. >> you perform for the cnn founder ted turner at a florida plantation. tell us about this. >> well, we were just there. it's actually his son's place, and he does camps and stuff for the youth and everything, keeping them busy and out of trouble, and he does fishing and hunting and everything, and i went down there and showed a little demonstration for them and that's about it. >> you say this was something that was a tradition in your family and it's a tradition in a lot of families, but not every family decides that before your kid can tie his shoes you hand him a gun. why not wait until he is 10 or 14, 15, maybe? >> it's just part of our family. it's the culture. i think when you go back in time here in the united states, you know, kids in our generation and in the past have always played cowboys and indians, toy guns and sticks, and you see that today on the playgrounds. i feel like education at an early age is powerful and strong. that's why even you see that pushing into the school systems, trying to talk to kids about things and the sooner you can

finally starting ted turner corner.ck market hitting new highs car resonating with consumers, but nonetheless we don't have extra cash to around. even though it is not enough to get in the ability the gun and ramp up their discretionary spending to the type that would really keep this economy into a higher gear. gerri: higher gas prices? i am used to seeing them go up in the summer. worse or better? >> i hink better. some of these refining and pipeline issues depressed the - put behind as we could see a dramatic drop in price. i think the problem with the consumers of the drop in gasoline prices is it has been so volatile aisle. consumers are not sure they can adjust prices because in febbuary we had a record high price and prices collapsed and came back. i agree with your other guest. we saw a big bounce in consumer confidence. i think it will be critical for the consumer this memorial day, the traditional kick off the summer driving season to see if they drive more miles and spend more money. this will be a critical h

pmcerebral palsy and cmo turner and web corp also beginning their process to identify their summer interns for this coming summer. and at this point, i would like to invite ted up to talk about the effort to watch out to the veterans and to build a network of agencies in northern california to track and place veterans into opportunities in the construction industries. >> okay. >> thank you, very much. >> i wanted to give you a brief update on how things stand currently, on march fifth we had the building veteran futures task meeting. and it was basically convening not only in the community organizations and variety ran's administration and representatives and several trade unions but also we had contractors in the room as well. several of the larger contractors in the bay area. and panko and all of the ones that do the work in the city and we have a lot of collar ration going, but for this i wanted to point out that all of us and the contractors are on board with the veteran's hiring, in terms of actively seeking to higher veterans when appropriate. we also have the trade unions also and the trade and the carpet and the engineers as well as the iron work and