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i hope you got your copy of the beacon because the editor stuart rosenthal is with me and he says it is time to sign up, sign up for senior olympics. let me tell you i have been to the senior olympics. they have them in maryland and virginia. i think they also have them in the district. >> they do but a different time of year. >> it is so much fun. let's find out, you want to sign up, what do you have to do. >> you don't have to be a senior really, it is 50 and over. anyone over 50 can compete. so you and i are eligible. >> that's right. thank you. >> thank you. thank you. >> get in trouble for that. >> no, honey, when i see 50 it will have a one in front of it. so you can be 50. >> traditional olympic event. a lot of track and field and swimming and diving and table tennis and regular tennis but all kinds of events that wouldn't qualify in the real olympics. for example in maryland they have bowling, horseshoes. >> isn't that fun. >> and virginia is even broader. in virginia you can play bridge or chess. miniature golf and if you are a yo-yo specialist they have a yo- yo competition

stuart rosenthal the publisher and editor of the beacon is here and it is talking about what your ticket -- what name your ticket is in. >> the security people at tsa has instituted a new requirement now that when you order an airline ticket you have to give your date of birth and gender and further more you have to use the full name that's on the i.d. you are going to present at the airport. >> reporter: what's what happens if you don't have that middle name. if you have a middle name and it is not on the ticket. >> the past they have stopped people that were similar to those as people on the watch list and they were innocent but pulled aside and risked and sometimes missed their flight and all kinds of problem. they are doing it for our benefit but they need to know the driver's license or the passport you will present, whatever the name is on there, the full name, it is the name your ticket is in. >> many times when you ghetto this airport you want to see the credit card used to charge the ticket and that has to be in the same name. >> that's not clear. it is a question that hasn't be

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in today's money segment larry rosenthal joins us in what to look for in rebuilding the portfolio.ing. >> good morning, allison. >> what are we dealing with right now as far as trying to invest for the future? >> well a lot of things have changed with all of the recession pressures that we've had. a lot of people are talking about buying home strategies as being dead and they are not. back in the 1980s and the '90s would buy a large cap stock and maybe some international and bonds and hold on to them for a whilech the beautiful thing back then is the market went up and down but usually went upwards and people are saying because of the volatile strategy of that is gone but the key is the assets are different. >> and ho do you choose what is smart to hold today? >> one of the biggest keys focusing on retirement planning is make sure your money outpaces taxes and inflation and there is return mutual funds that are designed to just sort of outpace taxes and inflation so that you can maintain your purchasing power. >> and to do that, i'm sure you would say go and find more than you know

down to the field with ken rosenthal. >> ken: we're here with curtis granderson and mariano riveria.e'll start with you. were you thinking triples? >> i don't know. i figure if i get thrown out, thrown out. >> ken: talk about the pre game, president obama in the clubhouse. what was that like? >> amazing. got a chance to be that close to him and shake his hand and i got video of him. >> ken: mariano, in the all-star game you're perfect. eight innings four saves. talk about going out with the one-run league knowing the american league streak was on the line. >> it was great. the thing, our guys gave me the opportunity to be there. you have to come and shut it down. it was an interesting game. >> ken: what is it like pitching in this game as opposed to pitching in a regular season or even a playoff game? >> it's great. it means something, it means whoever wins here got a chance to start out at home in the world series. so that's great. like i said. beautiful, beautiful game. beautiful fence. and thank god for that. >> ken: what did the president say to you? >> the president was kind of

oh, perry hall, the rosenthal family. if we go close enough you think we can spot their house? >> let's see. >> they didn't give the address. i don't want to do that on the air. bel air, ebenezer, close? harford road? we're quiet right now. needless to say, temperatures coming up there, we've shown you some spots, pushing 80, you may have an 80 on the backyard thermometer but the official reading at bwi marshall now checking in at 76. up towards philly as well, pushing 78 in new york. they have yet to break 85 in new york city. they could do it today. we're starting to pump in real heat. we've got the clouds out here, even though we had storms to fire up yesterday evening, dumping about 2/3 inch of rain in westminster we are generally looking at the clouds trying to break up. we've got this hazy sky overhead. though we have an atmosphere that is primed with a lot of humidity, only a few isolated storms may pop up near the bay this afternoon. our forecast model here, the azonnies model indicating 3:30 around the bay or give or take within a few miles the best likelihood of that

>> well, i met with ay rosenthal and david ship by, beth etors on the op-ed and editorial page.and then we lked and a month or so later we talked ain. >> rose: is there some sapphire chair tha bill kristol a now you inheritd? ishat the way it goes? the same way... a foreign picy chair that freedman now occupys? >> i'm trying not to think abo that way. and i ink that ey... certainly my editors are very resistt to thinki about it that way, at there's a conservative slot at t "times." you know, ihinkunquestionably iffer a se of political opinns somewhat different from the restf my colleues on the page but i don't think th that's... don't think it's healt certainly for me as a writer to just thi of myself as sort ... i am sitting, though, in at used to be lliam safire's library, thewalls are lined with vocabulary book, dictionaries, the oxfordenglish dictionary from 1827. >> rose: erything you can know about wos and lguages. >> right, so safire's shaw is hanging over me in that see. >> rose: america today andhe estion of our demographics and the question o our ethnicity. texas, cali

>> well, i met with andy rosenthal and david ship by, beth editors on the op-ed and editorial page.nd then we talked and a month or so later we talked again. >> rose: is there some sapphire chair that bill kristol and now you inheritd? is that the way it goes? the same way... a foreign policy chair that freedman now occupys? >> i'm trying not to think about it that way. and i think that they... certainly my editors are very resistant to thinking about it that way, that there's a conservative slot at the "times." you know, i think unquestionably i offer a set of political opinions somewhat different from the rest of my colleagues on the page. but i don't think that that's... i don't think it's healthy certainly for me as a writer to just think of myself as sort of... i am sitting, though, in what used to be william safire's library, the walls are lined with vocabulary books, dictionaries, the oxford english dictionary from 1827. >> rose: everything you can know about words and languages. >> right, so safire's shadow is hanging over me in that sense. >> rose: america today and the que

it was interesting, it was being hosted by the head of investor relations, david rosenthal. red sox tillerson, the chairman and ceo, not taking questions. so the majority of the call was basically a re-read of the press release that was out there. so what we can tell you is that this is a company that is very aligned to the economy, and whether its good or bad, they try to, you know, maintain a steady hand. and we're hearing comments like that, that it's difficult to predict the economic recovery. we're going to continue to invest through this cycle. one of the headlines coming out of that conference call is going to be the fact that their $26 billion year-end target for capital investment may not be met. they may miss it. but underneath that, the reality, the reason for that, would be more in the lines of foreign exchange changes. but the big story, exxon, 84 cents a share versus 1.02, a 47% decline in revenue. also came in better than expected, but still nothing to write home about. the upstream, big business and oil and natural gas business down about 62% from a year ago.

our task force today includes larry rosenthal, president of financial plaque r planning services, and mark, you think the market is getting ready to stabilization. >> i think the dollar is stablizing. i think what we're seeing happening is -- even though we are making -- australian dollar, and canadian dollar new prices. but i think we're on the verge of stabilizing. ahead of the gdp report friday, the consensus looking a contraction of 1.1%, setting us up for a q3 expansion. >> larry, you think this ral hay has been sort lived. with our sill water about the consumer. >> i am. i feel right now you take a look at the earnings reports that have just recently come out, a lot of it has been due to cost cutting. a lot of the true meat of the economy is going to come out in the third quarter this year. and we need to see some top line earnings to see if in fact the consumer does come back. if that happens, i believe we'll have legs and a substantial expansion. >> mark, what object about you? the currency markets, does it tell you anything about whether or not the equity market is tired? >>