but the problem, ralph, is this. the vital interests of the united states and the vital interests of the fortune 500 or the 200, whatever it is, they used to be the same in this country. they've diverged. their interests and, look, and if what's good for general motors is moving its factories overseas, then what's good for general motors isn't good for the united states of america. >> host: it's happening with our solar industry. taxpayers funded solar r&d -- >> guest: right. >> host: we were ahead of the let's of the world, and now the factories are moving to china's because china's giving them the store. >> guest: let me ask you what you think of the solution i proposed. again, i think republicans in the periods from lincoln through coolidge, for example, you had all these patriotic american business guys who were rough customers, you had some robber-barons in there, but republicans said, look, the taxes, this is the greatest market in the world, and these guys are going to pay an entrance fee, and it's called a ta

aren't you a hamiltonian, ralph? >> host: actually, some liberals favor a social tariff. >> guest: right. >> host: basically anti-competitive countries because they've oppressed their labor. >> guest: right. well that feeling on that, ralph -- >> host: you'd have it across the board? >> guest: i would have it on manufactured goods. the problem with that and even the problem with the congress up there saying, you know the chinese are doing -- you know, forget what the chinese are doing. they're doing what's in their interest. i mean, we know what you're doing, and we can't control what you're doing, but we can control the products coming into this country. >> host: on that point, to show you how you've changed, you basically said in this book we should have no conflict with china or russia. we're actually disrespecting russia because they've done everything since the collapse of is soviet union that we wanted. and yet we have 12 aircraft carriers which the beltway guys are saying is needed to project american power. [

joining me tonight, chief political analyst, gloria borgia and ralph reed. ralph, the latest poll shows romney the clear leader. 13 percentage points ahead of the closest competitor, rick santorum. it's fascinating to me. conventional wisdom is that romney is going to have a hard time with evangelicals because of his mormon faith or other reasons. these numbers seem to suggest otherwise. >> they do, anderson. i think we need to await further polling because it's going to look a lot different after new hampshire. anderson, this is a state where four years ago, mitt romney only got 11% of evangelical vote. it's going to be between 55 and 60% of the vote. if he overperforms, as this survey indicates, it will be very difficult to stop him, indeed. >> it could be over with south carolina as far as these -- i mean, if rick santorum or newt gingrich or perry can't do well among evangelicals in south carolina, there's very little future for them. >> well, i think two things are going on. number one, the field is very crowded. here you're going to have, for lack of a

at the time of our interview ralph menses had been on death row for 17 years. >> i remember when ralphe could talk to him. they're setting up the lights and getting the microphone set. making sure the lightning is just so. and it's important to establish a report very quickly and ralph and i started to have a little bit of a small talk and i never forget, i asked him, hey, what are you watching on tv these days? and he told me he was a big fan of the "oc ". >> i see "oc" all the time. >> i got to be honest with you, i love the "oc." >> who is your favorite character? >> kelly rowan. >> yeah. she's pretty hot. >> his interest in women became more disturbing when we learned the details of his crime. >> ralph's crime allegedly was a brutal one. he kidnapped a female from a convenience store and took her up one of the canyons, tied her to a tree and then cut her throat and then left her there. >> well, i've always maintained my innocence. i've done a lot of things in my life, you know, that i'm not proud of. this particular one is not one of them. i just come to the conclusion that karma b

joining me tonight, chief political analyst, gloria borgia and ralph reed. ralph, the latest poll shows romney the clear leader. 13 percentage points ahead of the closest competitor, rick santorum. it's fascinating to me. conventional wisdom is that romney is going to have a hard time with evangelicals because of his mormon faith or other reasons. these numbers seem to suggest otherwise. >> they do, anderson. i think we need to await further polling because it's going to look a lot different after new hampshire. anderson, this is a state where four years ago, mitt romney only got 11% of evangelical vote. it's going to be between 55 and 60% of the vote. if he overperforms, as this survey indicates, it will be very difficult to stop him, indeed. >> it could be over with south carolina as far as these -- i mean, if rick santorum or newt gingrich or perry can't do well among evangelicals in south carolina, there's very little future for them. >> well, i think two things are going on. number one, the field is very crowded. here you're going to have, for lack of a

ralph played a role in our efforts to stop casinos in the south. his depiction of his role caused him trouble later as he, you know, didn't necessarily describe things precisely correctly, and it wound up probably costing him a lieutenant governor's race. i haven't been in touch with ralph since then. >> host: thank you. we're going to go to a break now, and we'll be back shortly. >> on the go? "after words" is available via podcast through itunes and xml. visit booktv.org and click podcast on the upper left side of the page. select which podcast you'd like to download and listen to "after words" while you travel. .. washington crisis and unfolding of a scandal where you are under this microscope. you know, you were fired from your lobbying firm. you were investigated by federal prosecutors. you were called to testify on capitol hill. what was all that like for you? >> guest: it was horrible. at first, when it started, as i mentioned, i thought this would probably blow over after a couple of weeks. i didn't think there was anything to it. the artic

and every time ralph nader comes to busboys and poets, you get a gift. this is a perfect present for the holiday to give friends. so if you want to have it personalized to a friend that you want to give it to, please stick around afterwards. we're going to have a book-signing here. so i'd like to welcome to our stage, one more time, mr. ralph nader. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much, andy. we all read the cover article of the "washington post" magazine this last sunday where he's called democracy's restaurateur, something that i thought was an inappropriate label for him, and he brings so many people together. it's so good for many of you come this evening. we want to welcome booktv. c-span is here, so we'll stress the informality of this effort as this is tradition of booktv, which is going to relay some of your comments as well. now, we've all heard about dozens of corporate abuses, and we've all heard how ineffectual the responses have been to these corporate predatory activities, whether they're economic, financial

ralph nader. [applause] >> thank-you. >> thank you. thank you very much. we all read the cover article in the "washington post" magazine this past sunday. democracy's restaurateur. something that i thought was inappropriate level for him. you bring so many people together. very give you to come this evening. want to welcome book tv. c-span is here. so we will stress the informality of this effort as this is tradition of book tv, which is going to replace some of your comments as well. now, we have all heard about dozens of corporate abuses. we have all heard how ineffectual the responses of ben to these corporate credit for it -- predatory activities, whether economic, financial, health, safety, environmental, war, poverty, damaging, posterity. again and again the media, although it could do much better, does report phar-mor then we as citizens are organized to use, whether it's national, international, local, or regional. and the district of columbia bereft of any voting rights in the congress's an example of that. that documented many times, and we have

ralph reid, thank you. >> thank you, anderson. >> one programming note to tell you about. stay with cnn for a special live coverage much the new hampshire primary. it starts at 7:00. i don't think it will go as late as iowa. >>> still ahead tonight, rick santorum's path to the united stat states. pennsylvania voters turned against him in 2006. also ahead a deadly day in syria, more than 60 people reportedly killed. the arab league will send in more monitors. the latest on that in a moment. [ kate ] most women may not be properly absorbing the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food. that's why my doctor recommends citracal maximum. it's all about absorption. thathis was the gulf's bestends tourism season in years. all because so many people wanted to visit us... in louisiana. they came to see us in florida... nice try, they came to hang out with us in alabama... once folks heard mississippi had the welcome sign out, they couldn't wait to get here. this

. >> host: what about ralph reid? >> guest: ralph came to the convention -- i was elected in 1981 is a very young man as a teenager and came to work in my department. we couldn't afford to pay more than $100 a month. in those days we had no money and we had grover making $1000 a month. i was making $1000 a month as well. ralph got $100 a month so he lived on my couch. he became executive director and eventually had a religious epiphany and what not to then work for pat robertson and ultimately at the christian coalition, build the organization to an incredible operation. ralph played a role in our efforts to stop casinos in the south. his role caused him trouble later as he didn't necessarily describe things precisely and correctly. i haven't been in touch with ralph since then. >> host: thank you and we are going to go to a break now. we will be back shortly. >> "after words" is available via podcast through itunes and xml. visit booktv.org and click podcasts on the upper left side of the page. select which podcasts

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ralph, thanks, appreciate it. >> you bet you. >> nrg says he's staying in the race till the summer'sntion. former senator fred thompson knows how the early primaries can whittle down the candidates. this time around, senator thompson is trying to help newt gingrich keep his campaign alive. we spoke a bit earlier. senator thompson was in washington. thanks for your time today. what happened to your friend, speaker gingrich? he came out of south carolina with a head of steam. he comes down to florida, depending on which poll you believe, he's down anywhere from 8 to maybe 16 points on the final day of campaigning. what happened. >> some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you in this business. after florida's over with, there have been 5% of the delegates won. i said 10 yesterday but it's actually five. so that gives you some idea where we are in the process. i think newt will do better than what people think. i think that when you look at the national picture that shows him still leading romney in a couple of polls including a gallup poll and you look at the fact that in

we have a guest, ralph schmidt. silicon valley is making lots of money selling likes and tweets and virtual cows. you have some concern that we might be going in the wrong direction, though. >> well, i think in order to enable the virtual cows you need silicon to enable that technology. it is a core technology. we are part of a global semi conductor alliance of 400 world wide. we started in 1994. we have really tried to take on the issue with bringing entrepreneurship back into the silicon heart of the equation. >> don't you think the entrepreneurship is still happening here, but the manufacturing is being shipped overseas. you have intel, research and development happening here, manufacturing, arizona, new mexico, oregon. >> very true. a lot of the innovation still comes out of the startup community. clearly larger semi conductor companies do inovate but the breakthrough innovations come out of startups. the venture community has backed off. it's an industry issue. the funding is one aspect and the cost is another.

and he says, ralph, i knew there was hunger, but i didn't know it was like that. and in that period both in black churches and the national cathedral king is saying god doesn't like the way his children are being treated. and he makes america into the parable of lazarus. and he says, you know, the rich man did not go to hell because he was rich, but because he won't recognize the poor man. so there was this angry, condemn that story part of king. jeremiah, jeremiah. i mean, there's a reason for that. i think there are differences between king and wright, but i think we've sanitized king. we've lost track at how much he was reviled in the final years. "the washington post" and "the new york times" condemn his anti-vietnam speech at riverside church and, basically, said almost that it was treason. and king does quote that famous line of black poetry in there, america was never america to me. now, he gets beyond that always that's the king element, that he was tough-minded enough not to give in just to the emotion, but to hold out the better way. so king was pretty m

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ralph, you really ought to be paying me. this is like an advertisement isn't it? but i use the smartphones. consumers are in charge. visual technology is going to make a huge change in how we use these devices to shop and pay. let me give you an example of over in correa -- korea. we are the largest he-commerce provider in korea. -- e.-commerce provider in korea. in the subways athey take the windows and show products. they are now in the caribbean subway is -- korean subways tesco has little kiosks that have one of each item. a consumer runs through and says click, they buy it, and it is delivered to them the next day at their choice. the whole notion of what the retail store does is evolving in shifting in that part of asia and i think you will see more widespread adoption of that throughout the world. last example i will show is one that slightly more futuristic but is less than a year away which is, walking into a store looking into a mirror, and being able to look at your image and project yourself wearing different things without having to try them on. being

host: could ron paul be the next ralph nader? they could vote their conscience and voiced their frustration. could i ron paul b. the next ralph nader? guest: we are not that much alike. if ron paul feels badly treated by the republicans. mitt romney hardly ever goes after ron paul. if he makes them into an adversary, ron paul can get the libertarian party nomination and win 10% of the vote. i do not think the republicans want that. they just want a two-party contest. host: you said you are not that much alike. but there are things that you do like about ron paul. here is a tweet. let's go to west virginia. caller: good morning. i would say that one of the best documentaries ever about your work and your campaigns is a movie called "unreasonable man." you can watch it instantly on netflix. joe paterson is one of those hypocritical democrats. the people who came after you during your campaigns, be little your campaigns. now that you are not running, they're saying, what a great man he is. the hypocritical democrats who say he is a

ralph menzies has been there for 17 years. >> ralph's crime was a brutal one.kidnapped a female from a convenience store. took her up one of the canyons. tied her to a tree and cut her throat and then left her there. it was so brutal, that's why he is on death row. >> my window is always covered. if i can't go out there and walk on the grass, i don't want to see the grass. because it does bring back a lot of memories. and it does tell me what i can't have and can't do. so, i just fit into my little world and i'm all right. >> ralph has always maintained his innocence. that's ralph's fight. that's not the state of utah's fight. our staff here manage him day to day because he is a death row inmate. and he will get what's coming to a death row inmate, and nothing more. >> from death row, the condemned will be transferred in a state van to the back of the uinta-3 building. >> i personally wish they would either overturn my case, my conviction, or execute me and get it over with. now, you don't know if it's going to be five years down the road, if it's going to be t

tradition, rafe instefl of ralph. this is my name. i often have thought maybe i should have changed it. it would change the spelling. >> challenge the spelling. >> there it is. >> one last quick question about language. shakespeare, what's the challenge there? >> well shakespeare is i think, one of the greatest contemporary writer we still have. the understanding of whether they're in love at war, fighting for positions of power, his knowledge of human sigh kol jit and heart is profound and continuously inspires us. in film, we have to cut a lot. >> cut is what i have to do. i have to cut him off. sorry. that does it for us. up next your local news. see you tomorrow. thank you very much. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com 3q on average 5,000 people a day switch from cascade to finish - over two million so far. maybe it's because finish quantum gives them cleaner sparkling dishes without rinsing first. see for yourself why millions have switched. join the finish revolution. >>> 8:55. a gray day start but certainly d

tradition, rafe instefl of ralph. consider changing your name. i thought this is my name. i often have thought maybe i should have changed it. it would change the spelling. >> challenge the spelling. >> there it is. >> one last quick question about language. shakespeare, what's the challenge there? >> well, shakespeare is, i think, one of the greatest contemporary writer we still have. the understanding of whether they're in love, at war, fighting for positions of power, his knowledge of human sigh kol jit and heart is profound and continuously inspires us. in film, we have to cut a lot. >> cut is what i have to do. i have to cut him off. sorry. that does it for us. up next, your local news. see you tomorrow. thank you very much. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com when you first find out you have breast cancer, you feel like you're in a nightmare. when i was diagnosed, i felt very out of control and a victim of the disease. (woman) helpless but never hopeless. (woman) this is something we can do. (man) we can walk.

the super rich can save us." >> ralph nader is here. after three years in office, what do you think of president obama? >> i do not think he has been aggressive enough. they seem to run the show. he should never have run the government in a way to allow republicans to control the house, so now, he has the argument that he is gridlock, so he cannot do anything, but he did have two years when he could have done a lot more, but he is not a very transforming president, as one writer has pointed out. he is not that. he is also too concessionary to wall street, not tough enough on law and order on the wall street crooks. the unemployed workers. the taxpayers. in on the military, i think he is even worse than george w. bush. he has been aggressively flouting any sovereignty of any nation, going anywhere on his own sake, and he has turned himself into a prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner, and that is a serious issue with law, and that is why there is a new group that is a forthcoming caucus in the congress on the misuse of intelligence to

host: ralph reed, your response?uest: the tax return issue i think caught the romney campaign a little flatfooted. they always intended to release them as past practice has dictated. if/when romney was the nominee. i think they got a little ruffled when the game rich people release their campaign. it will take them time to get ready for release. whenever he is going to do, he ought to say it, be unapologetic. he should not be defensive. with the larger question of his personal wealth, he should say, "look. america is great because anybody can rise as by a -- as high and as far as you want. i will not apologize for becoming a person of wealth and means because that is what makes america great. i want to reserve that for everybody else." the best thing he could do it is to use this as a jujitsu move, take the course of the blow and push it back on him. when he was questioned about his previous marriages and divorces by john mccain, he used that to hit back and the best defense in politics is a good offense. host: after

thousands in the philippines are homeless after a recent string of typhoons. 21-year-old ralph lost his home. his family has barely been able to make ends meet. cbn stepped to help get his family back on their feet. he was given a bike so he doesn't have to walk to school. his father was given a set of tools to help him rebuild his home as well as a fishing net to help him earn a living. >> i am so happy. i am grateful to cbn for everything they have done. i believe god sent them to help us. >> he said the relief was possible for him and his family to have a better future. >> philippines gets hit by these horrible disasters. we pray god's blessing.

supervisor mirkarimi is here with us but before he calms -- comes up -- comes up i want to mention ralph- humanities council here with us also. we have a number of other elected and appointed officialed and at i said to them earlier, i was ansigned the task of introducing -- i was ansigned the tasking introducing them and don't have the list but i was specifically threatened bim dr. torea moses if i didn't many introduce him. ing [laughter] or without further ado, supervisor ross mirkarimi. >> i'll make my statements we -- very quick. i just came out of charing the public safety committee meeting. there's a lot be to talk about. i want to say another happy congratulations on black history month here in san francisco. this has been i think a very auspicious haft few months of course in seeing the ascendancy of our district attorney, kamela harris, rise to attorney general in the state of california. certainly of course ases to the incredible impact of advancing the issues much import to all of us, joining the board, supervisor

>>gary: and there it is, a 55-10, the 49ers won their second super bowl in a ralph, montana had five touchdown passes, a third super bowl mvp award. >>vicki: these were all good shots. >>gary: these were all taken before the game. what do these animals look like after the game? >>vicki: did they have the look of constipation? you can join the 49ers conversation on our facebook page. >>gary: coming up, brian van aken. >>brian: rain in the forecast. the weather coming up. >>gary: january 29, 1995, six touchdown passes, the 49ers the san diego for their fifth super bowl win. the new england patriots and the giants are going to the super bowl. by the way, vern glenn is standing by at life. jim harbaugh, an nfl record, only 10 turnovers the entire season. things were looking good early. alex smith, two of seven. he completed only 2 of 7 passes. there were both touchdowns diverted davis. and 1/8 to 15 cut some taxes in the first quarter. the 10-7 win for the giants was gone in the third. this young man, kyle williams got a bad date. scott manning threw for three murders 16 yds. >>gary: the

ralph abernathy. 90-yard on the kickoff run. cincy takes it 31-4. we'll have at 11:00, highlights. >> can't wait. thanks, colin. we're just hours airplane -- hours away >> thousands of people are already lined up in times square in new york city. about two and a half hours before the stroke of midnight. 1500 police officers are also on scene to make sure everybody behaves themselves. the highlight of the night, of course, is when the ball drops. which it's been doing since 1907. should be positively balmy for new year's. 40 degrees is predicted there. you can catch the countdown on dick clark's new year's rocking new new year's. thanks for joining us, leaving you with a live look at times square. we'll see you back here at captioned by closed captioning services inc.

. >> host: what about ralph? >> he came to the convention i was elected 1981 as a teen-ager in lived in my apartment he had no money those days. grover was making with thousand dollars per month that was making that as well. $100 per month so he lived on my couch. he became executive director eventually had a religious epiphany then went to work with pat robertson's then ultimately with the christian coalition and bolts that organization into its incredible organization. ralph played a role to stop casinos in the south. it caused him trouble later as he did not necessarily describe things precisely correctly. >> host: we bobby back shortly. >> at the beginning of the buck you said it you're hearing fell legged health -- death march talk about the series of events in "the washington post" that question in the amount of money is about a casino cruise line business? that fell apart under questionable circumstances. those archetypal what should do crisis and unfolding of the scandal were your end of the microscope an

o'brien was an assistant under ralph friedgen, in 2003 and 2004. there's baseball news. larkin, elected to the baseball hall of fame. he's the only one to get elected to the hall of 2012. larkin was born in cincinnati. played his entire career, 19 years, his shortstop on his hometown team. and he was a 12-time all-star. lee smith and rafael palmeiro, among the orioles who receive votes but not enough for election. that's going to wrap it up for here in owings mills. more tonight at 11:00. more tonight at 11:00. we'll see you. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> don't miss the cbs primetime lineup tonight at 10:00. that's it for us tonight. we will be back at 11:00. >> for bob and mark, i'm denise koch. thank you for watching wjz, maryland's news station. don't go away. there is much more ahead on the cbs evening news with scott pelley. including tonight, how the gop contenders are turning the tide on front runner, mitt romney. we take you now to new york and the cbs evening news with scott pelley. we hope to see you back here at 11:00 for eyewitness news at 11:00. ,, >> pelley: tonight,

has paul got what ralph nader had? with us today, "new york magazine"'s john heilemann, nbc news' andrea mitchell, the "washington post"'s nia-malika henderson and "the huffington post"'s howard fineman. if mitt romney wins in new hampshire, this would be the first time a republican has ever won the first two, iowa and new hampshire. but he still can't win those who call themselves very conservative. just 14% of them voted for him in iowa. that enthusiasm gap is a young problem for republicans this fall. they're asking themselves what would it look like if the republican convention come tampa time with the more moderate romney accepting the nomination? would republicans by rallying around him or dying inside? howard, that's the question. what would it feel like for a mostly tea party, conservative republican party, angry at obime with all kinds of attitude and gut feeling to put a guy like mitt romney on the stage who's so cool and unseemingly conservative? >> first of all, never would victory seem more boring. second,

and i'm sure ralph wasn't real happy when i went to duke.se maryland hates duke and that type of deal. but again, it was an opportunity for me to call plays. >> well, billy is a smart guy. he's a hard-working guy to -- who really loves football. i think he's dedicated, as we have seen this year, to finishing the job here. he getting along well with people. he's demanding. tough but fair. >> reporter: bill belichick from annapolis. >>> patriots' tom brady. in his first season with o'brien, brady threw for more than 5,000 yards. that ises most in his career. >>> qb aaron rodgers helped the packers win a super bowl. this year, he played in the pro bowl all-star game instead. today, rogers was quoted as saying he was disappointed in the effort of some of his nfc teammates, saying not trying hard. they embarrassed themselves. they won the pro bowl, 59-41. scoring the most points ever in a game that is are in touch football than real football. defensive hitting, not much. >>> college basketball season begins to pick up steam as the calendar flips

this morning, currently replacing 40 feet of ralph. metro is simple-tracking. at one point, the train was so crowded it shut down the entire red line. with a makeshift sign, and louder voices -- >> move to the center of the car as quickly as possible. >> they knew this. they did not maintain the system. we have problems. >> this time it is a cracked rail on the red line, forcing trains at the tenleytown station to run on one track. >> right now i'm very embarrassed because i have been interviewed today. i should go right now to take a boss. >> not only single-tracking, but the cars are moving slowly. this train set for 20 minutes. >> i got on the train, and there was a broken train in front of it. i have to get a cab to work. >> to add insult to injury, the escalators were not working. a commute that takes 30 minutes has taken one hour and have so far. >> i will give them here and there, but this is really on the side of there. >> that escalator was not working one minute ago. we are told they will have two or three hours more work on the rails. why did this ha

so he attacked and saw the destruction of his own empire -- >> host: tell you what, ralph, if you have a question for mr. lehrer about presidential debates, go ahead and ask it or we're going to have to move on. >> caller: yeah. why not debate the history of war in the middle east or 20 conquerors of iraq and of palestine? >> host: mr. lehrer, this kind of goes back to format. >> guest: well, sure, and, i mean, any question can be asked if it becomes an issue. i believe debates should be about issues already in front of the american public and ma matter at that -- that matter at that moment in time. and that question could certainly be asked in a presidential debate if it were relevant at that moment. >> host: mr. lehrer, what about technical problems as the moderator? >> guest: well, technical problems go with the territory. i've had every, i've had -- i've lost audio in my ear, as you know, there are, you know, directors and executive producers that need to tell you certain things, hopefully not very much. i've lost audio. one time, in fact, it was 2008 they had a cover over the tele

the virginia lottery drew three winners for its annual new area's millionaire ralph.f those winning tickets came from a 7-eleven in great falls in fairfax county. close but no cigar. the ticket's number is 310298. the other two tickets were bought in the mecklenberg and augusta county areas. in addition to the million dollar winners, five other people will get $25,000 apiece. that's nice. pretty soon they all add up. >>> the d.c. metro area welcomed its first baby of 2012 in clinton, maryland. >> she was born at 12:12 a.m. >> oddly enough. >> the little girl doesn't have a name yet. she was at southern maryland hospital center weighing a tad over 8 pounds, 10 ounces. greg and urja bonafede were spending the day at the baltimore train museum when they got the ink ling their special delivery might be on the fast track. >> when i was running around the house getting ready, she said, if we don't leave now, the baby is going to come here. she threatened me once or twice with that. >> you can just kind of tell. it just doesn't stop. >> no, it sure doesn't. if you can tell,

plus ralph nader. now he's turning his focus on cisco systems and what they should do with their cash. and can twitter help you be a better trader? we've got a guest that tracks social media sentiment to help make trading decisions. find out what he's watching rite now. live from the nasdaq market site. this is "fast money." the results of amazon sending shares sharply lower in the after-hours. it's also the guidance that is trading below forecasts in terms of revenue also could post an operating loss for the current quarter. >> amazon is a phenomenal company. i love the product. it's the valuation. it almost doesn't matter what they put out there. the valuation to me is so stretched they can't possibly grow into it in time sort of to have this work out. so i think that -- you know, down 15 or 20 bucks, i still wouldn't touch it. the valuation is still crazy even though i think they do so many things right. but they have to sort of ignore where their stock is trading. >> this is the tumble in the after

caroling you'll get a sentimental feeling when you hear voices singing let's be jolly and the good ralphrec and park fashion way park today ♪ [applause] >> is there any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. president buell: entertain a motion. all those in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> unanimous. >> now we are on item number nine, betty ann ong rec center. >> good morning, commissioners. i am the project manager with the capital division. the item before you today is discussion and possible action to plant construction for the new clean and safe neighborhood parks generalbetty ann ong chinn center, which is greater than 10% of the original approved contract amount. just a little bit of background. on may 20, 2010, the commission approved the contract to approve construction for the amount of $10.8 million for the contract. the project is -- is scheduled to be completed in may 2012 for a grand opening thereafter. in early august, we had a milestone celebration that was attended by the mayor and many commissioners here. and the general public -- general acco

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and san ralph fall placed these cameras in irwin.hese cameras bring in 80,000 in revenue each other. today is the daft ray for ice -- last day for ice saying. thousands of skaters have taken a -- ice skating. thousands of skaters have taken a turn around the ice. >>> good afternoon to you. it's a wintry cold day, a perfect day for ice skating. looking at that view, a little bit of a haze. we're looking at another gorgeous day with mostly sunny skies. the winds are lightening up. we have calm conditions tonight and that will set the stage for a very cold evening, even colder than last night. 48 in san jose. although still chilly, you will need your jacket for most of the day, if not all day. 47 in fleap. checking in at 49 in concord, 47 in livermore. widespread upper 40s, around mountain view, palo alto, redwood city, 47, the winds are still coming in from the north- northwest and generally light between 5 to 10 miles an hour. we talked about a fire burning here, this wind is a light one, meaning the smoke is going to float in this di