There is no shortage of deals now that everyone is back from a long holiday vacation, trying to make up for the days off. S. Is buying spectrum from verizon wireless. They are the fourth largest u. S. Carrier. Verizon is number one. This is part of an airwave that and give both companies airwave swap that will give both space where they need it. The big deals come from this man. John malone is the leader of Liberty Media. Ofy offered to take control sirius xm holdings. The swap is valued at more than 10 billion. Pay forl could help another deal with charter communications, bidding for Time Warner Cable. Thatmight get bigger with Time Warner Cable deal. s also learned that Malone Liberty global is putting its final touches on ziggo. Necessarily about these three companies, it is about his track record. He acquires businesses that he cannot mock the full value and the that he can unlock full value and get the cash flow. Shares have nearly doubled over the past two years. A lot of those came from serious installations and cars sirius installations in cars. Malone says he may spin off sirius eventually. What they are signaling is ,hat they believe in sirius their cash flow story, that will give liberty more money to fund a deal for Time Warner Cable and liberty thinks they can leverage borrowus assets to against more money. Charter, the potential Time Warner Cable deal charter will make a bid to buy Time Warner Cable. That will be a 62 billion bid. Most of that will be generated off of charters balance sheet. Some of that money will be kicked in by Liberty Media. The question is, how much will be kicked in by Liberty Media. Liberty has said they want to have the same percentage in this 27 , as theypany, do in the current charter company. In order to do that, they will have to kick in about 3 billion or so. That is at the 135 dollar price target that we hear charter is going to offer Time Warner Cable. We hear that offers coming in at any moment. Up. He offer price may creep if it does creep up, Liberty Media is going to have to kick in more money. courtball is in sirius to see if this can come together. They have to evaluate the bid. In addition to that, they have the shareholders have to weigh in. Said theyrehas willing to negotiate on price. That may creep up and that is irius was trading higher. Ofge is buying some assets the most fisher scientific. They are trying to expand its lifesciences unit. Mens wearhouse is trying to buy jos. A. Bank. The two retailers have been fighting over each other since october. Mens wearhouse tried to buy jos. A. Bank last month, so here we go again. Democrats want to play ball on jobless benefits. We will talk about it. In sports, the cash cow that is the nfl. Were talking the business of football is the playoffs move ahead. Strapped on his skates and took to the ice. He is touring the olympic facilities. 61yearold putins red team won the exhibition. Imagine that. This is lunch money. We are streaming live on bloomberg. Com, your tablet, and your smart phone. In politics, it is a new year and back to business. President obama is back from vacation. He is feeling optimistic about 2014. We look forward to all of the possibilities of the year to come. We resolve to better ourselves and relationships with one another. Sounds good. There is a lot on the plate this first couple of weeks. The senate is convening today and the house returns tomorrow. The agenda, extending Unemployment Insurance and passing the Budget Approved by the house for christmas. Unemployment is still very high, at seven percent. Is that all there is to it . Much largerart of a effort to turn away from the problems of the health care law, healthcare. Gov, and toward issues like raising the minimum wage, issues they think will play better with the voters. It is political for the democrats and republicans. They will look at a threemonth extension. They have one republican on board and a bunch of democrats are on board behind it. Hit that magic 60 mark . Put the pressure on House Republicans to move forward with this. House republicans dont want to touch this. They dont want anything to do with unemployment or extending benefits. It will be a big thing if they can put pressure on them when they get back. Prospects of midterm elections, how much can republicans really fight this at the end of the day . A lot of those are in hardhit districts where unemployment is very high. Are hitting where the white house thinks. They are in a good position. They look at where these red districts are and the people that benefit from these emergency benefits the most. They think republicans will not have a choice. This is a fight they want to have and is willing to have. They feel like they are in the winners seat here. ,ohn boehner has to figure out can you attach this to Something Else and can it be paid for . Have to look at the farm bill provision, but how boehner can do that, that is the big question. It is not cheap. 6 billion is the price tag for sending it three months. It is about 25 billion if they extend these emergency benefits for the full year. Theres talk about a tradeoff with the farm bill, some subsidies being cut. They be that could be the pay forward here. Will insist they gets paid for in some way or fashion. There is still the whole we cannot agree with anything mindset going on in capitol hill. They arehe democrats, not sounding friendly towards their colleagues across the aisle. Wentpublicans in Congress Home and let the lifeline expire. We are fighting against people who are antigovernment. Wire my afraid . A couple months ago two thirds house of representatives voted to keep the government closed and default on the debt. Day of thee first new session the Republican Party will not support unemployment benefit extension, the original round was started by george never had asave many ideologues as we have had as we do today. This is typical for republican members of congress. Not republicans. Denying families security is kroll. We are a better country than that. We do not abandon fellow americans. We keep the faith with them until they start the new job. Democrats have someone keeping the faith the pope. Colleagues tohes a deal with the issue of income equality. The response, we have a strong ally on our side in this issue, that is the pope. John kerry is in the mideast. We will tell you where he stopped and where he is going. Politics, how the nfl almost in let their own teams played their own teams play this weekend. Nissan has unveiled what it hopes will be a replacement. In it already it already has the mayors approval. We are talking the business of pro football. It is our cover story on bloomberg television. It is the most profitable league in Television Sports history. Name it, this league makes billions. We are going to get to the business in a minute, but we have to talk about what happened over the weekend. A cold one on Lambeau Field in green bay, wisconsin. Two degrees fahrenheit, felt like 13. The San Francisco 49ers beat the packers in the final 49 seconds of the game with a field goal. Colts have the secondbiggest comeback in the nfl playoff game on saturday. Deficitsed a 28 point for a 4544 win. The only home team win. The new Orleans States winning their playoff win. A field eighth goal as time expired. San diego, the chargers beating the cincinnati bengals, 2710. The bengals had been favored by 6. 5 points after winning all of their games. Tough one in cincinnati. Blacked outmost because the teams struggle to sell tickets. The rule is about 40 years old. It is meant to encourage people to attend games. The nfl wants to sell more seats. The problem seems to have been averted. The blackouts, they were controversial because u. S. Regulators proposed eliminating the rule. The nfl, and want to sell tickets, so it will strongly efforts to oppose the bracco role. The blackout rule. There was a threat the bengals game would not be aired in the local market. They complained about the policy. Senators blumenthal and mccain have introduced legislation to do away with this blackout rule. Thoseay it is unfair to viewers, particularly viewers in places where they are publicly financed stadiums. They make the argument this is outdated and this is 40yearold policy that all of these teams would make money off of ticket revenue, that is no longer the case. They make more money off of the tv deals. Washington is moving that direction, the fcc is moving that direction, the nfl has a lot of power. They are fighting this. I would not bet against the nfl. I dont think it is unfair. There are very few of these blackouts. We have the best of all possible worlds. Sam still of the stadiums, you have lastminute deadlines, that is pushing them to purchase tickets and you have everyone a home watching the games. There used to be dozens of these blackouts years ago, there are only two or so this year. Which is better . Blackout or no blackout . There has been a threat when you have tickets unsold and at the margin, it is better to have games ond and have the tv versus having the games are blacked out home markets. You may more from television viewers. They are worth more to the companys advertising then people going to the game live. For the franchises themselves, that is something they should consider in terms of adjustments they want to make to the a blackout rule. Weve only had to blackouts during the season, but it is the threat that continues to plague these teams in the nfl. The larger picture is that at the margin, do you, as a ticket buyer, want to go to the game or watch a home . Most want to be at home. Ofwe have done a good job putting all the games on in hd and stereo sound. To ticket buyers one the atmosphere of being there at the game . It is every franchise, not just nfl. Theyre trying to increase wifi, exclusive camera angles. Talk about wifi, San Francisco 49ers are set to move into a new high tech. Silicon valley stadium. We got a firsthand look at some of the tech being used to change the way they do everything from ordering hot dogs to getting a beer. It is cool stuff. 69,000 fans. 170 luxury suites. 1. 3 billion. The San Francisco 49ers are upping their game, getting ready to move to what is being billed as the most tech savvy stadium in the country. Free wifi, check. Game day apps, check. Fantasy football lounges, check. There will be massive, high death greens High Definition screens in the end zones. Runo doubt the players will down the field, and look at the video board to see who is chasing them. Levi stadium has already won the bid to host the super bowl in 2016. This is a chance to show we are not just a tech center, but we are sports and Media Entertainment center. Small bands of people can band together and fundamentally changed the change the world. The new 49ers stadium is in santa clara, 45 miles south of San Francisco. It is deep in silicon valley. It has to woo the smartphone sacked. Sect. \ can we deliver food and beverage and merchandise to every one of the 70,000 people in the stadium . We are working on it. Imagine a cashless, ticketless system or you dont have to bring your wallet. There are dozens of software systems. Fan inventory system, all of the systems you can get a photo, instagram, sometimes you can even make a phone call because the lines are tied up or the bandwidth is not there. Our guys are going to solve that here. Fans will be able to update statuses and photos and tweet with these. No one is more punk than the d than the pumpe players. To another venue. Were talking about San Francisco bay. Cory johnson shows us the hightech coverage that was the americas cup. It has been described as watching white canvas on a blue background, and this coverage is anything but that. The americas cup is returning to Network Television in the u. S. This is the first time in more than 20 years. It is the super bowl of sailing. Unlike the super bowl where networks compete for rights to broadcast the game, the organizers had to pay in bc to air the event. Nbc to air the event. Ithow do you make understandable but also entertaining . The viewer has to understand what is going on. They have to understand the story of the race. We put in an enormous at for. In an enormous effort. You have to understand who is ahead, who was behind. We wanted to humanize it. We have the onboard cameras and audio. To get you on the boat. You are in the field of play. They could not have done it without stan honey. The major thing that is new this year is the use of augmented reality. Video, look at the real see the boats, the wind in the water, and then see the graphics and started inserted into that. You can see the lines that indicate who is ahead, see the lay lines, vindication of the marks. Honey, who is a sailor firstf, he invented the down line for the nfl and a strike zone tracking for the mlb. Sailing was the toughest. All the other systems, the cameras are tripod mounted. You can survey the location. Helicopter the carries the camera. It is moving around, bobbing, weaving, and as far away from the field of play. Do you think it is possible to turn it into a spectator sport . If it is possible, if it can this is the way you have to do it. Heads to northn korea. He bringing some friends. Comeis is lunch money come on bloomberg television. We are streaming online, on your tablet in your smart phone. I am adam johnson. The video is the story in moving pictures. Chicago, almost one foot of snow, the city is bracing for what could be record low temperatures tomorrow. Frigidaire is forecast to sweep the central u. S. And on to the east coast. Temperature rose temperatures below zero for many cities. Canceled05 to been across the nation. I high wise Apartment Fire on the westside of manhattan caused the death of one man and injured another. The blaze broke out on the 20th floor of the building dust a few blocks west of times square. Sufferingre found from smoke inhalation 10 stories above the fire. No word yet on what caused the blaze. A sixmonthold giant panda made her public debut today. Visitors at the zoo waited in long lines to get a glimpse of the cub and her mother. The panda climbed around for a while before taking a nap. This little cub sleeps about 20 hours per day. It is not easy, growing up. The world today, sunni militants linked to al qaeda captured falluja over the weekend. The victory is a blow to erect she i led government, whose troops were trained and equipped by the u. S. Military. Falluja is a highly symbolic city for sunni arabs. 10 years ago the u. S. Assault on falluja was the toughest battle waged by u. S. Troops since vietnam. The militant stronghold has undergone a steady deterioration since the last american troops left two years ago. Secretary of state, john kerry, says that we supported iraq but that we are not sending troops again. This is a fight that belongs to the iraqis. That is exactly what the president and the world decided some time ago when we left iraq. We are not contemplating a return, not contemplating boots on the ground, this is their fight. Secretary kerry spent several days trying to jumpstart the peace effort. Several hours over the weekend, meeting with benjamin netanyahu, eight hours with him wouldve us mahmoud abbas. And finally, the king of saudi arabia, ostensibly a Diplomatic Mission of his own, Dennis Rodman arrived in north korea. Accompanying him, a team of former nba players, playing against the north Korean National team on wednesday in what Dennis Rodman is calling basketball diplomacy. Thatwant the world to know these guys did not have to take time and effort away from their families to come here. This is a great thing that they wanted to do. I say guess what . This is not about money. It is about one thing. Connection. A it is about opening doors. Coming here and saying that north korea is not bad. Did he just say that north korea is not that bad . Are you kidding me . The north korean human rights record is one of the worst, according to activists. Defectors have repeatedly testified about the use of killings, rapes, beatings, and prison camps. But that is rodman has his team convinced that it is all just fun. The team is made up of guys who just care. That is important. It is not just about bringing a dream team, it is about bringing guys that want to be a call be a part of this, who care about humanity. The sake of humanity . Or maybe king john sons birthday kim jonguns birthday. Digging for answers, more is coming up on lunch money. In media, 2013 was the year of the digital ad. The number of digital advertisements rose last year, 180 9 million americans watched online video content generating 26 billion separate ad views. Obviously big money. Google was at the top of the list, followed by aol and facebook. How do these Companies Follow up on this digital growth . Advertising. Very big 2014 will be the move towards a shorter form of sizedthat is kind of bite video advertising content for the social mobile platform. There will still be 15 second and 30 Second Television advertisements with Premium Television ads, but fine and instagram have really established this content. Kind of mobile feed experiences where the consumer zips through. That will be the new standard in 2014. Seeings not the only one a big shift on the way. I see a bigger shift towards video advertising and rich made rich media. The traditional factor has been that small banner on the bottom or top, highly ignorable, very mundane. With bigger screens, hd resolution, lightning fast operating systems, motorola products, you will have the opportunity to really show more engaging and rich advertising, which a lot of the brands i think are going to appreciate. Google and facebook are still leading the pack, is twitter getting left behind . Twitter is trailing those companies quite a bit. A mobile ad exchange, the big acquisition of 2013 in tech space, but they are still far behind, as is apple and their platform. Pandora, that is a company that is trailing facebook and google. A big factor in advertising is the viral video content, creating buzz and millions of views. The headcaught up with of think moto. Connecting with the advertiser, which is different from the commercial, as we set out to entertain and deliver an audience to the brand. One of the videos i watched earlier today had to do with the movie, cary. The remake of the very scary stephen king novel. Tell us about how kerry ended up in the cost of shop . We take her from the video, with her telekinetic ability to move things tom a we took it outside the context of the movie with a coffee shop that people could relate to, having a girl freak out by using her powers to minute delayed objects in the room. At the same time filling the unsuspecting patrons while this was going on . It is the reaction that makes the video work. When unsuspecting people saw a guy fly up a wall, that did it. You are interested in showing the audience how the prank, how the skit is put together. A big change. In commercials you can take an whole you can take a holier our thou stance, but in case we say this is how we did it, enjoy the process and the people reacting. How did that come about . A brainstorm that you and your collaborators put together . It were talking about how was like magic. Everyone sees a magic trick and thinks how did they do that . We think that transparency is starting to unfold everywhere. You can comment on videos, on products. There is more of a dialogue. Why not let everyone in on it and get them to feel like they are part of the process . Thatere is another video includes a reaction that has taken place in the real world. It is a hovercraft, but it is a hovercraft that is made as a golf cart. Tell us about this. Oakley came to us with one of their golfers and wanted to energize the connection between the guy who loves stock cars, good old boy, what could we do . We created the hottest golf cart in the world by making a hovercraft golf cart networks. Areorks so well that people buying them through an entity we created. I noticed that Chris Fitzgerald is featured in the sad in this ad. He talked about how it is less punishing on the greens, as it exerts less pressure than individual feat. Yes, chris is the owner of the company that we hired to do this. Hovercraft is far less than one foot on the golf course, so potentially this is a viable concept. Viral, it isg goes robot videos. We have our favorites, coming up next. By the way, here is mine. Underwater drilling. This thing never gets tired, never needs air. Just drill, baby, drill. Festival, 4e million cubic feet of Ice Sculptures lit up. 7000 artists worked on the sculptures. More than one million visitors are expected to tour the village. Incredible. That is ice. In innovation, robots have many different uses. One cuttingedge company was enabling paralyzed people to walk again. Amazing. Richard crane gives us the two are. To see the Technology Starting in a laboratory and moved to the point where we affect someone is amazing. Moving to the point where it in my used, this soon life . Can you tell me about the technology i am looking at right now . This is a wearable robot that has been designed to help people with spinal cord injuries stand up and walk. Anyway that i could test out the technology . We always start with a walker. The first thing we are going to have to do, the robot is going to do all of the work through your legs. Your knees in your hips are going to be taken care of. 1, 2, 3. That is such a weird sensation. It feels like it weighs nothing. Exactly. It goes up all the way down to the ground. Patient with no control of their legs, this is a great tool or helping them walk. Through withgress the walker, we can graduate crutches. It is bigger than i expected. We like to think of this as the first suitcase cell phone. Our goal is to make it smaller as we progress. Need all ofoes not the adjustable features in the environment. All of our users out there are counting on this, so that they can take it home with them. In october of 2008, i was in a motorcycle accident. I was involved in a headon collision on a mountain road. The Police Officer in the military, they were used to helping run it. Always going. Now i am relearning how to walk. Was,lized how tall i again. My knees were bending, getting the heel strike. It was with a robot. Some robots, obviously, help us to walk. Others do jobs that we cannot do, like deepsea drilling. Alix steel shows us how. It is like drilling for oil in space. Two miles down, freezing temperatures, crushing temperatures. A death zone for humans, but not robots. This is the black star we make robots for use in the ocean. At the test pool in california we saw 4 million robots in action. The principal target market is offshore oil and gas. These machines do the same kind of work that ivers used to do but at a much greater depth. What are we looking at . Cameras that see what youre working on with manipulator arms on your hands. Titan 4. He it is dexterous, remarkably so for how tough it is. This is like a giant video game. I am basically manipulating a 4 million use of equipment with two fingers . Yes, you are. Is our underwater construction workers, they can work 24 seven. Demand is growing 15 each year. It used to be optional, now every one of these operations utilizes robot in order to get their work done. Robots work in a network of wells, bringing it to the surface where it is separated from the water. Pumping systems will hit a record 13. 9 billion this year. Deep ocean oil reserves are some of the most lucrative in the world. More than 300 billion barrels of oil and gas reserves. Robots are the only ones who can do the job. Every year the worlds engineers crank out new robot that can do all sorts of things. We have a look at a few of them. From soccer to the classroom, robots gained ground in 2013. A dancing robot. Critically ill children in the classroom. This robot is designed to help the elderly. Hosted the International Soccer competition, french and chinese scientists created a robot that you can manipulate with your mind. The First Talking robot has been sent to space. Motion sensors put robots in the boxing ring. This robot secretary was shown off in tokyo. Israel continued their development of military robots. 2014 promises to be just as mind blowing. If australians have their say, it will be robots treating people with memory loss, useful for those of us trying to remember everything that happened last year alone. No robots here. In fact, it is just one employee at the most exclusive restaurant in america, but we have a table and we will take you there next. Americas most exclusive dinner reservation is not in new york or any other culinary capital. There is just one employee and it can take years to get a table, but rachel green got through the door. Is the kind of food that you dream about. A dream that begins with a trip down this long, winding road to the remote town of burleson, new york. And it ends in this guys basement. One minor issue. It could take you five years to get through these doors. Manhattan,rom theyve it has created one of the most exclusive david has created one of the most exclusive reservations on the planet. I never dreamed it would be like this. What is that . Chef or cook, as he refers to be called, did not attend culinary school. He barely even worked in a restaurant before he built this house in 1985 and started serving fourstar meals to willing patrons. It has snowballed over the years, all because of the guests telling and telling other guests, because we have never gotten Media Coverage ever. The 255 base price its you 16 to 20 courses, all conceived, farmed, prepared, and served by damon. We have had requests from belgium, abu dhabi, dubai. Foodies travel far and wide taste of this not so cuttingedge cuisine called native harvest. It is essentially living off the land. It you hear about farm to table all the time now, what this is like taking it to another level . One day it occurred to me that everything i needed was on the property. Anyone who has ever grown knows that there is something about being able to serve it right to the guests, it is so rewarding. People always ask me how i do this in the winter. The best root vegetables of the year i get during the winter, the starch turns to sugar in these vegetables, which prevents them from going into deep freeze. Here i have all kinds of different carrots, rutabagas, turnips, leaks. I have more in common with daniel boone than a celebrity chef. You have a five year waiting list for your restaurant, which is not typical. Some folks get frustrated. I have one group that has been on the list for two years and one gentleman wrote that they were all in their late 70s to mid 80s and that they wanted to come before they died. People who walk into this basement noted they will get one of the best meals of their life . Every guests when they come, i like to treat them like they have they are only going to be here onceinalifetime and i may never see them again. It is cold in the u. S. . Try visiting our northern neighbors in canada. Here we have a truck made of ice. Live from pier for three in San Francisco, welcome to the Early Edition of bloomberg west. Our focus is innovation, technology, and the future of business. Lets get straight to the rundown. Google, hoping that connected cars will hit the fast lane, starting new partnerships with gm, audi, and other carmakers, trying to make the connected car or reality. Tmobile, spending billions on airways to better carry it signalnd