bowtie pringles cans.he original. the cloned crisps remain a mathematical marvel to this day. i'm with prestigious university of chicago professor of mathematics benson farb, and what is that? >> that is a hyperbolic paraboloid. >> reporter: a chip with design roots in einstein's theory of relativity. >> but it's a relativistic potato chip. >> reporter: alas pringles was no longer a fit for procter & gamble. p & g is known for soap, not snacks. >> p & g wanted to focus on beauty and health care and household products which provided greater value to themselves and to their customers. >> reporter: the new owners, diamond foods of california, actually makes snacks and paid $2.35 billion for pringles, calling the brand a really good fit. but then being a good fit in the can and in your mouth is what these hyperbolic paraboloids are all about. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. >>> nothing wrong with them at all. that's our broadcast for this wednesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams.

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. >>> pringles. >> i've already had 30 of them. we're talking about pringles.hat everybody loves but it turns out that they've -- procter & gamble sold pringles for $2.345 billion to diamond foods. are you having one? >> lot of chips. >> i've had like half the can. >> here's the thing, in the beginning this was a total dud. the reason it's in a can is because consumers were complaining their chips were showing up broken and they wanted a whole chip. so this fellow, back in the '60s, his name was mr. bower, he created the can and he fell so in love with this invention -- is that the regular flavor or the barbecue spice? the regular flavor? mr. bower said when he died he wanted to be buried in a pringle can which he was. his ashes were put in the pringle can. i'm a fan of the regular but the cheddar and the blooming onion flavor isn't going over so well with the staff here. just letting you know. >> continuing on with the pringles. there was a guy in new york, you heard about this? >> it's really true. >> this really happened. a guy in new york was fed up with th

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. ♪ 100 ways to enjoy pringles. ♪ 100 crisps, 100 ways. ♪ everything pops with pringles. >>> a los angelesbehind bars this morning for allegedly shooting an lapd helicopter. [ gunshots ] police say the man started firing on sunday and hit the chopper's fuel tank. it was forced to make an emergency landing. there were no injuries. >>> a transgender victim who was beaten in a baltimore mcdonald's is speaking out, saying it was a hate crime. the video of last week's attack was posted on the internet. two young women are now facing charges. the victim says that first, one of the women attacked her, then the other one did. >> the other girl came up, spit in my face, and they started ripping my hair, throwing me on the floor, kicking me in my face. they really hurt me really bad. and i'm just afraid to go outside now because of stuff like this. >> advocates for transgender rights plan to rally tonight outside that mcdonald's. >>> on "cbs moneywatch" this morning, gold hits a new high, and sony playstation gets hacked. ashley morrison here in new york with that and more. ashley, good morning to y

. >>> diamonds foods is buying pringles for $1.5 billion.proctor and gamble says pringles just doesn't fit in with the rest of its portfolios. sales of diamond foods rose to just over $61 a share. >>> it was a mixed trading day on wall street. the nasdaq finished this day higher while the dow lost steam during trading. at the closing bell, the dow was down on the fear that the feds may raise taxes. >>> there is a budget battle going on at the capital. and julie brown was joking about it today. we'll tell you what he said and what is actually happening. >>> a cloudier cooler day over the bay area and tonight we are tracking a colder winter storm. we'll bring you the very latest and show you when you can expect it to come to your doorstep coming up. >>> more developments today including the governor's plans to hit the road as of this weekend. how republicans used a report card today to get the word across. ken wayne has the story and the grades were not good. >> reporter: it's their take on their budget negotiations with governor brown which g

. >>> san francisco diamond foods announced a big deal to recovered the popular pringles brand. they are expected to triple the company's revenues to more than $2 million a year and allows procter and gamble to exit from food businesses and focus on cosmetics and health care products. >>> another quiet day on wall street. the dow industrial close 6 points lower and the nasdaq gained two. >>> minutes released from the last federal reserve meeting says they are pushed going forward. >>> david stevenson reports that muni -- a muni driver ignored protocol leading passengers at risk. >> reporter: a shows riders on the l train ignoring the wide open door. supervisor scott weiner is scared for the passengers in the foreground. >> the operator made the announcement after we got into the tunnel that he was aware that the door was open and that people should stay away from the door. >> it appears to was that the proper procedures were not followed. >> reporter: officials told us that after the train left the driver detected that the door had not shut and took steps to close it and isolate

pv pringles was no longer a fit for procter & gamble. they're focusing on soap, not snacks. >> they wanted to focus on beauty, health care, and house hold products. >> reporter: the new owners, diamond food of california makes snacks and paid $2.35 million for brings calling it a good fit. but being a good fit in your mouth is what the hyperbolic parabaloids have been about. >> you don't like them that much? >> i like a bag and regular chips. >> i downed an entire can of one in miho tell room this week. >> uh-oh. >> bring more water in. >> they're so good. >>> still to come on "today," preying on people. the latest from long island, new york. >>> good saturday morning to you, taking a live look at downtown san jose. no sun rise yet, but a cool start to this saturday. i'm kris sanchez, we'll kick off with a look at your weekend forecast with rob. >> the morning the starting off pretty chilly. the system that brought the hail, the thunder and even a few cold air thundercloud sightings is now moving away from the bay area. in fact today, pr

diamond foods is buying pringles from procter & gamble for $1.5 billion. apple dipped due to a rebalancing next month. microsoft, intel and cisco climbed 1%. a potential federal anti-trust probe into google's search engine dominance dragged its shares 3% lower. five executives at transocean, the company that owned the rig at the center of last year's disaster are now donating their more than $250,000 bonuses to a fund for the victims' families. the decision comes just days after transocean issued the bonuses for what it called a year for safety. >>> thirsty fans can now use twitter to tweet their beer order from their seat at the mariners stadium. using your noggin there, i love that. >>> coming up, game winning singles and a hero's welcome for the huskies. plus, march madness comes to an end as the ncaa crowns the women's national champion. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> a storm system moving through the west will head to the middle of the country on your thursday. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>>

the combination brings the maker of pringles to san francisco. >>> our temperatures are holding in the 50s. but cooling. coming up in ten minutes, when we company expect that winter- like storm to approach the coast and when you can expect it in your neighborhood. >> he was involved in one of the most infamous . >>> police, firefighters and members of the u.s. military support group all escorted the body of a fallen soldier back to pleasantton today. 23-year-old army specialist jameson lynnscog was killed on march 29th when his unit came under attack. he was a medic and his mother told ktvu he died while treating a wounded soldier. funeral services are planned for april 30th. >>> the remains of a south bay marine are preparing for a memorial event tomorrow that will honor him and his love of dance and martial arts. [ music ] >> this is video of lance corporal harry lou break dancing. they are holding an event at his high school. it will include dance, gymnasticking and martial arts performance. the department of defense says lou died sunday while supporting combat operations. no furthe

the combination brings the maker of pringles to san francisco. >>> our temperatures are holding in the 50s. but cooling. coming up in ten minutes, when we company expect that winter- like storm to approach the coast and when you can expect it in your neighborhood. >> he was involved in one of the most infamous crimes in california history. tonight for the first time we know when he might be released. . >>> police, firefighters and members of the u.s. military support group all escorted the body of a fallen soldier back to pleasantton today. 23-year-old army specialist jameson lynnscog was killed on march 29th when his unit came under attack. he was a medic and his mother told ktvu he died while treating a wounded soldier. funeral services are planned for april 30th. >>> the remains of a south bay marine are preparing for a memorial event tomorrow that will honor him and his love of dance and martial arts. [ music ] >> this is video of lance corporal harry lou break dancing. they are holding an event at his high school. it will include dance, gymnasticking and martial arts performance.

texas instruments buying national semi, diamond foods snapping up pringle's brands from p & g. minutes from last month's fed meeting suggest central bankers are split so we're watching this very closely on whether to pull the plug on economic stimulus and tighten rates. asia was mixed overnight on some lackluster reaction to china's latest rate hike because they're watching our inflation situation. europe is a touch lower this morning. oil, we're also looking very closely at those levels. 108 bucks a barrel. gold, a brand new high on global inflation concerns but also the safety trade because of the concern out of washington that we could have a government shutdown. the dow slipped 6 points to 12,333. the nasdaq composite inched up slightly 2 points to 2791. also making headlines this morning, executives at transocean have decided to give up bonuses they got for the company's safety record last year. transocean, as you well know, is the owner of bp's deepwater horizon rig which exploded last april killing 11 workers and spilling 200 gmillion gallons o oil into the gulf of mexic

one more chip deal of a different sort-- diamond foods is buying the potato chip brand pringles. owner procter and gamble gets $1.5 billion. diamond stock gained almost 7% to a new 52-week high. p&g lost about 1%. talk of a possible takeover helped boost cubist pharmaceutical shares by 15%. the stock broke through resistance in the mid-20s, and on 12 times average volume. the takeover chatter comes a day after settling a patent infringement lawsuit with teva pharmaceuticals over an antibiotic drug. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: southwest airlines wrapped up inspecting all of its 737 planes today that are similar to the one that made an emergency landing last week after its roof ruptured. the airline found planes five had small sub-surface cracks. meantime, the f.a.a. has ordered airlines inspect three models of boeing 737s after 35,000 takeoffs and landings. that bring us to tonight's "word on the street," "travel. " robert walberg is the chief market strategist at thestreet.com. >> nice to see you, bob. what about the state of travel here. $4 gasoline, and the air

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also, san francisco-based diamond foods buying pringles chips from procter & gamble for $1.5 billion.nd diamond's stock is faring well off that deal. usually the company buying the company or a line your stock goes down but right now diamond's stock is up about 10% on the deal. national semi because of the huge premium over its value its shares right now are up 71%. also another big move that's going to take place today. the nasdaq expected to rebalance the weighting of its 100 stocks impacting apple more than any others. apple's weighting and influence over the nasdaq was 20%, twice what it should be. as a result, its weighting will be rebalanced down to 12.3%. up until now, even though it's value was only twice that of google's, it's weighting on the nasdaq was five times that. now google will be 5.6%. apple stock hit off that news. apple shares down about 1%. overall the market mixed now. the dow is lower by 71 points. nasdaq is up by 2. frank and sydney, the s&p right now logan by one. >> u-conn's stock is up quite a bit. you're a connecticut guy, aren't you? great to see the home

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