whirlpool down more than 116% this year. i think the housing boom will not be hurt from reality nearly as much as it might be in theory. at the same time if the 2013 tax code more than doubles the taxes on dividends. i want to be there with my ropes, make them so i can secure myself and get them right back in. here's the bottom line. i don't want it to go over the fiscal. i'm a 46 in the adirondacks. the losses on the cliff won't impact the legislators until after the market climbs and unemployment skyrockets. it will be cause -- the cliff is going to close soon and you'll be up there with your home depot, sherwin-williams and at&t. why not be profitable on the other side of the valley. let's go to robbie in michigan, please. >> caller: with the 27% increase today, should i take my money and run? >> i don't know if it's going to be a 40. walt in new hampshire. how do youing? >> caller: boo ya from concord, new hampshire. >> "the monitor" me a job in 1977 and i almost took it. >> whirlpool, should i hang on? >> even though it

whirlpool. let's go back to usc. think people are seeing the need to rebull the jersey coast and then new name, briggs and stratton. i think people are done relying on the electric grid for power. you know what? fiscal cliff? if it's really good-bye, i like the discretionary plays. ha harley-davidson, polaris, dick's sporting goods. you give rich people more money, they buy municipal bonds first, bolts second and then create the jobs that they're so often depended on. then return to the retailers. i urge you to keep in mind some of these if the xlif bridge cli bridged, notably nordstrom and petsmart. high end retail suppliers have been disappointing, right? the stocks have just been okay. ralph lauren, coach and pvh were terrific for a long time. then people started freaking out. wait a second. we could have been twice blessed. pvh is up 58% for the year. 2013 looks terrific for them. the ceo said the same thing. but in a situation where you had no idea what the capital gains rates would be, you want to nail that out

a whirlpool yesterday. >> as soon as that blockage cleared out water just went back into the drain. >> reporter: at ocean beach they reopened the great highway. heavy rain last week caused a sewage spill. >> we should have it open today before the rains hit. >> reporter: even as homeowners loaded up on sand bags some were determined to make the best of the weather. >> it is cool. >> reporter: the department of public works said she warned them about the trees several weeks ago. reporting live in san francisco, david stevenson, ktvu channel 2 news. >> residents and tree trimming crews were very busy today getting ready for the storms. the ground is saturated. their house sits under a dying 130-foot fur tree. they called in a crew to take the tree down and now the homeowner has peace of mind. >> i can go to bed and feel good about it because the bedroom is right there. it is all good. >> experts say fur trees are the most dangerous to have in bad weather. >> flash flood watch will be in effect for many portions of the bay area. we could see creeks over flow. ktvu's ken pritchett is in w

whirlpool, up over 110%. masc ork, up 100%.hese are the names you continue to watch and i think a lot of the replacement from sandy is going to play into whirlpool. >> what about research in motion today got an upgrade at jefferies? >> you go near this one? >> i bought it last week, added to yesterday. part of it is is driven by the fact that i think that the move in apple stock was sort of like harboring the place to be, which was in iphones. the antiblackberry move. now, i just got an iphone 5, been a lifelong blackberry user, life of their company and i'm dying for the new vp 10 to come out and i don't find apple very good for e-mail. >> i can't even believe what i'm hearing here. for a guy who i mean -- >> here, take the blackberry. >> on some of the other names, you're singing the praises of research in motion at a time where you'd be the first guy on my list to say that i wouldn't go near this with a ten-foot pole, that i'm short the name, but yet you like it. >> right. because i think there's going to be inkreeing chatte

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it was found in the decorative fountains in the main lobby also found in the hotel's pool spa, a whirlpool and locker room. >> nearly 100 chicago firefighters graduated today applicants from the controversy all entrance exam given in 1995 are among the thousands of african american applicants bypassed by discriminatory practices but today the city close another chapter on discrimination. we should protected from discrimination the heroes that protect us from harm. their compensating the thousands of african-americans discriminated against as they tried to become chicago fire fighters. the northeast slowly pushing ahead with a slow recovery efforts it may be too slow for many. many are pleading with the government to speed up the process no electricity, lines for gasoline are long stretching for miles waiting for three hours in some cases to fill up the tank, 88 people were killed. plenty of sunshine but it's not getting any warmer. we could see temperatures drop even more this weekend. also political gamesmanship over a powerful state position, how emanuel got outplayed by gov. quinn and u

. >> whirlpool's earning's story. >> second day in a row big pop. it looks like a blow off top to me. >> stocks rallied 7%. >> my hair looked like it was going to blow up. i think the important thing is always use stops in here. it wouldn't have been that bad of a loss if you lived to trade another day. looking at it today i still think this goes lower. that's a judgment call. there is a good and bad. >> i pointed this out. each day something ugly happened. >> how about your shirt today? >> that's perfect. >> the ugly. >> done. >> at least we did it for tonight. thank you. >> you going to somebody else's gym and say that. >> you insult your waiter, too, before he serves food. >> is deere signaling bad news? the biggest drop since the last earnings report in aug. sam allen says the company remains well positioned to carry out growth plans. in asia deere says that conditions there will continue to be troubled because of higher interest rates, lower crop yields and policy uncertainty. is this bad news? can we connect the dots? >> it goes in concert wit

i expect it would extend, even appliances and paints, again old favors, whirlpool and sherwin-williams one is so big it could move the needle for caterpillar, definitely unighted rentals, we'll hear numbers being bumped you will for automatic these companies as they furiously try to get the inventory where it's needed. just hiring contractors, a newfound labor shortage and wipeout, it will be difficult, but this event will supply multiple quarters of growth, and growth you must invest in during during the next four to eight weeks. it's ironic the housing and construction business was just beginning to come back on its own. with this morning's strong pending home sales number, but sandy damage, you get sharply better than expected quarter for companies that have serial disappoi disappointers, a major change, one that become the story for the first half of 2013. stick with cramer. can i help you? i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to

she was clinging to rocks near the whirlpool rapids downstream from niagara falls.cuers carried her to a sheriff's helicopter and taken to a hospital. she is expected to be okay. the waters have to be freezing. still ahead on today in the bay, she thought her disability might stifle her dreams, but she didn't give up. she is not letting a wheelchair stop her from anything. >> here's a view from san bruno mountain. boupsing around a little bit as the winds pick up. a chance of showers and a whole lot of snow flying in the sierra. a look at both when we come back. >>> looking live at one of the cameras. you can see downtown in the distance that takes up the whole picture. it was a very chilly start this morning. rob has a look at the weekend forecast. if you are going to start a fire in the fireplace, make sure the vent is open. >> a lot of folks may be trying to do that. it is chilly. you saw the clouds and that's the reason why we are at least 42 degrees. that acts like a blanket. where skies have cleared, you are down to 30 degrees in santa rows a. frost through 8:

>> caller: i wanted to know your feeling about whirlpool. it keeps on climbing. housing is doing well. should i hang on or ring the register. >> no, i don't want you to sell. it should not be sold. it's been a lagger for many years. i owned it in the '50s in my law school dorm. here's patrick in wisconsin. >> caller: hi, jim, boo-yah. >> by yeah. >> caller: given the recent divergence of price of gold going up and the mining stocks staying level or going down, would it be wise to hang on to my investments in the gold-mining stocks in hopes that they catch up with the price of gold? or should i just sell them off and put the money into gld or something like that? >> i think you should sell them off over time and not all once the. i think they're going higher and today was a temporary setback because of all the happy talk in washington. i'm going to pat in illinois. pat? >> hey, jim. how are you? >> not bad, how about you. >> caller: doing well, thank you. jim, i have a question for you, gow cory, i voted for 14.5 years and been accumulating it for those 14 and a h

through the door, and it was like-- when it was hitting the walls, it would make kind of, like, a whirlpoolt that point, it had risen up to the stage level. >> water didn't stop there. >> no, it didn't. >> what happened next? >> i was starting to get, like, sucked out into the middle, and i didn't want that to happen, so i grabbed the wall. and then a grandpa and some lady who was hanging onto him, like, they washed by me, and they managed to grab my shoulder. and so they were hanging onto me, and we were--i could feel, like, getting pulled. >> what happened to the older man and woman who were holding onto you? >> i don't know. i don't know what happened to them. >> what happened then? >> i grabbed the railing, and i somehow found my footing. and i think--i don't know what it was, but i think it was the top of the basketball goal. >> the water was that deep? >> yeah. it came all the way up to the second--second-- the balcony. >> this is the goal and the railing behind. there's narrow standing room between the railing and the wall. i saw, like, one of my kids. he was struggling, so i grabbed

on this dotcomer's day sears is offering a whirlpool high efficiency top-load washer for $4 $499.99.ving of 250 bucks. history continues to be made hour by hour here. ibm has been tracking online retail sales activity. the growth has moved high hour. 10 a.m., up 17%. now shoppers are scooping up deals, spending nearly 26% more than last year. we'll see what happens as the day pulls to an end. >> big numbers. i apologize. i called jill julie. thank you, courtney. >> over 20%, that's how many consumers shopping online are using mobile devices to do it. that's up 50% from last year. ibm jill polari is joining us. . this makes sense with phones because it's gotten faster with expansion and smartphones. >> when we were tracking these numbers we saw the iphone was number one. after thanksgiving, people turned to the ipad. we saw this absolutely change the way people shopped last year. we saw them waiting until after dinner to start shopping on thanksgiving. now they're shopping all day long. your iphone is your new you tut at the dinner table. sad but true. >> i love the phrase couch comer

some of the companies like a whirlpool, for instance, which is one of the world's largest appliance manufacturers. a company like mohawk one of the world's largest carpet and flooring manufacturers. i mean, i don't know, talk to your friends. you know, when is the last time anyone bought a new washing machine or replaced their carpet in their house? it's been a while. liz: it's been a while so the cycle is getting ready to turn perhaps. >> you have some demand and as jobs continue to improve and consumer confidence improves, it will happen. liz: you know, charlie brady pointed out to me -- hitting multiyear highs. he's talking about names that got bumps around the hurricane, like eagle materials, boy they did so well because people thought you were going to need those materials. newell rubbermaid, lowe's sherwin-williams these are names that hitting multiyear highs. if that doesn't sell people. do you think they should go for individual names? >> i do. it is terrible some of these stocks would get a bounce when you know there's going to be a short-term blip in demand because you have to repair ho

to sandy and including legget and platte when you talk about office furniture, newell rubbermaid, whirlpoolgenerac which hit another new high for generators, how many depot with -- home depot with an up arrow, and how about lumbar ehrlich by day to haves, right? you need lumber to build flooring and cabinets and such, so the aftermath of hurricane sandy still moving a lot of stocks on wall street. liz: thank you, nicole. david: well, steeple financial corporation is making another acquisition, announcing plans to buy kbw in a deal valued at $575 million. liz: what's the motive behind today's major investment banking deal? let's ask the two gentlemen in charge. joining us now, steeple financial's chairman, ceo and president and thomas michaud kbw's ceo and president. i find this so interesting, ron, because, you know, you both have been around a long time, you both have held on to your companies and really worked your way up through them, but what was it about kbw -- which is a little bit smaller than steeple -- where you said now's the time to make this move? >> well, it is the, kbw is the

at that point the water inside the culvert was swirling around like a whirlpool and we could see thed you know, we had very, very little space. i'm going to say anywhere from 8 to 12 inches to the top of the culvert. >> you got that? this is your line. tie it to your jacket. tie the knot right in there. untie that knot. pull that out of the jacket. it's a loop knot. i want you out of here jay. >> jay and suelina wrap themselves in the rope and prepare to escape from the dark confines of the tunnel. >> let's do it right once. >> but fear overwhelms suelina when she learns she must make the journey to the opening alone. >> everything happens very quickly and jay says i cannot come with you. i can't. they can't pull both of us out. >> there's a high level of anxiety there. you know, we've got a victim who is not responding to us verbally. she didn't want to move. she was afraid she was going to die. she was in a very dark place. >> you've got to talk to me. please, stop talking. you're going to come to me, all right? i won't let you go. >> and chris is screaming, stop listening to him.

whirlpool rising to a two and a half year high.eart pump maker heartware surging after the fda approved its left ventricular assist device. it's a smaller implantable version of the heart pump that helped keep former vice president dick cheney alive before his heart transplant. technology was definitely the big stinker of the day. hp hitting a ten-year low after the massive write down on accounting issues with its autonomy acquisition. collateral damage spreading to ibm. apple back below correction territory, down 20% from its all-time high. and the huge disaster of the day, all bad news coming from best buy. its earnings report worse than it had warned. closing at a ten-year low. the cash flow outlook not looking very good there, maria. probably a lot of markdown there is as they try to move inventory. >> all right. thanks so much. we'll be watching that. meanwhile, federal chairman ben bernanke giving the market a wake-up call a few hours ago. >> in the worst case scenario where the economy goes off the broad fiscal cliff, i don'

whirlpool a 2 1/2-year high held up, a bit of a swoon there during bernanke's speech. mandy?out three minutes' time from now, more big stories crowded into our show than i can mention. what are the full implications of ben bernanke's comments, its fed may not be fully able to offset a fiscal cliff whammy and how much dissent at the fed? kate kelly on the insider trading case and big questions needing big answers in relation to hp, lots of things coming up, guys. back to you. >>> that's dow industrials, down 54 points, s & p 500 off 5. the nasdaq down about 12.75. we are going to talk a little bit about that. i think basically, as you were saying with steve a few minutes ago and others, mr. bernanke's comments were rather down bebea he talk about the reduced economic potential in the united states. he talked a lot about the fiscal cliff, but the reduced economic folks, something below 2 1/2%, 2.2, is it 2%? that has long-term implications for not on the economy and jobs but for the value of equities. >> steve's point, he was going to do more reporting to find out what length o

the last resort for avoiding a fatal whirlpool of debt. so what about more debt? will it destroy us or won't it? how bad would it be to barrel over the cliff? enter former i.m.f. economist simon johnson of m.i.t. he's written a book, white house burning, on the history of u.s. debt, its why's and wherefors and get this its considerable virtues. we asked if he could provide a tv version. the answer was a mobile history lesson. starting at the museum where every 15 minutes they re-enact the dumping that helped make a town famous and a group of contentious colonies united. so to begin you're in boston. what's your fundamental thesis? >> the american republic is born partially in a tax revolt. this is the at a party site where they threw the at a over because they didn't like the tax system. so this has been a fundamental debate and argument from the beginning of the american republic. we come back today to exactly the same sorts of issues. >> country men... reporter: well, not exactly the same. the at a parties of the past included smugglers protesting england having

she was clinging to rocks near niagara river's whirlpool rapids a few miles downstream from niagara falls. rescuers carried her to a sheriff's department's helicopter. she was airlifted to an ambulance and taken to the hospital and is expected to be ok. >> the governor's task force steps in to help reduce the costs of mega-storms on consumers. >> many are calling 2012 the worst on record for allergy sufferers but coming up, why doctors say we haven't seen anything yet. >> an annual tradition takes on a new meaning for students at one local school. we will explain. >> there is some truth to the online buzz that home pregnancy tests can detect some type of cancers, but not in women, in men. pregnancy tests work by detecting a certain hormone produced by the cells of a woman's placenta during pregnancy but also excreted by some testicular cancers. experts say it's not a useful screening tool. the story was on the internet about a boy who took a pregnancy test as a joke with a positive result and wound up having testicular cancer. erica edwards has more on why some doctors have ominous predic

continuing stalemate, continuing civil war, and paul has i think aptly mentioned whirlpool, getting biggereeper, or whatever silly wrote about in the lebanon decision of syria, not exactly apples and apples for some very similarities. second, military intervention i think mono presented a very good case of the problems surrounding that. but that's the only way that the opposition i think will achieve complete victory over the regime. although it is teetering right now. it will see what happens if it falls into rebel hands. efforts in our is negotiate a solution if one is open for, some of which mona went over. and i do agree that it has to involve the russians and arenas. the thing that everyone is assuming that is that they will listen to anything the international community has to say. they may not. in fact, i would say the only ones that have a chance, a convincing bashar al-assad to accept a negotiated solution that may lead to give an immediate or near-term sense is stepping up from power and those around him are the iranians. and, of course, that's radioactive. and maybe very difficu

piece in "the wall street journal" that ge teamed up with chesapeake to put a box in your house with whirlpool to gas up and i want to see how is big that is. general electric has done remarkable things in terms of really large plafactories that n natural gas into something we can use. ge wants to be gigantic in energy. i think they can because they dominate the natural gas turbine business. yes. can it move the needle? it's huge. certainly one where they are focused. >> a lot of material in what you just told viewers. good stuff. >>> cisco points to a rally. will that mark the end of the tech correction? plus lockup expiration on facebook. 777 million shares online today. how will that open? we'll get the answer after the opening bell in just a moment. number store different? ap you walk into a conventional mattress store, it's really not about you. we have so much technology in our store to really show the customers what's going on with their bodies. you can see a little more pressure in the shoulders and in the hips. ... now you can feel what happens as we raise your sleep number setting an

it is indeed a whirlpool. the turks certainly near the border are fed up with this. off and on. erdogan mentions baby will go to war, maybe we won't. it's right on their border. the turks brought the military to the border to send a signal. this good kicking to in article five, nader. now, that would be quite a mess. and, of course, the russians have their only naval base outside the former soviet union in syria. ladies and gentlemen, the russians are a very big part of this problem. i would not assume that the united states is the main issue here. if the russians and the chinese play ball on this, this could've been resolved a long time ago. but my sense is pessimistic. my sense, it's probably too late to put humpty dumpty of syria back together again. it has festered too long. all of this time that something could have been done, pretty much nothing was done except to make the situation worse. all of the talk in the united nations, and elsewhere, and the talk of a cease-fire, these are not solutions. this is talk. it's too late. it's too unclear. it's too fractious. how many i