. >> a man named david win stall, sent an rc plane into the stratosphere using a weather balloon. >>ble to transmit video from the plane back down to him and control the plane. >> flies the plane from the statosphere. >> you got it. >> i like seeing things used outside of their original purpose. julian welch, a motorcycle stunt rider and previously i showed him using a sport bike to ride through the mud in the forest. now he's taken that same triumph sport bike and riding through the sand and the desert. >> much more thee at call production here. found in the desert by a couple of month mads. >> in his underwear we might add. >> powers up with an energy drink and takes the wraps off the street bike. this bike is designed for pavement. ni

. >> a man named david win stall, sent an rc plane into the stratosphere using a weather balloon. >> holy crap. >> he is able to transmit video from the plane back down to him and control the plane. >> flies the plane from the statosphere. >> you got it. >> i like seeing things used outside of their original purpose. julian welch, a motorcycle stunt rider and previously i showed him using a sport bike to ride through the mud in the forest. now he's taken that same triumph sport bike and riding through the sand and the desert. >> much more thee at call production here. found in the desert by a couple of month mads. >> in his underwear we might add. >> powers up with an energy drink and takes the wraps off the street bike. this bike is designed for pavement. >> nice move surfaces, but puts a couple of sand tires on this thing and able to tear it up in the awesome dunes, spilling sand all over the place and managed to pull some tricks. >> i love it. i think it's really pretty. the sand dunes against the blue sky. whole thing is really pretty. >> interesting part. drops the bike. take a

specifically, women to join her in the professional stratosphere. she called it leaning in. gunning for the corner office, not the cubicle. here's elizabeth vargas. >> reporter: sheryl sandberg is one of the most powerful women in the world. at 43 she is the chief operating officer of facebook and a billionaire and you could say she is lonely at the top. >> women have 14% of the top jobs in corporate america for ten years. ten years of no progress. >> are her book "lean in" has ignited a firestorm as a men fes stow for the sex in the city generation looking at the uncomfortable question why are there so few women at the top? >> we are nowhere close to having a share of the leadership roles anywhere in the world. a national retailer printed up onesies, smart like daddy and pretty like mommy. >> really? >> that was two years ago. >> reporter: "lean in's" message, when it comes to getting ahead, women can be their own worst enemies. >> you talk about an ambition gap. >> there are women who are just as ambitious but if you ask boys and girls starting in junior high do you want t

matt, we have google surging into the stratosphere. here comes amazon close on its heels. what was it, up 7 yesterday?! > > almost 3% yesterday. and the thing about amazon, its a valuation rule-breaker, because you have to look into their cashflows and what is really going on with the company, because if you look at the p/e, it is over 100. such a big company like this, you wonder, can i buy it here? > that is a pretty big contrast. p/es typically are pretty low right now across the board. > > right. so the big secret in amazon is that it does $21 billion a quarter in sales, and that is growing rapidly, ramping up with the tremendous growth they have had in the holiday seasons. but the key statistic is their investment in the future, in these massive distribution centers, in contrast to the stories coming out about how poorly wal-mart has executed with that. so the statistic is their cash flows, which is $4 to $5 billion, when the stock keeps on rising, the smart analysts are of course looking to the future, that eventually those cash flows are going to turn into profits o

the closely watched 30 industrials hit the stratosphere, apple is down 4% just in the last four days. the dow today hit 14300 and change. that was enough to set a new intra-day high. settled back a bit now at 14285. lots of money, though, pouring in, hewlett-packard, one of the stocks in the 30 industrials up 3% just today. they were pleased after it saw new data from a private jobs placement company showing more new jobs than expected. this good news comes a few days before the big labor department number. that's friday. today's data only shows private sector jobs. friday's will include government jobs as well. when you do mix in government jobs, there aren't really anyway. government employment tends to be a negative number. governments are still laying off. do know that friday's jobs number will not include the sequester. it should be fairly solid. then a few minutes ago t f, the releasing its report on the economy saying it's muddling along. the name on the report is the beige book. the fed really knows how to sell. >> yeah, really. >> it's muddling along, which is pretty good for

. >> host: troy wolverton, how do you view sony in the tech stratosphere? >> guest: you know, sony, i think, for a long time was considered to be the pinnacle of technology. i mean, they were the die monday company -- diamond company. but they've really been knocked off in recent years. you know, sony was the dominant game company five years ago. today they're in third place. if you look at music players, sony was the testimony plant player with their -- dominant player with their walkman, and then they got knocked off by the ipod. they're not a huge player in smartphones. they -- and, you know, it's funny, i was at the samsung conference yesterday, and really in many ways samsung has become the sony of today. samsung dominates a lot of the markets that it's in, including smartphones. and that's something that you might have been able to say about sony 5, 10, 15 years ago. that's not something you can say about sony today. >> host: this is "the communicators" on c-span, and we are following troy wolverton of the "san jose mercury news" on his tour at ces in

researchers found the sulfur dioxide emitted by volcano create barrier of particle that lean the stratosphere helps block sunlight and cools the earth. researchers warn despite the positive effects volcano emission will not counter balance global warming. human activist warming the earth at far faster rate than that. >>> research issues in australia have wild theory about how to save endangered rhino right now there are about 5000 black rhino and 20,000 white rhino left on earth. that's it. they are currently being poached at such a high rate researchers at the university of aukland believe they could all be wiped out in 20 years. researchers say if a poaching ban is lifted and an organization controls the legal harvest and sale of rhino horn, it may save them. get rid of the illegal poaching operation. researchers say setting up a legal trade in crocodile skin saved at species from extinction. rhino horn popular for chinese medicine. >> researchers from the pacific marine mammal center at huntington beach guided 2 stranded dolphins back to the pacific ocean successfully. they were in shallow

out, such as when they say they're going to carry a nuclear test or shoot a satellite into the stratosphereom i to take the ste that apparently had just been announced. lou: well, ambassador, let's turn from the response of the administration to those threats to the administration's preparations for a meeting with benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister of israel, going to israel, and his first offial visit saying that all options are on the table with iran. is it your sense that things are deteriorating further? this foreign-policy that has been followed by this administration is, in some way effective? >> well, i don't think that is entirely new language. the president bush used the same kind of line on the subject. i think it is to make clear that while we are prepared to pursue negotiatingptions that if we are not successfuin deflecting or deterring them from acquiring a nuclear weapon, that we don't rule out the possibility of the direct use of force. there are ongoing negotiations at the moment. i don't think they have made particularly a lot of progress, but there will be a couple mor

. >> bill: depends on what stratosphere you're from. >> now we'll reduce it down to the department ofublic instruction in the state of wisconsin. they want the volunteers teaching in the public schools to know that they have privilege so they wanted them to wear a white wristband that said, basically i'm a honky, i'm a-- and you know, which is as stupid as like a white guy-- >> you said it, it's stupid. rivera, i can't believe it you're actually making sense. >> it's a stupid idea. >> bill: can you believe it? you guys believe he's making sense tonight? >> i'm a black man, here, al jolson, how i love you, how i love you. >> bill: don't go overboard. it must be a st. patrick's day gift. you're making sense. and geraldo, he thinks that the white privilege wristband is a stupid thing. all right, rivera good. doesn't ruin it. don't say anymore. (laughter) plenty ahead as the factor moves along and bill gates still mighty infatuated with president obama. lou dobbs will weigh in. and gutfeld and mcguirk, apparently a high school using gay characters it portray biblical figures. how about th

. >> but once it reaches the stratosphere, everything levels out. >> we were shooting from about 80,000wice as high as a plane. three times as high as a plane. >> according to his iphone, the craft peaks at 100,000 feet or nearly 19 miles above the earth on its 95-minute voyage. >> at the very end, the balloon is stretched to its absolute maximum capacity. it was about 22 feet in diameter. it's enormous. a little craft below it. >> it got like that big. because the pressure lightens as you get up. there isn't a lot of oxygen. and the air is very thin. >> the pressure of the helium inside the balloon is now much greater than the surrounding air pressure. so it continues to expand until finally the balloon pops and the craft comes plummeting back to earth at more than 100 miles an hour. >> so the parachute deploys maybe 30 seconds after the balloon bursts. it doesn't do anything until it gets to heavier air. >> at one point, it rocked head over heels. even though it didn't have head or heels. it was just like that. it was pretty amazing because there's a lot of reasons it wouldn't work. >

that's an entirely different stratosphere in terms of orders, guys. >> all right. thanks a lot.should note that the move in the last hour of trading was about 8% on blackberry's shares and we did see another 2% jump in the stock. you noted unusual options activity just around suspiciously when the release was out. >> and it doesn't look like an algo trained to read the news. there are those that can respond in a millisecond versus the rest of us that might take several seconds to digest news like that. however, this movement was more than a minute ahead of that press release hitting. it got me thinking they're trading 100 and 200 share lots rapid-fire. this was a lot of buying in that minute that proceeded this press release. so both options and stock i'm suspicious. somebody had this when it came out. >> does the order make you more bullish about blackberry? >> we street fought that a few weeks ago. and i was on a bull camp, traded lower, i'm in the bull camp. not because of those orders. because of this headline that koim out. came out. >> they backed off. >> that's not a reas

. >> o'donnell: the rocket ship took off into the stratosphere, and sheryl sandberg had a key role buildinggoogle into the more than $250 billion business it is today. in 2008, facebook founder mark zuckerberg needed someone to help him run his social network, and he offered her the job. what happened next is an example of where sandberg says women often go wrong-- she almost accepted the offer without any negotiating. her husband, dave goldberg, stepped in. >> sandberg: and my husband is, like, "are you kidding? you can't take the first offer." i'm like, "well, it's a generous offer and i really want this job." and finally, with dave there, my brother-in-law looked at me and goes, you know, "god dammit, sheryl, don't make less than any man would make doing this job. there is no man taking this job who would take the first offer." >> o'donnell: and dave, what did you think when she said, "i'm going to just go ahead and accept it?" >> david goldberg: oh, i was apoplectic, apoplectic. "you're going to be running all the negotiations and deals. like, you can't... you can't just take the first

. >> employment's a problem, but that's not a problem in the $30, $40, $50 million stratosphere. >> takelevel. one of the debates we had earlier in the first hour, i think it was the first hour of "closing bell," was the availability of credit and the availability of loans. now, people in other parts of the country are going to find this crazy, but if you have a couple million dollars to spend in manhattan, you usually don't get that much space these days. so -- and you usually have a mortgage. how easy is it for people to get a mortgage these days? >> it's a little bit easier now than it has been, let's say, last quarter. but not that much easier. we still have to go through a lot of hoops to get someone a mortgage, even where they're super qualified. and then we have to keep that mortgage going until the closing day. we've actually had mortgages pulled a week before closing for some doc reason, you know, document wasn't signed, they didn't get something from the managing agent. all kinds of arbitrary reasons. it's really a process of keeping them in that game until the very e end. >> a

is something for the more mature companies, around 15 times earnings, so it's not any type of stratosphericple. we're using comps like ten cents or what not. 20 times earnings for 50% earnings growth over the next three years is not a crazy valuation. it's a .4 peg if you want versus a peer at .7. factor in growth we're not even assuming what i would call a parity multiple, and i think, you know, because, again, ali baba is not public, there's reason to believe that they are moving towards an ipo sooner than expected, and ultimately that will make it easier to see that valuation because it will either get it or not get it in the public market. >> right. all right. jason, great to have you on defending your call. appreciate it very much. >> sure, thanks. >> all right. jason of oppenheimer with that big call on yahoo! right now. let's get right over to sooim simon hobbs who is following the european close. simon? >> the european markets are closing now. >> thank you very much, scott. we will in an hour and a half start a eurozone finance ministers meeting about cyprus so do expect a statement

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want to compare it to the obama political machine because that's a -- you know, a whole other stratosphere but in terms of what we get on the finance side, holding people fired able, i mean, we volunteers, for instance that weren't hitting their goals. but you have to do that. if you're going to hold people to a standard and say these are the goals, these are the metrics, we measured them every day. and if they weren't working, we tried something differently and i think that's the reason we were able to come as close as we did on the money side. >> did some of them work on commission? >> i'm talking about -- these are volunteer -- >> your professional -- >> no, we -- it's a good question because in previous campaigns, many of these individuals, these consultants in various places work on a commission structure. we changed that and set a very high goal. we said look, we can go out and raise hundreds of millions of dollars and here's what that means for you in illinois. here's what that means for you in los angeles. and in every market, we had a state chair that was ultimately responsible. t

he clearly has stratospheric numbers as a governor.e ought to be congratulated for being where he is. if i were advising him, don't worry about the presidential stuff. just get re-elected, do a good job, and that's what will come. >> isn't that what people want in the white house? someone to speak the truth, give it to them straight. >> i can't enter into the minds of new jersey voters obviously. there are millions of them. here is something we ought to take from this that is worrying. the republican field for 2016 is beginning to take form and the entire field is competing to find who can occupy the right spot. you had rand paul and ted cruz and not only is the field crowded of those who want to play to the hard eest right edg but people who are federal officers, senators and a member of the house of representatives. the republican party's strength is from the center right and at the states, where are the center right governors who will be interested in running in 2016? and if chris christie is not that person, the field becomes lopsi

now, every economist will tell you, you get in those strata -- that stratosphere and the warning lights are going off, the flags are waving, stop, stop. stop borrowing the money. annual deficits, even with all the tax increases that i talked about, and the budget gimmicks that quite honestly if i would have suggested anything like this as the governor of nebraska or the mayor of lincoln, i would have been laughed out of the chamber. even with all the tax increases, even with all the budget gimmicks, under this budget we never get under $400 billion a year in new debt we're taking on, and it ranges between $891 billion annually on top of the nearly $17 trillion we owe today, to $407 billion annually, we never get close to balance. now, senator sessions says it so well. balanced? what's balanced about this? i've been balancing budgets my whole life. mr. president, this isn't balanced. this is crazy. this is insane. this is adding debt to the shoulders of your children and grandchildren, who are already up to their eyeballs in debt because of the spending that is going on. look at the spen