>petey died. petey was straight up dead. >> jimmy: petey was dead. he was dead. but you fake buried him. >> all right, hold on. first of all, my dad came up to me and said, "i want you to bury because i'm not good with dead things." [ laughter ] 'cause i love dead things. like most 13-year-old kids i just was like -- when i heard petey was dead, i ran downstairs. >> jimmy: i'm the undertaker, baby. >> it was the middle -- first of all, new hampshire is the granite state. it is so hard. it's like ice cold ground. went out there with a shovel. gave it a solid 30 minutes. and like, this much dirt. i did like that much dirt. and then petey and i had a moment. which, by the way, like this -- [ laughter ] >> and he came up, like, "i think petey's dead." we went down. we were like, "think?" >> yeah. so i did. by the way, i waited like five years before telling anybody. i thought it would be like, "ha-ha, good story, old chap." and then it was like the three of them just stared at me like i was a murderer. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, you're 3 for 4. which was a much bet

petey was straight up dead. >> jimmy: petey was dead. he was dead. but you fake buried him. >> all right, hold on. first of all, my dad came up to me and said, "i want you to bury it because i'm not good with dead things." [ laughter ] 'cause i love dead things. like most 13-year-old kids i just was like -- when i heard petey was dead, i ran downstairs. >> jimmy: i'm the undertaker, baby. >> it was the middle -- first of all, new hampshire is the granite state. it is so hard. it's like ice cold ground. went out there with a shovel. gave it a solid 30 minutes. and like, this much dirt. i did like that much dirt. and then petey and i had a moment. which, by the way, like this -- [ laughter ] >> and he came up, like, "i think petey's dead." we went down. we were like, "think?" >> yeah. so i did. by the way, i waited like five years before telling anybody. i thought it would be like, "ha-ha, good story, old chap." and then it was like the three of them just stared at me like i was a murderer. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: well, you're 3 for 4. which was a much

. >> thanks to the people at victory gallup, petey and richard miller have been walking through these resolving doors -- >> been so great at it. i love this little guy. >> and riding up the elevator for the past 12 years. they're here to visit children in their hospital rooms and bring them a little joy. >> your arms stretch out that way better. >> petey is the only pony in the country who visits kids right on their floor and right in their room. >> this is petey. >> it's a great experience. an experience to be able to watch him interact with the kids. you know, he's just brightening up their day, man. five minutes at a time. >> it makes their day and makes their stay a little more special. >> it's exciting to see a big smile. he was kind of down yesterday. >> not a day goes by that we don't bring petey that you leave the hospital feeling like you've made a difference in somebody's life that day. >> the young patients get a photo of themselves with petey and also a little stuffed animal named after their now favorite horse. >> i think it just helps in their overall stay here it helps

the young patients get a photo of them swestles petey and a little stuffed -- themselves with petey and a little stuffed animal named after their now favorite horse. >> we will look at the headlines when we come back. >> and also a look at your commute which is getting really busy on the harrisburg expressway. we'll let you know about an accident. >> a sunny start to your workweek. details on your seven-day forecast are just ahead. >> welcome back to 11 news today. it's 6:44. some contentious hearings begin today as the public service commission review a proposed deal between constellation energy and e.d.f. opponents of the proposal argue that the $4.5 billion deal benefits only constellation's shareholder and executives and contain's no relief for rate payers. constellation officials say the state does not have the authority to weigh in on the deal since it does not impact b.g.e. operations. a ruling is expected by mid october. the ravens kicked off their season in the win column with the high-flying offense. the ravens set a franchise high for offense as well as personal bests in thre

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and speedy petey says, you may not always agree with any president. but you may walk away bert informed on how to decide. to avoid it is your ignorance. a face book one. i am a dad and will never pray for a kid who lost their dad, i will pray for that pastor, not for his death, but for him to find love and peace in his heart. so there you have it. a lot to comment that we're going to be getting throughout the day. we're going to be continuing in just a little bit. in fact when we come back, it's been a big year for myself and for my staff and for all of us. and everybody who makes this show happen every single day. wait until you hear what we have prepared for you, to mark this our one-year birthday, it's not a cake, but you're going to like it. >>> welcome back, i'm rick sanchez, one year ago today, we began this newscast, this national conversation, this experimental melding of main stream media with social media. and you know what? it's worked. the number of people who watch it this hour has grandson by enormous percentages and that's cool. so we f

so you might want to go see and get yourself some puts, petey, because you need a little -- >> cautious kochts. >> and we talked about yesterday the fact that they've gotten to a level where they've had a little struggle in the past. you look at some of the runs they've had, norfolk southern, for instance, it's near the 52-week highs. you look at burlington northern. these stocks are at areas where they seem to fail and have a hard time. >> the dow theorist thing i've definitely made mention of that. but with fed ex note this people calling it a leader because 80% of their volume is domestic traffic. the reason for these numbers, the upgrade is international traffic. in china going to india. and this is the problem. this is not necessarily the leading indicator that fed ex is telling you today if you want to believe it. >> the other problem is that they raised the forecast that they lowered. so sort of backtracking in terms of managing their assets out there. >> i'll tell you technically there's very little resistance at 76 and you can have a clear glide path up to 80 in fed ex. i like

and petey's been on it for about 319% of it. that's a name that works. buy wlt -- >> heat has also been on the coal names. in addition to you that want to talk about natural gas right now. i truly believe natural gas has found a bottom, enough of a bottom that you can go in and buy a lot of these equity names, apaches, xtos, eog. natural gas, listen to president clinton this morning, it is going forward going to be the transportation fuel. it's part of the solution and i think natural gas levels have found a sort of bottom. >> but even though stores are at a high you think natural gas levels area at a bottom? >> i think those storage levels will be worked off very quickly, clearly there are bearish fundamentals in place but i think the market has already priced that in. >> and wait till that happens. and i agree with you, by the way. i think at some point that's going to work. i don't know when that's going to work for natural gas in the meantime you lean on metallurgical coal. talked about met lurnlgic coal but also thermal coal and the demand is real a

so you might want to go see and get yourself some puts, petey, because you need a little -- >> cautious comments. >> and we talked about yesterday the fact that they've gotten to a level where they've had a little struggle in the past. you look at some of the runs they've had, norfolk southern, for instance, it's near the 52-week highs. you look at burlington northern. these stocks are at areas where they seem to fail and have a hard time. >> the dow theorist thing i've definitely made mention of that. but with fed ex note this people calling it a leader because 80% of their volume is domestic traffic. the reason for these numbers, the upgrade is international traffic. in china going to india. and this is the problem. this is not necessarily the leading indicator that fed ex is telling you today if you want to believe it. >> the other problem is that they raised the forecast that they lowered. so sort of backtracking in terms of managing their assets out there. >> i'll tell you technically there's very little resistance at 76 and you can have a clear glide path up to 80 in fed ex. i lik

and petey's been on it for about 319% of it. that's a name that works. still a short interest there. buy wlt -- >> heat has also been on the coal names. in addition to you that want to talk about natural gas right now. i truly believe natural gas has found a bottom, enough of a bottom that you can go in and buy a lot of these equity names, apaches, xtos, eog. natural gas, listen to president clinton this morning, it is going forward going to be the transportation fuel. it's part of the solution and i think natural gas levels have found a sort of bottom. >> but even though storage levels are at a high, you think natural gas levels area at a bottom? >> i think those storage levels will be worked off very quickly, clearly there are bearish fundamentals in place but i think the market has already priced that in. >> and wait till that happens. and i agree with you, by the way. i think at some point that's going to work. i don't know when that's going to work for natural gas in the meantime you lean on metallurgical coal. i tell you what, peabody energy c.e.o.

the crew today -- petey, we were on the conference call this morning and tauging about the good things in the premarket. the deal activity and s&p raising its forecast by 2010. is gold killing this rally? >> well, i don't know if it's killing it, but it's muting it. we knew gold was going to be higher. volatility last week was absolutely crushed. probably some due to the fact that we are above 1,000 back again now in the s&p 500. i still look at gold as a bit of a hesitation move. i think it's a smaller percentage. on the other side, if you want a positive, look at copper. it's pushing $3. >> we had goldman sachs raising its copper. if we are to believe speculators are behind this climb, should we not be concerned too much about what gold is saying? >> i'm sorry, i'm lost on the double negative there. >> can we take the move higher in gold as historically it's been. no negative. >> the three letter acronyms. i believe it's a tertiary factor to the market. i don't think gold the leading the market. the fact is, as you see, economic recovery percolating throughout the globe, there are go