the founders of autism speaks, bob and suzanne wright joining me next.heart ♪ ♪ you have to let me know [ female announcer ] when sweet and salty come together, the taste is irresistible. sweet and salty nut bars by nature valley. nature at its most delicious. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to hurt again. and now i've got to take more pills. ♪ yup. another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? ♪ for my pain, i want my aleve. ♪ [ male announcer ] look for the easy-open red arthritis cap. >>> today is world autism awareness day. a new report recently found that one in 68 children are identified as having autism spectrum disorders. that's a stunning 30% increase this only two years. bob and suzanne wright are the founders of autism speaks and they join me from new york city. i should point out they are our former head of nbc and my great friends, and thank you for all

autism speaks was founded in 2005 by bob and suzanne wright. bob was a chairman at nbc universal and a vice chairman of ge. he and his wife for grandparents to a child he was diagnosed at age two. normal and perfectly over time he started to withdraw into himself and have g.i. issues and other typical behavior for someone on the autism spectrum. he was diagnosed. what they recognized was that there was raise awareness of autism. we could get answers from their own doctors. they had resources available to them. they went everywhere and they were rejected or ignored or told to go home and take care of it. they said to themselves, if this is happening to us it is got to be happening to many other families around this country and around the world. company withthis bernie marcus. a number of other ceos brought to bear all of the ceo experience to the urgency of the autism crisis. the term autism a lot these days. how would you define it? guest: autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder. it is a spectrum. he sees people at one end of the spectrum who h

old friend suzanne and bob wright ringing the bell. the former ceo.y's guest on the second hour of "the closing bell." see you tomorrow, kelly. >> welcome to "the closing bell." i'm kelly evans. the rally rolling on as the dow tries but it looks like has failed to close at a record high. here is how we're finishing up the day on wall street. the dow adding 40 points to 15,573. the nasdaq meanwhile up about 8 after flirting with the flight line and the s&p 500 adding 5, 1,890. that we can say for that broad market index is another record high. let's bring in today's panel. elon, stephanie link, sheila dharmarajan, and steve grasso will join us in a second when he's off the floor. also with us for more on today's markets, we have another "fast money" trader, guy adami. and it is great to see all of you. stephan stephanie, the context here is so interesting. at the backdrop of everyone talking about whether the stock market is rigged or not, we continue to rally. volume today a little light perhaps but i wonder if that doesn't make more people hesitate g

so bob and suzanne wright, who are the co-founders of autism speaks felt there was no better way to tellilm. bob wright, of course, was the head of nbc for 24 years. so he knows media. we need to raise awareness. people need to understand the profound impact of this issue. >> i want to show another clip from the movie featuring a medically retired marine, hardy mills, who has a child with autism. >> half of the working population has insurance coverage. through all the large corporations, like apple, walmart, ge, exxon. plus the u.s. government, which is the largest sing ebl employer in the country. and yet congress has failed to act on the large corporations, and on its own u.s. government employees, to bring autism insurance to those families. >> okay. that was the wrong sound byte. we'll get to the sound byte that i wanted to ask you about. but talk about that, about action in congress on this issue. >> this is incredible. we don't want to discriminate against people who have autism. it's something that occurred, that parents have no insurance coverage for. only 36 states which we hel

autism speaks was founded in 2005 by bob and suzanne wright. bob was a chairman at nbc universal and a vice chairman of ge. he and his wife for grandparents to a child he was diagnosed at age two. normal and perfectly over time he started to withdraw into himself and have g.i. issues and other typical behavior for someone on the autism spectrum. he was diagnosed. what they recognized was that there was raise awareness of autism. we could get answers from their own doctors. they had resources available to them. they went everywhere and they were rejected or ignored or told to go home and take care of it. they said to themselves, if this is happening to us it is got to be happening to many other families around this country and around the world. company withthis bernie marcus. a number of other ceos brought to bear all of the ceo experience to the urgency of the autism crisis. the term autism a lot these days. how would you define it? guest: autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder. it is a spectrum. he sees people at one end of the spectrum who h

but autism speaks is the leading -- and robert wright, our great former ceo and suzanne, founders ofn years, it's like one of the leading, i think, philanthropic organizations in the world. in ten years, something like that. >> we're going to talk more about that. >>> and also the debate over whether the markets are rigged. that boiled over during "power lunch" yesterday. nyc traders stopped in their tracks as the panel debated. global markets even went after michael lewis. >> it's great to see bill instantly throw at brad the idea he's doing all this to promote a business model. >> he said that and he also said shame on you. how do you react to that? >> i'll say it again. >> i think he's outrageous. i think he's part of the problem. >> the debate continues. the fire burns with former s.e.c. richard breeden. he's going to weigh in at 8:30 eastern. more "squawk" in just a moment. yes! not just a start up. an upstart. gotta get going. gotta be good. good? good. growth is the goal. how do we do that? i talked to ups. they'll help us out. new technology. smart advice. we focus on the bus