that s it from cnbc. we re first in business worldwide. martin, back to you. has the generation of free love fallen in love with their own material possessions? well, in a new survey just under half of all america s baby boomers say that when they die they won t leave their kids a dime, nothing. so this has some asking are the 79 million strong generation been between 1946 and 1964 the worst generation ever? indeed, here s how one recent college grad describe the boomers in a letter to the atlantic. guardians of the state, they have left it dysfunctional. watchdogs of the economy, they have let it burn. for more on this, i m joined now by social and political humorist jimmy tingall. good afternoon, martin. isn t it the final revelation that with all their talk of free love and legalized cannabis this was really one of the most
my colleague veronica de la cruz is in the newsroom with a look at stories developing right now. hi, martin. nice to see you. we twin in washington, d.c. where a crane collapse just nearly missed crushing the national cathedral or the bish op s home next door. the crane toppled during work to clean up earthquake damage. the crane operator was hurt but is expected to be okay. as the machine tipped over it clipped a roof but the full brunt came down in a parking lot between the bish op s parking lot and a church. today s rainy and windy weather is expected to be a factor though the accident is still under investigation. more full-body scanners are coming to an airport near you. today the tsa announced it will buy 300 more machines. the cost $45 million. the agency says these machines will not show naked images of passengers, only body outlines with warning boxes pointing to potentially threatening objects. those are the headlines. martin, let s send it back to you. thanks very much,
the nation s most permissive abortion laws. i know. and yet all of these candidates are going to end up claiming some kind of emlation of ronald reagan. is that accurate? is that fair? well, everything you said is acrarkts martin. he did all those things under duress. he did them because we have a divided political system, adversarial system, but other part you have to pay homage to is every cab driver, if you will, every american knew where ronald reagan stood. he wanted to defeat the soviet union in the cold war using electronics, basically high frontier, star star wars. he wanted to do it through state of the art technology. they knew what he was going to do, gun the engines on research and bet them and maybe even bluff them out of the cold war. number two, he s going to reduce the size of government by cutting taxes. everybody knew those things about him, those elements of his belief. we as of this moment don t know those attributes of belief of barack obama, and that is hu
selfish generations in the human race? mar continue tin, i m surprised at you, a baby boomer yourself. how can you say i was born in 1963, absolutely. martin, it s not a question of being selfish. charity starts at home. a lot of these people just don t have the money, especially the way the economy is now. for one thing, people are living they have to be able to take care of themselves. people are living longer and healthier lives than ever before. they say that 60 years old is the new 40. i love that. 80 is the new 60. i love that. 100 is the new 80. i love that, and the afterlife, martin is the new assisted living, so they need money. martin, they need money for assisted living. but rather than leave something to their children, this generation seems obsessed with anti-aging cosmetics. expected to spend $114 billion on anti-aging products to the year 2015 so i guess if kids are asking where s all the money, their parents can point to the sink and say, well, it s gone
entry into the race. what does she need to do tonight to regain some luster and to stay relevant? well, first of all, i expect that she will do very well based on past performances, and i think she needs to hang in there and maintain what i guess is a third place position right now. what i hope doesn t happen is that romney and perry go after each other tonight. i think they both are strong. yesterday romney looked very like a very trusted businessman coming out with his jobs program. perry has a great record in texas with jobs with 40% of all jobs nationwide since june of 2009 being in texas, so his first stepping on to the national stage like this, i hope he doesn t go nasty. i would hate to see that. maybe i m too much of a girl scout in that regard, but i don t think that s what primary voters or national voters want right now. as far as the other candidates, martin, they will have to do something really spectacular to sort of pull themselves out of irrelevancy and maybe we ll