not for each 18-wheeler?? >> for each -- >> how many 18-wheelers are out there on the road, sir?. >> 6.5 million, how much are we talking about? here's the thing. . >> yeah, well, wait a minute. yeah, go ahead and get the number. i think 65,000 times 6.5 million 18-wheelers -- now, this is over a ten-year period, okay? okay. let's say -- what is it, 65,000 times 6 would be roughly -- >> 65,000 times 6.5 million 18-wheel truckers.. >> okay. that would be 400 billion. we're paying $400 billion a year. this is over a ten-year period. >> but here's the thing, sir, if it's a great idea, it seems like someone ought to make money doing it, and we shouldn't need a $68,000 per truck tax credit to do it, should we? it ought to just pay for itself, and find a truck owner who would want to do that because it's such a great commercial alternative. >> well, the instrumental cost differs between a diesel 18-wheeler, and a natural gas 18-wheeler is $65,000. so you put them in it to get them in it, and now we're on the domestic fuel, and we have now cut out 2.5 million barrels a day. okay. and on

but foster wheeler gave us the road map. i like what they did. that was presided by kbr last week so you got the direction. they beat them out from the government base. troop expansion in afghanistan. so fluor korp, again, valuation makes a good point. it might be cheap at these levels. these stocks tend to scare me. i would take a wait and see approach. >> rick brought it up and i'm telling you, the volatile is where they are, if you're willing to jump into these stocks and you have great did i have denies, they've moved to the upside. it is cheap right now in relative terms. protect yourself. that way you can participate. >> time for the trade. add stocks hot once again. what they forecasted was a recovery in the second half for potash. and we hear from comary that we are hearing from name like mosaic, potash, they can no locker keep putting off the purchases of those fertilizers. eventually they'll to have come with their wallets in hand and start buying. >> absolutely. this is like baseball free agency when the yankee and the red sox are bidd

. >> mcnamara brings with him the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general wheeler and general wheelertary mcnamara lie about the ambiguitys surrounding the second attack. >> oliver: later that day. mcnamara briefed lbj on the hearings. >> i think the hearings were satisfactory, just near unanimous support. >> oliver: congress overwhelmingly passed the resolution on 7 aing. it gave lflt bj the power to take, quote, all necessary measures to repel any armed attacks against the forces of the united states and to predict-- prevent further aggression, basically a blank check and it would be cashed in vietnam. >> when america bombs north vietnam, it isn't understood that the north vietnamese communists are going to respond by increasing infiltration into south vietnam. but the viet cong were growing larger, at the same time they're stealing the countryside out from under the government in the slow seepage of guerilla war fwaer. >> oliver:? november of '64, lbj was elected president of the united states and in hanoi, lieutenant alvarez endured starvation at the hanoi hilton and managed to ha

anthony wheeler has stopped to park on park avenue. he fed the meter. >> i think two quarters. >> 50 cents at a parking meter. new concept for willard. >> i actually moved here from montana and we are not used to having to pay anything to park. >> so imagine his surprise to learn that on street parking could go up to $3 an hour. >> oh, wow! that's crazy. >> baltimore city parking authority proposed rate increase would affect most of downtown. including the inner harbour. metered parking would go from $1 an hour to $2 an hour initially. with the approval to go up to $3 an hour. in the mount vernon and fell's point area. >> that's totally ridiculous. >> rip off. if it is $3 an hour, park in a parking lot where you can pay, at least they watch the vehicle. >> parking officials say the rate hike is not about creating a new revenue source. >> it is about good parking management. >> it is about the problems created by cheap street parking. mainly people that continuously feed the short-term parking meters to park all day long. >> it can kill

i lived in detroit to when the first robotic plant came into the country and i've watched 18 wheeler's drive foreign vehicles off of woodward avenue. there's been a real cavalier attitude over the years in that industry that we know best and you know nothing. this is what will make and you will buy it. it's become very irritating to me. especially this past weekend where we came out with a new mile per gallon volt i think it was. that's right, the chevy volt. so here we are running around the country at some where around 20 mi. per gallon then all of a sudden over the weekend we go to 230 mi. per gallon. to me that is absolutely ubsurd. that is nonsense. i insulted. and i know what went on. my educated guess would be up there in the marketing departments they wanted a shock and awe marketing plan where you were gonna drop the bomb and get everybody excited. it my mind if you're marketer, you should've gone from 20 to 25 and 30 to 35 to 40. it's a lot more palatable. now i'm wondering what has gone on in the last 30 years in that industry. alright dave we have to leave it there. always

watch a tire flies off the wheel of an 18 wheeler and between the guy and the wail. rip as gun out of the hollister. >> i got sick afterwards. i pulled my car over and said a prayer for the protection. said a thank you prayer. >> watch this. it blows by at 60 miles an hour. if you watch he is standing in the pact of it he moves a second before it rolls by. lucky, lucky. >>> back to school times here. your kids. to get your shots. details on free clinics for you today and tomorrow. back with more in a moment. vitamins erals. this is another. new total blueberry pomegranate cereal gives you 100% of the daily value of 12 essential vitamins and miners. plus the bold new taste of blueberries and pomegranate with crispy whole grain flakes and crunchy oat clusters. total, a truly delicious way to get vitamins and minerals. how are you getting 100%? visit totalcereal.com and get a free sample. and checked for clogged pipes. if that's not it, we dig by the septic tank and check for leaks. if it's not there, we dig up the leech fields 'til we find the problem. average repair c

then what happens, a 200 pound tire flies off the 18 wheeler missing both the officer and driver. luck, right? that luck ran out fast for that driver. in fact, as soon as he walked into his place of work -- >> i walked in the door and they said your job has been removed. i was just in shock like, this is the worst day ever. >> can you believe that? he may be without a job now, but at least he still has his life. as for the officer, the tire just scraped his gun and oft he's okay. >>> a woman fell into foreclosure so she hit the kitchen. she he is now baking what she calls mortgage apple cakes. she figured she could start paying that house bill. here's where it gets sweet. a hilton hotel donated their kitchen to angela with where thee bake hundreds of cakes. angela gets half the proceeds. how about that? >>> we're trying to get this video in from new york city. excuse me for reading the wire here but we have a large water main break and 15 new york city buildings have been flodded out. we'll have the latest on this. >>> we're going to have this story one man runs off with a giant m

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foster wheeler having a tough go of it. hardest hit bank, worst performer of the financials, many down sharply, 4, 5, 6%. i also point out express script up 2% today, the lone gainer in the nasdaq 100. just to show you the three big horsemen here today, microsoft, apple and google, of those three, microsoft looks the best with a 1.5% decline here today, which is, well, a full percentage point better than the give back we are seeing for the nasdaq here today. now to brian schactman for the latest at the nynex. matt it is interesting we talk about the dollar impact, equity impact, now the storms to talk about, a little bit of a buzz going here on the floor, not really sure what it is it is not about the prices, we are down. one thing we haven't talked about is china. disappointing data over the weekend with. of course, the stock market tanked pretty solidly overnight. share a quote with you from mike fitzpatrick at ms global. oil record oil demand from china, where record imports were registered recently will not be enough to

remember, an average passenger vehicle use 600 gallons a year, 660, and 58-wheeler uses 20,000 gallons. so if we want to do something for climate change, natural gas is 26% better on climate change, and reduce foreign oil, this is where you go. and i think actually it's beginning to get traction. you're right, the nat gas act has been introduced in the senate and in the house, has 75 co-sponsors. senator reid just sent a letter out and made a public statement saying negotiation he'd like to have it as a stand-alone bill. i don't know if that will happen or not. it will obviously happen after the recess. we'll see. but a lot has changed in a year. >> but andrew, i have not yet heard the president, who talks about a lot of arcane issues, whether it be the credit card companies or the health care, i have never heard him utter two words together, which is "natural" and "gas." >> well, you know, i haven't heard the president speak about it as much. we've got leadership in congress now. i know boone has met with president obama on this subject and seemed to understand it. his secretary of en

. >> the car takes off and they follow close behind on a four wheeler controlling the speed and the directionit. >> is going to fly until takeoff. major air [ laughter ] >> school bus. >> that will be the short bus [ laughter ] >> what's not to like when you can destroy big things like that? a different type of cash for clunkers program. we never said it was news but it was fun to watch and our thanks to joe for that story. that's going to do it for us. back here tonight at 11:00 and don't forget you ncan log on anytime to wusa9.com. see you tonight. just as we promise 100% fresh produce... and rancher's reserve beef, guaranteed tender 100% of the time. at safeway, we now promise something new. something big. a commitment... to thousands of new everyday low prices. so you can get what you want. when you want it. at the price you need. today... and tomorrow. that's our promise. that's ingredients for life. safeway. >>> this is "entertainment tonight" in high definition. >>> oprah in tears. maria shriver carrying her mother's casket. >> mommy was our hero. >> what you haven't seen from eunice k

there are 3 million 18-wheelers in the united states moving our precious goods around the united states. if those went to natural gas, and of course that won't happen overnight, that would reduce 2.7 million barrels of oil that we import every day out of the 12 or 13 million that we import. >> every day. >> every day. >> how much has cash for clunkers reduced? is it like 2.7 million a year? >> yeah, it pales in comparison. remember, an average passenger vehicle use 600 gallons a year, 660, and an 18-wheeler uses 20,000 gallons. so if we want to do something for climate change, natural gas is 26% better on climate change, and reduce foreign oil, this is where you go. and i think actually it's beginning to get traction. you're right, the nat gas act has been introduced in the senate and in the house, has 75 co-sponsors. senator reid just sent a letter out and made a public statement saying negotiation he'd like to have it as a stand-alone bill. i don't know if that will happen or not. it will obviously happen after the recess. we'll see. but a lot has changed in a year. >> but andrew, i h

. >> the 18 wheeler, trucks, garages, houses. pans, all of that, the bathroom mirrors.they think that it mite help them clean all the stained ties. center and that is out there. >>> that is the size. >>> coming up there, boarding up and stocking up in florida, racing for them. plus, they are determining the forecast of what they will get around here. so keep it here, lix. 3f?f?f?f cf uryonk erur if qual ies to be recycled, you can get a $3500 or $4500 government rebate. qnd a just announced! if you qualify for the clunker rebate, u somay al qualify for 0% apr for 72 my ths. that means you can buy this adsierlvo flferon-tor $228 a month after a $3500 government rebate and ndoo aymeme.nt go to chevy.com for details. >>> welcome back. a judge could rule as early as tomorrow on whether convicted pan an flight, 103 bomber. if he should be freed. suppositively he's dying of cancer. he was convicted back in 1988 of the bombing that killed 270 people. and the u.s., they are a game set early release -- they are against that early release. they say that they are outraged by the i

out of nowhere, a 200-pound tire that flu off an 18-wheeler rolled by barely missing sergeant mathewson. >> first chance i got when i got off the scene, i pulled my patrol car over and said a prayer for the protection. said a little thank you prayer. >> davidson was standing right in the path of the tire, only moments before it flu by. >> 15,000 follow cans, trekkies are invading las vegas it is not star trek. but convention celebrating the show. william shatner and knee mold, the original characters, and actors from the latest movie are expected to aappear over the weekend. >> people love chocolate and people love bacon. but what about a combination of the two? forget cheese. it is chocolate covered bacon on a stick that is stealing the spotlight at this year's wisconsin state fair. with some fix mixed reactions. >> lost salty and sweet and this hits the spot. >> pass it around to friends and let them try it. >> that's hog wild. patrice harris, fox 45 news "late edition". . >> and still ahead on the "late edition". look at this. bargains as far as the eye can wee! happy days are her

but just three days ago at almost the same spot, a roadside bomb killed army specialist abraham wheeler and seriously wounded cbs radio reporter cami mccormack mick. do you know who did it? >> yes, sir, we do. we know exactly who did it. >> reporter: this lieutenant colonel told cbs news three men were arrested after a search brought in suspects with evidence on their hands. >> there were three individuals there that had explosives three times the normal limit or tolerance levels for t.n.t. >> we watched as a team of investigators boarded a helicopter carrying the physical evidence, including fingerprints, that could convict the three men of murdering an american soldier and wounded a u.s. citizen. except... one of the bombers had a cell phone with the number-to-the ministry of defense in kabul, which might explain why a letter arrived from the ministry saying they'd arrested the wrong men. >> we think he was tide to the minister of defense, someone in that office that began to put political pressure. >> reporter: the three are still in u.s. custody and could be put on trial. but u.s. o

this 18-wheeler folded like an accordion after the driver tried to drive through the tunnel, which was not damaged. the state transportation departed the driver blamed his gps for route oning him that direction. >> have you seen this giant blue bird, if you have a 9-year-old boy wants it back. >> really sad. >> someone stole the 3-foot, 200-pound big bird replica from his nest. and the green dale wisconsin landmark has been in a parade on top of a business and was most recently roosting in jacob's yard. because the artist that made it saw how much the 9-year-old liked it. reward is offered for information on where the foul has flown. megan gilliland began fox 45 news. >> as they prepare for the third preseason game saturday night against the panthers in charlotte. ravens dealing with injuries to a pair of key players. greg has a bad shoulder. misses this game and maybe the next one. and hurting is lj smith. pulled a hamstring on this play monday night. this op on top of a upper hamstring, and hip flexor and hernia surgery. probably miss the rest of the preseason and john harbaugh is ki

. >> can any three wheeler be a babe magnet?. >> there is no place to put one. >> good point. >> coming up next on dave. real estate mogul donald trump. britney spears doing the top 10. >> three words. vice president diddy. >> how some stores are using gps to locate you as you walk by. plus traffic and weather starting at 4:55 a.m. thanks for staying up with us. we are always on at wusa9.com. letterman up next. we will see you. captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com air life denver took to the air... their night-vision goggles keeping them safe on a perilous flight... and powering those precision goggles--- is the only battery air life trusts: duracell. trusted everywhere. look for new duracell ultra advanced now with even more power to protect. we're shopping for car insurance, and our friends said we should start here. good friends -- we compare our progressive direct rates, apples to apples, against other top companies, to help you get the best price. how do you do that? with a tou

. >>> this 18-wheeler folded like an accordion after authorities say the driver tried to drive through this tunnel. authorities say that the tractor-trailer was 13 1/2 feet tall. the tunnel was about 12 feet tall. it didn't fit. the driver tried to go through the tunnel with the truck. it got stuck. state transportation department says that the driver blamed his gps for routing him in that direction. >>> let's go to spain where people pelted one another with tomatoes yesterday. this is a tradition believed to have started with a food fight in 1945. the main attraction of the town's weeklong festivity, tens of thousands of people gathered in the narrow streets. tourists joined locals to get involved in this messy celebration. i would love to do that. >> does that look fun to you? >> i would love to have the seeds of the tomato in between my toes. >> gross. i thought it looked fun until you said that. >> you don't like that? >> think about your toes at 5:00 a.m.? >>> it used to be pickpockets. now they are putpockets. >> former criminals have their hands in people's pockets but it's for

the 18-wheeler folded like an accordion. but the tunnel was not seriously damaged. the driver blamed his gps for giving him bad directions. >>> you have probably seen bears at the zoo, but have you ever seen one at a skateboard park? that's where this bear ended up getting stuck in colorado. authorities say they got a call that the bear was trapped in the skateboard park's bowl. so they dropped a ladder down, of course. and the bear eventually climbed out. we'll be right back. >>> now abc 2 news at 5:30. >> the rk

as the driver pulls the tire off the retaining wheel, a 200-pound wheel that broke free on an 18-wheeleres by. sergeant davidson is standing in the path and only moves second before it speeds by. somehow the tire only scuffed up the sergeant's weapon and ripped his holster. >> got a little sick to my stomach immediately afterwards. and the first chance i got when i got off the scene, i pulled my patrol car over and said a little prayer for the protection. >> wow, sergeant davidson is okay, and he is still on the job. >>> and a waterspout that is rarely seen in alaska. dorothy ivanoff had just taken off in a small plane when the pilot spotted the funnel cloud. she grabbed her camera and captured the waterspout. waterspouts are more common in warmer climates, but sightings in alaska pretty unusual. >>> new jobs for gm. it's been a long time since we've been able to say that the latest on what this means for workers at the allison transmission plant. abc 2 news at 5:30 is just minutes away.

she is licensed to drive an 18-wheeler. licensed to drive a motorcycle. and she soloed in an airplane before she got her driver's license and is a certified child safety seat installer. and a t riathlete. i rode my bike a couple blocks. she has three kids. she is a noted cook. mean -- she really has to figure out what to do with her spare time. >> cool, cool lady. >> she knows how to multitask. very good. >>> police are trying to figure out if a series of late-night shootings in the district are related. seven people were shot in a nine-hour span last night. a man was found shot to death on gainesville street southeast around 6:00. two other men were shot just before 11:00 on birney place soutast. another man on stanton road southeast. two more men wounded atso 2:0 i the morning. ftju aster 3:00 a man was found otn w o st aeetr northwest. at least two victims are in critical condition. the rest expected to recover. >>> drivers, beware. do not leave that gps or the suction cup attachment on your dashboard.ee police in montgomery county noticed a bump in bu

as the tire is pulled off the wall, a wheel brakes free of an 18-wheeler and flies by.educing this? the sergeant said he did not know what hidden. -- did you see this? the truck driver never stopped. >> that is unbelievable. >> now i saw it. >> just one more foot. >> easily. it goes bouncing down the road. >> look at that. >> i hope they find this trucker. >> he might not have known what happened. >> and then this is another amazing story. a north carolina man poked this record-breaking 1062-pound blue marlin. where is it? >> it is the big fish. >> it is a humongous! it is the white marlin opened in ocean city. this catch exceeds the previous record by more than 100 pounds. it took more than three hours to real in this fish. >> that is something, it is in that? >> huge. >> that is a big fish. the pelican has never been thought about as a pretty song bird. this is amazing. somebody dropped a cell phone at the pelican in closure at the zoo. there were tossing it around like a beach ball. then one of them swallowed the cell phone. there is no mistaking samsung for salmon.

flat tire off the wall, the officer put his hand on the rail, a 200 pound wheel broke free of an 18 wheeler and flew by. the officers that somehow the tire only scuffed his gun in erectus grew out of his holster. -- and ripped a screw up his holster. the driverev n stopp. president clinton and im uohng il il talked abouteacl apon weapons. they say it does not change american policy toward north korea. >> they have the power to change the relationship. they have the power to come back to the set o agreements that they entered into to denuclearize the korean peninsula. >> robert gibbs says president obama will talk at length with president clinton about what he sought in north korea. -- he saw in north korea. >>> the woman captured video of a waterspout. she spotted the final period waterspouts -- she spotted the water spout in flight. >>> there have been some really warm days in the 70's. and >> are we going to get someone days, too? >> we're talking mid 90's by sunday and monday. get ready for that. you can see this from the live picture of the rooftop camera. we do not expect a rain. we wi

that is going to come not from cars the t wer originally projected, but now 's going to have 18 wheelers on it also. >> we're exchanging a thousand trees in back of our house by putting up 2,000 trees in a forest that doesn't need trees. that's what they'redoing. they're just playing a game with the regulations. >> you can't push a interstate through a special protection area with the healthiest streams in the d.c. area and claim somehow you're protecting the environment. >> reporter: but some people attending the open house, who also live close to the ipc, are happy the road is under construction. >> this is not a fun thing in rush hour. you look at the big cheney road or muncaster mill road, it's miserable. >> and the toll they're planning to impose, i'll save gas and use its money to pay the tolland i don't think the environment is being affected at all, or minimally. >> reporter: it's scheduled to open just over a year from now. john henrehan, fox 5 news. >>> well justice department has announced it will investigate interrogation tactics used during the bug administration. >> it coul

foster wheeler is a name you want to keep your eye on.trading in the low to mid 20s. >> if you have no money and sitting on the sidelines, now is a good time to buy. >> it's ready for a break out and more upside to come and not just because of the earnings, but when you look down the road, bolts are very, very cheap, you have to like the names going forward. >> do you buy or sell? patty? >> this is like a party at jonestown, but i'm not drinking the kool aid. i'm a seller. >> i guess that would be a no. >> if you fight, they will carry you out on your own. you have to buy t. >> brian? >> i'm a buyer. i can't miss this hal rally either. >> pit boss? >> the protection is there and the sellers are running out of fuel and can't push it down. look at the reaction today. i think you have to be a buyer. >> that does it for us on tonight's fast money. we have analysis all over the faction. we talk about stocks that may be overbought. solid earnings for discovery networks and "power lunch" breaks down the results and tells you what is ahead. see w

that second tire came off an 18 wheeler. it grazed his gun holster, but he was fine. that is lucky.we go to the best. best effort, worst results. makes a nice one handed pick up on the slow roller and throws it to home plate. he missed first base by a whole base. that is not good. but still a nice pick up. the throw not so much. worst haircuts. those given by the cowboy veterans to the rookies. that one looked like my accountant and they call that the shark fin, because of that thing in the front looks like a dorsal. worst motorcycle jump. these two guys who land on each other at the x-games. that is blake warton. i don't know. i'm not hip on the x-games. are you supposed to do that? it is extreme. i think you'll agree, but probably not what they meant to do. most unfortunate foul ball attempt. he goes after it and he lands on his melon and apparently it was a big hit on the melon because as you can see, the bloody forehead and there's albert trying to take care of them. he was okay. finally, worst in sports. nascar and horse racing through the cars. >> wow. >> that's on a highway i

take a look. 18-wheeler is tangled in power lines. dunkin donuts truck took down the lines at churchill and dolley madison boulevard late this morning. none was hurt. >>> are you at risk when you ride the rails? metro riders claim the doors of a train suddenly opened as it moved down the tracks at the height of the rush hour. be claudia coffey has been looking into the story. >> reporter: there is not a lot of answers. metro investigates, the train in question has been removed and it's undergoing a complete inspection. at 5:07 p.m. during the height of the rush hour, metro received a complaint that a door opened on an orange line train heading to vienna while it was still operating between federal central southwest. the train came to a stop and was removed from service immediately. >> at this time we are doing a complete and thorough investigation of the entire train set checking all the doors to see what in or anything unusual may have occurred with that train while it was operating. >> reporter: metro says when the incident occurred

foster wheeler, just keep moving to the up side. they're still too cheap. >> the pit being digging up a coal trade that was about to get red-hot. up 10% after ford announced a quarterly dividend. >> at the end of the day, they make a great product. if you know anyone that has an apple computer, they're never switching. >> the governor proving that when it comes to tech trade there's an app for that. shares of apple continuing their climb, up 8% after earnings. >> ge is a story where people are fundamentally on board, i do think fundamentally there's a trade there that's probably underperformed. >> the ambassador getting on boor with ge's rebound. sending shares up 15%, leaving us with two words that sum it up -- "fast money." >>> all right. so we showered them with praise and time to take them to the woodshed for bad calls. we begin with the governor, he said last month stay clear of an airline stock. >> i don't like airlines. even if the ceo told us it could be tough going forward. i'm not going to be buying. >> southwest airlines

but look at the real disasters in here and discretionary, wynn down 5.5, foster wheeler, industrial, a construction company, down about 5%. express scripts, the loan gainer in the nasdaq 100, up about.5% today. electronic arts also struggling with a 6% give back. timely little biosantee, the company coming out with what they call 100 protection from the swine flu that stock is up 15% on the news. dell's down 2. they are launching their own version of the handset, smart phone called the minii three in china with the china mobile. brian schactman with the china market. >> down sharply at the start, drifting ever since, down about five bucks in two trading sessions here with nynex. last week, crude that $65 level seems to get a lot of support, bounce, every time we get close to 65, bounce back up. really quick, people asking about the storms. the bottom line is that claudette has weaken and bill, hurricane bill, the first hurricane of the season, isn't trending toward any trouble spots for oil and gas. that's why i want to look at nat gas, seven in a row down days, looks like it is goin

. >> 18 wheeler, truck, garage. >>> house, pans, bathroom mirrors. >> scientists envision putting thecoating on pans so when you are done cooking you can rinse them off and oil would slide right down the drain, no scrubbing required. >> reporter: youngblood says it could be huge for the environment if we cut the amount of detergent and solvents we use. >> it has to go somewhere, it goes down the drain. >> reporter: more work and the coating may help me to clean my stained ties. >> i drop everything on my tie, so -- in washington, bruce leshan, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> the only trouble with this, youngblood says it maybe a few years before he's ready an the first application maybe commercial and industrial. can i can see as we were talking electrasol and the others saying we won't let this happen. >> or make sure there are no long-term affects like the testify loan, we don't know what the long term complications would be. >> paper instead. >> biodegridable. warm to hot with a chance of thunderstorms, 91 today. yesterday we only made 91. i know i was going warmer but we have the clo

the tire came off of an 18-wheeler, he was helping a man only bridge. the tire came off an but >> i'm always afraid of katie couric has a preview of what's coming up coming off trucks. >>> tonight on the cbs evening news. of what's coming up tonight on the cbs evening news. >> we'll have information on how thanks, katie. this announcer calls look at tonight's closing numbers from wall street, we'll be when he's never seen a came. >>> here's closing street. we'll be right back. after some early rain... things have cleared up nicely.. a live look outside right now... what's in store for the rest of the evening? eyewitness news is live with first warning weather complete coverage. bob turk is tracking the five day forecast... along with what you can expect if you are heading down the ocean. bob... some sad news from hollywood tonight. popular writer and director john hughes has died at the age of 59. hughes was >>> popular films aimed at the teen and pr john hughes died at "home alone", "the breakfast club" and "ferris 59. aimed at day off." a family spoke

what did they drive a couple of 18-wheelers back there and fill them up with a million dollars worthe some heist. let's talk about retail here and sears, another big box kind old school retailer just announcing their earnings. that will help drive the market today. sears doing better the earning per share line here. 17 cents the loss. sears and can't mart are under the same roof now. sears holding company. we are game stop later on in the day. that will drive the markets. up 61 points yesterday and that is because of oil and energy names. early in the day, we got oil inventories and they came in a lot less than we thought they were going to be. that trove the price of oil up. exxon, chevron went along with it and all other equity names followed suit. we went to a positive day at the close from a down day in the morning. >>> the irs is trying to crack down on the offshore accounts. chance of being successful here? should people be worried if they are holding these accounts? >> well, if you have offshore accounts, what is being recommended by a lot of accountants if you will out there

it's flier, foster wheeler, those names have been performing. those are the names i still look to, and when you look at a valuation level and the backlog of something like fluor, these guys are still growing, their proves are flowing, it's a great industry. >> it's not just about oil. we also lost copper today, and also lost the coal names as well. again, it is the sector rotationable from resource commodities names. >> i think there's two important points about oil to make. the first this was not a dollar-related move. this was not a currency move. >> however, that movement didn't quite get up to the neutral line. >> but didn't move anything like oil. the other thing i think to point out, how is china with their stock market buying this much crude? i'm bearish on oil because of china. the august move in tipping us off that the commodities play is overdone. >> the next trade, goldman, goldman, goldman, guy, goldman is in the news every today. on focus today, the s.e.c. looks into trading tips, meetings, meetings with some of their little closed

. >> guest: burton wheeler, a very progressive democrat. he was a new dealer, the first politician out of new york to back roosevelt for the presidency in 1931, so he had impeccable new deal credentialed. he ran on the progressive party ticket, and he was as reliable a new dealer as there was in the isn't that correct but he was much offended by what the considered a grab for power by the president, and an attempt to -- he felt sort of unbalance the government in unhealthy ways, so he led the opposition. >> host: what was the white house's action when they learned this important and new deal senator was going to break with them. >> host: -- >> guest: they were disgusted. >> host: one of the dramatic scenes in the vote before the crucial vote, the majority leader of the united states senator, a democrat, dies of a heart attack. >> guest: and the building is still standing. joseph robinson, democrat from arkansas, and he had really helped power the new deal. a lot of the new deal laws through the senate. and so he probably, with some misgivin

you have the guys following behind in the four wheeler.e controlling the steering as we get a bird's eye view. we spare no expense with the details, john. the organizers mooned the crowd to wrap it up. >> they were having too much fun there. >> kind of reminiscent of the guys in england who chase the wheel of cheese. >>> the takeaway of president obama's town hall? an entire civil meeting. in a minute, we'll tell you who got president obama to say this? >> i can't cover another 46 million people for free. you're right. i can't do that. and we're going to have to find money from somewhere. >>> president obama took his health care fight to the most conservative part of montana this afternoon, during his second town hall of the week. he took aim at the way insurance companies do business. >> you're held hostage at any given moment by health insurance companies that deny coverage or drop coverage or charge fees that people can't afford. at a time when they desperately need care. it's wrong. it's bankrupting families, it's bankrupting businesse

joining us now is someone with firsthand experience policing the same area of washington, d.c., rod wheeler, former homicide detective and fox news contributor. i know you want to jump in on this. please do. rod, we're listening to this and kind of laughing, but by the same token, you have to sit there and say, these officers, especially that cruiser, he was calling in while these two chatty caths were having a conversation about their personal life. it's shocking. it's not an isolated incident. have you ever experienced anything like this? >> absolutely. let me tell you, what you just heard on that tape is indicative of the imcompetence of several of the police dispatchers. chris baumann is the chairman of the fraternal order of police and he's been raising this issue for years about the imcompetencey of some of the dispatchers. let me share with you and the viewers the fact that that cruiser, 1105 was a one-man unit. that's a sergeant. he's out there by himself. so any time you hear a cruiser on the radio ask for a backup, you immediately send somebody to that. you treat that as a priorit

it's foster wheeler, shaw group, those names really have been performing, plus they have great exposure to infrastructure, the power grid buildout. when you look at a valuation level and look at the backlog of somebody like floor, $30 billion in backlog. they're still growing. a great industry. >> it's not just about oil. we lost copper today and lost the coal names as well, which is rather disappointed. again, it is the sector rotation away from research xlcommodity names. >> this was not a dollar related move. the dollar was unchanged on the day. >> however, net movement. the dollar didn't quite get up to the neutral line but it still climbed all day. >> but didn't move anything like oil. the other thing worth pointing out, how is china, with their stock market right now, buying this much crude? i'm bearish on oil because of china. the august move in china is tipping us off to the commodities play is overdone. >> the next trade, goldman, goldman, goldman. they're in the news every day. the s.e.c. looks into trading tips. meetings with some of the little closed groups. what do you thin

you know, she has a license to drive an 18-wheeler. she has a license to drive a motorcycle and she is a certified child safety seat installer. and a triathlete. did i mention sheoloed in an airplane before she got her driver's license? do you think she is qualified? >> i feel like i make a difference. i think the mission that we have is very important. and we effect people's lives. >> reporte meet debbie. the new chairman of the national transportation safety board. 39 years old, with the ntsb for five years. no stranger to the crash investigation business. >> we have concerns about why the train did not stop. >> reporter: she was at the woodley park metro crash in 2004. the arlington school bus accident in 2005. the maryland state chopper crash in 2008. and that terrible metro crash last june. we will not soon forget what happen order the red line that day. nine people killed. 70 people injured. debbie says her investigators go looking for facts buthee motivated by feeling. >> you see things there that are -- that remind you that the

garmin and whole foods and foster wheeler all in digits after posting strong earnings. other notables, i probably should have led with this. financials up for the fifth day, the nine month high, the second heaviest weighting in the s&p 500 sectors. they leaved frog from fifth place to second place and only behind tech stocks. financial's giant move there today and firing on all four cylinders. the financial sector made up of four key industries, all advancing today, talking about  insurers led by aig and banks led by anybody but pnc percentage-wise. apartment investors, very strong, 8% high e citigroup, my worth, 10% move with a one day volume record, 347 million shares of citigroup changed hands today. quite a thing it was. tomorrow, more earnings coming out. weekly jobless claims, retail sales expected down 5%. comcast, directtv, black stone, cnbc all reporting, and don't ignore these if you're following the global story, unilever, they're all over the diabetes stories and thompson reuters, a big canadian company worth watching. >> i love banks. that has been my mant

pollution that is going to come not from cars that were originally st'jected, going going to 18hae v wheelerss in t back of under arrest house by putting up 2,000 trees in the forest -- [ indiscernible ] that is what they doing, playing a game with the regulations and canes -- [ indiscernible ] the six-lane interstate through special precaution areas of the healthiest streams in the d.c. areas. then claim that you're protecting the environment. >> reporter: but, some people attending the open house who also lto the icc are happy the road is under construction. >> going east and west in montgomery county is not a fun thing during rush hour. you look at big cheney road or muncaster mill road or randolph. y that all miserable. >> and the toll that they're planning to impose and that will save gas and use money to pay the toll. i don't see the environment in fee beg be g affected negatively at all. or minimally. >> reporter: the first section of the intercounty connector is scheduled to open just over a year from now. john henrehan, fox 5 news. >>> four years later, what happened to areas devasta

had dan and efren made a left turn away from the creek and driven several miles up a washboard 4-wheelerswhen, if they'd gone the other way, the road up the hill could take them into st. elmo and to help in about 45 seconds? >> it's very close. >> maybe they don't have maps. maybe they don't know the area. here's the road and we'll go left instead of right. >> could be possible but i don't feel it is because they'd just been through st. elmo. >> and in fact, based on their story, they were by there that morning. so they had to know. >> reporter: and there was one more thing in they noticed that seemed to defy common sense. according to the men's story, dan and efren were fishing downstream when nancy fell. >> they're not looking to fish. they got the gear. >> according to ephran, he's fishing. >> reporter: but no one at the scene reported seeing fishing gear on the ground in this spot. the clevelands, however, told investigators that when they arrived they saw dan's suv was all neatly packed with fishing rods and tackle boxes in the back. >> so you have to believe what? that they had this

but you look at fluor, you look at foster wheeler, you look at the shaw group, all of these various names both infrastructure and energy plays, power grid, all of that. you got to like that if you believe anything about some of the numbers out of china. >> rick, would it surprise you in the next couple weeks to see china down 8% to 10% overnight? it wouldn't surprise me at all. what happens if that happens to our stock market, can't be good. what happens to the commodity market? can't be good. i think that days coming and i don't think people are talking about it f. >> i think you're right. >> the china tie-in, too, which we were talking about, oil. one reason i don't believe in oil is that the shippers have not been moving at all. tk, fro. these have been boring for weeks and weeks. i don't believe they are consuming it at the rate the market was previously. >> i totally think the difference here that we're talking about is when you look at china, we're not talking about market performance. we are talking about economy and china will grow a double digit going forward. forget the market p

a tire from an 18-wheeler came flying off and nearly creamed him.t ripped a screw out of his gun holster. that's how close it came. >>> we are watching rain. i don't think it will be a fun morning rush. >> look at the leading edge here of warm air trying to get from the south moving into the great lakes on the backside of high pressure building across the east coast. backside of the high getting winds out of the southwest. rainy times stretching toward chicago and northern illinois toward lower parts of wisconsin. also, up toward minneapolis following the first part of rain getting into the city right now. heavier rain waves are to the south and west that will move in within the next hour. it's going to be a tough morning commute for you. first part of the day by this afternoon more scattered in nature but the thunderstorms could be strong to severe. look at rain showers across iowa. one wave going through this morning. daytime heating and warm front in place and some cooler air aloft. watch for power house thunderstorms today. some of those could p

it reminds me of wheeler represented a small state in the senate but had a big role in the court-packinggram. guest: he very much did. the number of small states also affecting franklin roosevelt's thinking in how to go about this. one of the alternatives was to have a constitutional amendment. she was afraid that if it had been passed by congress that a few million dollars spent in a few small states could block any constitutional amendment. wheeler was the original compromise because the small states were afraid of the large states taking over everything. each state got two senators. in this case it made a big difference because a lot of the opposition to it came from the smallest. host: illinois comepaul? caller: -- illinois, paul? caller: our family, friends, relatives worst on slaveanti- rooselvelt. but in retrospect i think he was correct in trying to modernize the supreme court by expanding the commerce clause. you can hardly imagine a modern national economy if it had not been for the supreme court finally understanding that the federal government had a role in interstate commerc

their hero because after the war blacks would often went to the battle of national and say there wheeler our full rights of citizenship. there we proved that we can be complete soldiers of this nation. now, as for his religious beliefs, the evidence about them is scant but he is quoted occasionally has professing a profound christian conviction and he felt evidently that one could hardly going to battle in his view and be truly brave unless you somehow had confidence in your god. he said it was analogous to a soldier having confidence in his commander, now i think in a way there is something about the way in which thomas commanded that inspired all of his soldiers and officers around him always to stand firm. stevan was once common general stevens was once asked what kind of hold it thomas have over his men he could do this no matter how desperate the fighting was and steadman replied, quote quote no one would ever think of not being noble and courageous in thomas' presence. it was just made the a shame so by example, i think almost religious example he had that kind of power over his of

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. >>> the stimulus darling, foster wheeler, is up 11%. the construction conglomerate coming in with a blowout quarter, makes you wonder if it's even comparable. the revenues in line, but the margins are improving, and the company's backlog is still steady at over $4 billion, which is essentially four quarters worth of work. lastly, anybody hear me say keep your eye on orbitz? its up over 125% in the past month. they're profitable. >> matt, thank you very much. >>> stocks trading slightly lower this morning. alan gale senior, investment strategist, for ridgeworth capital management, and david sarby, loomis sales. >> good morning, mark. >> i will start with alan. what do you think, onward and upward? too far too fast? what? >> we started increasing or equity exposure in the asset allocation funds in march. we're happy we did that. we do think the economy is bottoming in here and making what i would call a slow turn into the wind. i think it's the bears who will have to, i would expect testing through earnings season, but overall i think the