uri. >> uri. this is a name we talked about a number of times.i like it is, i don't think we have really seen the commercial construction rebound yet. we haven't seen that really take hold. we have seen the residential construction rebound. that's starting to happen. but commercial construction, the size of that dwarfs the residential market. and we really haven't seen it yet. i like the fundamentals of the business. i also like the way the business is structures. we often talk about margins and how do you get a lot of margins? when you have a business like uri, where you rent equipment, then the longer the people use the equipment, that just falls to the bottom line. you really don't have very much cost associated with every additional day. so, if they can really start to have greater and greater unitization, we'll see the stock be a lot higher. that's my favorite name in the space. commercial construction. >> deadly trade, which is a retail name? >> deadly trade. a retail name. we are long sears puts. we're on the puts because the short interes

lois and uris echo the calls of the government, al jazeera and journalists around the world and peterleagues were doing a legitimate job in a legitimate way and should be released now, andrew thomas with al jazeera. >> reporter: as we mentioned, two other al jazeera english employees are held without charge in egypt and are producers may home and baher saying they lied and also two colleagues from sister channels and camera man mohamed. thousands of people in indonesia have been forced to leave their homes due to flooding and heavy rain has been bashing parts of the country for a week and hardest hit with waters and deaths of more than one meter. what is the latest on that flooding in indonesia. >> more flooding to m co. we have seen a huge amount of rainfall over the last couple of days or so. 663 millimeters of rain here in the last 14 days. so that is why we have seen that extensive flooding coming in across the region. look at the satellite picture and you see how the cloud stretches across the similar area and all the way across the good part of jaba and more of that through the

well,ury is performing notwithstanding china. that kind of middle market is slightly more expensive. glad you mentioned it. i do not want to get in trouble. it is slightly more expensive and it seems to be where people want to shop. >> when you look at how you take advantage of the technology in 2014, do you go for the retailers that are online or do you go for technology that enables them to be online? they can go and transfer the knowledge for you. >> i think that branding is important for companies. they are a great band -- a great brand and, after a sticky start, they recovered. the offering is good and i had a look at it. it is nothing that special. >> is a strong brand. that is true. .t is not any different think that the brand, for retailers, is just as important. >> a little bit about cars, we're covering a trade show and luxury in the u.s.. we heard from lamborghini. they want to stick to the 2017 forecast to get an suv out. >> yeah. you're talking about a guy who collects 1970s and 1980s brand cars. gasoline below four

there were several fact uris, which i go through and "blinking red" that contributed to this nature juggernaut of that dvd, which rewrote one of's famous pieces of legislation in american history in four and a half months. there were a variety of things going on that summer. i want to take you back a little bit. i think you remember the story well. at the time the central intelligence agency had really taken a bd, they had been through grueling hearings before congress about who should be blamed for 9/11 and whether the cia have failed to watch the certain individuals and otherwise filled to share information with the fbi it might have foretold of our allowed the fbi to investigate the plot for 9/11. the cia, i think it is fair to say, was really lost for these particular hearing some of the 9/11 commission came on and had another set of hearings, which are really very, very taoist. the chairman of the 9/11 commission noted this staff statement about what happened, was really in a taping of agency's performance. this momentous change of the fence in 2004 was the 9/11 commission that south. the

lois and uris echo calls of the australia government and al jazeera and journalist around the world anditimate job in a legitimate way and should be released now, andrew thomas, al jazeera. >> reporter: two journalists from sister channels in prison in egypt for five months and al jazeera denies all allegations and continues to demand the immediate release of all five men. a nearly six month long university strike delaying grange weighs for tens of thousands of students -- grange weighs for -- graduation for students. >> reporter: walking off the job is needed to provide a sound education. >> combinations of dropping temperatures, wind and blowing snow making for a rough commute in many major cities and i'll have the forecast. >> taking a live look at what it's like to drive in chicago right now, treacherous on the roads as the snow continues to fall. ♪ welcome back to al jazeera america, just ahead the effect of nearly six-month long university strike is having on students. but first let's get a look at where the snow and the rain may fall across the country today and metrologist nicol

matt maily is joining us and fidelity investment's uri intemis. matt, tell us why you are not concerned. do you agree with what jim just said? >> yes. what brian said was so true. ridiculous they did know how many days were left to shop -- >> december 25th is what? >> it's absolutely crazy. but, however, the huge influx of online shopping, that is a problem. that is something that they obviously missed on. more understandable they missed that. the thing is, usually you would say boy, if ups is missing especially around the holidays, that's a major -- that means the shopping was way down and the consumers are retrenching but as they show from actual volume, it was better than expected. this seems to be more of a concern for ups than it is for the consumer overall. >> you're in good news and bad news, right? the good news is you're with us. thank you. the other good news is blended earnings growth, it's early, so far is about 7%. yay. the bad news is revenue growth, top line sales, actual cash, is only up about one half percent. are you concerned? >

construction, uri talking about price increases and utilization rate increases. that's good. jci had a great automotive experience division. margins doubled. they beat by 400 million on the top line. that stop stock is selling off. when these stocks sell off these are the ones you want to go to. and at the opposite side, mcdonald's, u.s. consumer continues to be really tough. so i think you kind of have to avoid that space. you can pick a little bit here and there but i think you want to be selective. >> tough space to avoid at 70% of the economy. >> i total tally agree. you don't want to see the consumer roll over. i think the stocks, some of these stocks are down 7%, 10%. tjx -- >> maybe some have already rolled over. is that a concern? >> i think it's too early to say. >> strip amazon and some of the e-mers names out of here and what have you got? >> it's too early to say. a lot of problems we've seen are weather related. sure, the consumer is being more choosey but they are buying autos. look at what johnson control just said. they are off the chart. and housing is still

i know what uri might infer from that. we have to find out. that is not what you asked. ask telling you that when i for an answer from a member of my staff, regardless of what they lied about, they are gone. i never had to get to the conduct. if you lie when i ask you a question, you are fired. that is it. if i had gotten to the underlying conduct, there was plenty conduct their to fire her too. question one was, do you know anything about this? did you have any involvement in it? the answer was no. the e-mail said the answer should have been yes. i need to go no further than that in terms of making a determination about her future employment. standpoint,mpliance is there a person who has the most information about why she did this? is that a management mistake? >> are you suggesting i should have kept her? listen, if i did that then you would have the legislature complaining about talking to someone who the chairman had said yesterday publicly he intends to call as a witness. i think a higher priority is for me not to interfere with what the legislature is doing. i am n

thus ury and opposition, meanwhile, has the power going into the conference, the power to say no and to refuse to show up. reportedly they all decided to come because they were threatened with a withdraw of western assistance. this doesn't go well for any concrete outcome and as the conference has gotten closer and closer to the bar for success designed by those that it has gotten lower and lower fuel yet in my own view of the history of the civil war has backed us up sadly. the outcomes are going to be driven by the military ground and not by the negotiators in europe. >> i would like to have been a fly on the wall between the conversation with president obama and president putin on the phone, but how do you think that went clacks >> i think it applies to syria you had a period of cream months where there has been a degree of cooperation with some success in terms of starting the process to give the chemical weapons out of syria and move them towards the elimination. but that cooperation on that one part should not disguise the fact that we are talking about the broad future of syri

robert in cooperstown, new york, uri with kitty kelley.booktv on c-span2. >> caller: in 1950 weight avocet the time a correspondent in chicago in life magazine sent me to los angeles to do a piece on the teco when the gangster who had recently gotten out of the neil allen federal penitentiary. i had known niki and i got it wrong with him. i spent a week with him. one night when we went out to dinner, and we walked in a restaurant and sinatra was sitting at a table. as mickey walks by, so not sure reached out like a funding cut the wanting a pat on the head. mickey walked by and snubbed him. when we sat down at the table, i asked mickey, why did you snob sinatra? he said he is not a man, he's not a man. what do you mean he is not man? i'm going to use an expletive deleted here. and mickey said well, johnny stomp and not go has been expletive deleted. sinatra said to me, i want you to get into stuff. i said me quite she was your wife. you are the man, you do it. he said he never did. i didn't know who stomp anonymous until a year or two late

there have been others who said, ooh, maybe you could actually merge it into uri, united rentals, which higher net operating loss. what the company chooses to do from here is unclear, and what mr. icahn may do from here is unclear. he's not returned calls for comment. there are a number of other activist shareholders we've noted who own stock in hertz, but not nearly the size of mr. icahn. when you see a stock move like this, as it has this week, you wonder whether, in fact, some may be selling. at least, i do not believe, and my trading sources do not indicate, mr. icahn has been a seller, but that's something else people need to keep in mind, given the large percentage push. >> the other holder is dan loeb, not really an activist. >> yeah, loeb, you have to remember he gets in and out of things very quickly. for example, herbalife. i don't know what his intention is. certainly management's attention has been brought to bear as a result of not just mr. icahn but other potential activists who are all sort of focused on the same idea of creating value around some sort of the split-off of

. >> price target up for uri. >> united rentals is on fire. this is a remarkable company.ors now. their construction equipment because people are still skittish about longer term. >> and goldman cuts hertz. >> goldman is viewing it as an earnings story. as an earnings basis it's not as attractive. >> what's on "mad money"? >> first, everyone's life sciences was one of the worst stocks in the market last year. they seemed to be making a comeback. let's find out why. nlink is a combination of cross text and i haven't talked about the stocks lately because they were doing very poorly and interest rates going higher. maybe this is the high level. >> see you tonight. >> thank you very much. i'll be signing books. >> thanks, jim. >>> let's get to simon and see what's coming up at 10:00. >>> good morning, we'll be live in beijing as tim cook does the deal to see iphones in china. >>> we'll also talk to jim o'neil on what he see for the year ahead and we'll also mark the fact that today is the first day that mary berra, mary bar ra, is at the helm of general motors. hour two of "s

when uri self publishing sponsor, you know of that and i think one thing that this shows for these people is a chance to lonely -- if they self published let's say everything is gone on line, so they never get to see these things. so, to things to show for these particular authors one is to meet the people behind the company to actually look at the basis and go right to live with these people, so that's number one. member to come to go ytoy with each other. they never get to say i tried this spigot was awful. i tried this and i had great success. so they can actually talk to each other. and that was also a goal for us was to be able to have these people that work and talk to each other so they could learn from each other. >> what is the future of the publishing industry from one that has known the traditional and self publishing world? >> as the number of books being traditionally published shrink, the right perfectly good books and maybe five years ago or ten years ago would have been picked up by a traditional publisher and still have the opportunity. so they are doing it on their own.