hi, i'm here with carl, he is the operations manager for solar city. ided to take a little break from the cls room to so we could see some of the solar panels in action. carl, how are you? >> very well. nice to meet you. >> how do you like the weather? >> not too bad. >> kind of sunny. how does that impact our solar panels when we have lots of sun versus fog which we are typically accustomed to in san francisco? >> well, contrary to popular belief, solar panels will produce electricity when it's foggy out. how much depends on the density of the fog. on a day like today it's hazy for typical san francisco weather. on a day like talking, you can expect 80% of your what would be your full production on a clear sunny day. >> so if i were thinking about getting solar panels and i lived in san francisco and i was worried about haze versus full sun and how that will impact what jets yated, are there any tools or tricks that i can use to determine what the production is going to be like? >> the first thing you need to do is look at what available area do you ha

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. >> he builds and manages the american dream from paypal to solar city. the companies he's helped create define silicon valley's cutting-edge technology. as this promotional video for the brand new model s shows, he's achieved much in a relatively short time. musk is fast becoming a major player in politics, from washington, d.c. to sacramento. according to federal and state election records, he has personally given more than $300,000 to dozens of candidates and political action committees. he's the largest single donor among corporate officers in the last two years of the. >> money comes in and influence comes out. >> reporter: the president and co-founder of maplight.org. there he tracks political donations and the influence they can buy. >> we have a corrupt system of government in this country where politicians depend on getting big checks from donors who want something from government. >> reporter: from google to e-bay, adobe to yahoo, $12 million coming from officers from those companies to both federal and state candidates during the last three cam

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the students built a solar powered city. >>> tonight food safety watchdogs are concerned about possiblerogram that tests fruits and vegetables for dangerous viruses and bacteria. under the president's proposed budget, something called the microbilogical program would be eliminated. >> is that a bad idea because our safety has already been compromised. >> the idea has some shoppers concerned knowing that food poisoning outbreaks are fairly common. 1/3 of the food bourn outbreaks were caused by fruits and vegetables. last year the program helped identify lettuce and spinach and melons. >> it's not enough data out there that really tell us how we're doing on fruits and vegetables so we don't want to see that program go away and see that data go away that tells us what we're dealing with. >> reporter: the white house says it will put away the program until it find a place for it. >>> a violence suspect who was initially freed is now back in police custody. robert handa just spoke with investigators and he'll tell us how he was caught. >>> the transformation you're going to see at the movies

other red, masco, first solar down 7 pairs. citi group down 3%. materials week, u.s. steel, down 5%. consumer names getting hit, sonic an example, i put it up there because i like their desserts. in terms of the s&p on top, hasbro 7%, guidance, that is why it's up. fidelity national big dividend, micron and netflix up. >> do they have lime-ade at sonic? >> their desserts are fantastic. >> good stuff. i know where the shactmans are going tone. >> happy valentine's day. >> treasury partners on the rise especially after the eu announcement but the january retail sales numbers didn't help the mood. rick santelli has details tchlt. >> before we go to the long where you can see the buying, something strange happened after the january fed meeting, look at august 1st start day on two year note yield, rising ever since, i know it's on the south side of operation twist but about ready to break out of the long term rain, pay close attention. if we look at what is going on in other parts of the curve, i think a ten year note, two week charts especially important, bill said we wer

here in miami, 2008, miami became the first major american city to power its city hall with solar andenewable energy, right here in miami. the modernization of your power grid so that it waste less energy is one of largest projects of its kind in the country. the wind turbine and miami-dade museum can meet 10% of the energy needs in a south florida home and the largest producer is over juno beach. right here at the university your work is helping manufacturers save millions of dollars in energy bills by making their facilities more energy efficient. a lot worveg k is already beinge right here just in this area. the role of the federal government isn't to take over this work, direct this research, it is to support these discoveries. our job is to help outstanding work that's being done in universities and labs and help businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. it was public knowledge that over the years help develop the technologies the companies are right now using to extract this national gas. the pay off on the public investments don't come right away. some technologies don't

the students from heart elementary designed a city powered by reusable energy such as solar and wind power. $5,000 scholarship that go toward the technology program. well gators are upgrading in the race to bring consumers latest technology. this push to go digital could leave many theaters in the dust. >> this may be the biggest revolution in movies since sound. >> the film is going away. we're working diligently to get a solution and we'll be certainly do digital conversion. >> steve over oversees conversion to digital can cost $75,000 per screen. might not make economic sense for small theaters. >> what's going to happen if they're going to close. they're going to close. i mean, it's inevitable. >> collector and cinema owner says television and internet have already been good at -- he says it will take over half billion dollars to convert just one of the eight screen movie houses. >> he says he has no choice. the movie business is changing so rapidly. >> for instance today only digital. for those who love that so- called warm feeling of celluloid. >> there are things being shown i

detectives james cole and sean solar of the new york city police department's emergency services unit are on duty when the call comes in. >> we started our shift at 3:15 that afternoon. and almost immediately as soon as we finished loading up and checking our equipment, a call came over that there was a jumper up on the top of 30 rockefeller plaza. >> the detectives race to midtown manhattan where the 23-year-old man dangles his legs precariously from the 70th floor observation deck of 30 rock. >> the first thing i see when i get up there is him furiously scribbling at the notepad. i tried to communicate with him as much as possible. >> several onlookers and the local nbc affiliate's sky cam roords the action as it unfolds. >> he was on the northeast corner standing on approximately a 2 foot by 2 foot wide piece of the building. >> there was a seven-foot glass partition between us and him. what i initially did was climbed up on top of a piece of the building where i could talk down over the partition at him. seeing them helps you communicate. >> i want to position myself to the other

solar power. big cost of installing a system relates to the bureaucratic costs of inconsistent standards across different cities to get the stuff on your roof. >> dan: randolph eliminating that bureaucracy and putting more people to work. >> if we had a unified permitting process for solar installations itmuch be much more affordable. >> dan: that combined with investment in roads and schools could benefit the work force, as well. >> and domestically maintain our spending and infrastructure or move to to it the private sector and you need a long term investment that is credible. >> dan: but local and state governments have struggled to balance budgets. the number of jobs for public projects have fallen. >> public spending on infrastructure has fallen because the money has been off set in declines in state and local spending because of their own budget programs. >> long term treasury bill is still about 2% yield. that is unbelievably cheap borrowing costs. >> take that money and spend it on infrastructure and then spend it on domestic investment and make sure it gets spent now. >> eric: thousands of middle-class

in 2008, miami became the first major american city to power its city hall entirely with solar and renewablenergy, right here in miami. [cheers and applause] the modernization of your power grid to waste less energy is one of the largest projects of its kind in the country. on a typical day, the wind turbine at the miami-dade museum can be 10% of the energy needs in south florida home and the largest when producer in the country is over at jjuno beach. your work is helping consumers said millions of dollars of energy bills by making facilities more energy efficient. a lot of work is being right here in -- being done right here in this area. the role of the federal government is not to supplant his work or take it over and directs the research, it is to support these discoveries. it is our job to help outstanding work that is being done in universities and labs and help businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. it was public research dollars that over the years helped develop the technology that companies are now using to extract the natural gas out of shale rock. these pay of some publ

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city is a gambling town. they talk about bringing in solar plants. they talk about bringing in a water park and i don't think it's going to happen because all those things will increase the demand for labor which will bring up wages because the price of labor follows the demand for labor. >> ed, tell us about this project that harry reid helped usher earmarks for. we mentioned that there was ovea bridge. has it made a difference in the town? >> caller: well, there is one bridge now. it used to be a cross being bridge. it's a dam. they closed that up after the 9/11 scare. the other brinl will be near a parking -- i mean a shopping mall or a city park. i don't know if they get enough traffic or a matter of convenience. i think it's convenience. but there is really not a lot of development here. >> okay. darrell writes on twitter, earmarks will be fine if the process weren't so shadowy and based on seniority. ross is in hammond, louisiana. democrats line. good morning. >> caller: good morning. >> go ahead, sir. you're on the program. >> caller: yes, wel

city of the future. they created a town that harnishes energy to meet its power needs. they found their inspiration in their own backyard. >> in modesto they are doing a solarroject. we took that idea and incorporated that into our city as well. >> the students have been working on their city for six months. they find out tomorrow if they win. the students face tough competition. 35 other teams from across the country are competing. >>> the death of a marine goes on trial for a third time. coming up, the hazing case and the outrage his parents shared with us about the handling of the case. rick santorum creates a firestorm, the link he is making between routine testing and abortion and by doctors say -- and why doctors say he has it all wrong. [ male announcer ] what happened when ford owners compared their trucks to a chevy silverado? i can see myself driving in this for hours and hours. i like it. man: i would definitely consider a silverado trade-up from the pick-up truck that i've got right now. [ male announcer ] we dare you to compare your truck to a chevy silverado, the most dependable, longest lasting full-size pick-ups on the road. celebrate presid

president obama said today that miami is the first american city to have a city hall that's powered entirely by solarewable energy. in addition to that, the university of miami has a great engineering program, which president obama did tour today. he seemed quite impressed although he admitted he understood only 10% of what the students were working on. that's why miami. in terms of gas price, president obama has been hammered recently by republicans who are saying that the high gas prices are a result of president obama's energy policy. today president obama was able to answer some of those critics and he said there's no magic solution to this immediate problem. what we have to do is look to the long term and invest in things like wind, solar, nuclear energy. he's made the point he's opened millions of acres for exploration. he's had a bit of reality check with the students. right after the president finished, we got a slew of e-mails from republicans who said that the president is trying to distract voters during an election year because the price of gas is so high. this is something that will stay

and citi says the rally in solar stock s is done. so first solar down. and utilities up 13% there. we'll talk to the ceo very shortly. revenue doubling and a dividend hike. and jbs higher today up 3%. an upgrade from credit suisse and euro next. let's join bob pisani for the rest of the market action. >> hellhello, simon. 252 of the 300 seats in parliament. in theory they should be able to win the vote on the greek bailout this sunday rather easily. the concern and the reason the markets are down, the coalition itself may fall apart over the weekend. a lot of drama still to come. remember what's been the big market leaders so far this year. material stocks, financial stocks. guess what's off today? we're exactly getting this flip of what the market had been doing here. all the big names, u.s. steel companies, alcoa, the aluminum companies and big mining companies are to the downside. the second big mover of the year on the upside, financials. they're also the biggest downside movers. not just u.s. stocks here like morgan stanley, but also of course the european stocks like deutsche

here in miami, 2008, miami became the first major american city to power its city hall entirely with solarnd renewable energy, right here in miami. [applause] the modernization of your power grid so it wastes less energy is one of the largest projects of its kind in the country. on a typical day the wind turbine at the miami-dade museum can meet 10% of the energy needs in a south florida home and the largest wind producer in the country is over at juno beach. at this university your work is helping save millions in energy bills by making their facilities more energy efficient. so a lot of work is already being done in this area. the role of the federal government isn't to take over this work, direct this research. it is to support these discoveries. it's our job to help outstanding work that's being done in universities and labs and to help businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. because it was public research dollars that over the years helped develop the technology that companies are using to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock. the payoff on these public investments d

solar panels on our municipal complex as well. >> we have these climate awards. you ought to enter your city, you know, come in june, we give out climate initiative awards. i mean, all of us ought to enter where we have got projects. that sounds like a wonderful project. >> i'm not going to continue on. the only thing i wanted to leave you with, you know, i just regret -- and i'm trying not to be partisan here, mayor, believe me, i'm trying -- i just regret the fact that, you know, we haven't been able to make enough progress on the federal level. and i also feel that we're running out of time. we didn't renew the tax credits. we didn't move forward with the renewable portfolio standard. and the problem is, this is all now, you know, entwined and the whole issue of global climate change and whether it's real or not. and the only thing i would say is, you know, if you can't, you know, look at it from that perspective because of your own constituency, in new jersey we can because people understand on a bipartisan basis that, you know, that we have to address the environmental concerns and glob

here in miami, 2008, miami became the first major american city to power its city hall entirely with solardernization of your power grid so that it wastes less energy is one of the largest projects of its kind in the country. on a typical day, the wind turbine at the miami-dade museum can meet about 10% of the energy needs in a south florida home and the largest wind producer in the country is over at juno beach right here at this university, your work is helping manufacturers save millions of dollars in energy bills. by making their facilities more energy efficient. so the a lot of work's already being done right here just in this area. and the role of the federal government isn't to sup plant this work, take over this work, direct this research. it is to support these discoveries. our job is to help outstanding work that's being done in universities and labs and to help businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. because it was public dollars, public research dollars that over the years helped develop the technologies that companies are right now using to extract all this natural gas

miami became the first major american city to power its city entirely with solar and renewable energyght here in miami. [cheers] [applause] the modernization of your power grid is one of the largest projects of its kind in the country. on a typical day, the wind turbine at the miami dade museum can meet the energy needs of a south florida home and it helps juno beach. a lot of work is already being done right here. and the role of the federal government is not to supplant this work, take over this work, direct this research. it is to support these discoveries. our job is to help outstanding work that is being done in universities and labs in to help businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. it is public research dollars that, over the years, helped develop technology. companies are now using it to extract all the natural gas out of show rock. the payoff on these public investments to not always come right away. some technologies to not pan out and some technologies will fail. but as long as i am president, i will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. your future is too

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solar sinking after a downgrade. that stock down 5.5%. monster worldwide down 4.5% after citi downgraded it citing competitive pressures from linkedin and career builder. let's get more details, mary thompson. hey there. >> hi, brian. the weakest having no impact on the markets. the dow actually ticked up a bit here up 63 points. although another light volume day. 1.6 billion in consolidated trade. that is fairly low volume. something of course we've seen throughout this year. the s&p is up 7% this year. we've seen this very slow and steady march upwards in the markets even amid very low volume. quick check of the dow movers. the story is financials. these are among the better performing stocks today. telecom, industrials and consumer discretionary. utilities really the only one that's been moving down at all during today's session. and within the dow components predict bli bank of america and jpmorgan leading the way foll followed by pfizer. united technology up too. reports say the company is thinking about selling its flow and compressors business, something that could fetc

miami became the first major american city to power its city entirely with solar and renewable energyght here in miami. [cheers] [applause] the modernization of your power grid is one of the largest projects of its kind in the country. on a typical day, the wind turbine at the miami dade museum can meet the energy needs of a south florida home and it helps juno beach. a lot of work is already being done right here. and the role of the federal government is not to supplant this work, take over this work, direct this research. it is to support these discoveries. our job is to help outstanding work that is being done in universities and labs in to help businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. it is public research dollars that, over the years, helped develop technology. companies are now using it to extract all the natural gas out of show rock. the payoff on these public investments to not always come right away. some technologies to not pan out and some technologies will fail. but as long as i am president, i will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. your future is too

done some inventory of the spaces in the city and found some locations that really should have meters but for whatever reason didn't. >> reporter: ddot added solar powered meters, meters for disabled people and machines that accept credit cards. this college student is out running an errand for his parents' business. >> it's usually eight minutes, but i think it should be like 10 because in maryland it's like for 25 cents you can get 15 minutes on the meter. >> it is a lot of money for sure. >> reporter: do you have any idea where all this money goes? >> not really i don't. >> reporter: last year d.c. made $31 million from parking meters. that money went to metro's budget. this spot where i'm standing is right downtown in the middle of a busy commercial district. these are the meters where if you put in a quarter, you get 7 1/2 minutes. when that rate increase took effect, a lot of people complained, but d d.o.t. said it's right in line with other big cities around the country like new york and l.a. beth parker, fox 5 news. >>> poland wants a significant exhibit back from the u.s. holocaust memorial museum. it's from auschwitz and has been on lo

city of holm leave 200 dead. they are putting pressure on the syrian president to tep down. white house releases another 300 pages on failed solar power firm. will it be enough to satisfy the republicans. hello, i am america's news headquarters in the capitol starts right now. they are underway . they gather to choose their pick. and polls showing romney with a essential lead. john what can you tell us from las vegas? >> and good morning to you and good afternoon in washington. the high school in the western part of las vegas. this is one . biggest caucaus and two of the precincts will be represented. it feeds in the idea that the state gop is talking about. people energized about the caucaus. they are hope wards of 60,000, will participate. mitt romney is the favorite. of last night he dropped by one of his phone back to thank people for getting out there. this is what he told the volunteers last night. >> you can be out with your familis and doing other things. but getting people to come to the caucaus. i appreciate it gingrich's last appearance was before a group of faith leaders and asked them to pray for him today . he may

subsidies or solar or wind energy would say you know we are clean energy so we should get subsidies in should penalize oil or petroleum based products that happens in all sorts of inner cities industries it happens at the local level. giant retailers getting favors and tax incentives that hurt small businesses that's the business side or the corporate fasces in that we're seeing more of an america. it's a bad thing in it it results in a lot of corruption and i think you know that corruption is is one of the big reasons that other countries around the world have not done better than they have in the past but there are many of them are improving in china and india i think are improving their economies are growing meanwhile america has slowed down a we're moving in the wrong direction where there are echoes of the occupy wall street message. is in some ways he's trying to appeal to that movement and in day when support from them in this campaign absolutely the thing with the occupy wall street movement is they're right there are big corruption and the bankers and well connected people are stealing from average citizens. what i might agree and ron paul might agree with some of

city in shanghai to increase business opportunities both way. fining companies to locate their offices in san francisco and spread their no. american headquarters here, and we have attracted one of the top five solar companies from china, locating their offices in san francisco. in exchange, we are bringing companies, whether they are architects, engineers, and intellectual properties -- they are locating their offices in china in exchange and getting help and support as the foundation for our offices, and increasing their international abilities. we want to bring those initiatives to latin america and to africa in the future and to india. so you will see the models sprout during my administration to focus also on south america and these other international realms. i look forward to making trips into those countries to establish those offices. while we are manufacturing and doing the kinds of strengthening of our technology, i also want to make sure you know that i have formed an exciting and new relationship with our board of supervisors to make sure that we create policies that support job creation, job placement, and economic growth of our cities. we have ongoing a payroll tax reform. one of th

city still has a goal to create 25,000 clean tech jobs. but the current number is only 700 7000. many of them are solar related but highly automated manufacturing doesn't require many workers. >> put 100 million dollar machine inside of a building this size and if you technicians and few p hd manage the machine. they are manufacturing just the cost of labor is relatively small because of the technology in the equipment. >>reporter: greater job growth may come from company focusing on energy efficiency not harnessing solar. this 5-year-old start up company retrofit older commercial industrial buildings. and estimated 70% of them mostly built before 1997 don't have sims to monitor energy use or to boost energy efficiency. ceo sims says he's creating service jobs. he had 37 employee now but projects he could have 200 in 5 years. >> you need to go in there to install things. to install the wireless. data. to service. to keep it up and running and those are jobs that can't be out sourceed somewhere else. >> if green or clean tech fail to produce job growth every new job created is said to support 2 or 3 oth

trina solar downgraded to market perform from outperform. kroger added to citi's top picks live.ust top picks. >> live. >>> oil skyrocketing for its seventh straight day. yet, americans see widely divergent prices on gasoline depending on where you live. sharon epperson. >> that divergence is evident across the nation. ft. collins, about $3 a gallon. santa barbara, $4.30 a gallon. colorado, wyoming, montana, utah, that's where we're seeing the cheapest retail gasoline prices around the nation. and then in california, we're looking at prices that are $4.20 a gallon. what is causing this? a lot of it has to do with the wholesale price of gasoline. the differences there are stark as well. in the rocky mountain region, we're looking at prices around $2.60 a gallon. on the coast 40 cents to 60 cents higher. a lot of this has to do with the wholesale price of oil or the cash price for crude oil in these regions. in the middle of the country where we've always talked about the glut of supply, oklahoma, we're looking at cash prices around $75 a barrel. on the coast, that's where we impor

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solar companies are on their way to court. scott, one claiming the other stole files. >> a little cloak and dagger action here, raj. two rivals going at it in the southerly world, sun power suing southerly city. they're saying they stole computer files from sun power and went to work at southerly city. they are suing them under the consumer fraud and abuse act. >>> zynga reported quarterly earnings tonight. it now has 1500 users but it is losing users. it dipped a little bit from after-hours trading. >>> today high bean prices eyught up to the company. reported a drop inhero quarter. >>> since it's valentine's day, we'll wrap with the most romantic story of the tech world today. it's a valente'in day proposal in the form of a tech. drake telling stacy in statistical form why they're meant to be together. >> how romantic. >> it really is. this one got passed around the web a lot today. sure, there's a lot of numbers, but it's just awesome. it worked. congratulations to stacy and drake. it was, according to the numbers, meant to be. >> okay. thank you very much, scott. this is meant to be, too. love is in the air, at least feathers are. it's a popular valentine's day tradition in san francisco

city. >> it has lots of electronics in the car. so we have to know about all the innovations that are going on in the silicon valley. >> reporter: from electric cars to solar cars to cars that drive themselves, this is where you want to be if you want to drive into the future. >> being able to sit in a traffic jam, let go of the steering wheel and have the car carry you through in the times where you don't want to drive. >> reporter: getting a grip on what's coming up around the bend. >> let's not forget tess la. as more car companies want to set up shop here, they're growing and hiring. jessica? >> that's good news. thank you very much, scott. >>> new tonight at 6:00, executives won't get their bonuses after all in spite of the company declaring bankruptcy. today a bankruptcy judge in delaware approved $370,000 worth of bonuses from some executives at the fremont solar panelmaker. the company and its top bosses got a lot of heat for shutting down despite half a billion dollar loan from the obama administration. solyndra said it needed to retain some employees to help maneuver it through bankruptcy. >>> he was looking for an imaginary girlfriend named zoe.

solar." >>> another killer avalanche in the western u.s., this time in utah. a snowboarder was buried under more than three feet of snow for nearly an hour. the 24-year-old salt lake city mountain peak. rescuers managed to dig him out and fly him to the hospital, but he died a short time later. >> heed those warnings, folks. >>> well, that heavy snow blanketing the rockies is just one of many trouble spots we're actually seeing out there right now. 2/3 of the country, in fact, is getting slammed with some type of wild weather from mudslides to high winds, and 12 states now under winter watches and warnings from iowa over to maine. here's abc's sam champion. >> reporter: in what has been the third warmest winter on record, tornado season has come early. wednesday night an unusual february twister roared across northwest georgia. with 95-mile-an-hour winds damaging up to 100 homes. 71-year-old barbara washington died after suffering a heart attack when the roof blew off her home. >> it seemed like it's just a dream or a nightmare. >> reporter: meanwhile, a powerful storm slammed into the northwest, with torrential rains, hurricane-force winds up to 88 miles an hour. topp