but doesn't amazon have a positive role to play? e world can buy french books. >> ( translated ): when amazon arrived, it revolutionized the logistics of the book business, and i think that's been beneficial. but as a citizen, i have a problem with amazon. it doesn't behave with a sense of civic spirit, and in france we care about this. >> reporter: despite amazon's problems in france, not everyone sees it as all bad. author pierre assouline's many books are sold on amazon. >> i know, a lot of-- a lot of people in a few places in france where you do not have any bookstores. and, thanks to amazon they can read all the books. even me, i have, very often i-- i have ordered books on amazon. the ideal world, it's world where you have amazon, and the bookstores, like in france today. >> reporter: and bernard terrades, who owns a used book store in paris's latin quarter says selling books on amazon has helped him gain more customers. >> ( translated ): it's had the benefit of increasing our popularity a little. many people have discovered u

that's their bread and butter. >> let's move on to amazon. jeff bezos a rare appearance on "cbs this morning" to talk about amazon's series "transparent requests which won the golden globe for tv sears and asked about amazon's profits or lack thereof. here's what he had to say. >> we keep find new things to invest in but we have great frans franchises we've built over time, e-commerce, amazon prime, video, and, you know, kindle and amazon web services. and then we're also always investing and looking for the next -- >> investing and we won't make profit because we'll always find better investments. >> i don't know about always. that's a long time. >> always is a long -- at least we know somewhere down the road, kayla, thinking about profitability as opposed to investment. >> you didn't hear fire tv, you didn't hear really anything mentioned about fire. it's pretty clear, when you hear him listing his top priorities for the business, how he sees them segmented and how he sees them prioritized. the most fascinating statistic about amazon was in

they said that is more than we are prepared to give. amazonsaid no problem you don't have to sell your books duress anymore. actually intaglio agree to the terms, we are not going to sell your books anymore. no longer will people be about two by jk rowling's books or amanda palmer spoke through amazon which accounts for 40% to 50% of all of the books in north america. this is a huge blow. if they had not launched their work up with amazon, magic anti-copying snake oil, they would've said albright it is your choice whether or not you want to carrier book's are not carriere books, but so long as you are not carrying our books we are going to make them available everywhere else at half-price and make this little app that takes their amazon book and turns them into apple books or google books or anyone else's platform book and all of those people that you have sold at a loss to get them into your walled-garden, they will walk out of fall with the morals because people don't live books because the bookstore. they are not by jk rowling because they

to respond. it's particularly handy in a home or office. >> what is the amazon echo? it's the device designed around your voice to provide information, music news, weather and more. >> consumer reports electronics editor brought the echo home to use with his family. the echo is always on and ready but won't respond until it hears the wake-up word which you can set as amazon or alexa. >> alexa. >> what's the square root of 720? >> the echo is great for spitting back quick facts. >> 720 square root is 26.83. >> there are limitations. most notably, when you try to buy items from amazon. >> it doesn't go into your wish list. it puts it in a shopping list on the app. the echo app. then you have to go to amazon separately and get it. >> it's also not ideal for local information or sports. >> who won monday night football? >> that's not something i can answer. try use the binge link. >> still glenn says there's a big potential for the echo because its intelligence is stored in amazon's cloud. >> as amazon increases the intelligence on their servers, it makes the product that

>> it only matters if wall street comes to doubt they can. >> will amazon have the confidence of walltreet indefinitely? >> boy, i bet they will for a long time. imagine when we did the ipo they were only selling books, right. i have been fortunate to work with a number of companies that have made a pass just being successful to where they have an ipo, and it is remarkably hard from that point to create a second and third act. i think there are very, very few executives, and of course, larry has proven he can do it. >> larry page. >> yes. and even larry ellison has proven that, as well. where they don't let the game be defined by where they started. but most people cannot do it. >> what about google? eric schmidt, chairman of google, recently said that amazon is their biggest rival in search. >> to qualify, he made the comments during an antitrust meeting. there was an incentive to highlight the competition, obviously. but i think there is some truth to it in this case. the nature of search is changing. if you were to search for an item to buy from an e-commerce search on amazon, you

to sprint and so the rest. there are reports that amazon is also looking to acquire some of radioshack's locations. cory johnson is looking into why sprint and now amazon are looking to buy up the stores. >> location. radioshack, over many decades, has been building a network of stores. their struggle has not been real estate it has been what to put in the stores. they continue to make some boneheaded decisions or bad debts with this company. at the heart of it, they have a huge network. it is multifaceted. there are some good real estate, some crummy real estate. in the u.s. the end of last year with 4291 stores. they have dealer outlets franchise like arrangements with nearly 1000 stores. a lot of those are crummy real estate. stores that made a lot of sense in 1972 that do not make sense today. the problem is reassure borrowed against the income of those stores, promising to only get bigger. the debt holders would not let radioshack back out of all of those leases. we have shaq came up with a planned a year ago to get out of over a thousand of those stores and could not get out. now they have thi

two years ago, when i strutted into this building, people were not comparing us to amazon.ur point the ebitda margins -- we're the only carrier that expanded margins this year will stop from the standpoint of price pressure it's only price pressure to use a war analogy, if you are making excessive profits and someone is bombing your factory. we are not competing on price, we are competing on the run carrier proposition. if you look at q4 and what we announced for 2015, margins are expanding and we have a value proposition that leads to growth and profitability. cory: that was john legere and erik schatzker -- really interesting proposition right now. "bloomberg west" will be back in just a minute. ♪ cory: i'm cory johnson. this is "bloomberg west." nasa is meeting with a handful of companies here on earth, more specifically here in the bay area, promoting research opportunities. campaign is called destination station. it even rhymes. so what are they talking to tech companies about? what can be done on space that you can't do on the ground and what could happen in the inter

to our guests today. our game plan looks like this. mark took on amazonith diapers.com and now he's doing it again with his new company, jet. we'll find out how. and then friday the 13th trades. you might not want to walk under a ladder, but you should consider these unlucky trades. live from new york we get the inside scoop on snl's 40th anniversary when jim brewer joins us live. first kick things off with a record day for the s&p 500 setting a new intraday high. the dow in rally mode breaking 18,000, oil trading above $60 for the first time this year. european markets ending the week in the green after german data beat expectations. here's the question, where is the best place for your money? here or abroad? mr. banks, start with you as the guest. >> we would say here. we think the u.s. will continue to be the global driver of growth and present the best opportunities from an investment point of view. >> sirrat. >> u.s. as well. given where the oil prices are, this is the place you want to go. >> josh. >> the whole world and always give you that answer.

to be? >> i don't think amazon, alibaba, ebay are threats to us.se are services which are everybody is using them, i'm using them, and they do a part of the business, but they don't run companies. so we use these services in combination of -- with the software we run inside companies. we have class services, concord services, services of that type. these are network so we call them business network services and we combine them with the enterprise applications and enterprise services. >> what do you tell investors who are excited about the cloud, but they don't understand the accounting, they think the guidance on margins is still opaque, things like that? >> yeah. this is -- it is a change, but look, we had in the '80s, we had rental business, that was the best business we ever had. because the renewal rate, you just have to check the renewal rate. without any sales effort, you renew the contracts on a high percentage base. >> like an annuity. >> that is where the positive impact comes from. so look at the cloud bookings, take them times three, 3.5

>> a big hit jay carney who's heading to amazon to do pr following in the footsteps of david plouffe at uber. going to a big organization for with a penchant for lobbying for big handouts from big washington bureaucracies. i think mr. carnie will feel right at home. >> james? >> this is a hit to the supreme court this week for pushing back against overzealous prosecutors. this was a case where the fish and wildlife department in mary's home state of florida had gone after a fisherman with the sarbanes-oxley law which was supposed to go after corporate law. he threw some undersized grouper fish back into the water when they approached his boat. this was considered -- >> and they vanished, therefore they accused him of shredding the fish. >> like shredding documents. good for the supreme court for saying no to this fish story. >> all right. it was 5-4 if i recall. close. remember, if you have your own hit or miss, please tweet it to us. that's it for this week's show. thanks to my panel and for all of you watching. i'm paul gigot. hope to see you right here next week. >>> congress goin

it is good news that amazon continues to find areas to invest in. is making a show at this quality level is not an expensive but it is worth it. it is worth it to our prime members. it is worth it to bring tv into that new golden age. which i think is really happening. >> our friend charlie rose cannot [indiscernible] >> the regulatory t is going slower. the faa has their hands full trying to figure out how to regulate drones. >> amazon is considering doing more than just a pedestrian drone to look at radioshack stores. from drones to artificial intelligence. the highest-paid female ceo in the u.s. may not be who you think. martine rothblatt, took in $38 million and now they are leading the way in artificial intelligence. we sat down with her and her robot. >> how are you feeling? >> i am feeling -- mi alive, do i actually exist, will i die? >> they are trying to tackle these questions. >> this is a proof of concept robot based on the personality of my wife. >> five years ago they created bina 48. >> martine is my love. >> this will be mankind's big

for them to add 500 more stores, for amazon to add 500 doors for sprint to do that -- it would reallye all those businesses in a very public way. >> amazon, because they have truly global reach, amazon, 500 stores would be something like 10 in each major metropolitan area. so that's really not that many. i think amazon is the one of those who can actually go up higher. the sprint doesn't make sense to me. i don't know how many stores they own i do know at&t's numbers. at&t only owns 1200 other 4900 stores. the rest are third-party run and operated under the at&t brand. it would surprise me if sprint really wants that many stores, and i can't conceive but they wouldn't want a more corporate owned stores and at&t has. there multiples their size. and it were talking 500, maybe 1000 and amazon is a liar. i don't think you see all 4000 stores salvaged. >> some irony we're talking about this location, location, location based business that was eaten by mobile. michael factor, -- michael factor, thank you. the return of the podcast thanks to the successive "serial." we have a podcast startup

it's part of the bid to capture $10.3 billion spent annually and amazon wants to win over a few primes so let's bring in the amazon director of student programs, brickley mcdonald. especially considering the that we have covered barnes & noble when they started to anchor stores universities like boston university and make a lot of money in the process. what's your number one goal here with the students? >> colleges are struggling to make college more affordable for students and that's the focus of our program. how to bring this to customers on campus. and have a week improve the convenience of amazon. so we have opened up our first physical pickup location where students can ship packages to the university and use a mobile enabled experience. it and then the prime members can order as late as 10:00 p.m. and get things the next morning. liz: that is amazing to me and of course students have that immediacy that they definitely need whether it's textbooks or we were joking about ramen noodles. but uc davis and amherst, the first schools trying that out. you have other schools lining up y

rich, why are the new faa drone cans a blow to amazon specifically? ecause they limit amazon's delivery strategy. the federal aviation administration's proposed rules require drones weigh 55 pounds or less, fly at 100 miles an hour or slower and at 500 feet or lower. the rules also mandate the drone remain in sight of the operators or, and that -- operator, and that's where amazon objects. in response to the faa announcement, amazon -- in a statement -- says, quote: the faa's proposed rules could take one or two years to be adopted and, based on the proposal, even then those rules wouldn't allow prime air to operate in the united states. the faa needs to begin and expeditiously complete the formal process to address the needs of our business and, ultimately, our customers. amazon adds that the it is prepared to deploy where it has the regulatory support it needs. in other words, outside 06 the united states. -- of the united states. the faa says it designed these rules for farmers observing their crops, realtors to capture aerial shots of property and

. >> for commerce sites, for business site, and this is -- i define this broadly from etsy to amazon o google. that the speed your website -- of your website is absolutely directly correlated with revenue. >> reporter: as for web based business themselves, they argue having internet fast and slow lanes would kill start-ups and shrink profits and hurt innovation. the fcc votes on this new proposal february 26th and likely pass. after that the cable kanes will likely -- companies will likely appeal it. in los gatos, kiet do, kpix 5. >> that announcement is now scheduled for thursday from the fcc. >>> menlo park authorities are asking boaters to be more prepared. the fire department says they've received eight rescue calls in the last month alone. normally they get about 12 calls for an entire year. the district's airboat crew says some of the boaters they've rescued do not have equipment to sustain them in case of an marge. -- emergency. >> basically it's lack of preparation and lack of safety out there that the boaters aren't well prepared. the boaters haven't planned their trip. they

still have my stuff on e-bay and then can send all that information, my listings my pictures over to amazon to etsy, it's an amazing tool. >>> it could be because of the current economy, a reaction to the changes in health care laws or new technology which makes it easier to track, but increasingly small businesses are hiring freelancers rather than full-time employees. at cnbc sharon epperson tells us freelansing is embraced by employees and employers. >> kyle davidson has been on many as ventures. but one that's been most meaningful came after he left living sobl an online marketplace to feature local deals for its subscribers. >> living social decided to refocus the core business refocus sort of their strategy a little bit and decided as a result to shut down the adventures division nationwide. >> davidson worked on that team crafting deals on snowboarding skiing, rafting, wine tours and other trips. when his job came to an end, he embarked on a new adventure. launching his own business creating an online marketplace designed specifically for consumers seeking active excursions. and he h

. >> i want to ask you first about transparent i'm excited about this. amazon >> the revolution is here. when we delivered the show, i remembered talking to some people and i thought the revolution was here, it's actually been here for some time >> it has >> and i just didn't know about it. >> yeah. >> but, yeah, i like that other side of the fence very, very, very much >> very different than what we're used to with traditional television. we'll come back to this, but you lived in a world of nontraditional distribution for a long time. >> yeah, i did the hbo series, the sanders show. i like the edge. as i was talking to someone earlier, every time i veered from that i sort of lost my way. but i do like edgy. my first film role was in justice for all. i like the edge. transparent directed by the great jill soloway >> magnificent writer, great talent >> great director. every time she talked to me, every time she just said anything to me, i just got better. you want to be around those kind of people >> in this show, you play a transgendered character >> that's tra

wants to look at the books. -- why amazon wants to look at the books. >y johnson -- our own cory johnson. >> when we come back, oil it is back above $50 in the united states, does that mean we saw the bottom at $43? ♪ >> we are profiling hedge fund managers. we will be speaking with jason buttrick. ♪ >> i will bring you top headlines from around the world. in australia surprise interest rate cut. they cut its bench rate to a record low. they said australia's growth would be weaker for a longer time. australian stocks surged to an almost seven-year high. the australian dollar had a 5.5 year low. the german chancellor does not expect a quick resolution over talks about the greek bailout. she expects the talks to drag on until the current round of funding runs out in the spring. the new greek government come -- appears to be backing down from earlier demand that the eurozone ramp down its debt. eight former top u.s. officials are urging president obama to send weapons to the ukrainian forces. they called the united states and nato to send $3 billion of weapo

an educated penguin. >> you can request an invitation to bay it and if you are amazon prime you get ascounted price of $99 and it usually sells for $200. >> siri tell as lot ofjects and they ought to have a competition on who is more funny. kids will love that. >> morning news continues at 6:30 with the top steps. >> probably presidential candidate hillary clinton weighs in to the measles outbreak with advise for parents. >> family feud a new dispute between robin williams' children and his widow. >> we have a surveillance video of a man that police in the east bay are looking for. >> a picture of walnut creek southbound 680 collecting a lot of traffic there. you are almost stopped at treat boulevard. traveling northbound there is still lingering construction causing delays this morning. i will tell you where the other problem spots are when we return. stay nothing can prepare you for having a doctor tell you that you have cancer. that was very hard. so even though i was in full remission, i still had to get frequent checkups that are very expensive. as a freelance design instructor,

to deliver packages. amazon clearly is not happy about these new proposals and is even threatening to move its prime air delivery system outside of the united states. you have countries like canada the uk, denmark they do allow commercial drones. what the faa is concerned about is the safety of commercial airlines. just last week a southwest airlines pilot coming into los angeles spotted a drone flying just over the top of his 737 and the culprit may have been this drone that we spotted at the very same time flying from venice beach towards los angeles international. flying within four miles of an airport is a big no-no. the worry is drones could get sucked up in an engine which could be catastrophic. in the past two years there have been more than 200 close-call sightings by commercial aircraft of drones. but these proposals are just that proposals. it could take years for them to become laws and even the faa is saying it's being to be flexible and work with some businesses. amazon and other companies may yet c

i will celebrate the first thing you said, that people are comparing us to amazon.wo years ago when i started into this building -- strutted into this building, people were not comparing us to amazon. even though the margins are 30% up from 25%, we are the only carrier that expanded margins this year. from a standpoint of price pressure, it is only price pressure to use a war analogy if you are making excess profits at someone is bombing your factory. we are not competing on price we are competing on the carrier proposition. if you look at 2015, the margins are expanding. we have a value proposition leading to growth and profitability and cash flow. brennan: i am the last minute insertion. here is what i want to talk about. you have been doing things other carriers are not. you initiate the pricing war, but have a new brand of competitors, the cable companies with fast networks announcing wi-fi phone plans. those are actual on carriers. how do you compete? john: we are not causing a price war. if you look at what we are doing -- brendan: you made the first move. joh

amazon a is cut. they will begin using drones to deliver tea in china.been laying out his vision of drones and delivery for years but the company has yet to push through regulatory hurdles. so what will the drone delivery market look like? let ask our guest host of the hour, jeff clavier. you actually invest in drones. what is your company do and why? >> drone the is based in san francisco. it's the first flat -- flight control system for drones. it's a piece of software that allows you, say you are a farmer in the midwest sending his drone over a cornfield, he's getting instantly a map of the field to see were he can use pesticides and fertilizers. by using drones, he can cut used by 40% and increased yield up to 15%. what drone deploy does is build a piece of software that automatically sends the drones and flies around the field, gets the images and sends them to your ipod or computer. >> it sounds like you think the future of drones is corporate rather than consumer. >> there are two markets which are both enormous. one is the consumer market, those

they have the potential to squash amazon. >> really? when their ceo says we don't have 4500 stores we have 4500 distribution points this is what bezos has been driving for. yes to get distribution points. >> a provocative idea that walmart can squash amazon. he thinks successful retailers will have to have presence everywhere in the future. >> thank you so much. coming up, what does the return of the measles mean for vaccine maker merck? we take a look at this part of the ongoing story when bottom line continues in just a moment. ♪ >> with more than 100 confirmed cases of measles in the united states, vaccinations have come into the spotlight. the only shot you can get is made by merck. given the rise of anti-vaccine could the monopoly be in jeopardy? first, how did merck become the country's sole supplier of these measles vaccines? is that a problem? >> depends on who you talk to. merck became the full supplier because the vaccine market is highly concentrated. it is incredibly expensive and takes a lot of time. merck was the first to

to use google plus profiles. that's clearly not a problem now, but how are you guys -- have you spoken with amazon about how to integratemazon i.d.s. >> we're excited about the potential ways we can work with amazon. i think there is a lot of really obvious places where there is synergy between the two companies, synergy is a loaded word in this situation, but there is. a lot of synergy. our attitude towards it is not this transaction happened therefore we have to do x, y and z integrations. it is now we have the opportunity, now we can put our engineering team in contact with their engineering team and see can we use aws? now we can put our music licensing team in touch with their music licensing team and see if we can secure -- we have opportunities that we'll see if they make sense for both companies or not. we're not going to force anything though. >> those integrations, those are on like the back end of things. people don't see for maybe the aws improves the experience overall. i think some people are concerned that twitch is going to become -- people go on twitch already to see someone play games, see if it is rig

struggling electronics retailer radio shack is in talks to sell some of the stores to sprint and even to amazon which we know that company has been making a push to open traditional stores. the new york stock exchange has already started the process of delisting radio shack and has suspended trading of its shares. >> you've been watching too much "downton abbey." >> "downton abbey," is that what it is? >> that's what it is. >> i love the accents. i'm from arkansas. i got a southern accent. >> i know, that's why it's so weird. >> depot. >> here's a hit movie, "frozen," now spawned a short sequel, "frozen fever." it's a seven-minute film that reunites the original cast directors, even songwriters. it'll be screened ahead of live action "cinderella" movie, which opens march 13th. both films from our parent company disney -- be forewarned "frozen fever" is said to have an even catch ierier tune than "let it go." how is that possible? >> maybe it'll get "let it go" out of our heads. >> there you go. >> finally. >>> super bowl xlix scored more tv viewers than any other program in u.s. history. it was

to hatch from the eggs. of the 19 families living in the the area, half now own breeding ponds. amazonicpacus grow fast and live off a diet of mostly dry food. when the fish are three weeks old, they're ready to be transported. 100 fish cost the equivalent of about 10 euros. the project covers delivery costs in the first year. part of that funding comes from germany's international climate initiative. after the first year, locals must pay for the deliveries themselves. as well as getting the fish back to their village, fishermen must also pay for fish food and transport to customers. for now, they can just about eke out a living. >> i can sell my fish at the market. that's how we survive. usually, though, we get individual orders from the restaurant. i sell 10, 15, sometimes even 20 kilograms there per week. >> pollution and overfishing pose a major threat to the amazon's riverways. in many cases, their primary use is now as a transport route. some communities are barely accessible overland. the community in shintuya has now got its first large fishpond. soon, the water here will be full

. >> radio shack is in talks to sell some of its stores to amazon as that company attempts to open moreores. >> new york stock exchange started the process of dee listing radio shack and suspended trading of its a shares. >> coming next month a "frozen" sequel. >> waiting on this. >> frozen fever the seven minute film reuniting the original cast. >> it will be screened ahead of the cinderella move. frozen fever is said to have an even catchier tune than let it go. >> please don't introduce any more characters. >> that's america's money. have a great day. >> it's 5:23. up next researchers try to explain why some people just look guilty all the time. >> we're also covering a breaking story. a man was shot in a car right near a philadelphia police station. hear how a quick thinking officer may have that helped save the victim's life coming up at 5:30 a.m. >> ♪♪ cool. sit down! alright. sorta you, isn't you. only esurance has coveragemyway. it helps make sure you only pay for what's right for you not someone sorta like you. i think i blacked out from fear... did we ask him where mr. craig w

delivering tea packets to 450 customers. if amazon wants the u.s. speed up approval for drone tests jeff bezos this morning. >> slower than i would've anticipated. we always knew that. the faa has their hands full trying to figure out how to regulate drones. >> amazon is limited to testing remote deliveries outside of the u.s. do you want to know if your partner will cheat on you? you can check the length of his or her fingers apparently according to a new study. people with the right ring finger that is much longer than the index finger of the same hand are more likely to cheat. >> it is different if you look at your hand from the inside or outside. >> my husband is all good. all set. the studies as people with longer ring fingers have extra testosterone. check it. >>matt's girlfriend should watch out. >> staples announcing this morning it will buy office depot for $6.3 billion bow to pressure from star board to make a deal. that will reduce the office supply industry to just one. who buys office supplies from brick and mortar stores anyway? it is n

amazon or netflix, or bloomberg. >> great. >> yeah. i think that bloomberg should have more scripted content. i would love to do a show for bloomberg. >> i knew you would have some advice. "sports night" is a series that was critically acclaimed with a small audience. >> but nobody watched it. >> short lived. if amazon came to you and said we wanted to give you season three, like we did with "arrested development," would you do it? >> i would. you just happened to name all the right elements. from time to time i think about not so much doing the third season of "sports night" but doing "sports night" again. taking the exact same premise, behind the scenes at an espn type place and doing it again. >> have you pitched it? >> no, i just did. this is the first time i have said it out loud. i just pitched it to you. >> we will let the networks know. should traditional networks be worried? >> i would not want to paint them all with the same brush. i think there are some very good things on network tv, but i think that people just don't watch tv the same anymore. this generation, abc, nbc, cbs, just doesn't mean an

the taxpayer are we paying for all that new roadway, traffic disruption to get all those people to amazon microsoft, et cetera? and what am i getting out of that? in the meantime -- >> soar. i, thought you were done sorry go ahead. >> that's an odd complaint. the caller seems to be complaining that the local government is responding to increased demand for automobile traffic because of the booming local economy. i would have thought that's an example where the local government is doing what's good for the economy and good for most of the folks in the general public which is making -- easing commutes for people to work for these very important companies. >> windsor locks connecticut, ross, indiana caller. >> caller: hi. my comment is along these lines. the call in congress for the pipeline, the excel pipeline, they keep talking about how many jobs it's going to create. and yet we know it's controversial. couldn't we take that money and put it into infrastructure that we know has to be done for roads, and if they keep arguing about jobs we could create as many jobs, i'm sure maybe more, wor

to fill more than 100,000 tracktor trairls. part of the is a her a dust is made up of for for us like fertilizer and crucial for the amazon to growish the amazon to grow and flourish. >> brutal cold in the northeast and midwest break more records today. great lakes more than 85 percent frozen sheep are trapped in ice up to 3 feet thick. alex rides along with the coast guard on rescue mission. >> tonight u.s. coast guard cut ertion plowing through the frozen water of the great lakes on mess to help strandeded freight ship stuck in the ice. it may not look it but frozen lake huron there and cutting through major ice right now. you can see some of those ice plate like that one right there 2 to 3 feet deep in someplaces. >> so far this year the coast guard helping more than 245 vessels get through this part of the great lakes. >> cutting through ice for about an hour and-and finally arriving near the freighter they are trying to help this cutter is serve the ship life lean they need supply and they help them get them. >>reporter: stranded screw sight for sore eye. >> low on things like potatoes. bread. milk. >> from back here you see

is target trying to target amazon? $25 low enough to get amazon prime customers to question the $99 annual price tag they're facing? listen, i can't imagine this moves the needle at all for people who are buying everything from amazon with that prime account. >> right. i think that it's not so much taking on amazon prime customers. it's trying to take on the vast majority of amazon's customers that are not yet prime. target is still very very small online. as you had rightfully said it's a small single digit percent of their overall sales. they're just trying to move the needles on their own dotcom business and this is a good thing for them. $25 is lower than amazon's nonprime threshold which is $35. and it's lower than walmart's which is $50. they're definitely trying to get share of that mass customer. >> are we headed towards zero? is that where it's going? and can these guys still make money when they have this kind of a deal? >> well everyone offers steerowzero at some point or another. during the holiday season i

what is think going to allow you to do against the likes amazon microsoft, going for integrated cloudy. does that allow you to work on pricing end, on the marketing end? what edge does it give you? >> thanks john. great to be talking with you again. what this is is google's presence in public cloud and analytics combined with vmware's leadership position in the enterprise space bringing two together allows us deliver the hybrid cloud capability unparalleled in the industry. and result allows us to deliver on this vision that we have laid out of one cloud, any app, any device combined with many other announcements uniquely positions us deliver on the vision. >> i've been talking to heavy enterprise cloud users and what i keep hearing is amazon has been really good about delivering the types of tools they need to make sure that they're able to cost optimize amazon keeps dropping prices. microsoft right there but later to the game in offering those tools. but that they're so ingrated into amazon's system, having tweaked their processes and software and the data center to work with their

track record, if you get in business with somebody who's very quickly trying to play in the big leagues like netflix and amazon, they will want to attract people with track records. money is one way they will do that. honestly, you get to a certain point where that is not the most important thing to you. it's not in the top 10 most important things to you. the most important thing to you is a story well told. emily: would you write or produce for netflix or amazon? have you considered it? aaron: i would absolutely write for amazon or netflix, or bloomberg. emily: great. aaron: yeah. i think that bloomberg should have more scripted content. i would love to do a show for bloomberg. emily: i knew you would have some advice. "sports night" is a series that was critically acclaimed with a small audience. aaron: but nobody watched it. emily: short lived. if amazon came to you and said we wanted to give you season three, like we did with "arrested development," would you do it? aaron: i would. you just happened to name all the right elements. from time to time i think about not so much doing the third season of "spor

to love. >> we're pleased to welcome jill soloway, jeffrey tambor and amazon ceo jeff bezos. ing this series and getting jeffrey and presenting this to jeff's team at amazon. it's a series everyone is talking about. >> it went amazingly quickly which is a tribute to the way amazon does business. i've been hustling in the tv business for 10 or 15 minutes. from the moment i pitched the show to them to this moment was probably only a couple of years. they made the pilot, put the pilots online people loved it made the series. people watched it and loved it and we were quickly ordered for the next season. it's dienltd of kind of amazing. >> why are you in the tv busy? >> we have amazon prime. it's the shipping -- kind of unlimited all you can eat shipping for one annual price and a few years ago we started adding video streaming to it and then we started doing original content. so it's just sort of you know one foot in front of the other charlie. we started out in books, but what we're finding is it's so fun for us to just do another kind of story telling. transparent is the amazin

box has continued to propagate on the enterprise level. amazonts own solution at the enterprise and consumer level and microsoft trying to go more into that area. i think you're right in the long term over 36 months, i think there are consolidation that will happen and margin erosion will occur. >> are you seeing startups across your portfolio, tech, clean tech, life sciences shifting toward the enterprise ditching the consumer focus? seems like companies have more money to spend, more lucrative space to be in, is that happening across the board? >> when you look at sustainability of your revenue models the consumer, we have a lot of things with security going on in the world. cyber security concerns. the consumer applications will be given away for free so with privacy issues people don't want their personal data being monitored. you can't have free and not have privacy concerns. there will be a conflict and that conflict is happening. that's where you're seeing a convergence of focusing towards an enterprise application or solutions. if consume

government. >> for commerce sites, for business sites, and this is i define in broaddy -- this broadly to amazonle that the speed of your website is absolutely directly correlated with revenue. >> reporter: and as for web based businesses themselves, they argue having internet fast and slow lanes would kill start- ups and shrink profits and hurt innovations. the fcc votes on the new proposal february 26th and likely pass. after that cable companies will likely appeal it and that will take years. live in los gatos, kiet do, kpix 5. >>> now has president obama's 2016 budget for congress. it calls for raising taxes on the wealthy while boosting tax credits for families and the working poor. the $4 trillion proposal calls for an increase in defense and domestic spending. it would also restore some of the automatic cuts triggered by a 2011 budget deal. some republicans were quick to criticize the plan. >> it is totally unacceptable for west virginians and all americans to live within their means while the federal government continues to let its spending run rampant. >> replace mindless austerity with

in the latest pwc consumer survey 5% -- 52%, listing amazon one of three favorite retailers, compared to 41% for walmart. i love me some amazon. >> me too. melissa: what do you think? >> amazon made the move first started buying things because those things were cheaper than anywhere else. it made the move to be a store where i rely on two-day shipping. no reliable, i know exactly when i get it. even if it's a smidgen more i will still buy it from them. >> are you a primer? >> i'm a primer baby. melissa: i feel like they can't make money on the prime. i'm ordering at least one box from my door every day. cue-tips, a bottle of aspirin. if they charge more i end epbuying less. because if i go to duane reade i buy more than one thing. >> my wife says, oh, i'm going to duane reade. she pulls me back inside the door and goes to amazon snow just bought a book less than a dollar and shipping it for free. melissa: unbelievable. i don't know if that is good for shareholders. definitely booed for all of us right here. looks like we'll need a cleanup on aisle three. did you see this? and possibly a

they are in a great position over the next 10 to 20 years. >> jeff bezos is an investor. amazon on the mcquar which note. talking about prime membership doubling by 2020. >> that was an extraordinary note. don't see a lot like that. >> good seeing you. >> great to be here. >> henry blojette of business insider. >> not just amazon, but the broader nasdaq up 13 points. dow is turning positive as well, up 12 points after being down pretty sharply after jobless claims ticked above 300,000. we saw an increase in layoffs in the texas area. s&p for its part down a fraction of 1 point but looking like it's hovering near the flat line. some other tech movers, tesla, facebook, google rallying while apple is down about 1%. apple about 10% of the nasdaq composite. carl it would be crucial to getting to the 5,000 level. >> when we come back we mepsed at the top, any moment could get the decision from the sec on the future of the internet. who better to talk about it than mavericks owner mark cuban with us after the break. just under 12 hours from now, "house of cards" season three goes live.

we will probably find a way to make it a win-win. amazon is not the kind of company that believes in trying to set everyone else out and create this thing where no one outside her gets to sell anything to a customer. -- ever gets to sell anything to a customer. i think that our view is we want to offer the best experience. i think that we really believe in, if it is good for the gamer in the long run, that is good for us. >> one of the things i noticed and it is pretty obvious, if you go to the main page it is like league of legends, 120,000 viewers. and then his -- it is a long tail of people streaming each game. in the long run do you worry about being overreliance on big competitive games? >> it is not quite as skewed as that. it might look like that. but there are 600 game flies -- game slots. and that represents a huge percentage of our viewership. but we have seen over time increasing diversity. those gains continue to grow. -- games continue to grow. but other games are growing faster. that means you are actually seeing more spread a

experts say, it will take at least a year for the rules to be finalized. amazon is reportedly not happy with the current proposal. since it wants to use drones to deliver packages to its customers. if you don't want drones flying by your house or business. you can join a national registry online. it's called no fly zone- dot-org. the company involved does not guarantee that a drone won't fly your way, but claims, that many drone makers have agreed to participate in the privacy program. frightening pictures from a rail accident back east. unnerving residents here in the bay area. we'll tell you why. >>:he wanted to do it. it was truly a test of love. pam moore>>: and the touching story of a family sharing more than just their love. coming together for a much- needed, life- saving kidney donation. then: barry zito is coming back to the oakland a's. jason appelbaum has more on that in sports. reporter>>: a layer of fog has continued to move them off. i will let you know how it will impact your morning drive plus the sunday forecast. pam moore>>: and stay tuned for t

and if doing something is a proconsumer move we we will probably find a way to make it a win-win. amazon is not the kind of company that believes in trying to shut everyone else out and create this thing when no one else ever gets to sell anything to a customer. we aren't people he was in that. i that. i don't think we we will ever been someone from the site for working with another game store. i think that our.of view is, we want to offer the best possible experience, and hopefully choose the experience that we offer. we believe in if it is good for the gamer, the broadcaster in, in the long run it is good for us. one of the things i noticed and it's pretty obvious, league of legends 140,000 viewers. the law until after that. in the long run do you worry that you are over reliant? how do you guys think of the wales versus the long tails? >> i realize it might look that way but there are 600 games lots and actually that longtail represents a huge percentage of our overall. obviously they're are a few big names below the biggest on the site. all we have seen over time is an increasing div

as i mention, that could be troublesome news to amazon which wants to create this fleet of drones thathould also point out and this is important, the obama administration also yesterday laid out what they believe should be the perimeters for government drone use. and with some kind of first amendment privacy concerns laid out as well in other words, how and when would police agencies be able to use them and federal government and border patrol and et cetera. this is clearly moving in the direction of more widespread use of drones both commercial and government as well. >> what about the amateurs like the intelligence agency employee who lost control and his drone ended up in the south grounds of the white house. they are not that easy to manage. we need some practice. >> you need some training. i actually went to a drone pilot training school emery riddle university in florida, and i talked to the professors what's the biggest challenge? the first thing is situational awareness, learning exactly how you can maneuver the drone and what's the position. when is it moving towards you and a

why as taxpayers are we paying for these roadways in traffic disruption to get all those people to amazon and microsoft, etc.? what am i getting out of that? host: i thought you were done. sorry about that. guest: the caller seems to be complaining that the local government is responding to increased demand for automobile traffic because of a blooming local economy. i thought that would be an example of what the local government doing what is good for the economy. it is using commute for people to work for these very important companies. host: russ, independent color. caller: my comment is along these lines. for the xl pipeline, they keep talking about how many jobs it is going to create. yet, we know it is controversial. can we take that money and put it into infrastructure that we know has to be done with the roads? if they keep arguing about jobs we can create many jobs. we can create more jobs working on roads instead of putting it in a pipeline that is very controversial. it is to me that restoring our infrastructure and restoring our bridges and roads is a necessity. host: robert po

will they continue to view the market in that way so that amazon is included in that definition? by who knows? listen, dollar general never expected to face what it did when it come to family dollar. you bring up dollar tree finding that it may have to divest more stores. it's uncertain by its nature at the ftc approach here. we'll have to wait and see. they are giving them cover 1.25 billion revenue willing to divest that 250 million breakup fee and synergy numbers are conservative. if it goes through, nobody argues it ain't going to be a good thing. >> no, a chart of dollar tree. you can see a period people said, it's a good deal. you realize it's a great deal. maybe this pause -- it's going to be a good deal okay enough -- and then this takes off. this company is worth -- this is two plus two equals five it really is. >> when that is the case you want the antitrust authorities to look closely, ala airlines. >> you mentioned disney. we'll talk about disney and chipotle after the break. shares of gm and chipotle in opposite directions. busy day for earnings. also talk with lendin