It takes place in the gates of heaven, the pearly gates on a day when so many people have arrived there isnt room for everybody so st. Peter announces all these people waiting in line that he is going to have a little contest and that hes going to ask everybody to write down a question. And that god cannot answer the question you will get in. So one after another they come up, write them a question, come back. Goes to the back of the line. Finally an elderly couple who passed away in the same day come to the front of the line. They write down their question and give it to st. Peter. He comes back and he says okay the two of you are in. Everybody else looks at them and says wait a second, what makes you so special . What did you ask god . They said we just asked him when our kids are going to get their act together. [laughter] now whats interesting about, even more interesting about that story is still cosby told me that joe. He told me that he found it on the internet so even bill cosb
Bowe s boxilai. Andrew. Thank you, becky. We have a little bit of Corporate News this morning. Citigroup has suffered a significant decline in trading revenue. It threatens to decline the earnings. Theres a market wide earnings. Shares of blackberry today, the Company Warning on friday that it expects to report a huge quarterly operating loss. It plans to cut more than 1 3 of its global work force. Thats big, big news in blackberry land. Microsoft expected to announce a new surface tablet computer today, including a version with a smaller screen to compete with googles nexus 7. An event is scheduled in new york. Microsoft began selling surface tablets last year but sales have been slow. The changes to the dow are official. Visa, Goldman Sachs and nike are jumping into the blue chip index. Alcoa and hewlettpackard and bank of america, goodbye, youre exiting. Goodbye. If you went to sleep early last night, there are a few highlights from the emmys that you missed. Hbo dominated with the
Investor dan loeb buys a large stake in dow chemical and calls for the company to consider selling its petrochemical business. Dow is there point largest current investment. In a moment we will talk to someone who tracked activist investors like globe and find out what the Hedge Fund Manager at the move means for dow chemical investors and we are going to move on later this week. Liz claman will be asking dow chemicals chairman and the e. L. About loebs investment and what he thinks of his proposal. Liz is live in davos, sweetened with the biggest names in industry including artie sorensen, president and ceo of Marriott International and michael corbett, ceo of citigroup, a huge interviews you will want to watch later this week and investors playing defense today quite literally. Nicole petallides at Stock Exchange with all the details on that. Nicole looking at these shares of a lot of defense stocks and lot of new highs. Some good earnings and outlook here by one of the names in part
Discussion, rising industry insiders what those new to the Publishing Industry think about its future. Im sure those of you have been attending other conferences have been listening to what some of the very senior publishing executives have to say about their vision of the Publishing Industry going forward. But this afternoon you hear something a little different. Youre going to get the viewpoint of those were new to the industry. We have free of our current welcome one just graduated, but three of our best in science punishing students here today and one alumnus and they will present their thoughts on what all of you in the industry in general should be doing fresh, relevant and innovative in these challenging times. We come to the separation, all of them are working in the Publishing Industry. Also from the work in the studies and in our graduate program in publishing. In the months and years with us they have taken courses on book editing, book marketing, sales, promotion, publicity
Beginning. We stand for freedom and hope and the dignity of all human beings. That spirit will endure forever long after the scourge of terrorism is banned from this world. We are staying with breaking developments out of france today. Three suspected terrorists are dead in the dramatic aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks. Cherif kouachi and said kouachi were killed after an aggressive manhunt following wednesdays massacre. Police tell nbc news that a hostage was released from the printing facility unharmed. And a swarm of Tactical Forces moved in on a kosher supermarket in eastern paris where a suspect linked to the kouachi brothers was also killed. Despite footage of people running away from the store with Police Escort we know that four hostages were killed in that market with the gunman. The market gun man is Amedy Coulibaly. It is unclear where boumediene is at this moment. Moments ago, the Associated Press reported that a member of al qaedas branch in yemen says that