swim together, but they arrange themselves in a way that they are able to be more efficient in the youp than they are by themselves. that's what we wanted to get after, a design for a wind farm where the turbines were more effective in the youp than they are by themselves. >> believe it or not this is a research lab. here in the dusty hot and windy analogue valley that scientists are able to test the latest hypothesis about the best way to harness energy, from all the wind. is to this windy out here? >> this is not a windy day. >> cal terk post doc trait scholar spends much of his time out here studying vertical wind tur bins. i see two wind turbines behind one. >> the smaller is a 1 kiloway. the bigger is a 2.5 kilowatt turbine. the smaller one is more beneficial for smaller applications, the bigger one produces more power but needs more wind. so it's a bit of a trade off what wind you have, how many turbines you want to supply at that position. >> reporter: what are some the vangs to the vrt call -- advantages to the vertical access turbine. >> we can space them closer. >> reporter: b

. >> thank youp. at this time i'd like to invite supervisor avalos to provide comment. >> thank you madam president. colleagues, i've been troubled by this appointment mostly because i don't feel like i have enough information to understand whether approving the appointment of wendy jordan is going to be an approval that has cleared her from all the investigations that are going on related to complaints have been made about her position on the retirement board. there have been two stories that have come out just recently last friday or saturday and yesterday. i did have a conversation with commissioner jordan on friday and what she had to say to me sounded reasonable, but at someone who's not well versed in the rules, even though i see language for the rules for how [inaudible] is conducted i'm not sure how it measures up to ethics laws and i'm not clear there's a real investigation underway and what's the result of the investigation that have been conducted and then sent out. it's not clear. even tal

. >> as youp?k it has ¡r]r ofpfhm virtues from the point ofskf affective tax rates on all sectors across the economy. something that is an important consideration. compared with the territorial systems that will allow us to stop the practice of locking the off shore earnings of our most successful earnings. bring them back and have them invested in the united states and reaping thÔu8 reward of doing/é that. it affectively taxes a people on what they take6vpax out of the economy, ed@ they consume as%1e opposed5qd3ñ to what they contribute to the economy. their efforts and skills in the capital pool. on the basis of taxation i think that's a very fair principle, what they take out. it distinguishes between a high income who takes a lot out and a high income individual who puts a lot back in. the downsize in many people's eyes is the inability to sort of have high affective tax rates on the affluent. i think that can be addressed with a progressive tax structure and how you treat the return to capital

credit suisse youp grading the stock from outperform to neutral.rong iphone sales and expectations the company will return more cash to shareholders. joining us is analyst goldvendor. good morning. >> you take your numbers up but this new return program that you say is due because you say once again the cash levels getting in your words excessive, expand on that. >> yes. the way we see it apple return program three years ago in 2012. they had about roughly $110 billion of net cash on the balance sheet. by our estimates they will have $143 billion come this april. our problem if they thought they were excessive then, they're clearly excessive now. cash flow higher than back then. the way we see it apple will have the capacity to announce around april at the time of their results where they could increase a capital return program to $200 billion over the next two and a half years, a 50% boost, something the street is factoring in. >> what time of year was the previous return program launched and what's the split between buybacks or dividends, any ide

what do we need to know now, what do we need to embrace to keep the movement that youp have sacrificedving forward. >> i don't know how to explain embrace the fear. embrace the fear of change. embrace the fear of wanting to make a difference. embrace your fear. i really to not know how to explain that. but i think that's what we need to do. is embrace the fear so we can move forward. accept it as a part of you and move past it. but i think that's the way that we're going to make change and move forward. >> linda blackman-lowery. if you have any young people in your live buy them this book it will change their life. we also continue to keep an eye on the extraordinary pictures coming out of paris this morning. hundreds of thousands of people parties painting in unity rally and response to france this week. stay with us we have more ahead. os ok, well, good talk ♪ ♪ ♪ "here i am. rock you like a hurricane." ♪ fiber one now makes cookies. find them in the cookie aisle. you show up. you stay up. you listen. you laugh. you worry. you do whatever it takes to take care of your family. and whe

source of seed stores are in south america, brazil venezuela, other countries have been sxersen a slow youpe that, weaker saeth, impacting monsanto's profitability this quarter? >> mop san toe is bringing new technologies to south america impacting farmers in that region. we will see maximizing grain brukz and i think monsanto will benefit from that. >> are we expecting more updates on their moves into more precise area of farming that they've been talking about over the last 12 months in today's release? >> i think we will. this quarter le release is an opportunity to provide the update on their farming. we will continue to hear about the software fools they're bringing to help farmers identify opportunities within their field, brandt seed at the precise location. very exciting technology. >> let's talk about what you're expecting in terms of the bottom line in this set of certainings. in particular, you think investors like to focus on the deferred revenue line item. >> yeah. farmers are waiting to make seed purchases later than we've seen in recent years. typically, farmers will place se

. >> could youp four pillars as you have described almost becomes a kind of road map for a wide spectrumh one could become a trust worthy u.s. defense partner. >> absolutely. >> and this would be ways in which you could say this is the checklist under each pillar. in order to be set up for the -- >> we didn't attend when we laid fuejut pillars to be absolutely directive and prescriptive. we're trying to make some suggestions in terms of the protection of technology based on our experience and the first time i actually utilized those pillars in a public speech was actually earlier? year this year when i spoke in korea when i organized a technology forum and what was great about that forum is that korea extended an invitation to a variety of other countries in the region. from japan, indonesia malaysia singapore, the full range, and so i laid out those pillars, and what was interesting to me, again, these are just suggestions, these are things that we have found in our system that work well and so khl we're using those pillars to make suggestions to countries about things they should consi

i am curious about whether that falls on deaf ears, joan john wiljoni ernstwill be saying youp beatingdrum. but republicans have to be careful, they don't want to look like they are -- how does this play out? >> the republicans have to choose, it seems to me, where their strongest arguments are made, let's take one of them, if you adjusted the wages of people, okay? and in terms of what they are getting, we have a low wage economy. a lot of people -- the real unemployment rate is not whatever it is 7.1%. it is 11.1%. that is a huge number. not -- that is a kind of thing you look at it, you say, hey, we have a much weaker economy. a lot of people are hurting there is something wrong with the way we have led fiscal and economic policies of this country. neil cavuto: what do you think of his strategys? they have been settles -- they are not off to the races. now we seem to embrace saying this is real, this has traction, see where we have come in 6 years since i have taken office. and don't let those guys scare you. >> well, i think there is a record here you could look, to okay? have you

youp saw some things that you and other new york natives have not seen their entire life. >> i live 50locks noltrth of here, so when we have to come into work i assumed there would be no way to get here so i got a hotel room right up the street. riding the subway, they were all be empty before they were shut down at 11:00. the streets were nearly completely empty. if you look at park avenue. i had my run at the street. you could have played football up and down that street. we are now though see ging the city come back to life. it was an extraordinary measure at 11:00 to shut down subway service, shut down the buss. we just got word from the governor that starting at 9:00 eastern time the subways and buss will start to come online and by noon they should have full sunday service, which means it won't be as frequent as it usually is during the week but you'll be able to get where you're going. word from the port authority that the bridges and tunnels that were closed sealing off manhattan have been reopened. governor christie reopened the state of new jersey. while the roads are open an

youp you know what we haven't seen this for a while. 32 days since we've had measurable rain in san franciscoere's the deal. warming trend starts as we head throughout tomorrow and we've got a good-looking day shaping up as we head throughout thursday. here's mike and your drive. >> no big crashes blocking the lanes for the freeway. we have a lot of traffic still stuck 880 from fremont towards mission. typical pattern, northbound route through san jose. as we move our maps north of the dumbarton bridge san mateo bridge moves nicely so does oakland. look for the bay bridge where the metering lights are still on. still a backup at the toll plaza. the golden gate bridge moving that center divide for folks between marin county and san francisco. back to you. >> mike, thanks. another local news update for you coming up in a half an hour. ♪ ♪ ♪ i ♪ ♪ know i can't deny... ♪ ♪ that i got a new feeling ♪ ♪ deep inside... ♪ ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] with five perfectly sweetened whole grains... you can't help but see the good. >>> from nbc news this is "today" with kathie lee gifford and hoda kotb. live