and people will remember him re resisting the pressure on that phone call from trump. yes. and he s using it those numbers are his numbers. trump has invested a lot of money, right? not only endorsement but time. he recorded ads for purdue, giving him $2.64 million to groups helping purdue. that is a lot of money, bill, coming from another candidate to support, lift up, another candidate. why did trump feel like this was money well spent? well, i think right now donald trump is backing away from david purdue. there s been reporting in the last few days that he thinks purdue has run a bad campaign. trump denies that reporting. but we ve seen signs where trump is starting to back away from him and has for a while now.
eggs were recently discovered on chicago s beach, the potential site for the music fest. a permit for the event has not been approved. the same thing just happened in new jersey, one bird. next, 13 million, that s how much you need to buy two private islands off of the coast of manhattan. the old radio broadcast bunker was created to a four bedroom pad. featuring five acres of land. strikes me as a good deal. finally $5.64 million, how much a babe ruth jersey went for at auction, becoming the most expensive sports people ra beale ya ever. the previous record was a jersey from the legend at $4.4 millio. tragedy in the dominican republic as the number of americans who have mysteriously died there is now rising to at
to pot to try to dig out of bankruptcy. reporter: in 2001, the town of desert hot springs went bankrupt. it s been struggling ever since and you re seeing here is they ve zoned light industrial to be cannabis friendly. reporter: greta has a consulting business in desert hot springs that helps companies open facilities like this new $7 million marijuana grow house. let s do the math. one room. times 84. 84 pounds. times $2,000 a pound. times $2,000 a pound. times 12. is $2.16 million. times each room will turn four times. times four times. so that is $8.64 million of cannabis every single year? your lips to god s ears. how much tax revenue? over $300,000 a year. 300,000 bucks just from this building? yes. reporter: the cannabis
in early january. though things look to open higher there is nervousness. investors looking for the west, the crimean voter so it will be important to watch things like u.s. treasuries, gold, japanese yen, the traditional safe haven. if we see money go into them, things could go the other way. another story i wanted to point out, turns out that u.s. ceos for these big companies may not be getting paid what they used to. only a 1% raise in 2013 to $8.64 million, because the s&p shot up 82% last year. the reason experts are saying behind this is, ceos increasingly aren t getting paid necessarily just on the stock. there are other metrics coming into play like earnings and cash flow. those haven t been as hot lately. what s this i hear in my ear?
so far, they ve given nada. they gave us a meandering explanation about forgiving haitian debt and how the two countries have ties going back to the 1800s, but no specifics on when they re going to make good on this $1.32 million pledge. canada also, a deadbeat. it pledged $378 million to the reconstruction fund. so far they ve given zero as well. and no word on when that money is coming. same with france. $170.9 million pledged, nothing given. they didn t even give us a call back to explain. now, there is some good news on keeping promises to haiti. we talked to australia today. they pledged $8.64 million, they ve given a check, $8.64 million. they said they gave the money now because haiti needs it now. brazil hasn t done quite as good as that, they pledged $162.5