scott levin a transplant specialist who wants to try to give lindsay new hands, real ones from a donor behind my -- >> hopefully you could do your hair. >> reporter: when lindsay was 24 she had her eyes on a career producing fashion shows and just graduated from virginia commonwealth university's fashion program. >> you were on your way? >> yes. i would say that was my dreams as far as being an excellent student and well respected were definitely coming true. >> reporter: but then she got sick, a blockage in her small intestine. surgery followed and something went wrong, an infection that shut down her entire body. doctors had to put her in a medical induced coma. when she came out of it in a haze a month later. >> i knew there was something wrong with my hands and my feet. i would look down and i would see black, almost like a body that had decomposed. >> reporter: the infection turned her extremities into dead tissue. >> there was a period of time they didn't tell me they had to amputate but someone from the staff said you know what they're going to do to your hands right? that's whe

but wonder if by using apple as the poster child, smart levin and others think that the issue is going to get more traction. >> well, absolutely, scott. the senators here think that they would like to see tax reform done in this country and they'd like to see something done about what they call these loopholes here. and i should say that apple has said it doesn't use tax gimmicks. what levin was talking about when he said the holy grail of tax avoidance is this question of subsidiaries of apple that are not tax residence in any jurisdiction around the world. they may be legally registered in ireland, but they're not official tax residents of the country, also not of the united states or any country anywhere around the world. that is the thing that the committee is saying has never been seen before by them. and a lot of tax experts they say they spoke to expressed

. >> mark levine, thank you so much, robert cost is that, scott rassmussen. switching gears, chinese investment in the u.s. is on the rise. it's not just coming from the chinese government. michelle cabrera jones me next with that story. >>> later on, stocks closed down a week, it's been such a strong year, i will give you my take on all this obsessive federal reserve watching on wall street. don't forget, free market capitalism is the beth path to pros spemplt as usual, i will say, free market capitalism needs the rule of law. i'm kudlow, we'll be right back. . >> when you think about the trading relationship between the u.s. and china, you probably think about american companies manufacturing products over there. but more chinese companies are investing in the u.s. and even making things here t.cnbc chief national correspondent michelle cabrera joins us now. i read one of our piece, welcome back to the show. >> okay. >> i am a free trader, you know that. >> yes. >> i am totally, totally suspicious of everything china does. so why are they coming here? >> ye

scott a small economy with a g.d.p. of about forty five million euros only and that indebted banking system burdened with about seven billion euros a bad loans as levine is trying to prop it up by transferring the non-performing loans of its largest bags to a newly established bad bank meantime its credit rating was recently cut to junk by moody's says one of the lowest investment grades same thing happened to you may recall to cyprus in twenty twelve just a year before it faced publishing bailout for now slovenia those insisting it doesn't need help from international lenders you have another veldt an economic trends magazine says though that sounds familiar everybody who has been in trouble in the eurozone in the last year is as in the first phase of the grass is always refused to admit that they are really in trouble and of course is first of all some kind of psychological game they're trying to play with the markets and with the public at large. that. being said. there's also been quite clear there all the countries that came into the danger zone eventually had to ask for help which is something national governments don't like because they're obvi

levine if he believes this bill would mitigate systemic risk. absolutely absolutely frankly this is what does break attempted to do it was go in that direction and there's certain scott brown of massachusetts in that brief interim between kennedy and elizabeth warren insisted on exempting all kinds of insurance companies and trust of small banks and basically he drilled holes into the vault and breaking various nine thousand pages i knew we still needed this actually it wasn't like a simple it's a person if you're a small bank fifty percent if you're a large big capital requirement that's a very clear and precise rule it's the kind of thing that i wish frankly dodd frank had been allowed to keep before scott brown ruined it. and i would disagree on whether i think scott brown is to blame i think i think it was a lot of problems and i think it's a real testament to brown vigor that actually repeals one of the most offensive provisions of dodd frank which is to extend it to clearing houses brown voter rightly in my opinion strikes language needs to go now i'm going to there's too little capital in banking system it's too complex you know the throws the process out the

scott, i'll send it back to you. >> thank you. some video coming in from room 106 at the dirkson office building in washington. this is carl levinthe michigan -- well, there is the crowd beginning to gather. carl levin is the michigan senator who is running this, a democrat. i don't think you would see the same sort of hearings in the house. remember, the senate is democratically controlled. we will continue to cover this throughout the day. >>> in the meantime, 10:00 a.m., microsoft is going to announce a new examine bxbox. this is the first gaming company. video games very important to us in silicon valley. they make the chips that go into at least the old xbox. ea makes most of the game. eight years after it bought the company, yahoo! is updating its picture site, flicker, this morning. offering a terabyte of photo storage. that works out to about a half a million photographs. if you are filling up your flicker account, you need to take fewer pictures. now, jon and laura, this announcement comes a day after yahoo! said it would take over tumbler. really excellent timing if maybe excellentle on yahoo!'s part showing under mari