microsoft ceo steve palmer told fox business he sees the software giant trumping apple and google in sales of devices bigger than 5 inches this quarter. dave: steve ballmer said the company is facing other head winds. may be surprised about his biggest concern. robert gray spoke to him earlier and joins us now with the details. what is his number one concern right now? robert: i asked him about a global tech slowdown. we have seen it in a lot of earnings reports. you would be surprised to know that it is not the global recession we are seeing. instead the number one concern was where a lot of people are looking for profits and that is china. >> the big addition is china which has been growing for most folks but the intensity of software piracy in that market will do less revenue in china and we will in the netherlands which is crazy when you say that but that piracy in china has cost billions of dollars of revenue and thousands of jobs in the united states and we are working hard with the chinese government and the u.s. government to improve the situation. robert: they are looking for

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among those signing it, jamie dimon and jpmorgan's jeff immelt, microsoft's steve palmer.e plan should include comprehensive and pro-growth tax reform which broadens the base, lowers rates, raises revenue, reduces the deficit. joining us now is grover norquist of americans for tax reform. you are the paramount opponent of any kind of tax increase. what do you make of that letter? >> didn't actually say tax increase. they said revenue increase. the taxpayer position is if you have more growth, if the economy grows 3% the year instead of 2% year for one decade you get $2.5 trillion of additional revenue. you want more revenue, had a pro-growth tax policy. take the top growth of 35 as obama wants to do upwards of 44 but down to 25. stuart: you approve of raising tax revenues if it is lowering tax rates. >> i am in favor of higher revenue from economic growth, not from higher taxes. what simpson-bowles has done, this is an attack on the president's position which is higher marginal tax rate, the pace to presents. stuart: that is your take away on this letter. >> somebody who w

liz palmer on her bold promise. and steve hartman in search of -- >> reporter: a sleeping horse. people stacking eggplants. a squirrel in midair. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> >> pelley: good evening. this will be an angst weekend. a hurricane from the caribbean and an arctic weather system from the west have started joining forces to create what could be a superstorm. hurricane sandy is about 400 miles south-southeast of charleston, south carolina, moving north. tropical storm watches and warnings are up from florida to north carolina. the surf is up already in south florida. landfall is expected early next week between virginia and southern new england. 64 million people are in harm's way, more than 40 have been killed in the caribbean. we have two reports tonight, first, meteorologist david bernard in miami, our cbs news hurricane consultant and, david, two questions: where and when? >> well, the latest, scott, is that sandy is a 75 mile per hour hurricane, as you mentioned, and it's slowed down its movement. let's look at thi

steve: your partners. no that is arnold palmer. and the other photodr.was honored with 40 years of service and champion for baby's award. his father had polio which was the original intent of the march of dimes. and jonas salk found a cure for the vaxine mr. palmer served as honorary chare of the march of dimes and a huge supporter he tarted a children's hospital in orlando. >> brian: wow. gretchen: he was honored thursday night in the big award's ceremony and honor for me to meet arnold palmer. i did 23 years ago as miss america. he was my dad's idol and wonderful to see him. >> brian: arnold palmer said i am an lite lite and likes to endorse products. he started the whole thing. >> steve: and a major terrorist plot dubbed 9/11 two foiled this morning. al-qaida suspects arrested for plotting to blow up shopping and hotels as well. >> brian: kelly is in washington with the details. >>> it is to put out here. jordan is a key u.s. ally in the middle east and israel peace partner and has been targeted before. the latest plot was more ambitious in the planni