we thank you for joining us from chicago. we appreciate it. >> and more ahead tonight on syria includinging the people who have tried to find safety outside the country' boarders. the growing refugee crisis coming up. >>> the british parliament that will be talked about for many years. . there's a western democracy. i think that's what i caught the people caught in this time warp. is the british parliament but there are ministers who were worried. i spoke to one of the conservative rebels. the tower is relative to all the countries around the world. it's balance toward former developing countries in asia, after cars, south america. it will be the event that show us if the british missed an opportunity to make the world a safer place. >> despite it's still issue. jackie roland reports from paris. >> t*b t president obama talks about the french president on friday. he had a great determination to react and they should not go unpunished. now the two presidents shed the intelligence and evidence that it's about in damascus and sa

jay gray joins us from chicago.went so much of this with barry bonds in the bay area, but never to this magnitude. >> it's amazing. and you would think that he would be distracted at the field. his first time at the plate he gets a single on base. he's still playing baseball. only a few plays have ever had to deal with. rodriguez was handed down the most severe suspension, 211 games, in the history of baseball. his words were strong and direct. in a written statement this afternoon, he said, quote, among learning the players were linked to the use of performance enhancing drugs we vigorously pursued evidence that linked the individuals to violations of our programs. in the biggest roundup of players accused of using p.e.d.s, 12 including nelson cruz and jhonny peralta have agreed to immediate 50-game suspensions. but the 13th name on the the list, alex rodriguez, the highest paid and one of the highest profiled players to ever play the game that is getting the most attention and will receive the most severe punishme

joining us from chicago nathaniel pendleton the girl's father. first of all very sorry for your loss, sir and appreciate you coming on this evening. >> thank you. >> bill: how do you you see the policing controversy? how do you see it? >> first, i want say stop and frisk against minorities is totally unfair. this isn't just happening black neighborhoods and hispanic neighborhoods. it's happening everywhere and perfect example of that is sandy hook, also. so, the thing is i think tougher gun laws are much better. is a much better deterrent than just making people, pulling, criminalizing people for what you think this guy may have -- you know. >> bill: look, i disagree with you and you know that and i appreciate you coming on here. it isn't all over the place. not my neighborhood in long island. you don't have drive by shootings and gangs there. two guys charged with killing your daughter were gangsters who were looking to kill other gangsters. this has been going on in certain neighborhoods. not on the gulf coast. not in the suburbs of chicago. it

holder, peter van singer, former evidence the drug enforcement administration who joins us from chicago you know, this is what the left is putting out there, that we are a punitive society and unjustly putting a lot of people in prison for too long for quote, unquote, nonviolent crimes. and you say? >> and i say that the attorney general is wrong on the facts. in fact, the 1979, when i was administrator of dea, 25.4 million people who are using illegal drug at least once a month. the last reported period, 2011, that number was 22.5 million. users of illegal drugs and our population, bill, went from 225 million to 305. instead of 11% of the. legs, using illegal drugs, we are down to about 8%. too many, but that's a 30% decrease. that's success. >> saying that because of a lot of education. enforcement and increased awareness. i think ronald reagan's parent group movement. clearly, certainty of punishment, which the attorney general in san francisco moved away from is also a factor. >> bill: okay, now, the crux of the matter is that holder and the left believe i bet you do, too. explain w

well, she is joining us from chicago and also with us from india and you posted a video commentary ash of you about this experience. you write an extraordinary account and you talk about really the extremes of your experience and most of it sounds like it was just horrific, that you were really abused. >> yes. yes, we were. a lot of the women on the trip experienced a lot of terrible things that i don't talk about in my essay. it was a day cod mus experience and there was a mixture of adventure that is will make my life much more special because i was in india and have touched my life for the good. >> why do you suppose you were such a target of harassment? >> as a foreigner everything is magnified. the problems are magnified with the gender dynamics. i happened to stick out as well because i have red hair, blue eyes, really white skin, so stick out in america. >> and what do you think was the toughest part about being there because it sounded like this was something that didn't happen once, twice, but almost like a daily occurrence for you. >> uh-huh. the toughest parts weren't the w

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phil lebeau has this story for us from chicago. >> reporter: tyler, we always say you build where you sell. job motors has a lot of facilities there and that's why there's a report today out of reuters in south korea saying general motors is considering, has not decided officially, but is considering lowering production substantially in korea. the problem here is that they are fighting rising production costs in south korea. this is no longer a low-cost country when you look at automobile manufacturing. when you look at annual, they build 20% of its vehicles and if you're using some place as an export base, you need to lower your costs and as you can see they build a lot because they sell a lot in north america and same with international including china. finally for gm, the important thing to focus on here is that asia is increasingly being driven by the chinese market, and they are putting more of an emphasis on china when it comes to vehicle development. it's a big change from the early 2002 to 2003 when they bought dae woo out of south korea. at that time, keep in mind, 10, 12 yea

nbc's katy turr joins us from chicago. do we know why this has been delayed another couple hours? >> reporter: we do not know that as of now. we believe it could come as early as 3:00 today. we're still waiting to find out why it got delayed. he is expected to play tonight against the chicago white sox. joe girardi said he's pencilled in. the suspension was supposed to be at noon. maybe it'll come around 3:00. sources tell nbc news it could go through the 2014 season, all on drug accusations related to the biogenesis deal. why can he play tonight if he's likely going to be suspended today? well, he's allowed to appeal that decision. he is allowed to play during the appeal process because this is only expected to be a drug policy violation. now, the suspension, if it goes through the 2014 season, if it's upheld and remains that way, a-rod will be 40 years old when he's allowed back. he's 38 right now. there's a lot of questions of concern about just how effective a 40-year-old can be when he comes back. it may not be a lifetime suspension, but it could end up being that way in term

it will be great to see what rick santelli has to tell us from chicago about all these rate moves. rickster? >> well, i guess the mojo of interest rates is mojoing pretty good. if you look at a 24-hour chart of tens, ever since our time zone was welcomed in this week, 8:30 eastern, it really has been slowly building, higher rates, selling off the securities. a two-day chart shows how once you pop through the top of that range from friday, it is gaining momentum. as a matter of fact, if you look at the two-year chart, boy, that little wedge we had of consolidation that ended about a week ago clearly showing breakout, and that's going to draw in more algorithmic trading. let's switch gears a bit. you know, a lot of stories about how the correlations are breaking down. boy, you could really see that today with the lqd etf. this is investment grade. we're at the lows of 2013. as a matter of fact, we're at the lows of 2012 because these are the lowest levels since december of 2011 and if you want to look at barclay's on the spread side versus the etf, you see the widening ensued last we

marcus joins us from chicago. we'll talk to him in just a minute.st, let's take a look at what's upcoming tonight. >> you didn't want a lot of bright colors but didn't seem to mind to throw up all over your bottle. >> i don't take it as throwup. >> you out of the gates said -- >> i said primary colors. >> so this is okay because it's pastels? >> i wouldn't say those are pastels. i feel like these primary colors scream mass market, too extreme. >> does that mean because it's not your idea? robin, i don't give a crap what it looks like. what i care about is it sells and that isn't selling. no company is about one person. my business would be better without me as the base because i get in the way, micromanage, control things. sound familiar? i want to remind you i'm in charge and during this process, your feedback isn't any more important than anybody else's. we're a team. we're going to function together. we are going to make a change. >> do you have a room we can go clean right now? >> yes, of course, we should do that. >> we're willing to go clean t

us just a couple of minutes from now. stay there, please. we're a minute from the opening bell. joining us from chicago is larry levin.tiny move in gold and oil despite what looks like an imminent american military intervention in syria. okay, it looks like that. couldn't confirm it, obviously, but looks like it. i would think i want to see more of a move in gold and oil. why not? >> i think it's a surprise we're not seeing more of a move if the u.s. government is getting involved in that situation and we're involved are already and certainly talking about it. the gold is above 1400 and i think it will stay above 1400. an awful lot of buyers there. most traders are confused and have been trying to buy into that market, trying to buy into gold and oil and having a little bit of success, but not great success. >> you see gold going to 1400 and staying there, staying above it? >> yeah, i do. an awful lot of buyers want it to be above that 1400 level and i think that's the reason it will stay above that level. stuart: larry levin, it's a pleasure. good morning to you. the opening bell is about to ring this monday morning

be action on the stock market and all the commodities markets, too, scott she shellady is with us from chicago, oil is up. stocks way down. is it all syria or what about the headline about the debt ceiling hit in mid october and the president will not negotiate. >> i say the government can nt -- can't get out of the way of itself. and with the middle east, no process or plan. this is what happens. you reap what you sew and they're starting to come to fruition and the american public is going to say the bumpy fourth quarter is due to the fact that we don't have a plan and we keep printing 85 billion a month and we don't know where we're going, we just don't know. stuart: this is not a short-term selloff, it's something ugly and stays with us. >> we've had the paper tigers and show me the bright shining city on the hill which is america. where is the growth. this year looks worse. stuart: i think you rung the bell with our viewers and that's a fact. scott, thank you very much indeed. we're off and running on this trading session and we're down 20 points. in a couple of seconds we're expecting do

jim, and jeff join us now from chicago to talk more about the fed taper. jim, you heard what about pissani said there that it will be a baby step kind of thing. maybe $10 billion. sure, i think it will go from 85 to 65. i think it will be with fairly strong rhetoric saying that if volatility starts to get out-of-control. they are back in. the feds on fuse too. they are actually not the greatest teller of future events as well. >> we are trying to figure out the fed's hokey pokey. he wants to see the rates head up further. the bazooka you are talking about, letting the market calm down which brings treasury yields down. major support here in the long run and it held in on monday. >> here is the problem that i have. they have been effective with talking down long-term rates when they have tried it. >> it has been five years now. >> here is the problem that i have too. when the chairmanship switches, it seems to he wants higher rates. >> one major thing here that folks in the market the velocity of this move to nearly 3% the fed is troubled with that and they

before we get there, come in, scott shellady, who joins us from chicago.t to know what do you make of this public jockeying to be the next fed chair. i tell you right up front, i don't like it. i don't want a politician, i don't want a nice guy, i want somebody who's going to handle the financial affairs of the country properly. how about you? >> i agree with you. it should be a policy decision, it shouldn't be a personality decision or a political decision. 100% policy and right now this is not good for the country. now, as we go forward, would i like it to be-- not because i like qe and the way we're going down the pipes right now, but listen, we can't afford to have a change to ruin anything else we've done so far. i think that mr. summers is a little loose lipped, but the inner circle wants him, but outer circle would rather have yellen. as a trader, it would be fun to have summers, but i think that yellen is the right choice. stuart: how about this, i like paul volcker back, i know low to mid 80's, but give me volcker every day of week. >> i've done d

the company joining us from chicago, larry levin. the dow continues to be in a funk.re down last week and now down again. the momentum to the down side. how bad can it get? >> i think it can get bad for a while and i think something is going to get in front of the down, and that's ben bernanke. i think he's going to tell the fed governors to quit talking about tapering and whether it's economically feasible. they're going to build support into the market and happen sooner than later and i think this market is a buy. >> at 12 points they have to ease up on tapering and since it's going to happen in september why not go ahead and get it done with? >> i would like them to have done it a long, long time agoment and also, the issue is that they've gotten themselves in this and they don't know how to get out of it. and once it starts happening, this market takes a big hit and maybe it's unavoidable, but they keep waiting and waiting and waiting. >> anytime the fed plays through wall street i think they're making a giant mistake. larry, the bell is ringing, thanks for your h

host: jack nicas joins from us chicago. he writes for the "wall street journal" on airline issues. n find his writing at wsj.com. art is joining us from kansas, republican line, go ahead. caller: yes, i have a couple of quick questions. one, is would a merger like this reduce the incidences that we occasionally hear where passengers sit for hours on end on a tarmac due to unknown reasons? and they're want allowed to deboard the plane. it's kind of like illegal confinement when they do that, in my opinion. my other question, esoteric, i guess, is the -- it deals with the t.s.a. one thing i've always wondered why this doesn't happen, is why we don't have cameras focused on the actions of t.s.a. people that they have no control of so people have some ritz are you bigse when they pull something they should not. that's my two questions. guest: on the first question regarding passengers being held on the tarmac, obviously this is an unfortunate incident with the airline industry. i don't think anyone wants this to happen. i, fortunately, have never had to experience this, but you hear hor

from baseball for using performance enhancing drugs? we are hours away from the ruling. reporter anita padilla is live in chicago where a rod landed.to see what happens. of course, we haven't seen him yet here in chicago. i didn't see him land. but you know that all eyes, at least all of the cameras are going to be on him tonight. he wasn't talking about this after saturday's game in the minors with the trenton thunder. he wasn't talking about the ordeal on saturday night after the game in the minors. but surely it has got to be on his mind. how could in not be? major league baseball expected to announce the suspension of alex rodriguez and others at noon today eastern time. it is anticipated that he will appeal that ruling. if he does, he could continue to play and delay the process until the end of the season. but it is anticipated he will be suspended through 2014. again, word is he will appeal. not even the yankees reportedly know how long his suspension is expected to be. however, team manager said he's got him in the line - up. >> he's in there. i'm going to play him. that's the latest situation. you'll probably hear about ev

in chicago a couple of years ago, or in detroit, a real conversation about how the cities will have to operate differently. >> alexander burns, joining us from the newsroom, thank you for joining us. republican line from chicago. good evening. >> good evening. i would like to make this statement. have made a great contribution to society, but i have learned that louis farrakhan is the answer to our problems. we need to simply turn to louis farrakhan and we will find truth. >> rahm emanuel is the current mayor of chicago. part of that generational change is mayor daley step down after a long legacy in chicago. there have been a lot of parallels between what it chicago is dealing with and what michael bloomberg has been able to do in new york. what is the difference? if bloomberg and his police commissioner would say their ability to use stop and frisk has been a major element in reducing crime, the democratic candidates and many of the critics would say that is not the case. there are more complicated factors that have led to the continued decline in crime. one of the interesting things about the poll about bloomberg's only a minority of vote

and says chris taylor's state representative for wisconsin seventy eighth district who joins us now from chicago chris welcome to the program thanks for having me thanks for joining us you're a democrat and you're at the alec conference how little to the f. out there that happen partly oh well you know i feel like i've been on another planet for the last two days that it was very kind of ironic that last night one of our big one of the big corporations sponsored event at the chicago planetarium so i thought truly i have been on a different planet but i got here because i haven't been in the legislature and with content that long but i can because we were seeing so many of these alec built in wisconsin and frankly you know being here i didn't even realize how many of the is the model bill that they come up with that corporate and the special interests come up where they give legislators marching orders they give them resources they give them money to go out go back to their home state and pass these very draconian pieces of legislation that frankly don't benefit most people in these states where

joining us now from chicago, is kelly at the door rick, an attorney with alliance defending freedom.ly, this is quite startling it does not surprise me that the media has gob silent on multiple instances of underlying abuse. i would say corruption. financial malfeasance. but the fact that they are not reporting it when we have so much taxpayer money on the line in planned parenthood is really journalistic malfeasance, take it away. >> well, you know, of course, laura, of course the media ♪ reporting this. they are silent because if they were doing their job, the american people would know the truth about what is going they were doing their the american people would know the truth about what's going on inside the closed walls of planned parenthood. they would know that planned parenthood is the nation's largest abortion provider and they're engaging in this abuse, this waste, this potential fraud of our hard earned tax dollars, and this is -- this is all going to an organization that exploits women and kills innocent little children every single day, and if the american people knew th

he joins us from the chicago cme .lso, jamie cards is with us, harris financial group managing partner. good to see. what do you think of lions gate? >> i think that it is better than disney. that's all say about that. david: that's not saying once. they have been doing so well. >> i'm trying to stay away from all that speculation. all i know is that decides whether traders believe to be a good movie, it is really not one member year -- david: i have to interrupt you because we go from hunger games to william shatner at priceline. >> another beat on both lines. and earnings per share of $9.70. expecting $9.306 on revenue of over one and a half billion. just to give you an idea, they are expecting that the gross domestic travel bookings will be up 5-10% in the third quarter. international gross travel bookings in the third -- fourth quarter of 32-39 percent, so expecting this growth will continue. liz: hotel and vacations for this current earnings release accounted for 48 percent of the total revenue. not bad, up 44%. t

and joining us from chicago is the chief of policy and communications in the cook county sheriff's officesault survivor, whose story i just shared, rosa pickett, thank you both for joining me. >> good morning, thank you. >> good morning. >> and cara, i want to start with you and ask why it was so important to the sheriff's office, the cook county sheriff's office, who really isn't -- doesn't have supervisory jurisdiction over robbi robbins, to do this work. >> well, it goes to the heart of getting justice for the survivors, and what we found in robbins was particularly troubling, because it wasn't so much that kits had not been tested or analyzed, they had been, but they had never been investigated. so it was a particularly unconscionable discovery we made, and have been working diligently since then to try to bring some justice in whatever form possible to these survivors. >> and cara, tell us a little bit about the robbins police department. because this is a very poor community, and the police department may not even be equipped to do the job that they should have done with these inves

chicago. so let's bring in bob nightingale from "usa today sports." he broke the story. he's on the phone with usight now from chicago. bob, the mlb suspended a-rod. based on what? >> they believe that he's been lying for years about taking performance-enhancing drugs in the bio genesis investigation. his name is all over the documents. it appears 16 times complete with scheduling and everything else. they believe they have a mountain of evidence to suspend him. >> name on documents. that if their view is enough that even though he never tested positive for the use of performance-enhancing drugs, right? >> correct. they have the director of that clinic cooperating with officials. so they have his testimony and records and from other people, as well, that confirm this to major league baseball, that you guys can suspend him. you don't have any prof. >> today's "the new york times" it was reported that his attorneys, a-rod's lawyers, meeting with the mlb. is it likely in the works or part of the discussions were if he is indue suspended and appeal he is able to play tomorrow in the yankees-white sox

. >> bill: joining us now from chicago is ms. davis. do you regret saying that, madam. >> well, i didn't say it, bill, i repeated what members of my community have said to me. and it is crucially important that people realize that that was not monique davis' statement. i was repeating what community members have said to me. >> bill: but you didn't say but that's crazy and they shouldn't even think this because that's not what's happening. >> well, do i have to say that. >> bill: yes, you do. because it came across that you -- here is why you have to say it for two reasons. number one you have credibility as an elected official, all right? and number two, people don't know where you stand. are you buying that? are you not buying that? are you refuting that? that is destructive to the discourse. i mean, chicagoens as you well know are not gunning down black children, you know that right? >> well, certainly they are not, bill, but based upon the history of nerns in this country and based upon the fact that 70% of the murders in chicago are

jeff flock joining us live from chicago with more. jeff, how does it look?nt to get carried away here. i don't think the chicago is the next detroit but i'll tell you there is a serious problem with pensions. the governor was battling in court with the state legislature. he cut off their pay until they come up with a fix for the pension problem. there is no question illinois is probably in the worst state among pensions but i don't think chicago is the worst city. here are the numbers. illinois, if you look at their pensions, are 43% funded. so less than half. they're about $82 billion short. louisiana, 56% funded. $18 billion short. california has a much bigger short fall. of course they have got more people. they're 77% funded. but among the worst cities? take a look at this. new research from the pew charitable trust which found that new york city on a per household basis, and this is a good way to measure this, how much is each household short when you come down to the pension short fall, actually $14,000 a household. makes new york city in the worst sha

this looks to stay with us right through the weekend. from chicago to minneapolis to new york.tch. boston will be nice, too, by the way. >> i saw leaves falling. >> that's probably a dead tree. >> they shouldn't be falling this early. >>> coming up at the top of the hour on morning joe we're tra tracking breaking news from egypt. a live report. >>> when we come back here -- the cooler. not sure if it was possible that san diego mayor bob philner may have hit bottom. a city business that is now banning him. we'll be right back. right now, 7 years of music is being streamed. a quarter million tweeters are tweeting. and 900 million dollars are changing hands online. that's why hp built a new kind of server. one that's 80% smaller. uses 89% less energy. and costs 77% less. it's called hp moonshot. and it's giving the internet the room it needs to grow. this&is gonna be big. hp moonshot. it's time to build a better enterprise. together. and experience the connectivity of the available lexus enform, including the es and rx. ♪ this is the pursuit of perfection. then you'll love lactos

from harvard who can't be with us today. dana goldman from the usc schaeffer center who also can't be with us today. anupam jena. on our panel, and the audience and thomas phillips from university of chicagoho could not be with us today. please join me in welcoming our panelists, our moderator and our discussants. [applause] >> thank you very much, henry. i'm joe and those at the american enterprise institute, ma and i have the honor of introducing the panel. before i say a little something about him i wanted to quote what i think is the single, clearest, sharpest statements about the state of health policy i've read in a long time. it's in the beginning of this report. this is the report we're talking about, best of both worlds, uniting universal coverage and personal choice in health care. this statement is, at its heart the current health policy approach first destabilize the insurance marketplace and then relies on a bright of stopgap measures to prevent its collapse. if that isn't the american way i don't know what is. in any event, it's great to have an alternative to other plants that have been floating around. it's sort of interesting can you use the term universal coverage. that

rick joins us from chicago. look who is here. steve liesman, it's funny is with us on set, rick.o you said no september. >> no september. i did a probability thing. but yeah, i dropped the odds. i have a somewhat different take again now. i have a -- >> i want to hear. rick, i said if it doesn't happen in september, all these guys are hoping that the numbers are bad between september and november. because augustine never said now. remember he said -- he never did say now. he never did. he never wanted to. right? >> i don't know. it seems like it's more difficult to decide when the fed's going to taper than as senator mccain said to figure out who is friendly in syria. i guess that's much easier. >> both are. >> joe, that was a great interview. we don't want to cover this but do you really think it's so easy, figure out who our friends are in the region? i think there are hundreds of years of history in that region that would dispute that notion. >> there is one group, richard engel met with, i guess the same group, a secular group, syrian freedom fighter but there are different f

thank you, eric lefkofsky for joining us from chicago. irst full day of ceo. so, eric, congratulationses on the stock, up 27%. and also on the new position. so now that you've been appointed permanent ceo how do you plan to change the company? >> appreciate it. look, we're very focused on the same things we've been focused on for the past few quarters, i've since i got here in late february. focused on the migration to mobile. we're fortunate we have over 50 million people who have downloaded our apps. 7.5 million this quarter. almost 50% of our business in north america is mobile. we're focused on migrating from being a daily deal e-mail business to being a true e-commerce marketplace where we now have over 54,000 deals live every day in north america. and we're focused on taking what's working in north america where we saw 23% growth in q1 accelerate to 30% in q2. and really give that to the rest of the world. we're by no means done. we've got a long way to go. >> now, you're alluding to the fact that though you have seen significant gro

phil lebeau joins us from chicago on this incredible story. >> i think what booem people are interestingwould they do that, two, would it actually work? here's his vision. essentially the hyper loop are two parallel tubes. you'd be riding in capsules. they can seat up to 2008 people. you would riding, essentially glideing on air cusions once you got up to speed. by the way the top speed one year in these capsules would be up to 800 miles per hour, that's if all the conditions are perfect and are you going on the straight away t. hyper loop g-force would be comparable to what are you on an airplane. here's him explaining what he feel what is the ride would be like. >> it would be initial acceleration, once you were at the speed, you wouldn't notice the speed, it would be extremely smooth like you were riding on a cushion of air really. >> so how would they propel these tubes or capsules down this tube? this is one drawing. you see the solar panels, one tube going one direction. the example that they used yesterday if releasing the hyper loop was a trip between l.a. and san francisco. they

joining us from chicago is jack abland. lee is here as well.e more concerned. we may have seen the gains at this point? >> i still like to think of myself amongst the race of bulls. i'm not in the 1,700 club. my year end target is 1675. >> you are close. >> we are talking small ditchses here. but i would agree with tom in the sense that something well into the 1,700s and higher is well within reach provided things go right. and a couple of things that have kept me cautious over the past couple of months have been that we have had very slow investment spending. may be getting better. i'd like to see more data, by business, china slowdown the spending, manufacturing, activity, export activity, profits at the s&p both this quarter, second quarter and past two years have been flat. that's going to mass by a strong growth of the financials. may be getting better. i think it's very dependent on china and business spending. then the other thing, which i think we need to keep in the back of our mind, i expect the fed to taper this autumn. i want to see

goods report came out this morning but there's one chicago company that is seeing a pop in growth with its big-ticket items. jeff flock joining us now live fromfirst of all, jeff, i have to ask, you put your hand through a bunch of popcorn. are they selling that popcorn you just put your hand in. >> i'm taking that popcorn home. taking that out and giving to the poor, as a matter of fact. this is the place where they invented the popcorn popping machine. this pops crackerjack. i have the great, great-grandson of the inventor of the first popcorn popping machine andrew creator is. you look at numbers, you're doing better than the numbers indicate. >> the economy had its ups and downs recently and struggling to recover but business for us is going quite well past few years. >> look at the positives in the durable goods report, david, if you would. piece of economy are more durable. if you look year-to-date, there was increase year-to-date in durable goods. cars were actually pretty good and back orders, you have a lot of back orders you still need to fill. >> right now, as i say it's a good problem to have, struggling to keep up with our busine

phil lebeau joins us from chicago with more. >> good morning, kelly.music there, and very appropriate for what we are talking about. many people are asking what is behind the hyperloop proposal? well, here are the drawings and what he believes that it is all about and he is proposing essentially building this between l.a. and san francisco and these would be capsules that flid on air kconditioning up to 800 miles per hour, and carry up to 28 passengers, and as they are going from l.a. to san francisco he says you put a couple of tubes along highway 5 in between and the immediate me one going one direction and one another, and the g-force is comparable to the airplane, but the question is would elon musk build the hyperloop, and he is so far saying no, but he is open to the possibility of building a prototype. >> it is low priority relative to the core mission of space x and tesla, but i think that, i think that it might help if i created a prototype and help get things going. >> the one area that a lot of people are saying that just does not make sense