allowed taube out to start national advertising campaigns. and they finally surpassed ebay.ith money in the bank and confidence in future, we planned one last attack on ebay which we hoped would provide a knockout blow. wall street watching, we announced we would make taube out free for an additional year and called on ebay to follow our move. >> i'm still working on the release of taobao. i think ebay's earnings will be after the close, make sure it is posted. >> ok. and,'s stock dropped 5% in a knee-jerk reaction, henry gomez issued a response, arguing that free is not a business model. we released it in the u.s. yesterday. at 3:00 in the morning today. you may already came back with a response saying free is not a business model. based are saying they are much stronger because they can charge. i think we're much stronger because he can stay free. >> we can afford to be free, that's true. that's good. >> ok. >> that's great. that is exactly what we want. we want them to do things like that. that's good. they will regret what they said today. you have to prove the model and

. >>> 35-year-old dominique taub is in custody this afternoon. officers say during a search, one homeowner actually invited him into his home and gave him a meal, not knowing that he was a wanted man. it all started about 5:00 yesterday. police responded to reports of a fraudulent bank transaction at the downtown bank of america. they say the suspect ran into a nearby neighborhood. one homeowner said she heard somebody jump a fence and got scared. >> my back door opened. i don't want to say it now but maybe i learned a lesson, you know, because he could have easily gone in and hide. >> police spotted him outside around 10:00 p.m. the homeowner gave him a meal. he was getting ready to drive him to san francisco. police do not believe that resident was intentionally involved. taub is also wanted in oklahoma for a suspected sex crime. >>> another day, another multi million dollar problem with the new bay bridge. >> today an oversight panel got the results of a $20 million study into whether some fasteners are at risk of cracking or breaking. let's t

. >> i'm taube family tennis center tahman bradley. >> it would be the second recording killing of a hostage in less than a month. in execution he blazes the blame on president obama where he'd hold talks about the crisis in ukraine. >> we have live team coverage. devin dwyer is traveling with the president. >> we begin with gloria riviera. >> reporter: the white house said thoughts and prayers are with the family of steven sotloff. they are said to be quietly grieving. it was just recently that his mother released a public statement pleading with isis for her son's release. the grisly video is called a second message to america from ides. in it 31-year-old american journalist steven sotloff on his knees. and this man. >> i'm back, obama. >> reporter: possibly the same executioner of james foley two weeks ago whom intelligence experts are working to identify. sotloff is at least the second american murdered in retaliation for u.s. air strikes on isis targets in iraq. in a statement the national security council called the video if verified appalling. president obama now in europe is

we're taubing about in zbr this is a very competitive race. one of the cop congressional contests in all the country. viewers paying attention have probably seen the tv ads. one thing worth noting, barbara is very close to mitt romney. she helped him on his presidential bids. and so him coming to pitch out and try to help her in this race is no surprise. they're very close. >> expect them to be effective in tha mitt romney nearly won the district in 2012. he lost virginia by a fairly wide margin. that was in a midterm year. they were hoping to get out as many votes. but republicans really unable to use former president like george w. bush going to the mitt romneys and john mccape. >> why not bush? >> he's still not that popular. >> is there a favorite in that race? >> i think most handicapers see it as a toss-up. i would give barb are a narrow advantage knowing he was able to win the district. but it's going to be close. the democrats can say look, we've got nice wins for us on election night. >> saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the repu

taub -- "talk to al jazeera" is next. for updates go to aljazeera.com. thank you for your time. do keep it here. >> ebola right now looks like a major risk and shock for three countries. it could spread if we don't get on top of it. >>> dr jim yong kim warns that the economic fallout from the ebola virus could be catastrophic. in addition to heading up the world bank, kim is a doctor and expert in infectious diseases. >> if we don't get on top of it and it spreads to 15 countries, nd

chuck, i think people could understand here that, you know, the strategy laying out and the way to taub is evolving as war evolves but they don't understand how the white house could bungle this so badly. >> that's the thing. this is just ingrained into the democratic party that goes like i said that goes back a decade. but i think that's why you saw in this case, frankly, by their standards, cleaned it up rather cleanly. think about cleaning up the word bungles at this point because it would have been silly to send, for instance, john kerry on the sunday shows or the white house chief of staff out and having them have to answer this question, well, if it's not a war, then what is it? and that's the -- that's i think they realized we don't want to call it a war but if you went, what are you calling it? >> it raises another point and quote bruce ekerman of "the new york times" writing for the opinion pages, quote, president obama's declaration of war against the terrorist group known as the islamic state marks a break in the american constitutional tradition. nothing attempted by the pre

he is taubing abolking about an you had no control over.t's what -- whenever i look at that happening i'm thinking does this encourage an 18 year old to vote and encourage people to participate in the process. we have an obligation as candidates to make sure that we are encouraging people to say public service is good and we encourage that. negative advertising doesn't work that way. i can't control the senate race. i can't control out of state groups. i can control my message. mike is right. it is about our vision for what we are going to do for middle class, our tax cuts, veterans, what we want to do. that is what we are talking about. >> he says he can't control ads that are being run by the republican governor's association attacking me when he came out with this ad my wife is a pharmacist spent 14 years going to work every day building a successful business. she would go out at midnight and get medicine for sick kids. she sold her business for a profit in america. he attacked her for that. for him to say that is the republican governor