Me about her strange inheritance and how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her fathers harrowing past. My name is Miriam Friedman morris. My father, David Friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, tagebuch fuer Miriam Friedman. As i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. Miriam, im jamie. Hi. Welcome. Miriam wrote us an email that said. It was so impassioned, i had to meet her. My goodness. Look at all of this. I feel like im in fineart gallery or a museum. Tell me about your parents. My parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. In her minds eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her fathers past. He doesnt tell her all that much. She knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew combat scenes on the russian front and was decorated for bravery. But shes in the dark about the full scope of his artistic career, including hundreds of drawings of top per
[ countryrock music plays ] im jamie colby, and today im driving outside tacoma, washington, on my way to meet the heirs of a man who started with nothing, built an empire, left his heirs enormous wealth, but also an overwhelming task. Im doug lemay. My father, harold lemay, passed away in 2000 at the age of 81 and left us with a worldrecord collection that has become a fulltime job. Doug has invited me to the family house, where his father lived for more than two decades and where he now lives and works. Hey, doug. Hi, jamie. Glad you could come. Im so happy to be here, but i cant figure one thing out. Whats that . Is this a house or a garage . Well, its a 5bedroom house with a 300car garage. 300 cars . Yeah. Good thing i have the whole day today. [ midtempo music plays ] as doug shows me around, its easy to see this isnt just a home, but a reflection of his fathers passion for the automobile. I mean, doug, i got to be honest. Ive been to car shows that havent had this many cars. Dad
[ bird caws ] [ progressive rock music plays ] im jamie colby, and today i am off the beaten path i mean way off the path in the swampy lowlands of southCentral Florida. These dense marshes once harbored seminole indians and runaway slaves and, more recently, alligator poachers. Now theyre home to an oldtime florida family and a very strange inheritance. Howdy. Well, hi there. Hi. Im jamie. Nice to meet you. But whats a nice girl like you doing in the middle of nowhere in Central Florida . How do you know im a nice girl . [ laughing ] oh, i shouldnt say that. Im patty register, and my mom, marietta, passed away in 1996. She left me an inheritance with a lot of bite and with a lot of hoops to jump through. Yes, patty inherited alligators from her mother. But if only it were that simple. It rarely is with family businesses, and gatorama, the kind of oldfashioned roadside attraction you mightve run across in florida 50 years ago, is more complicated than most. Patty runs gatorama with her
What does that mean for the fed, maybe the bad news is good news for the market. A study kind of day. What he really saw the action was in emerging markets. The emerging Market Industries are at its longest rally so far this year. A have recouped more than half of their losses since that low in february. This to me was particularly interesting because we got that Week Services data out of china. China once to be a service economy, not a manufacturing economy. Weakness there should be negative but stocks rallied. Alix the selloff and emergingmarket assets had gone too far and it was time to go back in. In terms of treasuries with the gains in oil and stocks, he did to treasuries at the long end of the yield curve come down a bit. And the 10 year yield coming down to 1. 83 . Tool youre not participating in that in the yield really consolidating. The aussie extending its gain to a fourth day. In the Fourth Quarter rose more than expected. Real. Brazilian righ there was testimony that may
Debate on deck tonight. Europe with minor losses and claims were slightly elevated. Well get ism services in about an hour. Of course, were just a day from jobs friday. Energy pioneer Robert Mcclendon dies in a horrific car crash. This is a day after he had been indicted. Were going to go live to oklahoma. What jay my dimon told cnbc about the lie of hitz bank. Mitt romney is expected today to deliver a harsh set of words on donald trump, describing the frontrunner as a phony and a fraud. First up, though, futures are a little changed as stocks hover and jobless claims rising. Thats a bit higher ahead of the number tomorrow. Jpmorgans jamie dimon joined squawk box earlier this morning and had a pretty upbeat take on the economy. Take a listen. The average economy, more people are working, wages are going up. Theyre spending money, their Balance Sheets in better shape since its been recorded, the consumer. Theyre buying cars at alltime records. Home sales are going up, home formations a