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i know they were headed to the finish line because ou point was to meet there so i did not know where they were. fortunately they were on the tee, which is the train, like their subway system. so they were on the train when the bomb went off. >> the boston police department is asking people to turn in any video that was shot at any point of the race. they are looking to find any sort of clues that could lead them to an arrest. >>> a shot in the arm for the south bay retailing scene and one it could certain low use. after several years of struggling, downtown san jose seems to have a hit on its hands. our business and tech reporter scott budman is there as the doors opened this morning. he was already shopping, right? >> reporter: you bet, jessica. you're right, this area certainly could use a hit. lots of tech success in san jose, but as far as the downtown part of the city goes, not a whole lot of retail success. but, as you mentioned, as of this morning, muji has moved in. it's a japanese retailer specializing in moderately priced clothing and housewares. it opened today to big crow

sing a lot of weight wit >> announcer: "world news now" continues after this from ou ♪ skinny so skinnylet go by the jets. >> yep. got the boot. >> got the boot. >> maybe not a bad thing. >> this is a bizarre thing, if you ask me. he's been offered potential sexy lace jersey in the near future. the legends football league, not familiar with the legends football league, they used to be called the lingerie football league. they offered tebow, former jets' qb, a coaching gig. there you go. it's not clear what exactly tebow would do as quarterback coach in the lfl, not clear how much money they offered him. they've gotten their 15 minutes of publicity, tying their name to tebow. i can go out on a limb and say tebow, the classy, god-fearing man that he is, is probably not going to wind up in the lingerie league. he is worth a lot of money on madison avenue, doing product endorsements. he can do other things. >> he can sit out, not play. people will ask him to put his name on anything. i am sure. >>> moving on. this is a little sad. catherine zeta-jones checking herself into a treatment cente

so that's why they came here, fled -- we applied for refugee stat ous in the states. s given that status. and, by the way, likely -- it was given lightly because he founded, you know, he was convincing. so got his refugee status. and few months his kids united with them. >> you said he never traveled with his wife. tell us about the family -- >> without wife. >> pardon me. tell me more about -- >> without wife. because he loves her dearly. >> tell us more about the family. what was the home situation like for the boys? >> growing up, within a family, everything was perfect. because he is a warm loving whole hearted father. i don't know what will happen to him now when he hears this. but apparently, even when i hear, like, you know he said this and that, i don't believe ansor said that. who that said is his wife. i don't believe that ansor is even able to speak now. as much as i know my brother, he would not be able to speak over the phone hearing this news. >> where is he now? >> he's in -- his wife is there also. she joined him a few months ago because they were going

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so there's things to look for. gerri: you had a great idea for people who put the grills ou on the deck. >> that's right. it's a simple one to take care of. by fireproof mats to put under the grills issue and that's a really good idea. gerri: great idea. last word here. we cover our grill even though it's stainless steal, do you recommend that? >> we do recommend a cover, but be sure the cover itself has vents and air holes so moisture does not stay under the grill for it to rust. it's generally a good idea. >> thanks for the time. >> appreciate it. gerri: it's friday. we're going in fashion. up next, a look at the billion dollar industry of nail polish gerri: what's in fashion for nail polish? opi is here to show the latest collections and ♪ ?roats gerriin fashion tonight, style at your fingertips. nail polish is on fire, sales booming, hitting $168 million last year. i talked to the executive vice president of opi about the company's influence on women. >> it's exciting. it's affordable luxury, and it's a psychoanalysis. gerri: to that point, your most famous color is called "i'm not r

ou were. >> yeah, i was. well, i was big boned. so i started working out. and i started working out with my father. so by the time i was 17 and senior in high school, he said i will send you to houston. you are going to stay with your uncle and you're going to get a football scholarship. and i said okay. now i'm naive. i don't know, i'm going germany to houston h no idea texas was such a big football crazy high school to college state. and i did it i had the one scholarship to texas southern university. and when i was there, and wanted to quit my dad would say when you make the pros, or when are you an all-american, when you get sacked, when you make the pros, when i'm in the pros, when are you in the pro bowl, when you win the super bowl. and it was always-- . >> rose: it was always when. >> it was never if. and for me it all came full circle in the super bowl, the patriots scored and they are up 14-7. and-- no, 14-10. and gi to the offense, on the sideline and gi 17-14 will be the final score, believe it and it will happen. one up todowwee world champions

so we think we could be in for a 10% percentage here. the market was getting close to the full year target. we think this could play ou uld be a gndingcrectn. we could see this go out over the next two to three months. >> let me ask you this, we saw a dramatic reversal in the dow today. it was down as much as 170 points. finally closed off 40 points. it seems like the stocks are resilient and the investors are kind of bullish. >> well, this is also a holiday week. this is unfairly light volume. i think people are still phoning it in from the beach at this point. no one wants to make huge bets because with we're coming into the earnings reporting season and if analysts get it wrong, then corporate earnings rebounded sharply. our view is that's not the case. nobody wanted to bet big this week on which way it would fall on earnings season. >> even though you think we're in a corrective phase, let's go down the list of the buying opportunities. marathon, trading on the big board. now looking at this stock chart here, it was like $34 last summer. now it's up to $82. does it still have room to grow? >> yes, it was splitut.

>>>>ou interrupted. >> sorry. >> so badf me taking the wrong seat. >> your f tip is don't reach acrosse shake it but at least stanup to do it. >> next rule has to do with don't check your device during meetg. >> yes, absotely. yo want your attention fully to be with the people you're scheduled to be with. if you're always on your device even if you think you're multitasking you don't look like it. >> and quickly showing up late. >> say something. >> pet peeve. >> don't say i right there in thmoment, maybe a light joke if you know each other but if al is doi this all the time, then mayb address that later. >> we'll do digital etiquette tomorrow. coming up next kate's bake-off. it is on. this is "today" on nbc. let's go! wow, the track looks perfect. now we just need guests. yeah, so they can race! hey! kachow! bellissimo! guido! our tires are a-flying! whooooaaaaaa little tractors, dance! they're here! it is time! there's high-octane fun for everyone at cars land. only at disney california adventure park. dontcha just love that new park smell? >> annouer: "today's kitchen" is brought to

people in the most inhumane way possible, and the proliferation risks are so significanc significant that we don't want that jeannie ouwhen i said that the use of chemical weapons would be a game-changer that wasn't a position unique to the united states, and it shouldn't have been a surprise. and what we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of syria, but we don't know how they were used, when they were used, who used them, we don't have a chain of custody that establishes what exactly happened, and when i am making decisions about america's national security, and the potential for taking additional actions in response to chemical weapon use, i've got to make sure i've got the facts. that's what the american people would expect. and if we end up rushing to judgment without hard, effective evidence, then we can find ourselves in a position where we can't mobilize the international community to support what we do. there may be objections even among some people in the region who are sympathetic with the opposition if we take action. so, it's important for us to do this in a prudent way. and wh

basically has allowed a lot of people, and patch has a blogging platform also, and some of ou her other sites do as wel. so basically, right ideas for free on everything from that standpoint, from and empower -- empowerment standpoint, plus getting other people the opportunity to write in those spaces, i don't know how many journalists are writing on the "huffington post" from a blogging standpoint but i know there's one influential people around the world writing on the "huffington post" overall, but i'm not sure if the question is aimed at what our -- by the probably investment online. if you like the blogging platform, if you don't think we should a blog is pretty you look at almost every form of social media, people who we pay write another people's platforms, square, facebook, everything. i think that's the way the world is. >> so you are not concerned that those bloggers that do it to get their names out or vent their feelings, did not interfere with the work, with the opportunities for real journalists? >> no. because i think from a real journalism perspective, if you're a journalist and you're a fr

ou-- >> rose: there pervasive across everywhere. >> no one in the android world comes close to them anymore so whereas google's original idea was there would be hundreds of phone makers and there are technically if you count them up who's using android it's hundreds of companies only one has any serious market share, serious profits it's sam suck. by the way, poses an interesting problem for google about who controls android now. is it google or samsung? so this phone builds on the success of its predecessor, it just gives samsung mor power over the whole android ecosystem. >> what should be interesting is who has the power over that, google or samsung. and that creates an interesting situation. apple has control of the entire ecosystem all the time. so it's a tradeoff that google has been making in hopes of preserving other business. >> rose: so microsoft is coming out with a smart phone. >> no, they have one. >> rose: i mean their own that they make. i thought i read that. am i wrong? kara, help me out here. >> they had a smart phone and they're coming one that they make themselves. >> rose:e believe -- kra and believe they will bu

so, i have tried to be in that and fail often, but i try. >> that's what i get from your poems. ouven see yo yo ma's cel differently from the rest of us. that's one of my favorites. would you read it? >> oh, yes -- >> here it is. >> and this poem is called "tribal music." watching pbs, it occurs to me that i want to be yo yo ma's cello. hello! does this mean that i'm sexually attracted to yo yo ma? nah, he's cute and thin looks great in a tux, and makes the big bucks, but i long to be simultaneously as strong and fragile as the cello. i want to be the union of fingertip and string. i want less to be a timorous human and desire more to become a solid wooden thing, warm to the touch but much colder when left alone in my case. i need to flee the mystery of mortality and insanity and become that space between the notes. i no longer want to be the root cause of anybody's pain, especially my own. o, yo yo ma, i hem and haw, but let's be clear, wa to abandon my sixteen-drum fear and inhabit the pause that happens between falling in love and collapsing because of love. i want to be sane. i

>> i worked for upi for so many years and it was just the facts, ma'am. if your mother said she loved ou, you had to check it out. now i write a column and the editor looked at it and he said, -- i really was writing wire copies. where's the edge? the what? your opinion. my what? so now i wake up in the morning and i say who do i hate today? that's how -- and that's how you write a column. actually, we're so polarized i think there's very little object tivity left. i know what all the newspapers think in terms of this war, this horrible war and so forth. i think it's amazing object tivity is almost gone. and that's because television really gets the first crack the news. re aso more interpretation in the news stories. just one other sideline maybe it's apropoe of nothing again. but for years and years when i would ask a president a tough question i would get these calls, who in the hell are you? who elected you? how dare you ask these questions. they're so tough and so mean. when the war started and during the run-up to the war, i would get these calls, where is everybody? deep orters we

so that money was not a great investment. the principle is good, but the actors were not that good. melissa: walid, thanks for coming on. >> thank oussa:teve cohen's sec insider trading scandal gets the hollywood treatment on cbs, but is the glamourization making it seem more acceptable on wall street? we're going to explain that coming up next. >>> plus, how dare you use less gas. states prepare to slam hybrid and electric car owners with special taxes just for them! you won't believe it. we've got the details. piles of "money" coming up. ♪ ♪ this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much. i appreciate it. i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. your money needs an ally. >> you and your firm, you're not really interested in medicinal drugs or curing disease, you're just a man who makes money. even if you have to cheat. >> i'm an investor. i trade stocks. but if i know i picked a loser, i have to dump it. either way i always win. melissa: are you kidding me? is

so, they can't explain it. i don't care what the answer is. congratulations to chicago for that improvement. may it continue throughout, well, for the duration. wayne lapierre. we tha ouor being with us. i want to talk more about the shield proposal to make sure the students are safe but you yours is the proposal on the table now before congress. before god and the world to protect our children. its, i think, something the nra should be proud of is the fact that you and the leaders of the nra ar the only people talking specifically with the program and specific detail about how to better proect our children and our public schools. wayne lapierre, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> big hits, big money, the n.f.l. facing former players in court. dobb's lawtakes >> lou: another shocking turn in the jodi arias murder trial. system centering on a so-called manifesto written by arias in prison. prosecutors maintain she wrote the mon fes toe dock me and wanted opiesprinted in case she became famous,." prosecutors also referring to arias signing or autophotographing copies of that manifesto. the prosecution is using this to challenge testimony from a domestic violence

these rough measures in the economy would end up looking at what the implications so she would be are not always justify, ou very this countr k you. >> as we prepared for this event, it turned out that one of the most hotly discussed subject is corruption. dozens who call the call center were interested in corruption. we had the retired colonel, victor. i'm also an authorized representative of russia. >> i know that you sometimes he'd my opinion here that is why i was before as long, as exactly as long as he did. for six months now, russia and its armed forces with their mouths agape have been watching how the investigation is going on of the bunch of criminal investigations and cases that have plagued our service and a looming figure of the former defense minister. as i investigate this case, i've run into a problem that is a paradox. on the one hand, dozens and hundreds top notch professionals have discovered the fact evidence, documents which irrefutably prove that these fraudsters in the defense ministry are, in fact, guilty. on the other hand, we hear statements that there are no facts sufficient to br

maybe in the future the cost of a certificate per capita so there is a small amount of money that may come in but at the end of the day i think,ouknow, if you want to increase access that we have to keep the courses free or very -- >> they are not free, somebody is paying for these courses. and the question is, what is the sustainable model? >> rose: exactly. >> and i think it is not just one, i think there will be many ways of making sustainable models here, one of the great things, joel about that we are learning about onlineurses we are learning more about human psychology too, so most of the courses on kocer a&e dx are not for credit and thousands of people take them and for the joy of learning and we find on the quizes and we find out they cheat, even though they are not getting graded and they are not doing it for credit. >> they want to -- i mean, there is some percentage of people who can't help but want to do better than they are actually doing. >> rose: convince themselves -- >> what we do is we are getting great data which will make a difference in how we go forward in learning -- >> rose: this is one more example of

so that money was not a great investment. the principle is good, but the actors were not that good. melissa: walid, thanks for coming on. >> thank oussa: steve cohen's sec insider trading scandal gets the hollywood treatment on cbs, but is the glamourization making it seem more acceptable on wall street? we're going to explain that coming up next. >>> plus, how dare you use less gas. states prepare to slam hybrid and electric car owners with special taxes just for them! you won't believe it. we've got the details. piles of "money" coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ lighter flicking ] [ male announcer ] you've reached the age where giving up isn't who you are. ♪ this is the age of knowing how to make things happen. so, why let erectil dysfunction get in your way? talk to your doctor about vgra. 20 million men already have. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach, and abnormal vision. to avoid lonte injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hour

ou >> the senate is sit working on that. not a guarantee they can solve it by the end of the week. and if not, they're both on recess next week so won't be a fix until of that. republican says the white house already has the authority to fix and have chosen not to. something the. administering denies. >> neil: very shortly the president speaking at the memorial of those killed in the explosion, and they people in the minute thought they got lost in the media coverage and the president giving them their due respect today. flags across the done there to fly at half staff. to remember the victims, most of them emergency workers who rushed to the scene from five area county. like those on 9/11. everyone running out, these guys are running in, and they never came back. more of this. ♪ [ male announcer ] this is a stunning work of technology. ♪ this is the 2013 lexus es and the first-ever es hybrid. this is the pursuit of perfection. peoi go to angie's listtybrid. for to gauge whether or not the projects will be done in a timely fashion and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll fin

ou recall be in a car and have time on your hands instead of driving. if you're disabled or drunk, what an opportunity to get yourself home. so a whole knew consumer market place which will be developing. i could be wrong, but there's a few other trends. we're going to clearly telemedicine. that's obvious. healthcare costs are killing us. there's an opportunity to monitor remotely. there's so many sophisticated devices. the sensing equipment is there the ability to use algorithms. my wife wears something 23 hours and 45 minutes a day, except when she showers. it monitors her caloriic output, she monitors what she eats, able to have a couple of kids at ama, advanced maternal age, and lose the weight quickly. so that was a big deal for her and it's worked. there's a lot -- she is also a doctor, so very focused on these things. so the bottom line is there's great opportunities out there in health care that will change. what of the things which will be real, not earth-shattering, not as important as high definition television but up a hd. the next generation of high definition of the picture resolution, huge big screens. what cha

there has been so much growth in this country that has occurred haved dams that you people at risk. ,oue 4000 deficient dams according to the safety officials. closely monitored, and there is a national safety program. we would like to also see a inional levee program put place. we are working to try to make that happen. host: how much would that cost? guest: i am not sure. the levee safety program would be a minimal cost because the idea would be to first get an inventory, getting handle on how many levees we have in this country. 100,000ve there is over miles of levees. let me make one comment about flood control. people might recall the mississippi river floods in 2011, historic floods. the federal government of the corps of engineers were able to do a number of things in terms of levees. floodwayse, allowing to take on water and other floodgates were used to control the flood. these were investments that were made over generations in this country. floodgates and the levee system or operated to protect $140 billion in metropolitan value across the lower mississippi. people should rea

so much for joining us, mike. earlier today the president met with his national security team to discuss the latest information on the boston marathon bombings. for more let's two to ogo to ou kristen welker at the white house. i'd like to show everyone this picture the white house added to its flickr page, the president meeting with his national security team, fbi director robert muller, attorney general eric holder, vice president joe biden. is the white house saying anything about the connection between these two brothers, chechen rebels, al qaeda, any other terrorist organizations? >> reporter: well, martin, i have to be honest with you, they are not saying a whole lot of anything today in large part because the white house, the president wants to be very careful, cautious and deliberate before they weigh in on this matter. because it is an evolving situation. what i can tell you is that the president has been briefed regularly overnight and then throughout the day. overnight by lisa montaco, department of homeland adviser, who is also pictured there which you just showed. as you mentioned, he held that meeting with his entire national security team. it lasted for about

certainly in the forney community, is we're trying to get the message ou to forney that this did appear targeted and did not appear random, so walking around in fear. what we need to do is focus on praying for the mcclellan family, praying for those handling the investigations so they can come up with answers pretty quickly because we all want a resolution, we all want some answers. we still need to continue to be the close-knit community we are. be aware of your surroundings but also look out for your neighbors and help out. >>steve: it's news this morning that apparently the magnifying glass is on a couple of white supremacy groups because they did make some threats in december or january of this year. do you know anything about that? >> very little. just what i've heard on the news. our county sherrifs department is actually the lead on the investigation because the mcclellans lived outside the forney city limits. they're working in conjunction with the f.b.i., handling that part of the investigation. i've heard a lot of the same theories that are out there that i'm sure you have. and really what i'm trying to make my foc

ou might get the license plate at the time. now running someone's name takes 12 seconds. we pushed the border out with engaging our foreign counterparts and international partners so we know the threat before it gets here. someone sitting in a cave, in a place that wants to do us harm enters a visa application and this will be vetted that night and we'll know before. technology has really changed a lot as well as our international footprint that provides the intelligence. tell et leads and i can the airmen about the leads they can fly and it is a continuous cycle that all of us are dedicated to. > do you want to add anything, general? >> we share with the mexican government. if we have tracks crossing either way we coordinate on the tracks. on the northern side, it falls to our links with northern command and the northern american defense command. >> ok. this question flows from the work that senator mccain and seven other senators are doing to lead the way of a thoughtful comprehensive immigration reform proposal. -- e're able to -- i keep for us to come to that kind of an agreement based on what we talk a here. ou're our customer in a sense. by question with comprehensi

you ou got to the scene, forgot fear and you fought that blaze as hard as you could knowing the danger, buying time so others could escape. and then about 20 minutes after the first alarm the earth shook and the sky went dark and west changed for ever. today our prayers are with the families of all who we've lost. the proud sons and daughters of west whose memories will live on in our hearts, parts who love their kids and leaders who served their communities. they were young and old and from different backgrounds and different walks of life. a few were just going about their business, but an awful lot ran toward the scene of disaster trying to help. one was described as the kind of guy whose phone was always ringing with folks in need of help, help he always provided. that's just who these folks were. our thoughts are with those who face a long road. hearlt broken, the families who lost their homes and possessions in an instant. they are going to need their friends in west but also their friend in texas and their friends all across this country. they'll still need you to answer that call. they will st

so, with that, i thank you for your kind attention. and i hope that when you leave, .ou learned something any questions? [applause] no questions? good. yes. >> [inaudible] >> i will say it all depends on your medical center director. my first medical center director was a guy named roger johnson and we worked well because this dove tailing of not duplicating services, it was not what was happening before i came. but at the same time i had eterans who were going to john dempsey, university of connecticut hospitals for all their care and i was paying big bucks. , when the sked contract came up to be renegotiated, i asked john dempsey, do you take a military history? to which the answer was very ongly, we don't wrongly, we don't think military experience has anything to do with this. so, i called dr. johnson up and i said i have 500 veterans here, how can we work together? i actually contracted him in the beginning. provide me .a. to with a part-time psychiatrist because so many of my veterans are been in care at dempsey. and what we did is we evaluated each and every one o

ou are school board chairman you have many possibilities. that is real. that is life. that is what makes the difference in people, in understanding people. so i am a bit of far field, but i am a former senator. [laughter] i will hear about this i'm sure at a hearing next week. [laughter] but i think it's relevant to your question. thank you. >> good afternoon, sir. i am when the joy from the department of navy, he civilian. like you for being here today. what do you believe are some opportunities that we have to partner with the department of state, the department of homeland security, and in order to secure and protect our homeland given the state of our budget? >> i think the interagency is always a key part of any agency institution carrying out its responsibilities. your particular question department of state and homeland security. many times, secretary gates sounded like the secretary of state. why aren't we rebalancing priorities and the resources at state where some of these programs should reside and used to reside? in my opinion, he was right. state has a very important role to play in our foreign policy, obviously, but also in th

so if iraq is threatened by syria's chemical weapons, yet, used tor space is being protect assad, have you taken in a very firmaq way? kerry,ou ecently had met with president maliki. and the answer is yes. e are engaged in active discushions, the iraqis. ccain?ator m >> general dempsey, when you and thattary panetta testified both of you recommended the supply of weapons to the motivated -- at what -- what led you to that recommendation? theell, at the time, the -- recommendation was based on -- like we had a clear enough understanding of the moderate opposition. and we felt as though it was in the long term interest of syria that the n state institutions wouldn't fail and that the time was proper at that way. t to intervene that >> is it proper now to provide them with weapon s? if i tell you the truth, could -- it's actually more con using on the opposition side today than it was six months ago. there are more weapons in syria. the decision ade then to supply them with weapons, it would have been less complicated than now? >> that's a potential solution -- a potential conclusion, yes, sir. >> i don't know about potential. n

may be frivsay, ous but ips curious, the grandmother of twin one-year-old boys and but i think having them there was clearly helpful, and my husband was out of the marines by then, and sohe was there he was working but he was there which is -- was a good thing, clearly for me, knowing that their father was there but was not good for him, because as a marine pilot he was supposed to be head over there, not me. he was better suited to go i was better suited to stay. we both agreed on that. so there was clearly a lot in the biz call cognitive dissidence, something that doesn't make sense. and there was really a sense -- almost like he resented me for going. like he had flown for 12 years and never got a chance to blow open a path for infantry marines to go through, which is what he was supposed to do in the airplane. so it was a challenge for us, but the good news is the kids had all sorts of support and they were what mattered the most to me. >> this is back to the question of, what do we do with an individual coming back who has these internal wounds, and it seems to me that when you are learning how to fight for your country, you're basically told to suck it up. and yo