steve jobs' legacy can be found in his devices. he followed his heart and with this technology -- >> we are calling it, iphone. >> reporter: changed the world. well, jobs maintained a very private personal life. it is believed only his inner circle truly knew how sick he was. we should tell you funeral arrangements have not been made public but apple plans on holding a memorial service for all its employees at a to be determined date. >> thank you very much, dan simon. when you think when you think of the words to describe him, steve jobs, nerd. but in such a good way. he's -- people say visionary, but he was an artist, salesman and leader. he gave the world things they didn't know they needed. >> when you heard his name, i heard this several times in the last 12 hours, people saying he could be compared with thomas edison or henry ford, bringing something, taking either an existing invention or something new and bringing it to people who didn't think they needed it in the first place. >> you say he was a nerd, to me, he really wasn

the life of steve jobs. here's nbc news george lewis. >> reporter: he was the father of the iphone, the ipod and the apple mac computer. turning electronic gadgets into objects of desire. >> i think if you do something and it turns out pretty good then you should go do something else wonderful. >> reporter: as he was fond of saying, wait, there's more. >> today apple is going to reinvent the phone. >> reporter: and people did wait. in long lines for the first iphones in 2007. then three years later, they lined up for the ipad. changing the way people consume media. >> design plus function equals the right lifestyle. and that's what he filled. >> reporter: in 1976, jobs co-founded apple computer and within a few years was worth $100 million. in 1984 he was showing off his new pride and joy. the macintosh. >> it has turned out insanely great. >> reporter: as critics hailed the mac, job was in a power struggling with his company and left apple a year later. he went into computer animation acquiring pixar studio

first, more of steve jobs in his own words. ing a speech to stanford graduates back in 2005. >> you can't connect the dots looking forward. you can't only connect them looking backwards. so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give outconfidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path and that will make all the difference. whoa. whoa. how do you top great vacations? whoa. getting twice the points on great vacations. whoa! use chase sapphire preferred and now get two times the points on travel, and two times the points on dining and no foreign transaction fees. whoa! chase sapphire preferred. a card of a different color. apply now at chasesapphire.com/preferred that's not going to satisfy you. it's time for a better snack. here, try this. it's yoplait greek. it has two times the protein of regular yogurt. you'll feel satisfied. [ femal

but steve jobs always bounced back. everybody wanted steve jobs to win.nd when there was some sense that steve jobs might be leaving the scene, it upset creative types and it upset investors at the same time. >> you know, and ali, stand by, erin burnett is with us. she's covered this story for a long time as well. erin, his theory was, if you're going to introduce a new product, it can't just be a normal new product, it's got to be something amazing. it's got to be a breakthrough. and he had all of those breakthroughs. and a lot of people are wondering right now, can apple continue that without him? >> you know, it's interesting because as ali was referring to, that was always the discussion on wall street. you know, you look at apple which has become the second most valuable company in america, at some times this year has been the most valuable, more valuable than exxonmobil, and the reason for that was his ingenuity, his imagination, his creating something that we all ended up wanting before we even knew we wanted it. a few years ago the word app meant

but steve jobs always bounced back. everybody wanted steve jobs to win. when there was some sense that steve jobs might be leaving the scene, it upset creative types and it upset investors at the same time. >> you know, ali, stand by, erin burnett is with us. erin, his theory was, if you're going to introduce a new product, it's got to be something amazing. it's got to be a breakthrough. and he had all of those breakthroughs. a lot of people are wondering right now, can apple continue that without him. >> it's interesting, because as ali was referring to, this was always the discussion on wall street. you look at apple, which has become the second most valuable company in america. has become more valuable than exxon mobil. the reason for that was his ingenuity. his imagination. creating something we all ended up wanting before we knew we wanted it. a few years ago, the word app meant nothing. now apps really are essential to a lot of people's lives. that ability to see what you want before you want it, that's something that no one's sure whether they're g

the apple story started as an amateur computer club, where steve jobs' next the bosnia -- jobs met steve wozniack. the apple to had the graphics and a color screen. jobs had the drive to turn apple into a business. >> he wanted a company to be successful. phone calls, talking to people, getting advertisements -- all the work it takes to have a company with meaning and vision. >> on january 24, apple computer will introduce macintosh. >> in 1984, apple changed the world with the first personal computer to be navigated by a mouse. the business was becoming more professional, hiring a senior executive from pepsi to run the firm. >> he looked at me with penetrating eyes and said, "do you want to sell sugar water, or come with me and change the world? >> the partnership was short- lived. steve jobs was forced out of the business he founded. >> to infinity, and beyond. >> steve jobs made astute investments, buying picks are, which went on to create -- pixar, which went on to create films like "toy story." he turned back to apple when its survival was in doubt. a computer broke the mold by not

that was steve jobs in the words of the u.s. president barack obama. today people around the world are mourning the death of apple's legendary co-founder, jobs was just 56 years old when he died of pancreatic cancer on wednesday. he leaves behind an astonishing legacy of innovation and invengs that has radically changed how we communicate. why? because steve jobs made it easy and enjoyable. steve jobs wasn't just the co-founder and creative leader of apple, he was also its public face and its public voice. from the 1970s when he established apple jobs was there to announce its latest products, and to inspire its fiercely loyal fans. here's a look at steve jobs through the years in his own words. >> today, for the first time ever, i'd like to let mcintosh speak for itself. >> we think a lost them are going to get into the hole. we'd like to say they're going to get there through the garage door. people will bring them home over the weekend to work on something, maybe someday they'll buy a second one to leave at home. >> the strangest thing about apple it

tributes pouring in for steve jobs faster than twitker handle this morning. the company announced his death after a long battle with cancer. microsoft chairman bill gates says the impact of jobs' work will be felt for many generations to come. steve jobs was just 56 years old. >>> u.s. stock futures trading higher this morning. markets overseas also up as investors grow more confident that european leaders are working to strengthen their banks. of course, the biggest crowd yet at the occupy wall street protests here in new york. thousands marched yesterday against corporate greed, corruption and inequality. police say 28 people were arrested, including one person for assaulting a police officer. >>> a second tape of michael jackson's slurred speech played for jurors at the trial of dr. conrad murray. jackson telling his personal physician he wanted to build the world's largest children's hospital with proceeds from his highly anticipated "this is it" comeback concerts because he didn't have a childhood of his own. >>> sarah palin prefers the role of kingmaker

>>> our breaking news tonight, steve jobs has died. just 56 years old. in so many words, he was apple. he and steve wozniak founded the company, but he we'ove it into e fabric of a generation. he created products that seemed inevitable. let's turn it over to "piers morgan tonight" hosted by wolf blitzer. we'll be live again at 10:00 p.m. with more coverage. wolf. >> good evening, i'm wolf blitzer, sitting in for piers. a live picture of apple headquarters in cupertino, california. steve jobs, the man who put the world in the palm of your hand, has died. the 56-year-old apple co-founder was the father of the iphone, the ipad and the ipod. the man who started apple in a silicon valley garage and built it into the world's leading tech company. he started a worldwide computer revolution. he died peacefully today, surrounded by his loved ones. apple announced jobs passing on its website. those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. steve leaves behind a company that only he could have b

steve jobs change the way that people learned, teach, enjoy music communicate an obviously surf the web. >> jobs and always been viewed as a visionary, the visionary behind apple and its products. today we sat down with the san francisco bureau chief to find out what set him apart from other technology executives and how his death will affect the future of apple. >> this is more than a loss of a steel. this is a loss of one of the great man in american business. he has fundamentally change the way that people think of our technology for us. it is about the unified experience throughout the device. the the bad apple from walking to the store to using the software, to opening the boxes to watching the advertisements. everything about them had eight universal approach. it is not a company that made products by running focus groups and same people said it won this feature so we will include that. they created products that steven and the other people at apple got the the world will love. and you can see that time and again the question for apple is not so much what happens in the next 12 mo

the headlines, how steve jobs put the seduction into technology. e in the way a wristwatch, handbag or wallet are to so very many millions of people. jobs knew how to make it shine, into our offices, into our homes, into our private lives. it says, good-bye mr. jobs. steve jobs was insanely great, no question. apple might be a different place without him, but there is still a lot of brilliant stuff for apple to make and do. we can keep the faith. and then the united arab emirates has "the national." its headlines, is there life after steve jobs for apple? the big question is where does the company go from here? apple must do everything it can to keep its lead ahead of the pack. kyra, i was looking at the "new york times" today and they push it really well saying apple does have a tough balancing act to do going forward, in the sense of keeping the lessons that steve jobs taught them, keeping the legacy, but also being able to adapt in the future. kyra. >> zain verjee out of london, thanks. >>> the white house just announced that president obama will

today we celebrate the life of steve jobs. but first we need to turn our attention to washington where just a short while ago president obama made his latest push for the american jobs act. >> this is not a game, this is not the time for the usual political gridlock. the problems europe is having today could have a very real effect on our economy at a time when it is already fragile. but this jobs bill can help guard against another downturn if the situation in europe gets any worse. >> so is this the solution the country really needs? wolf blitzer joins us now from washington. tell me this -- does this jobs act have a fighting chance here do you think, or do you think the senate vote will just end in the same gridlock that we seem to be getting used to? >> the way the legislation is put forward, the entire package that the president has put forward is not going to pass, not going to -- probably won't pass the senate. certainly won't pass the house of representatives where the republicans have a lopsided majority. elements of i

california is very proud of steve jobs. that is how people feel about steve jobs. he managed to achieve at apple and all of the gadgets, the computers, the macintosh computers that he developed over the years. the iphone and the ipod, people use these gadgets every day. not only in california, but around the world. look at the internet right now. a lot of people are tweaking the the very familiar apple symbol. if you look at the website, it is then replaced with the word steve jobs. it is a black-and-white photograph of steve jobs. he is someone who has affected so many people around the world. not everyone realizes how much this man has affected them. he has been a hugely influential figure. not only in electronics, but everyday life for some many people. >> thank you. joining me now from new york is our correspondent, looking at the business aspects of this. steve jobs was apple. can apple logo on without him -- pineapple go on without him? >> there has been a lot of speculation for a long time about whether you could separate apple the company from steve jobs. h

app ll steve jobs, apple without steve jobs, apple with steve jobs. so pretty clear that the guy is-- he's my best friend. i confess to that. he's an extraordinary human being. not only, i mean the imac was his idea. he didn't build the imac, he didn't do all e work but the idea to build a computer that was different. the think different campaign. >> rose: so basically he had-- this is an interesting study in marketing, what you know something about. this is-- and promotion. >> i just learned from steve. >> rose: it is the idea that you had to come up with a new idea, a new image, a new sense of this is something, this is a changed circumstance at apple. >> yeah. >> rose: it was a triumph of what they did. >> and apple, the big knock on apple was that it was different than a pc. so steve decided that was our strength and our weakness. so the think different campaign. who are we. we do appeal to people who think differently. the idea that the pc was much more conformist. the apple mac is different. that we think it's dramatically easier to use, it's fa

steve jobs was apple and steve jobs was the american innovator of the modern age. he's gone at the age of 56 and we remember him tonight beginning with nbc's george lewis. >> reporter: with the help of a top design team, jobs turned electronic gadgets into objects of desire. there was the macintosh computer in 1984. >> and it has turned out insanely great. >> reporter: the ipod in 2001. and then in 2007 -- >> today, apple is going to reinvent the phone. >> reporter: -- the iphone. and in 2010, the ipad. >> so all these things, one after another after another it's like homerun, homerun, homerun. and there's only one babe. >> reporter: in 1976 steve woszniak and jobs cofounded apple and within ten years it had turned into a $2 billion company with 4,000 employees. >> they were the most fun years of my life. >> reporter: it wasn't all fun. after losing a corporate power struggle in 1985, jobs left apple for 11 years. he went into computer animation, acquiring pixar studios and striking pay dirt with a string of hit movies starting with "toy story". >> to infinity and

steve jobs. >>> good evening, everyone. thanks, erin. we're sticking with the breaking news. truly heartbreaking for the millio of people who own apple products. who think of themselves as fans, not just customers. apple co-founder, steve job, has died. the cause of death not yet known. he had been battling against cancer for years. just moments ago, apple put out a statement, saying, quote, apple lost a visionary and creative genius and the world lost an amazing human being. they went on to say, those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with steve have lost a dear friend and inspiring mentor. steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built and his spirit will forever be the spirit of apple. go to the apple site and this is what you see. steve jobs. his death came the day after apple unveiled a new line of products with the kind of show and tell he once was famous for. a lot of talk about that tonight. we'll look back at the life of steve jobs with dan simon. >> repo

the minute he says it to steve jobs, boom, steve gets it.teve would act as if johnny's ideas were steve but johnny immediately after said if it hadn't been for steve those ideas would have died in the studio floor. >> that's true but it's also true from the regular occurrences where he seems very reluctant and in some cases i would say inhuman in some cases in giving people credit and in giving valued employees the stock perhaps they should have. it's a running theme. what drives that aspect of steve jobs' character do you think? >> i do think by the time he creates what is now apple and it's top team, he totally appreciated each and every person on that team whether talking to me about tim cook or any of them, he really had a deep love for what they did. i think early on he just had this way of thinking which is you give them an idea and he says that's stupid. this is what people would say on the original mac team and a week later he would say let's do that idea. that's his way of processing it. in the end the ideas got done and even with t

but first, remembering steve jobs. >> i pulled off the freeway and cried. my whole life has been wrapped up in this company, and a little bit with steve. >> reporter: the man who became a visionary for the entire world, dead tonight at 56. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. from the death of steve jobs to a deadly shooting spree in the south bay, we have team coverage tonight. new information on both of our big stories. >> we begin with the life of steve jobs. the history books will now take over, trying to gauge the impact he's had on modern life. as the tributes pour in from across the world, keep in mind it's here in the bay area where he was born, where he thrived, and ultimately where he died. >> certainly an emotional night for millions around the world. scott budman begins our coverage from apple headquarters in cupertino. scott, you're just a few miles away from where jobs and his boyhood friend started apple computers in his garage. >> reporter: it's the classic silicon valley story. after so many pro

our kol donnencescondolences on your loss as well. >> thank you for that. >> the moment steve jobs' death twitter erupted with emotional reaction. thank you, steve. even i said was topics within hours. molly wood is following reaction from well-known people sharing thoughts on his legacy. good morning molly. >> good morning, chris. >> what type of activity did you see on facebook and twitter during the hours after his death? >> it was remarkable. the trending topics had dominated twitter within an hour. twitter actually crashed for several hours over the course of the evening. it was sort of slow where twitter has not released specific numbers yet but we are expecting this may be a record number of tweets as people just went to pour out their feelings their emotions really. everyone from politicians to celebrities to competitors to normal people. >> let's talk about the president. what did he have to say? >> of course president obama tweeted that steve jobs changed the way each of us sees the world. >> it also -- bill gates, the chairman 6 microsoft, primary competitor over the years, he

apple said simply, we are deeply saddened to announce that steve jobs passed away today. steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all our lives. the world is immeasureably better because of steve. now, we last saw steve jobs at an apple conference here in san francisco back in june. he was looking extremely thin as he heads for six or seven years now, but he did look vibrant and almost had the life he did as a young man, appearing at these apple conferences. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: in his signature blue jeans and black turtle neck, steve jobs became familiar as apple's super salesman, unveiling tech not that would excite consumers and shakeup all industries. >> light tunnel is really great when you want to sort of play god here. >> reporter: in 2001 he changed the way we buy and listen to music, with the ipod. >> i think when you actually see one these things you're going to be blown away with how beautiful it is and how thin it is. >> reporter: consumers were blown away. the ipod, along with apple

the technology world is mourning the loss of apple founder steve jobs. visionary inventor passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. he was 66 years old. >>> during deliberations resume in the murder trial of carmela dela rosa. a virginia woman accused of killing her two year-old granddaughter. >>> the wall street protests will hit the streets of washington later on today. for more on all the top stories log on to our web site, wjla.com. >>> 6:14 on this thursday morning. two women attacked at gunpoint in the same location, days apart. >> if they targeted them along silver hill road, as they were trying to walk to the suitland metro station. september 27 the gunman approached a woman, letter to the rear of an abandoned building and sexually assaulted the woman. a similar incident happened on tuesday, that one was able to get away. >> it's easy for them to take somebody from there and they would not be seen. >> i'm really scared. i cannot imagine how scary that must've been. >> both attacks happened in the early morning. police are trying to

steve jobs change sowing many lives around here. have heard from apple employees who are mourning and yet celebrating tonight. when jobs started apple and take it public four years later he created a lot of wealth. this is the kind of, change that allows people to buy houses in the bay area, the kind of change that allows you to put your kids in the kind of schools you want to. really a life-change thing. the sort of thing we have seen over and over again in silicone valley. young people start a company. young people make a lot of money. they spin off companies, buy companies, they change the culture. that is how things have been done here in the bay area for generations thanks largely to the type of minds and the type of energy levels of people like steve jobs. let's not forget his co-founder, steve wazniak who brought a lot of brains to apple, a team-in ateam-in -- yin and yang. how the world was changed. and how our lives are changed day today because of the devices that we use and the movies that we see. that all really can be la

>> i think the question is, was steve jobs bigger than apple or is apple bigger than steve jobs? there will be a lot of speculation as to whether tim cook can lead this country or be a force to innovate. on the other hand, of course, he was a pioneer and a visionary. he really brought apple back to the brink of being irrelevant back in the late 1990's. he has been at apple for about 14 years. he does not have the same personality as steve jobs, but you could argue the products are such a part of our lives, they have permeated our culture some much they can continue that momentum. is not an easy question to answer in the short term. >> this is not just about out all. is there anybody else out there takeover this iconic status apple was endured for so long. -- has achieved for so long. >> that is the top boy to fill. he founded the company in 1976. -- that is a tough void to fill. google, facebook, but these are more software companies. although google is getting into the harbor space with android and so forth. apple pushed the idea of technology being elegant and stylish and havin

tonight, apple, the company he used to run announced steve jobs passed away at the age of 56. apple did not announce a cause of death, but it would be hard to characterize his death as entirely unexpected. mr. jobs stepped down from the company in august. back in 2009, of course, he underwent a liver transplant. and it was seven years ago that he underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer. just yesterday apple held a press conference unveiling its latest iphone. and i have to tell you, it was viscerally strange. really just profoundly odd not to see steve jobs up there on stage in his little black turtle neck and his jeans. as there were those years in the late '80s and early '90s when steve jobs worked somewhere else. despite that, when you thought of apple, you thought of steve jobs. we thought of apple a lot. just as much as apple was and still is, it changed the way america consumes media and uses the power of commuting. it all began in 1984 with the company's first big press conference to introduce its macintosh computer. before that in 1976, there was apple 1. 1977, they had

even as his health deteriorated, steve jobs seemed as competitive as ever, always pushing to keep applet the forefront of the fast changing digital revolution. john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> reaction to jobs' death is pouring in. president obama said in statement, the world has lost a visionary and there may be no greater tribute to steve's success in the fact that much of the world learned on his passing on a device he invented. microsoft chairman bill gates said the world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact steve has had. the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. facebook founder mark zuckerberg said, steve, thank you for being a mentor and a friend. thanks for showing that what you build can change the world. i will miss you. jobs is also being remembered by apple fans. >> this company is his greatest legacy and that continues, so it's sad, but i think he would be pleased to see this store tonight and see people here looking at all of the products that he helped create. >> i just thought he was such a genius and it's very sad. all o

. >> who is the real steve jobs? >> he's a risk taker, charismatic. >> brilliant and abrasive. >> he would if somebody said something stupid instead of saying i'm not sure i agree with you, he'd say that's the stupidest blank, blanc, blank thing i have ever heard. >> and we might just change the wave you look at a legend. >> your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's live. >> and top chef. a global empire and tv career. this is "pierz morgan tonight." >>> steve jobs, a real fire storm, it's top of the charts, selling like hot cakes and you expect all that pause steve jobs is one of the great american business icons in history. it's a fascinating book. and when i plucked out some of the adjectives you use, petulant, selfish, rude, on knocks, i'm not surprised. nothing surprises me he would be all those things. i would add a genius. can you be a genius without being all these things? >> i used to work for ted turner and i think every one of those a adjectives applied to him. and steve, everyone who lo

but the same can be said to want about steve jobs who died yesterday at the age of 56. edison invented the phonograph, jobs gave us a thousand songs in our pockets with the ipod. edison invented the motion picture camera. jobs revel electrocutionized movie making. edison gave us electric lights. jobs' computer iphones and ipads lit up our lives. john blackstone begins our coverage of steve jobs and his legacy. >> reporter: scott, here at apple's headquarters in cupertino, the flags are at half-staff, people are stopping to leave tributes. this place, silicon valley, was not just steve jobs' home, this is a place he helped to create and a police that helped to create him. steve jobs grew up here, the adopted son of parents of modest means. in true silicon valley style, he started apple computer in the family garage with his buddy steve wozniak. how young and naive we were in thinking out our original ideas. >> reporter: wozniak was the engineer, jobs was the one with the ideas, pushing to make a computer that would be easy, even fun to use. in 1981, long before most peopl

that was the genius of steve jobs. i'm harry lin. >> tom: we've been hearing from our facebook friends all day about steve jobs' legacy. emory wrote us: "he has allowed the world to become more creative electronically and digitally, as well." ralph shared a similar thought: "most of us can't do our jobs or even relax and have fun without something jobs had a hand in." kersi summed it up this way: "steve jobs equals visionary and game changer. he will be sorely missed." you can join the conversation. just friend us on facebook at bizrpt. >> susie: and as we say good night, there's no more fitting tribute to the legacy of steve jobs than his own words. here he is delivering the commencement address at stanford university in june of 2005. >> your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. and most important, have the courage to follow your heart

apple steve jobs, and steve jobs with apple. >> his life was typing his job, when he was fired from apple in the '80s he was borderline suicidal. this job and steve jobs were almost one in the same. it was a part of his life. >> in a rare public speaking engagement 2005 steve shares with stanford graduates at their commands and how important it is to love your job. >> work will fill large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do you believe is great work. the only way to do great work is to love when you do. if you have not found yet, keep looking. don't settle. >> let us sit in the contrasty did not settle and he built apple into one of the world's biggest and most successful companies are releasing products that people wanted. in 1984 he began the process of rebuilding apple and the key to the top are revolutionizing home computing with the macintosh computer. >> he to technology that cost $30,000 and then repackage them in this thing called the macintosh in 1984 at a price point of $3,000 which was debt--and just how the 10th the world that is the one thing you