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when you get a nasty tweet, retweet it. avatar. the word ear or england in it, you should automatically retweet it. >> never drink before tweeting. that's my rule. >> which is why you don't tweet? >> kind of. all right. that's it for the first hour of power. brian, take it away. >> that was a zinger. nice. >> that was quick. that was fast. >> that was great. >> tyler and mandy, thank you very much. well, now we're down one. 2:00. 11:00 in phoenix. welcome to the second hour of power lunch. i'm brian sullivan. melissa lee at the nasdaq. the dow is flat. oil making a huge move down. first up though apple's itunes store and app store are also still down. apple shares are down 1. -- yeah, 1.1%. let's go down to josh lipton for the latest. josh. >> more information on what exactly happened at apple today. customers around the world might have had a tough time making purchases from a number of apple services. the app store, i tune store, it is mack app store have been down. in a statement to cnbc apple saying the cause was an internal dna

that -- in an effort to be first and then it's wrong and then it perpetuates and then it gets tweeted and retweeted and all of a sudden there's inaccuracies, the jeannie is out of the bottle, and you can't put it back in sometimes. you end up saying, that isn't true. i'm sure we have parents who forward us crazy e-mails from their crazy friends, you know, barack obama was born -- where was he born now? >> well, the phenomenon is absolutely the case, and that's -- it's great. these shows, the group of them, not to paint with one brush, but they all tend to be more liberal or they come across as more liberal politically, for a long time, as you know, talk radio is very conservative. air america which you were involved with cofounding is attempt to put some balance on the scale. >> yep. >> but this genre of talk show has largely been more liberal-leaning, it seems, is there a reason for that. >> if you fact check the daily show, it comes out accurate, and if it's liberal-leaning, one could deduce that if you're liberal-leaning, you're spewing out the facts. >> okay. >> i'm just saying, you could say t

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. >> ready to retweet all of my tweets because i forgot to put a dot. nd manus, we'll be speaking to mr. jenkins. that is coming up on "countdown." dop not miss it. coming up, i can retweet those tweets. what is next after the nasdaq hits 5,000? stay with us. ♪ >> time for today's bart chart. what is next after the nasdaq hits 5,000? it was 15 years in the making. the index timely closed above 5,000 surpassing a level it succeeded only on seven other days, back in march 2000. this is the nasdaq going back all the way to early 2000. the record was reached on march 10, 2000. two bull markets and more than 4,500 days later 450 48.62 was the number set back then. the index is 40 point or less than 1% from that high after closing on monday. further gains are forecast according to analysts' price targets compiled by bloomberg. it will be 5,433. are there similarities between now and the dot.com era? after the nasdaq peaked in march 2000 it embarked on a 2 1/2-year 78% decline. as you can see that red line there on the left hand corner which ended october 9, 20

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police tweeting about this and we retweeted this. >>> taking a look 270 at father hurley boulevard, everythingound everybody rolling along quite nicely. no major problems. wide look at things overall looking quite good. do have a new disableded vehicle off to the right side of the road but it is northbound 95 at 17. and again branch avenue and naylor road emergency road work happening there. probably won't wrap up until after the morning commute. travel times coming up. >>> new this morning -- >> i believe in america and her people and i believe we can stand up and restore our promise. >> that was the voice of text senator texas senator ted cruz, the first person to announce he's running for president in 2016. the republican senator put out this video overnight calling for a new kind of courageous conservative. today cruz expected to make an in-person announcement during a speech at liberty university, an evangelical christian school and it represents cruz's conservative base. richard jordan live on capitol hill now with more on what cruz announcement means for the rest of the republican field

as far as tweets, if i had to choose i'd retweet something that we link to iran that is the supreme leader ayatollah who he cites nine ways and reasons that israel should be destroyed that gives you much better perspective on this regime. even in these times of, sometimes disagreement, i think it's useful to remember who your ally is and who your enemy is. >> schieffer: a saudi newspapers reported that the united states plans to offer some arab states, so-called nuclear umbrella as protection against iran. any reaction to that, can you tell us you have information that that is even accurate? >> i don't know, but if it's true it raises two troubling questions. first is that iran has a nuclear weapon program otherwise why offer presumably gulf states, why offer them protection, nuclear protection. the second is, if it's true a shift of u.s. policy from preventing a nuclear iran to containing one. that is not good. >> schieffer: if there is a deal, do you believe that iran's ties to terrorism need to be dealt with in the agreement? >> i think what you have to make sure is that restrictions on

the tweets were be retweeted. it was spreading quickly. minds is situations where people have taken their lives because of bullying. you worry about that. i felt i needed to take strong action to set a boundary. this is what the boundary is. >> he made a great point. he said he was bullied as a kid. at least he knew when he got home it was a safe place. when you're bullied through the cyber world. >> when it comes to bullying and internet trolls who sit in their basement and you don't know who they are, and they think we can't track them down. they can be tracked down one way or another. >> 24 hours a day these kids are faced with these e-mails. this is great because it's someone fighting back. you saw two great examples of someone getting a little taste of what it's going to be like. >> nobody would ever think heather nauert would be a cyber bully. she's the opposite. online she's flowery and nice. >> you know times have certainly changed, haven't they? we didn't have to deal with any of that when we were kids. >>> another big move as the

the tweet quickly went viral picking up more than 4500 retweets i guess, and favorites in about an hour. >> i think they probably used more baking soda. >> an inch is that thick for a pancake? >> yeah! that is -- yeah. >> i can go for a pancake. i know. >>> the still ahead this morning lawmakers make a new push later today to make medical marijuana available to more people across the country. >>> the school district in our area that is seeing the most cameras on school buses. >>> a live lack at national harbor. >>> right now storm team 4 radar working hard. take a look here a steady stream of rain on the way. >> we're using hashtag umbrella day! how your kids should dress for the day. umbrella necessary. >> yeah. grab it before you head out the door. we'll stay dry this morning. temperatures in the mid 30s and upper 30s between 7:00 and 8:00 with increasing high clouds and going partly mostly cloudy between 8:00 and 9:00 near 40 degrees by then. as that rain does approach us we'll have temperatures warming afternoon highs should make it into the low 50s. metro area maybe mid 50s to the

granddaughter, her granddaughter tweeted out the adorable shots retweeted thousands of times.es grandma come with the house? she is pretty darned cute. thanks amy. >>> now time for "pop news" and weather but first robin is in the social square with the "morning menu." >> i'm digging grandma's poses. way to go there. a look at what's ahead on the "morning menu." serena williams versus beyonce this morning. did serena ace it. >>> the hot hollywood fashion creating tension between parents and their teens. >>> fancy or frugal the high-tech high-priced toothpaste that promises to keep your teeth clean longer. >>> and we brought you this earlier. fritz, come on common catch it. he couldn't catch anything. we'll see if he can do it live coming up on "gma." i love our studio audience. everybody is here. this man right here tommy, gave me my tart in the business. since 1947. we'll be back with "gma" in just a moment. thank you, tommy. in thank you. ♪ >>> "gma's morning menu" is brought to you by advil, the pain reliever that is built to be as fast as it is strong. the volkswagen jetta

and when i read that tweet, since i didn't know the answer, i just retweeted it. >> some people have some analogies that don't quite fit, you know, reagan and iran contra and others, but nothing really stands up to this level of major, you know, many major mainstream members of the united states senate deciding that they're going to kneecap the president of the united states in a fragile strategic negotiation. i don't think it's ever happened before. >> and they're not telling iran anything they didn't already know. >> everyone knew what was going on in terms of iran knew that there are hardliners in the united states that don't support this effort to make this strategically. there are many in iran that don't support this also. what president obama's been trying to tell us all is that if we make a deal with iran and khamenei cheats, we're on a track to war. if we don't have a deal, we're on a track to war. so obama's trying to create a third option for how iran can prove itself, demonstrate responsible behavior over a period of time. not just to us, but france, great britain and germ

patrick willis just tweeted out a message officially it's a goodbye to fans. retweetck my account. bigger than me. always has been. always will be. and the question now is where does that leave the niners. he's not the only one leaving. sports is next >> news at eleven. tuberculosis scare at local school. what is being done to prevent an outbreak tonight. >> fitness industry wants to prove the old saying something for everyone tonight hottest new way to work out that aim to keep you coming back for more. >> those stories and more coming up on 7 news at 11 on channel 7. . >> a lot to talk about. >> we'll get to the 9ers in a second. i thought you want to talk about yoga. we want to take know your take larry. >> i'm familiar with some of that stuff. at 11:00. >> you are presenting that. >> reporter vote. >> there is pole dancing i'll tell you that. >> i don't want to frighten you. let you know up front. >> we'll talk 9ers in a second. let me get what are you laughing at. >> i look gol good on the pole. >> one night trip to the desert >> one night trip to the desert. in

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you can see a tweet about a mother who needed diapers and formula and retweet i'm coming. and you could gave face to face and that changed and made it more personal than it already was. you could give to another person one-on-one and there was healing on both side. so we wrapped it up into a beautiful story. rick and i teamed up and worked on this feature that got some critical words but generated a lot of reader letters and comments from people that said me also and i saw that in my neighborhood and it made be proud to be southern. this captures what our region does in times of trouble. >> kim i am going to understand here, we are yankees. >> it's true. i guess that -- i had to let that mare -- mari skare -- marinate -- a little. i went to the literary non-fiction conference and met my agent and we were talking about book ideas and this came up as this is a no-brainer. i had a year to report and write it which really isn't a lot of time. i spent most of the year gathering information. and i feel like i am going on and on. feel free to jump in. >> this event is about you.

. >> if i had to choose i would retweet thank that relates to iran and that's the supreme lead leader's recent tweet in which he cites nine ways and reasons israel should be destroyed. >> netanyahu is right to draw attention to that threat. but for somewhat different reasons than he implies. now, let me be clear, iran's supreme leader is radical anti-western whose twitter feed is filled with hate and hostilities and means israel only harm but he's also a canny politician that survived in the political system. what's the mental he's sending. the destruction of israel he does so by means of a war. quote, we recommend neither a classical war by the army of muslim countries nor to throw migrated jews at sea, unquote. let's throw aside the strange line about not throwing jews at sea, the main quote but iran's best known dissident who was jailed for criticizing. he argues no war against israel certainly not by iran. what does he advocate? a quote, public referendum in which muslims, christians and jews living in the area under israeli jurisdiction would decide on the fate of their government and regime. h

. >> if i had to choose, i would retweet something that relates to iran and that's the supreme leader's ayatollah co-haney's recent tweet in which he cites nine ways and reasons that israel should be destroyed. >> netanyahu is right to draw attention to that threat. but for somewhat different reasons than he implies. now, let me be clear, iran's supreme leader is radical anti-western whose twitter feed is filled with hate and hostility and means israel only harm. but he is also a canny politician who has survived and thrived in iran's complex political system. so what is the message he is sending? khomeini rejects destruction of israel but not by means of a war. quote, we recommend neither a classical war by the army of muslim countries nor to throw migrated jews at sea, unquote. let's throw aside the strange line about not throwing jews at sea, the main quote is by iran's best-known dissident who was jailed for criticizing khomeini. he argues that the supreme leader has been consistent in his opinion for years, no war against israel, certainly not by iran. what does he advocate? a, "public and organized referendum in w

grabs attention yesterday, denny's tweeted out this, a 25.4 millimeter thick pancake saying our thickest pancake yet. it went viral picking up more than 2500 retweets and favorites in an hour. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton may address her e-mail controversy as easy -- early as today. >>> yes, they worry if she goes too long without speaking she could look guilty. she had a private e-mail and only a private e-mail to conduct business while secretary of state. but, the bigger questions are these three, one, why did she do that if she was assigned a standard state department e-mail to use. two, the server than ran it was apparently in her house, although that is not for sure, how secure was it? and three, clinton says she turned over most, but not all e-mails. as we wait for those answers, let's get to the rest of the news before the bell. good morning, landon. >>> stocks are rebounding after friday's selloff. investors shrugging off their fears. there is just one minimal piece of economic data today. wholesale trades are riding 138 points. the nasdaq up to 4942. >> thank you, marisa meyers didn't need it, but she is getting more pressure to

tweeted a prom invitation to eagles linebacker. who he responded challenging her back to 10,000 retweets she wasn't even expecting this. >> i alreadytalked to the school board, but would you like to go to prom with me? >> and they are both joining us post prom proposal. hannah, how did you get this idea? >> i got the idea from twitter. i saw a bunch of other kids do it. not football players, but other people and i decided since i'm an eagles fan i should ask an eagle. >> you went toon a game and you saw him you said he's single maybe he'll say yes. >> she direct messages you. >> yeah. >> what did you do? >> she messages tmesis on instagram. i said 2,000 is low for me. you get 10,000 and you've got yourself a deal. 10,000 retweets on twitter she has a deal. she ends up getting roughly 15,000 in three and a half hours. >> you thought -- you said get to 10,000 in how long? >> a week. i figured i'd come back from hong kong and i'd be like thanks for playing. >> when you told your friends, they said there was no way it was going. >> i didn't tell them they saw it on twitter. i told my mom and she said it's not going to happen. >> becaus

. >> christina greer, david axelrod tweeted when the letter came out, just the question is this unprecedented? i didn't know the answer to that, so i just retweeted david's question, is it unprecedented? and in the day that we've had to look at this, no one has been able to find a precedent that fits this kind of communication. >> right, i've looked all day. i think what's really interesting with this particular president is egregious acts by republicans consistently undermine him by calling him nonpatriotic. this is the definition of not being a patriot. you're putting the american public in danger by threatening the progress that could be made with another nuclear power. so their desire to undermine barack obama these last two years do a real disservice, not just to the democratic party, but to the american people as a whole. the fact that 47 senators, this is, you know, this is the highest body in congress. this is a privilege to be able to serve. the fact that they all signed on, 47 people is a lot of people to jump on a bandwagon to essentially undermine the commander in chief. we've never seen behavior like this, ever. even when george bush

retweet had you already. you are only one of the five that tweeted this morning. >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> so, we haveext, from frank for, we have... >> somebody help in the control room there, please. >> hi, akeem, welcome to the show. >> good morning, how are you. >> step down you have 15 seconds to sell yourself. >> i'm god bearing, i'm a family man, very intelligent, charismatic and i can benches from about 465. >> 465. >> wow. >> wow. >> wow. >> you can bench press the other three guys. >> easily. >> thank you, akeem. >> good to have you here. >> thank you. >> third hopeful is carlos, from north philadelphia but said called me andy, andy rendon. >> strike a pose blue steel. >> good morning, good morning, good morning. well, what else can i say, i think anybody who knows what sexy is instant how you make the other person feel. i think i'm the the sexiest person in this building right now. >> now, i have to ask why andy. >> i have always, andre is my middle name. i have been called andy my whole life. carlos is not something i'm very used to. >> have you ever been called randy andy. >> no, not the

bill maher the other day, someone tweeted to me that he wants to buy me a plane ticket to syria so he can enjoy watching me be beheaded. so my response was to retweet it. i think that's the only way to answer these people and exposure for who they are. >> question. >> former american foundation young leader. i have more of a comment which is that, with the freedom of speech comes i believe responsibility, especially for newspapers and media organizations. and while we discuss whether or not something should or should not be published, newspapers and media organizations should have a policy, some principles, that at the end of the day they're producing a pure rated product -- curated product that's supposed to be a service to the public. whether you publish a beledding or repeat a racial epithet those are questions of what best serves your public and your audience. and over time, because we do live in this digital age everybody can publish but it now becomes incumbent on the consumer to decide what best serves his or her purposes. i did have a question. i'll just throw it back to the journalists. what are your editorial policies around publishing th

vdot tweeting out some suggestions for those of you who have kids who may be traveling for spring break, ways to get to the airport a little safer. find that on my twitter. i just retweeted it. live in reston. back to you. >> spring break on a lot of mind right now. thank you, david. >> snow emergency still in effect in the district right now now. for drivers it means you cannot park along snow emergency routes. that includes many main roads in the city. if you do your car will be towed and it's expensive to get it back. the parking ban lets crews clear streets from curb to curb. you can find a map of the snow routes on nbcwashington.com. >>> another school closing to pass along to you right now. prince george's county schools have announced they will be closed tomorrow. but this storm is not stopping the capps. the washington caps are hosting the minnesota wild at the verizon center tonight. tights team's 13th annual salute to the military night. the puck drop ts at 7:00. we'll have more of the weather impact on local sports and some warm thoughts from the nats spring down in florida coming up in the sports report. >> something to look forward to. >> absolutely. >>> a f

tweet violence against police is unacceptable. our prayers are with the officers in missouri. path to justice is one all of us must travel together. >> that was retweeted about 1,000 times by 5:00 a.m. this morning, probably still going. people on both sides in terms of reaction. a lot of pushback on that tweet thinking it was a cheap move in reaction to two officers trying to protect people being shot there. then he resorts to this moral equivalency which no one really found funny. >> i think that what had been happening in ferguson was oppressive and objectionable and was worthy of protest, but there was no excuse for criminal acts. what we need to do is make sure that like minded good spirited people on both sides law enforcement have a tough job and people who understandably don't want to be stopped and harassed because of their race that we are able to work together to try to come up with some good answers. >> the president also said protesters in ferguson had very legitimate grievances. >> that's what the justice department put in their report. david clark last night, police chief over in milwaukee. here is what he had to say after hearing about

my word, that's why i tweeted if you have a different -- if you have a chance to positively impact somebody's life you don't make excuses, you make it happen. and when she retweetedshe did her job, she got the 10,000 retweets, i had to make it a very special moment for her. stuart: forgive me for pressing, did you have a public relations analyst say, you know what? this would be a really good idea. >> that's a great question. appreciate this, i didn't feel like i needed one. but after she get all the retweets and people started contacting me left and right, it was like i need help. [laughter] stuart: how many years have you been in the nfl? >> going on year four. stuart: you realize your career should be statistically just about over. >> yeah. as soon as you walk in, you're really on your way out but i'm trying to squeeze the most i can out of this. stuart: you see, i'm trying to make you a fortune, and i think i can do it for you. >> well, do it! stuart: a man who does a fine thing for a young high school student and then performs admirably on the fox news channel and the fox business network, you are the poster guy for what the nfl should be you're worth a fort

tweets. >> if i were in a more calm state of mind, i would have phrase differently. i feel disappointed with ultra aggressive play. instead, i wrote i think arkansas is playing dirty. >> reporter: judd responded by retweetingem. >> everyone needs to take responsibility for what they write and not allow the shaming culture to persist. by the way, i'm pressing charges. >> reporter: a sat down with the actress ahead of her premiere of her movie "inn surge answer." >> the significant part of my day today will be spent filings police reports at home about gender violence that is directed at me on social media. >> that many people? >> that many people. that explicit. >> reporter: judd's stance comes weeks after curt schilling targeted cyber bullies for targeting his daughter. then iggy azalea says her management will tweet for her. and lena dunn doesn't look at her twitter account. twitter's ceo addressed harassment in a memo last month saying he was embarrassed and admitting, we suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform. in a statement to nbc news twitter says we review five times as many reports and tripled the size of the team focusing on the abuse reports. ashley judd does not anticipate the case

the hashtags available and the washington institute, and the mayors and please feel free to tweet, and retweet, and feel free to contribute to the discussion and the honorable joel decaberet. >> thank you for the invitation, and the washington institute. i'm impressed by what you said, but you said that equally quall p fi odd to be honest on the subject to discuss the olden expert, but we need to learn much more myself and in europe, because we are at the beginning of the defining the policies, and there are several experts that we would love but i think that we know that yet. i am here to learn, and thank you for making it possible for me to meet the mayor of the house, and i have not met him so far, but it is probably one of the few experiences that is always mention eded as a successful experience that i am eager to the learn more. indeed, these foreign fighters and the foreign terror fighters are not new phenomenon, but it is a scale of huge scale in europe and therefore the challenge for us is equally huge. i don't have the lat esest figures until the are recently, i was mentioning someth