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ahead of the national small business week -- of will be traveling back to washington, d.c., this week and to celebrate national small business week, but you're also the largest. best of all, you do small business week in a unique way. you not only celebrate and honor our small businesses, but your help to provide them with the support they need to go on and be even more successful. for example, a number of you were there last night at flavors of sf, and over 1200 people there -- i love the people -- the idea of luring people in with food and helping to connect them with the resources to helping them succeed. tomorrow is the all day small business conference and training. a host of training to help a small businesses be more successful. san francisco really is unique, and i hope will lead the whole country in this. it is just a fabulous week. thank you again to everyone, and congratulations to our award winners. [applause] >> thank you, elizabeth. and thank you so much for recognizing san francisco. i now would like to welcome the president and ceo of the san francisco chamber of comme

streak on a week over week basis. here is a look at some of today's leading sectors. telecom, health care, and consumer discretionary all pushing higher so far this friday. coincidence or not, we're looking at this one development here. turns out the lead under writer in facebook, morgan stanley, also placed huge portions of facebook stock in it's own proprietary mutual funds. eight of the nine top funds that hold facebook are run by morgan stanley's arm. >> so was there pressure to buy this with investors now being hurt because of that. but we have chris wayland and jay witter. >> this is just a coincidence. no are no other firms, only the maggers at morgan standly decided to buy the stock, i believe that, don't you, maria? >> they had so much facebook hairs, i'm sure there was encouragement. we all know what firm and analyst and everybody thought of this company. we know just from where they priced the stock. >> jay, why aren't you concerned about this? >> i'm not concerned because if mutual funds affiliated with an

tonight, on "washington week." nice words on the stump -- >> is a choice between two fundamentally different visions about how we move this country forward. >> i believe we're on the verge of an extraordinary rebound in america's economy with good jobs and rising incomes again. gwen: down and dirty on the air. >> she passed away in 22 days. i do not think mitt romney realizes what he's done to anyone and furthermore i do not think mitt romney is --ed. >> under obama's plan you wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job. gwen: drilling down with mitt romney accusing the president of encouraging dependency. >> president obama in just the last few days has tried to reverse that accomplishment by taking the work requirement out of welfare. that is wrong. if i'm president, i'm put work back in welfare. gwen: and the president accusing romney of robbing the poor. >> it's romney hood. they have tried to sell us this trickle down tax cut fairy dust before and guess what, it does not work. gwen: the biggest

last week it was $3.93. drivers because they have to are dealing with the increase. >> we don't drive if you don't have to. >> you know, i don't do that much. i keep driving the same amount. >> in san jose and oakland prices are up about 25 cents from a week ago at $4.10 a gallon. >> 4:35. the london olympics are officially over. boy, but they went out in style. >> it was a great run all the way around. the closing ceremonies indeed last night bringing out some of the biggest names in british fashion and music. raj mathai, front and center for all of it. this was one big bash. >> reporter: it's finally over. what an incredible ride for millions of people here in london. i've been to six olympics and i can say with certainty far and beyond london outshined them all. what's happening today? the front page of the times of london, very aptly put, the road to rio. and that is next. a couple weeks ago we saw the opening ceremony. that was the ceremony. last night we saw a party. take a look. ♪ they brought them ou

real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. off and >>pam: a senior supervisor says he warned pg&e about the computer by a plan tracking system but he was told to keep using it anyway. his testimony came during a deposition from the hundreds of lawsuits stemming from the deadly 2010 pipeline blast. that explosion killed eight people and injured dozens of other destroying 38 homes. the testimony shows that pg&e new computer errors could mean death or injury to the people lived near the high finance yet they chose not to fix the problem. the testimony was included in the san mateo county court motion filed by attorneys for december not explosion victims. for investigators are looking into a house fire that broke out early this morning and martinez. this is home video of the fiery scenes. there were to the full inside the home at the time that they were able to escape without getting hurt. think to accuse a while to get the fire under control. faugh thing if happy birthday! thank you, nana send money to anyon

real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>vicki: politicians from both parties and butted heads on key issues sunday. lindsay gramm called on fellow republicans to revisit their views on taxes. the democrats stood strong on a claim that the gop presidential campaign has not paid its fair share of taxes. >> politicians talk about two key topics, taxes and jobs. when the gramm addressed senate majority leader accusations that mitt romney has not paid taxes in 10 years. >> what he did on the senate is so out of bounds. a lot >> harry reid is not what made this debate, mitt romney brought >> it is hard to get consensus among the other side of the aisle has the desire for consensus. for such songs such >> of the superman ride at six flags is running once again. the new ride has been closed since the two cars were stopped last sunday. a six flags spokesperson says engineers but the writer comprehensive tents it -- testing. they believe the issue was caused by insufficient power to launch system. tim lincecum showed flashes of his

real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>pam: get ready for traffic gridlock as soon as tomorrow, some very big events such as if the outside lansing concert will create some seriously packed streets, also, new color images from mars, with curiosity is revealing about the red planet, plus a dramatic plane crash caught on camera. hall >>pam: three major events will likely make the evening commute tomorrow more of a headache than normal for bay area drivers. if grant lodes is here will of the areas you vie want to avoid. >> well over a 100,000 people are poised to be descending to san francisco tomorrow night. as the 49ers host to the vikings' first preseason game. that is at 6:00. the giants are also home hosting the rockies. the outside land in music festival is at golden state park starting at noon going until 10:00 p.m.. that always creates a traffic nightmare. a lot of people try to go after work on friday. this is video from last year's festival. metallica, stevie wonder, neil you

real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>vicki: a court temporarily prevented a result up from creolizing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. is one of the most restrictive laws in the country regarding abortion rights. >> the fight over abortion rights to the center stage again this week. this time, in arizona where a judge temporarily prevented the state from implementing a law that would formalize abortions after 20 weeks. >> the resolution would be for the court to say is law. >> it is exactly the legislation enforcement opponents have been calling for. >> many of us know that is a compassionate thing to do. >> advocates on both sides say much of the increase has come in the last two years, something of great concern. >> abortion opponents say they have the momentum. 55 percent of reproductive woman live in one of the 26 states considered hostile to abortion rights. arizona is just the latest battlefield. a lot in mississippi requires that doctors at abortion clinics be certified of biggio and with privileges and lo

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real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life.ya: good morning and welcome back. we've just want to give you an update on the fires. hear the temperatures and clear lake. the high temperatures as " are going to make it difficult on the fire fighters. there 480 homes at an evacuation right now. this is in the area that they are calling the wye fire. and then a very close by is the locker fire. between the two they have burned 5,000 a. in firefighters have a tough job today as they try to get a handle on this fire. >>mark: mit romney announce paul rice and as his running mate for-- paul who write and-- paul ryan pit they sat down for their first joint interview. >> paul and i have talked about saving medicare. >> our point point is that we need preserve benefits. >> >>mark: they are campaigning as a team to day but then will the campaign separately the rest of the week. >>darya: we will be back with more in just a couple of minutes. [ female announcer ] now get high speed internet at home on our newly expanded advanced digital netwo

we spent time with her this week. the video, classic after her competition, after one of her three gold medals when she is hugging her family and so thrilled, all the hype can be put aside. these are the true molden moments for dana. three gold medals and two world records for this cal grad who still lives in the east bay and yes, she joined us a few minutes ago. >> when i kind of think about the team that we had and my own expectations of my performances, it was what i wanted to do, but then when you're there and you're competing and then you have a gold medal around your neck, even to get one is such a crazy experience and to think about now that i have three, i don't think it sunk in. >> you have one -- you've got all three of them here. >> why not. >> i need focus here. you have three medals. can you hold them up, tell us what the plan is? go back to the east bay and where are you going to put it? >> i don't even know yet. >> reporter: very nice. dana vollmer and her husband andy grand a stanford grad, a bay area

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the republican convention is a week away.a lot on paul ryan last week, that's how it works. but governor romney in the end will have to be front and center. only governor romney can beat president obama. paul ryan may help or hurt, but it's romney and obama. how do they do it next week? what's the challenge for governor romney? >> i think the challenge is he's got to reintroduce himself to the american public. you've seen all summer where the democrats again have been pretty expert at focusing on bain, focusing on the layoffs, they're taking away his main argument, which is that he's a job creator. i think that's a challenge there. you obviously see ann romney there. they'll try to humanize him with that lavish video about his bio. i think that's a challenge. really having a message that people can -- that resonates with people. >> i think humanizing is so important. my sense is that a lot of american people just don't feel like they know mitt romney that well. he's a little bit of a cipher. he doesn't want to talk about his

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idaho lost 20-year-old firefighter earlier this week. she was killed by a falling tree on it while trying to keep people like suzanne durant from losing so much that matters. >> my husband's ashes are on the top of this mountain, my two dogs are buried behind the garage. i mean, this is re, very important to me. >> reporter: mike taibbi, nbc news. >>> let's get a check of our local weather with meteorolog t meteorologist. >> raj: rob. >> good news, moisture has moved on. we're going to continue to see temperatures today running a little cooler. outside right now low clouds around the bridge. sun starting to break out from the clouds now. we'll see a chance, perhaps, of sierra tlormsz. temperatures outside right now, in the low to mid-50s with fog. low clouds pushed inland to pleasanton this morning. i saw that on my drive into work. you'll find that and then we have a pretty good sea breeze. southwest winds at 20 through fairfield. so, that is actually some good news for air quality. stirs up the ground level pollution and prevents us fr

what happens next week? a lot of people go on vacation this week leading up to labor day. >> we saw fairly slow volume. a couple down days this week might pick up a little bit. the buying was very light. we will see a lot of that next week but it will be telling regardless of the value and what the dow does next week it continues higher. a lot of people will come back into the market and come back on alongside. >> you folks are not going on vacation this week. the federal reserve board will be in jackson hole and we also have the republican convention taking place in florida and a lot of questions about what the fed is going to do. like a not the notion is out there that if there is a fed move, significant fed move to print more money is in a bid to get president obama reelected. we talked to richard fisher from the dallas fed about that. is there any substance to that charge? if so, might it affect the fed's actions in september? >> i don't think it will affect the fed's actions. by and large a unique situa

it was about flat week on week. if it had not been for apple, you take the rest of the 54 stocks on the s&p, you are talking about a group that would have been down almost 1.8%. i don't think that's so great. >> a big determinant in terms of what will push the nasdaq higher or lower is the direction of apple. what were the option activity? what does that point to? >> first of all the activity today was about a third higher than you would expect which is surprising that it is a friday in august. we saw 1.6 calls trade for every put. it still remains a little bit bullish. mike and dan both mentioned dell, which had a terrible week. dell, the biggest open interest is that the weekly $11 put. that was just a magazine nenet week. i think we'll talk about this a little more. am was interesting. because the stock is so expensive, people want to express their point of view a little more cheaply and they are doing that with options. mostly call options. >> dan, basically you pointed out dell and hewlett-packard, apple's, quo

real big deals this week and every week.nly at safeway. ingredients for life. >> gave rights activists celebrate his stay at chik- fil-a restaurants. the nationwide campaign falls on hills of remarks of the restaurants president saying he supports the bible's definition of a family unit which was generally interpreted as a stance against same-sex marriage. organizers called on couples to take part of kids stay and post pictures on line. >> it is good that everyone posted on facebook. >> gay and lesbian activists took to the streets to send their message loud and clear. >> you do not have to be gay to be out here. it is about sending out for what you believe in. them in california some people found another way to show their distaste. >> 16 customers made chik- fil-a appreciation day to show support of chik-fil-a. they said a sales record on wednesday but did not release the numbers. >> team coverage continues, charles crawford is live at the only chik-fil-a restaurant in the bay area in fairfield. looks fairly quiet. of >> th

real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. i only use french's french fried onions on my crunchy onion chicken because it's america's number one brand. just minutes to make, then bake! >>> police are searching right now for whoever is responsible for a deadly shooting at bed and breakfast in mount vernon. presidential candidates and running mates campaigning in key swing states. we hear from republican pair. >>> it's been a year since an earthquake rocked our community. crews are starting to fix cracks in the baltimore basilica. thank you for joining us. i'm megan pringle. >> i'm charley crowson. the weekend was perfect out there. >>> it was amazing yesterday. gorgeous weather will continue throughout the day today. make sure you get out and enjoy, let me show you what is going on right now in lorel, temperature around 67 degrees it can humidity at 8 8%. dew point 63. we are feeling comfortable as we go through time. we check out ocean city with the temperature coming in around 68 degrees,

in addition, the median length of unemployment 8-1/2 weeks in recession is up to 20 weeks now. the vice president says things are getting better. >> folks, we have a long way to go. the middle class is on its way back. on its way back. >> for the romney-ryan ticket, the numbers are a perfect fit. >> biden said the other day that the middle vas in the midst of a recovery. president obama said that the private sector is doing just fine. this is the obama imaginary recovery. >> some experts say the recovery is real but not as streak as the recession was deep. >> this is a battle to come back. we're not making enough ground to get the economy on all cylinders. >> new fox news poll says more people feel finances will improve if romney wins than if the president is re-elected. romney spent most of his time on that issue. >> this president's policies haven't worked. >> the fault may not lie with this president or number of those before him. a pew research study shows the middle class has been shrinking since 1971. and though no president since the great depression has been re-elected

last week it was $3.93. >> you don't go out driving if you don't have to. >> you know, i don't do that much. i keep driving the same amount. >> san jose and oakland prices are up about 25 cents from just a week ago. $4.10 a gallon. >> 6:05. this morning three people recovering right now from injuries after a boat ran into rocks on bethel island. a rescue helicopter picked up two of the boaters sunday evening and air lifted them to a hospital. so far no word on the extent of those injuries. >> a judge will decide if there is enough evidence to send two men to trial for allegedly helping a mother and father kill their daughter's pimp. alfonzo williams and tony wilson are pleading not guilty killing calvin sneed. investigators say williams provided the gun that gilton used to shoot snead in the head. san francisco police say gilton is related to the girl who was pimped out by snead. the girl's parents are also facing murder charges. >> this morning one person is dead, another injured after a shooting about a bl

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national farmers or bracket week and this weekend. the 2012 progress show is just a couple weeks away and once again we invite you to join us as we take our show on the road to prove iowa. along with lunch will be treated to a marketing roundtable featuring myself, our pal, and three veteran analysts. space is limited so make your reservation today. let us know who you are and how many tickets did it by sending an e-mail to mail back at us farm report.com or give us a call. we've been talking about you up on the show and set to get a good look at your tv to go to the middle of your field. but there is nothing more miserable on a hot summer day. >> what we are seeing is the failure of the old windshield survey. 100feet or 200 feet in the center of the field, it must have been scorching because what we thought were decent politician events did not turn out that way. i don't blame people for not wanting to go out there because i wouldn't either. let's go to mike for the weather. >> well we continue to kind of stupid jetstream dipping int

i agree with mark, they got off message this week but they have a bunch of weeks left and it will come back. >> agree spending time talking about the todd aikin was the wrong thing to do. >> let's remember, campaigns don't matter that much. they move a few percentage points. but the things that mat never campaigns are not the indignation of the day. so whatever he says, it's-- it's pobting to a real issue that people can relate to i think school loans probably matter, taxes matter, jobs and medicare matter. >> one thing t gave the democrats a chance to put the republicans in its house in play. in other words, in other words, you could make this a issue that goes from the president all the way through to every house race, who do you trust that's going protect, preserve and strengthen medicare. the guys who want to turn it into a voucher. and i just think that was a winner and i think they moved away from that. i think they had a great opportunity to define paul ryan and they won't have that chance again in the same way that they would. >> so speaking of comments that come up, the presid

the week after that. up 5. the week after that down 3 1/2. the week after that, up 4.eek after that down 3 1/2. week after that up 4 1/2. week after that down 2 1/2. week after that-- >> we get the point, it's been a rollercoaster. so what do you tell your clients, michael? >> well, at the end of the day, i think what a lot of clients still have in the back of their minds and professional investors alike, remember last year the market hit its high on july 28th, 29th. two weeks later, rick, weeks later the market dropped 18% in only two weeks and i think people have that in the back of their mind. what do we tell our clients? there's no substitute for a plan. try to take the emotion out of it. add up how much money you have in the stock market, multiply that dollar amount by a 18% drop. if you can't handle that number, then you got to lighten up on our equities in all likelihood. try to take the emotion out and keep it mathematical. >> rick: michael, good to talk to you, thanks so much. >> thank you, rick, thanks for having me. >> arthel: i feel like good news first or

real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life. >>vicki: a wildfire sparked this morning just west of los gatos and burned about 6 a.. about 200 firefighters fought the blaze with help from helicopters and air tankers. there were no injuries or structures threatened. the same cannot be said about wildfires in oklahoma. firefighters are dealing with a half-dozen wildfire's there. the evacuations are underway thick and a red flag warning remains in effect. authorities are now searching for an arson suspect. >> at least six fighters are blazing away to the state of oklahoma burning dozens of structures and is serving homes. ifs and firefighters are battling the flames which are fueled by dry weather and strong winds. dangerous fire conditions existed much of the state, residents scrambled to eventually bring belongings that me most. >> everything else can be replaced except my babies. these belong to my grandmother, and i brought my sister's wedding dress. >> in some areas the view of the blaze was blocked by smoke and road closures.

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with just one week left before the republican convention. claire, good morning. >> good morning, veronica. new hampshire is 1 of 13 hotly-contested states that will decide the 2012 election. that's why both sides are campaigning hard there, with just 11 weeks to go. it's reunion time. mitt romney and paul ryan pair up again in new hampshire this morning for a giant town hall meeting. this comes a full week before they were supposed to appear together again at the republican convention in tampa. >> at one point, thought they would split up in the week before the convention. but now, they're going to be together. the dynamic duo, out in new hampshire. >> both teams are battling it out in the granite state for its four electoral votes. obama won it handily in 2008. this time, it's romney's backyard. and adding ryan to today's appearance, may push the duo over the top. >> he has a relationship with governor romney that is a very positive one. and they're very good together. and i think people see that. >> meanwhile, both sides want to keep the m

by the end of the week, we are flirting with the upper 80 to near 90-degree mark by saturday. monika. >>> if you are beginning to get up and getting ready to send your kids out to school, things look great outside. no problems along i-95. into springfield and on to 35 to the 14th street bridge, this is a good indication of what it looks like across the potomac and the river crossings. they are all incident free and very light this machine morning. this time we are heading into the downtown area, 30 tomorrow mack and river crossings are fine. new york avenue, bw parkway, route 5, they all look fine. here at the american legion bridge looking good between 270, the bridge span, tyson's corn and all the way down into springfield. mike? >>> over the next two weeks or so, school is going to be back in session in dc, virginia and maryland. now it is time for parents to get their kids off the summer schedule and back into the school time group. joining me now is michelle, we are going to talk about the key things kids need to focus on. >> number one we know that stress mounts when the

today's news in the week's top stories from r.t. key battle in syria as the rebels in the regime fight for the country's second city while the u.n. looks for a new peace envoy after kofi annan steps down. facing seven years for stalling russia's main cathedral the trial of an anti putin punk band pussy riot divides the country. and protesters in bahrain and saudi arabia are set for mass rallies in the country is united in their call against discrimination by the ruling elite. are you watching the weekly here in r t a roundup of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin and it's now ten pm here in moscow and the heavy fighting raging in syria's second city of aleppo between government and rebel forces could prove decisive now in the eighteen month conflict the syrian army sending thousands more troops and artillery to the front line in damascus meantime the government says it's pushed rebels from their last stronghold but sporadic clashes are ongoing on saturday forty eight a rainy and pull pilgrims were kidnapped in the s

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so it was about flat week on week. if it had not been for apple, you take the rest of the 54 technology stocks in the s & p, on the group, it would be down almost 1.4%. i don't think that's so great. >> scott, a big determinant in terms of what will push the nasdaq 100, or the nasdaq higher or lower is the direction of apple what were the options activity? what does that point to you? >> first of all the activity today was about a third higher than you would expect which is surprising that it is a friday in august. we saw 1.6 calls trade in every put. dell had a terrible week. this is really instructive. the biggest open interest, at the weekly $11 put, a magnet for the stock when it got down to 11.1, a lot of people worried about what they would do. i do think, though, that apple, we will talk about it a little bit more. apple is really interesting. because the stock is so expensive, people want to express their point of view a little more cheaply and they are doing that with options. mostly call options. >> basically