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friend and an inspiring mentor. steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built and his spirit will forever be the foundation of apple. dan simon has the story of steve jobs incredible live. today apple is going to reinvent the phone. reporter: steve jobs was a modern day thomas edison. you can do multifinger gestures on it and, boy, have we patented it. reporter: he didn t have a patent on his own look but he was rarely seen without tennis shoes, levi s and a black shirt. he was legendary for his flair and showmanship. amazing. and the screen literally floats in midair. reporter: steve jobs was born in san francisco. his mother, an unwed college student, put him up for adoption. he developed an early interest in computers. going to after school lectures at hewlett-packard. after high school, he attended reed college but only for one semester. at just 20 years old, he started apple computer in his garage with friend steve wozniak. we worked ha ....
and tell he once was famous for. a lot of talk about that tonight. we ll look back at the life of steve jobs with dan simon. reporter: steve jobs was a modern day thomas edison. you can do multifinger gestures on it and, boy, have we patented it. reporter: he didn t have a patent on his own look but he was rarely seen without tennis shoes, levi s and a black shirt. he was legendary for his flair and showman ship. amazing. the screen float mismidair. reporter: his mother, an unwed college student, put him up for adoption. he developed an early interest in computers. going to after school lectures at hewlett-packard. after high school, he attended reed college but only for one semester. at just 20 years old, he started apple computer in his garage with friend steve wozniak. we worked hard and in ten years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company. reporter: that was jobs in 2005. giving the commencement address at stanford ....
the foundation of apple. dan simon has the story of steve jobs incredible life. today apple is going to reinvent the phone. reporter: steve jobs was a modern-day thomas edison. you can do multifinger gestures on it and, boy, have we patented it. reporter: he didn t have a patent on his own look, but he was rarely seen without tennis shoes, levis and a black shirt. he was legendary for his flair and showmanship. amazing. and the screen literally floats in midair. reporter: steven paul jobs was born in san francisco. his mother, an unwed college student, put him up for adoption. he developed an early interest in computers, going to after-school lectures at hewlett-packard. after high school, he attended reed college but only for one semester. at just 20 years old he started apple computer in his garage with friend steve wozniak. we worked hard and in ten years apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 emp ....
fine. then after north carolina, irene could hit new york and new england late this weekend. keep watching for latest turns in the hurricane s track. right now, a firefight is under way outside a cluster of buildings in tripoli. libyan rebels believe they have moammar gadhafi pinned down. they believe he is hiding in apartments in his compound. rebels have put $1.5 million bounty on gadhafi. he is wanted by the international criminal court for alleged war crimes. moammar gadhafi s son, wants a cease-fire to stop the bloodshed in tripoli. saadi contacted nic robertson by e-mail. reporter: he said he wants to negotiate a cease-fire. he doesn t want it to be syria. he wants help in the negotiations. he says he has reached out to washington and reached out to nato. he wants help in doing this. rebels claim they captured three of gadhafi s sons this week, including saadi. but saadi s status is not clear. the number of americans filing first time jobless claims is u ....
up the east coast all the way to canada. this is a huge storm, folks. just check out the view from the international space station. we re all over irene, where it is, where it s going. we ve got jim spellman riding out the storm in the bahamas. john zarrella is in wrightsville beach, north carolina, and jacqui jeras here in the hurricane headquarters. jim, let s start with you. what s the situation there? reporter: good morning. the winds have been blowing like this for hours now. about an hour and a half ago they really picked up a lot. you can see the sea is being blown over the sea walls here, a lot of the low-lying roads along the coastal areas already have water on them. fortunately so far we have yet to see any major damage to structures. reports coming in just within the last hour of widespread power outages across the island, as you may expect, as lines get blown down. so far they have avoided that main blast. just about all of the tourists in the area that co ....