simon: i'm doing good man. simon: hugh masekela is one of the great south african musicians., 2, 3, 4... masekela: paul had just come from south africa and he said, "listen, i just did this thing and i'd really like to take it all over the world. are you interested?" i said, "of course." ♪ stimela ♪ and i said to paul "it would be good to pull in like a miriam," because i was anticipating the troubles also. and here now is miriam makeba. [applause] miriam makeba became the most visible african artist in the 1960s, when nobody had heard of artists from south africa. she was the first artist to really break out hard and she was the first person to conscientize not only the world but america especially, about what was happening in south africa. would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country? masekela: we'd been away from home by that time, me and miriam, over 25 years, in exile. so i spoke to miriam she's interested. and i knew it was gonna be great. we're gonna be like pigs in mud with all that was gonna happen. ♪ it was a slow day ♪ ♪ and the sun was be

simons:] yes. [larry:] you could apply the same thing to beliefs and believers are different religions. that some religion would claim that it's the only true religion. that would be like saying chinese is the only true language. i mean, would that make any sense? [dr. simons:] that's a wonderful analogy. in fact, you're going to demand your tuition money back, right now, when i share this with you. you're going to want it back - but there is no such thing as religion in this semester. but, you know, in a way, it's true. there really is no such thing as religion. there are human beings, people practicing their faiths in their own way, in their own communities and that's why, well, it's very important we have books and we'll learn some doctrines and we'll learn some things but we should never get away from the fact that we are talking about human beings who are trying to make sense of their lives and going about it the best they can. and, so, you're quite right. the battle, you know, your analogy, l

yeah. >> simon: his lungs are now the size of watermelons. squeezed until they're no larger than oranges. his heartbeat slows down to 27 beats a minute. his mother is counting seconds. down deep, the blue hole becomes the black hole. >> trubridge: you're alone with yourself down there at depth. even your body slips away so that it feels like you're just a kind of a speck of consciousness that's floating into the abyss. you're weightless, there's no light, no sound, and so it's almost as if you're floating in a completely empty tank. >> simon: the pressure is causing his brain to absorb more nitrogen. he is feeling light-headed, kind of drunk. it happens to all divers deep down; it's called narcosis. suddenly, a bright light on the base plate 410 feet down. he takes his tag and begins his ascent. at 100 feet, he is joined by his safety divers. like a pod of dolphins, they guide him through the most hazardous part of the dive. running out of oxygen can cause a blackout. >> trubridge: ( grunting ) >> simon: the sound you are hearing is william e

>> enter simon. simon is like, listen, girl, i'll help you.up the stairs. >> the dog is seriously teaching the puppy what to do. monkey see, monkey do. >> he's like, come on, daisy. trying to talk her down. he's like, i'm going to do it until she comes down the stairs. apparently the people watching this are loving it too. >> oh, my god. i might cry. that's so funny. >> simon is like, okay, we're two steps down. you can do this. >> that's not simon. simon is like, it's not so hard. just do it like this. >> finally -- >> yeah! >> she comes down. >> she did it. >> he goes to like congratulate her. he's biting her head. >> they should hire simon out. >> this isn't a brand new skill for simon. he's a rescue dog. he's known for his skill with puppies. daisy is a foster puppy. >> simon is paying it forward. he remembers the people who helped him. now he's helping daisy. >>> that's going to do it for this edition of "

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simon? >> kayla, for the moment, thank you. meanwhile, we should mention that black rock says its fourth quarter profit boosted. the world's largest money manager earned $694 million or $3.93 a share. that easily beats what wall street was expecting. the stock is gaining, what, 20% since november currently trading at 852 week high. on a programming note, do be aware that black rock ceo larry fink will be live on "closing bell" at 3:00 eastern. now importantly several market indices are hitting new highs today. the s&p 500, as you'll be aware, at five-year highs. the dow transports are at an all-time high. so is the russell 2,000 small cap index and the s&p midcap 400 is also at an all-time high. let's bring in kenny pulcari director of floor operations for yield securities. for the last four trading sessions the market went nowhere. today we're up 88 points on the dow and we could break potentially to a triple digit gain. what does that all add up to? >> it's interesting you've said it. ever since we rallied back up to 1475 the

(simon) a las 10 de la mañana ya está empezando a hacer calor.cular. también, se ven algunos cachorros, entre ellos, moya, que no toma nada en serio. [cachorros chillando] con los cachorros ocurre una cosa muy seria. todo el tiempo, siguen al león para estar en contacto con el olor de la manada. eso indica que son parte de ese grupo. es como su identidad, si se quiere. pero eso puede ser un problema. pues si un león extraño se apodera de la manada, por causa de ese olor, el nuevo macho va a tratar de...de matar a los cachorros y de formar otra familia con las hembras que hay. el hecho de tener ese olor los favorece ahora. pero puede ser malo en el futuro. (jonathan) ya es medio día y la hembra guepardo lleva la presa que cazó a su cachorro toto, que está fuera de su vista. es muy difícil ser una madre sin pareja. ♪ (jonathan) vean cómo jadea de cansancio. la cacería fue larga. y ahora tiene que buscar a su cría que dejó sobre algún hormiguero. Él la llama. quiere que ella regrese. [cachorro chilla] bien, ahí va. oyó el llamado de su mamá, se acer

simon, what is your take on all that? >> well i think it is important to see how the market reacted today, they sort of shrugged it off a little bit. as you heard there is a lot of counter veiling good news in the report. housing is doing better. the weekly jobless claims have been way down. so you know, we are growing, not fast enough. i meanthe economy is doing all right. and, you know, the question is going to be now what does congress and president do together. melissa: simon, we're not growing. it is negative. that is the point of the segment. we're not growing. >> i understand. the thing is the economy is doing all right. it is not doing really bad. it is not doing really great. somewhere in the middling place it has been last couple years. that didn't substantially change. as you heard from the other guests. the key thing what is congress and the president going to do? how do we balance need for more growth with also deficit reduction in the next few months. that is where the big battle will be in washington i thin

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guy benson, and mark simone.intments, all three of them, particularly, particularly hagel at defense, show a move to the left. what's your take? >> sure, i mean, of course they do, the president's a lefty, that's who he is. and now that he never has to face voters again, i think we'll see his administration drift even further to the left. i do see the lew appointment at least as an opportunity for republicans to highlight the fact that we have not had a federal budget in almost four years. and it is 100% the fault of democrats. a lot of americans don't know that. at least give guys like that a chance to really beat that drum. and one other thing, larry, i'm interested to see the labor department pick with solis on her way out, i think if you look at labor unions, they're licking their wounds a little bit over what happened in michigan. i think there's going to be a lot of pressure on the white house to put a very hard left person in that position. we'll see who it is. >> yeah, karen, they'll probably put the head

simon & schuster bed houghton. houghton was much more the kind of old-fashioned publishing that i've really felt at home with. and with me came on their own sedition market atwood, gary young's wood, ian mcewan, and it was wonderful that my authors just followed me. i was active for about six and half years and that was at the time they there were all of these takeovers. at random house, random was the first one to go public, and he was called into his office in he said now we are going to go public and there's going to be a stock government me tell you what's going to happen. i am not advising anyone. i'm just telling you what we are doing. and then rca bought us in then i went to simon & schuster and when i was at simon & schuster golf and western bought simon & schuster. at houghton, houghton was already a publicly held company that maxwell was trying to buy it and only 10% to general books. i remember the director kept coming to me in those first few months and said, you know they are not going to sell the trad

yeah, about simon monkford. he of the suitcases? he's got a record as long as your arm and he spent five years on the run in toronto, so i thought it might be worth checking. we've got a double murder on our hands and you're messing about with some two-bit con man. yeah, but i feel there's something more-- by the pricking of my thumbs. don't tell me, shakespeare? bravo. i'm getting sick of bloody shakespeare. lewis: now, this second murder changes everything. in what way? amanda costello left oxford two years ago. so whatever it was behind all this, it didn't happen last week. maybe in edinburgh in the summer? at the festival? they took a couple of shows up there and all hell broke loose apparently. scott was accused of stealing and there was a fight. all highly theatrical. yeah, there's a reason for that. hathaway: we can eliminate one possibility. make my day. amanda costello, she gave the play a four-star review. what possibility does that eliminate? well, that one of the cast overheard her phoning in her copy to the paper, didn'

keith boykin, matt simone, matt welch. plenty more to do with the rest of the show., i have a serious question, a very serious question. at least one american hostage is now dead in algeria. and there are other americans still held hostage. so where are the marines? where are the special forces to rescue them and show some american strength? we're going to tackle that later. then later in the show, guess how long it's been since president obama's much-heralded jobs council has even had a meeting, keith boykin. try a year ago. a year. it doesn't sound like the president is really interested in economic growth at all. and that's why those revenues are so low. and please don't forget, free market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. economic freedom equals growth on "kudlow." we'll be right back. look, if you have copd like me, you know it can be hard to breathe, and how that feels. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only onc

how high can they go, simon. rich in this country, they're now paying 39.6% in income tax to the federal government plus they've got a .8% income tax hike thanks to obamacare and they got this 2% payroll tax put back on them and plus, now, they have high state taxes and city taxes and well over 50% in taxes and making 45 cents o dollar that they earn. how much is too much? i mean, in your view, on the rich? >> i think we're going to find out this year through negotiations. i mean, right now where things stand. >> megyn: what's your thought on it? >> well, i think my thought is that we're going to -- this is going to be negotiated, right? i mean, i don't think it's up to simon rosen berg as much as i'd like to dictate to everybody what happens this year, the critical thing is that, you know, right now in terms of gdp we're taking about, we're taking 17 to 18% of gdp and revenue and spending, 20, 21% and by historical margin we're not spending -- the country is not actually spending that much money, particularly gi

>> i think so, simon.re gradually weaning ourselves from thinking of these things in terms of calendar dates and more toward economic targets, when we asked people what is the unemployment rate the fed will stop buying assets, it's now 6.8%, up from 6.5%. i think that's the key number to watch. and then there's another aspect to this you'll find if you look at the survey which is, does the market believe the fed will end qe on a dime or taper it. most of the market believes it will be tapered. and that that's an event for perhaps the end of the third quarter. and so tomorrow is a day when we get that statement, simon. we'll be very interested to see what the outlook is for qe. >> but the irony is, they went in and didn't have a huge effect, as you just listed, on the economy going forward with qe. but once they're in, they can't pull back for fear the asset markets might collapse, presumably. >> i think they're definitely in a bit of a pickle, i guess is one way to put it, simon, where they want to taper i

joining us jimmy williams, sara fagan and mark simone.s menendez story, mark simone, again, i can't report anything that i can't report. do you have any comments on what -- >> it would be a terrible scandal for these prostitutes to now be associated with bob menendez. >> hold on, let him finish. >> see that's funny. that's pretty good. >> i would hope this is not true. but i don't know. you'd think if there were no fbi investigation, menendez would have gotten them to put out some kind of statement. he's got a big problem if he just took those trips because that's a donor, that's a huge gift and apparently he didn't report that. >> that's a really important point. these are third-party trips, in other words, they're not business trips, they're financed by a third party and none of it shows up on the ethics committee web site. >> that's a serious violation. throughout his career he's always had people reporting him to ethics panels and committees. who knows. this kind of allegation against him has been going on for some time. >> sarah? >>

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next, we have simon crosby. he is an entrepreneur, who has just launched his latest company, and he might tell us a little bit about it. before that, almost just about a month ago, he was the cto of citrix systems. he got there by selling his last company to them. that company has developed some of the key virtualization technologies, which enable the cloud. he made a big contribution. thank you for that. last but definitely not least, we have jeanette tomlinson, the cto of our very own, dear city of santa francisco -- gina, and sen. she has had a very daunting task of taking the legacy infrastructure of the city and moving that to a professional data center. but also, setting up a virtual private cloud and making a foray into the public cloud. she offers a unique perspective as a large government user on cloud computing. she was also the cio of the san francisco municipal transport station at 40, and she was also managing clorox's data centers previously. thank you for being here. with so much brainpower and pr

[applause] >> thanks, simon very much. i appreciated this framing comments by alan bersin from the department of security. welcome to the mayor's club. my understanding is used to serve in congress and i have upgraded to be in a mayor. [laughter] i'm still a relatively ricky mayor i took in early january and made increasing trade with mexico one of my highest priorities and my partner in that effort is mayor jonathan ross chatted to some he's doing a right now, but he'll be back down. all the mayors on the dais here today will recognize in this effort, mayors are going to lead the way. we are where the rubber meets the road. our number one job is job creation and economic

i love simon and simon was given one of the republicans a hard time. and i understand that.was the entitlement reform? where was the media asking about it last night? >> we hadn't heard anything. >> these fiscal conservatives, maybe they're not as good as the president. they are the best. at playing political chess. >> yes, they are. >> it just unfortunate there's very little correlation between winning the chess game of politics and winning what's best for the country. >> you win a battle here, but what about the long-term war here? >> they're not winning anything right now. i'm so disgusted right now. it's what's been going on in our country for the past four years. the leadership void is still there. we're not get geting the things done and this is on both sides. everybody's to blame, but one person has to have responsibility. someone has to bring people together. it's not happening and it is sickening. >> it's like a kindergarten class. all the kids get together and say we want to stay up an hour later, drink 22 ounce sodas, heck with mr. bloomberg and the teacher said o

please welcome sister simone campbell. (cheers and applause) hello, thank you so much for coming back. good to see you. >> thank you, good to see you. >> now sister you were here once before. >> that's right. >> during the campaign. you and your fellow or sistronuns got on a bus watch. did you call this bus. >> nunns on the bus. >> it was an obvious cois. >> could have been nuns on a helicopter,. >> we couldn't afford that. >> okay. >> we are a low budget operation. >> that is because are you advocating for the poor. >> that's right. >> stephen: if you advocate for rich people you get a private jet. >> but we don't stand with jesus if that happens. >> jon: what are you talking about, jesus wants me to prosper. >> but jesus invite you to the major, to the side of the poor. >> stephen: hold it right there, nunsy, hold it right there okay. stop stampeding me with your appeal to the jesus it is christmastime. >> it is. >> stephen: why do we have to talk about the poor. keep it light it is a happy time of the year. >> that's ex

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simon rothstein, piano teacher to the devereaux. arrested for theft long, long ago but anything you can turn up would help. i'll check the files. perkins: so, what did he want? you searched the house and the room-- agnes's room? yes. so why didn't you find the letter? which letter? the letter from jack agnes's young man. i never saw any letter. milner: exactly, constable. but if you'd been doing your job properly, you would have found it. so, has he got it? if you're referring to dcs foyle, yes, he's got it. and he's going to keep it a while longer. mr. foyle is helping us with our enquiries. i thought he'd left the police. constable, if you and i are going to work together, do you think you could try showing just a modicum of respect? of course, sir. for you or for him? we got the mains drainage coming down this right flank to about that point, and then cutting it to where it would be terraced, right? and that will service all... you're a bit premature aren't you? i'm sorry? do you remember me? no. have we met? i was at the town ha

[motor en marcha] [ruido de motor] simon, ¿me copias? (simon) sí, di jonathan.ndo. y no nos queda otra opción que irnos. dos días después de habernos ido, recibimos noticias de que encontraron a la mamá de toto... pero sin el pequeño cachorro. [♪] nunca sabremos qué sucedió. pero las probabilidades siempre estuvieron en su contra. [♪] la vida allí afuera es difícil y estos son los dramas de la vida real. [♪] inevitablemente, para algunos de nuestros felinos, no habrá un final feliz. [♪]

>> simon promised a lot on that and hasn't lived up. >> maybe he needs his paula. he needs to find his counterpart. >> i don't know. been there, done that. >>> this next one comes from to us from wabc news in for the myers, florida. one chick may its debut. an eagle nest racked up more than 1 million viewers who followed ozzie and harriet. last month, harriet laid two eggs and harriet was found feeding her baby eaglet. that is touch warming to me. anything involving baby animals. >> have you ever put up the small pop-up window on your desk and watched the baby eagles. >> and i've done. with puppies. it's very calming. just watch them play. >> i'll try it. >> i'm mara schiavocampo. this is "early today." just for first stop of the day on your nbc station. >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 5:00 a.m. >> good morning. a colder start to the day. many areas in the 20's. we have some clouds over the mid atlantic. there is some rain across the outer banks and into virginia. high pressure is building in. >> 4:56. 27 degrees

(simon morgan) no la he visto en más de dos semanas y quiero verla por lo menos una vez cada dos semanasrador) deben ser cuidadosos, los rinocerontes adultos tienen una vista muy mala pero un excelente oído y corren a 64 kilómetros por hora. ♪ [música de suspenso] ♪ probablemente sólo era un ataque fingido. pero nunca se debe confiar en ello. cada uno de los 15 rinocerontes que se movieron a phinda, está prosperando. simon y los rastreadores aprenden cosas nuevas acerca de los rinocerontes negros cada día, información que podría ser útil para movimientos futuros de rinocerontes y hoy les toca ver una sorpresa. [susurrando] mira, es un pequeño bebé. sí. (narrador) es la primera cría en este proyecto de rinoceronte negro. eso es, guardemos silencio, vámonos. de acuerdo. (narrador) el proyecto de expansión del rinoceronte negro de wwf está abriendo más tierras para ellos, y con un territorio más grande, sus índices de natalidad están aumentando. con este tipo de proyectos, el futuro se ve mejor para los rinocerontes africanos. un rinoceronte blanco pastando con calma se está convirtiendo en

the news on bethlehem is real news. >> great stuff, simon.mulus media talks the state of the traditional media business in a world full of itunes. we're back in a couple of minutes. [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before your eyes. make it worth watching. introducing the 2013 lexus ls. an entirely new pursuit. >>> of course, the former ceo of sirius has been a seller over the years in part, because the new technology is making it disadvantageous to be in the traditional media business. >> as there becomes more and more of the choices t advertisers have a field day, and they have the advantage over the media companies because they could sit there and say, okay, i'll buy it in mobile if i can't buy it in broadcast network. >> our next guest well versed in dealing with the various challenges for the advertising marketplace. lew dickey is president and ceo of cumulus media. the second largest in the united states. cumulus making a big bet on country music. gaining even more mainstream popularity. reintroducing it to the new york

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>> other farmers have fewer misgivings -- simon drury, for instance. many consider him a traitor to the cause, but he welcomes the gas as an additional source of income. on his 2000 hectare property, 47 wells are being drilled. for each production site he receives a few thousand dollars a year in compensation. he's not allowed to say exactly how much. a confidentiality clause forbids it. >> they are trying to help us. they want to do the best for the landholders. because what it is -- it's a joint venture between the landholder and the gas company. we're going to be working together for 20 or 30, as kylie said, 40 years. so we can't be clashing. i mean it's just like a bad marriage gone wrong. >> his two youngest sons are learning cattle herding, but in a few years they'll certainly be working in the gas industry. for simon drury and his wife kylie, it's a gift -- because the region is experiencing a small job miracle. >> make the best of the situation and see the opportunities that present themselves, and instead of being negative about it, actually l

. >> guest: the one side benefit relating to the kaplan book, i believe simon & schuster pushed up the publication of this book in large part in reaction to the ongoing scandal so it was going to be late january and now it's the beginning of january. >> host: we also want to look at some of the award winners of 2012, the national book awards as we mentioned katherine boo behind the beautiful rivers won the national book award for the but the other nominees included anne applebaum iron curtain and robert caro the passage of power, the boy kings of texas and the late anthony should deed, house of stone. bob minzesheimer any comment on those? >> guest: i admired the anthony should deed book. i read it just after he died. anthony shadid was a reporter for "the washington post" and "the new york times" and died of apparently related asthma attack while covering the civil war and syria. his book is a memoir. anthony shadid grew up in oklahoma of all places with within american lebanese family and he ended up fascinated and became a reporter. his life mission was to try to explain this region

first, let's hear from simon mcgregor-wood him outside the court in the hague -- simon mcgregor-wood, outside the court in the hague. >> it is not a complicated verdict. there were five cases being brought against shell. the judge decided that shell was only liable for one of the five. in that case, shell, the company in nigeria, could have done more to prevent the sabotage of a pipeline, which was then the cause of terrible pollution in one of the villages. happiness for those villagers, but disappointment for the villagers in the other cases. i'm joined by the lawyer who represented the four nigerian farmers and dutch friends of the earth. thank you very much for joining us. a mixed verdict. are you disappointed with it? >> no, i would not say that. it could have been better. overall, it is quite a good outcome for us. at least show was held liable in one of the cases. that is a good start -- at was held liable in one of the cases. that is a good start. they have a responsibility to prevent sabotage, which is a key issue. >> people were hoping that shell, the parent company here in

ceo bill simon.r today, gave a speech at the national retail federation's big show, discussing things like walmart boosting sources of u.s. products by $50 billion over the next ten years. offering jobs to veterans, when they come back from active duty. but they decided to cancel our interview today. they simply said it was a scheduling issue, and that they were on their way to the airport. that's all that they would say at this time. really, it's the viewers that lose out unfortunately, because we had hoped to bring you this interview. we'll do what we can to revive it in the coming days and weeks. >> that's interesting, because they obviously had a press release out this morning talking about u.s. sourcing, giving jobs to new -- to returning veterans off of active duty. that got active praise today. it seems like something they would want to talk about. >> certainly. even michelle obama was offering, you know, her support saying she wants other retailers involved as well in this program. i'm not su

simon coaxes her all the way down the stairs. it's incredible.e stair answer another cat. watch this. this is very compassionate. watch this, wait for it. >> all right. >> it's effective. >> major study. >> all right -- >> guess what animal i like better? from the animal kingdom to the ukraine, natural transition. ho do you say train stunt in russian? >> i don't know. >> well, anyway, check this out. this is a train stunt translated into english somewhere in the ukraine. apparently this is a popular pastime or whatever you want to call it, sport -- >> something stupid. >> how do you say crazy. >> around the world. >> the guy got on a crane and hangs with his arms and walking along with it and he doesn't fall. >> doesn't look easy. >> tonight try it. ginger, you are a not doing that. >> no, i will check it no. i want to introduce you to dexter the monkey. take a look at what dexter does when he sees his reflection in the mirror. bait for it. wait for it. his mirrors point to it. oh! who's that. he does that every time he goes to the bathroom mirro

but the decline looks to have leveled off, simon.the ism services number, the new orders index up to 69. that's a strong number and bodes well for the service sector in the months ahead. what we'll be watching in the months ahead, are the effect of the payroll tax increase. the expiration of those cuts coming off now. and what effect that will have on the retail sector and retail hiring. there is some pessimism about the retail sector. >> let me frame it the other way around. the figures are actually quite good. the figure we've just reported here is quite good, in a period where we were obsessing about the fiscal cliff. i don't know whether we say the fiscal cliff didn't have an effect, or my word, how much better we could have grown without it. >> so the early consensus, and we want to see how the data gets revised, because the data could be revised in the months ahead, is the effect of the fiscal cliff came in the business investment numbers but not in the hiring, simon. which is a little bit unusual. usually the two sort of go to

i'm simon constable. >> tom: finally tonight, a twitter inspired term garnering new fame: the american dialect society named "hashtag" its word of the year for 2012. for those who don't tweet, hashtag is the practice used on twitter for marking topics with a hash symbol (#) followed by a word or phrase. the runner ups for word of the year included: fiscal cliff, gangnam style, and marriage equality. past winners include, occupy, tweet, and bailout. that's "nightly business report" for monday, january 7. have a great evening everyone, we'll see you online at: www.nbr.com and back here tomorrow night. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> join us anytime at nbr.com. there, you'll find full episodes of the program, complete show transcripts and all the market stats. also follows us on our facebook page at bizrpt. and on twitter @bizrpt. ♪) matt elmore: (♪) welcome to imagemakers a weekly showcase featuring the best short films from around the world. stay tuned and enjoy the filmmakers of tomorrow today on imagemakers. imagemakers is made p

simon romero is the brazil bureau chief of the "new york times." he's in santa maria tonight and we spoke with him earlier by phone. >> reporter: the survivors' identities, just seeing the mayhem and horror from inside the nightclub. i interviewed one woman right in front of the stage when the fire ignited by a flare going off. she couldn't believe what happens happening. everyone around her was still dancing and having a great time. she was in disbelief and started screaming and made her way to the exits and survived. >> pelley: what if anything prevented people from getting out. >> some survivors said security guards at the exit to the club were preventing people from leaving. these guards thought that people were trying to leave without paying their tab so they just pushed these security guards down and pushed their way through the door. and many people did survive that way. of course hundreds did not and some of the emergency responders that we've talked to have described just incredible scenes inside when they got inside. they looked into the

thanks, simon. welcome back, simon hobbs. a check on energy and commodities.ction to that. let me tell you first what is happening in the metals market. we are seeing some technical selling here in gold and silver with gold below a key technical level, below 1675 an ounce and silver below $32 an ounce . some folks pointed to what is happening in washington for the pullback. but more traders say more technical selling below the key levels that they're watching. we're also looking at copper prices that are only positive metal here, positive in metal territory after that flash pmi data. continuing to watch to see if copper has more gains. but as you mentioned, it is oil that is definitely the story here of the last few minutes. and that is after the inventory report from the department of energy and the big surprise there, what traders are most focused on, is the fact that we saw a withdraw of supply from kushing, oklahoma, we saw an overall build in crude supplies, but withdraw supplies from kushing, oklahoma. this has happened as the sea way pipeline has been e