's saturday, some lingering fleury chances board drier on the the weekend. temperatures on sunday and monday are going to be cold. the clouds will bring a monday shower chances but it will stay mainly dry wednesday, the chance of rainfall continues. >> catherine: still ahead. the woman who pushed a man in front of a moving subway train. hey, look! a shooting star! make a wish! i wish we could lie here forever. i wish this test drive was over, so we

there are reports that he could have been jumping or it this could have been porsche. according to the investigators this was simply an accident. in fact, when they've responded it was a medical response. they could have taken him anywhere but the show chose taken to highland hospital. they are equipped with a trauma unit. whether or not alcohol played a role? the investigators simply do not know at this particular point. they will run protests and hopefully he will pull through and have the final answer as to what will happen. they will run it-blood tests. >> coming up in my tech report some really cool technology being built into cars. sofa... desk... you know what? why don't you go get some frozen yogurt. i got this. you're so sweet. you got this, right? i do got this. let us get everything off the shelf, and to your home. sofa... desk... you know what? why don't you go get some frozen yogurt. i got this. you're so sweet. you got this, right? i do got this. let us get everything off the shelf, and to your home. >> proposition 8, will be heard by the supreme court. p

and you know it, joe, you drive a porsche, they make extraordinary products. >> i had a loner and its an a-6, brand new. >> amazing vehicle, amazing. >> i don't want to say anything about domestics but i would almost buy this car. >> here's how i see the world. germans have extraordinary differentiated -- >> the audi was never that great, were they? >> they are today. >> unbelievable car. >> and they have an extraordinary price. >> we got to go, but what are you selling in texas where i come from we driving trucks that song, do you sell a lot of trucks in the great state of texas? >> we sell everything in texas. >> but not more trucks? >> i have to say about my friend the governor, what he said earlier about doing business in texas is all true. we want to -- the government solves problems in texas. we want to do something in texas, it happens two or three times faster in texas than it does in, say, the state of california. >> mike, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> great seeing you guys this morning. >>> let's check the futures, traders focus on jobs this week as we get ready for

and dick" and then an arrest in new york and then california police filed charges for crashing a porsche earlier this summer. so glad you're here to talk about this poor lindsay lohan. how could this stuff send her back to jail? >> she was released from probation in march. now with the new allegations of punching a woman in the face, it's a big deal. she has a few other charges from a june 2012 car accident. she lied to police and said her assistant was driving. so now she faces charges. so she has those charges plus punching this woman in the face. >> she's trying to figure out her defense. among the reports is she's trying to dig up information on this tiffany mitchell. >> she hired a private investigator. her thing is her best defense is offense. her team is trying to find things about this woman. all we know is she's a psychic. she is married. and people are thinking she's going after lindsay trying to get money. and some people think she might be in it for a quick payday. >> let's look at the best of the worst from this film. here it is. >> what are you looking at? >> out. >> i love

be arraigned on misdemeanor charges for lying to police and driving recklessly when she slammed a porschen a dump truck in june. she's on probation for keeping a necklace without permission last year. a judge could provoke her probation and send her back behind bars. >>> want to check in with sal and see what's happening on the san mateo bridge. >>> you can see how close it is. now the dumbarton and bay bridge could be alternates for you. the traffic is really at a standstill. it is worse than it was even when the accident was on the bridge. let's move along and take a look at 880 northbound in case you are trying to get up to the bay bridge. it's not all that bad at the bay bridge toll plaza. it's backed up for a 20-minute delay. as we look at the santa clara valley, northbound 101 and 80 are slow. these are more traditional slowdowns, nothing ousts -- out of the ordinary. let's go to steve. >>> thank you, sal. the cold air is on its way. i'm not telling -- this pattern may be with us for a while. all the way into christmas week and beyond. the system coming by today is not doing too muc

of a lot of sectors such as the carmakeres and that hasn't stopped the likes of vw, the likes of porschethe likes of bmw having a very strong 2012. that's despite the fact that gm's opel said it will cut capacity by 20% in 2013. so we are seeing at the moment a real complacency regarding the fiscal cliff, but it's low volumes here as we enter the last hour or so of trading. back to you. >> we also have some news to bring you, broken last night. i expect john harwood talked about it on the special that we did last night. secretary of state hillary clinton is in a new york hospital this morning being treated from a blood clt clot resulting from a concussion you suffered earlier this month. she had been expected to return to work this week. >>> coming up, deal or no deal? we're going to look beyond the fiscal cliff and what it will mean for the markets. we have jim o'neill. he's going to join us to talk about whether he is bullish for the start of 2013 and how much the fiscal cliff is playing into his outlook. >>> welcome back to "squawk box" this morning. take a look at futures for the day

she slammed her porsche in the back of a dump truck and then said her assistant was driving. >> oh, throws -- literally gun shows, people understand you don't need anything, id background check, nothing -- >> and i think most people don't realize how easy it has been especially the gun show loophole. >> stephanie: yeah. >> a lot of nra members are saying we don't want that either. who wants to see these little coffins. >> stephanie: exactly. dave in seattle. hi. >> caller: hey stephanie just wanted to talk about the homeland security report in '09, and basically this all should have been taken care of after gabby griff fords, and huckabee seems to have a [ inaudible ] ministry it's not going to help to keep drumming up fear. we have to get on board with the homeland security report. >> stephanie: by the way he mentioned westberg -- >> they are going to picket the funerals of these -- >> stephanie: i'm go get rid of the first and second amendments. >> right. >> stephanie: mary in minnesota go ahead. >> caller: our culture glorifies violence on tv but god forbid they show a boob. >> i'm doi