: mattel has long maintained that the creator of bratz stole the idea from them. the doll's designer used to work for them. >> i think any industry that has invention and innovation at its core is going to be incredibly protective and secretive. >> reporter: in 2008, a california jury ruled in mattel's favor, awarding barbie $100 million. >> it was a giant court battle over a little girl's doll but about a big business. >> reporter: last summer, the 9th circuit court of appeals stood up for the girls with a passion for fashion, ruling that the queen of the doll market could not just chop off the heads of any pretenders to the throne. the judge ordered that barbie is relatively demure where as bratz are urban, multiethnic and trendy. dolls with attitude. in other words, the two products are plenty different. he ruled, quote, america thrives on competition. barbie, the all-american girl, will, too. >> reporte so, bratz got a retry. this time, a jury of her peers cited with her. now barbie has to pay bratz nearly $89 million in damages and there could be punitive dam

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. >>> a major legal defeat for mattel. a federal court jury found that the toymaker does not own the sketches or the idea for bratz dolls, made by mga entertainment. the jury also found the rival toymaker did not steal the idea for the dolls from mattel. mattel must now pay mga $88 million in damages. >>> another recall from toyota. letters are going out to the owners of more than 200,000 rav-4 and 94,000 hilander vehicles. toyota needs to fix a problem with the air bag sensors. that may inadvertently make the air bags deploy. no injuries have been reported. that's your "moneywatch." for more just head to cbsmoneywatch.com. in new york, i'm alexis christoforous. >>> just ahead on the morning news, the controversy grows over smartphones tracking your every move. >>> plus astronaut mark kelly on his wife gabrielle giffords, as he prepares for his mission next week. this is the "cbs morning news." here's to my pants not leaving marks on my waist. achieve small wins with a healthy lifestyle and dannon light & fit. the light fr

a federal jury ruled mattel does not own the sketches or the idea for the popular bratz dolls made by mga entertainment despite the claim that the designer made the drawings while employed by mattel. >>> finally, not sure what to do with that drawer of t-shirts? for about $250, you can have them made into a soft and cuddly quilt. >>> the dodgers manage to ignore disrakss about in their faceoff with the braves. plus lebron james and dwyane wade plow ahead with their playoff charge. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> heavy rain and flooding is in the forecast right into the weekend. your weekend forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if you're just waking up, this is "early today." in sports, the indiana pacers are now deeper in the playoff poll with derek rose leading the way for the bulls. here's nbc's mario solis with an early look at all your sports headlines. >>> good morning. he did it all season long and now derek rose is carrying the bulls in the playoffs. to indy for game three against the pacers rose driving into a crow

. >>> toymaker mattel has faced a major blow in court. mattel had claimed that mga entertainment stole the idea for the bratz dolls. mga has now been awarded $88 million in damages. >>> a couple of senators have questions this morning for apple. they want to know why the iphone and ipad are collecting tracking data on users and what all that is being used for. some european governments also say they will investigate whether apple is violating privacily laws. but security experts say companies like apple and google regularly collect this information and could eventually use it for location. based marketing. >>> more and more people are saying no to that age-old question, you want fries with that? numbers show fewer of us are ordering french fries at restaurants. more people are ordering from the dollar menus and passing on the combo meals that do include the french fries. probably helping out the waistline a little bit. >> hamburgers have passed french fries as the most-ordered food in recent years. >>> coming up next on your friday mornin

. >> susie: the battle of the bratz is over, and the winner is not mattel. a federal jury says mga entertainment owns the rights to the popular line of dolls. the verdict came after a three- month trial over copyright infringement, and a dispute that's lasted a decade over who owns the drawings on which the dolls were based. at their height, the bratz raked in more than a billion dollars in revenue for mga. mattel had claimed it lost $300 million in profits. >> tom: amazon.com's cloud computing systems went dark overnight, and continue to have problems throughout today. the trouble happened with amazon's computer servers that host web sites for other companies. social network foursquare was among those taken down during the outage. the amazon service allows companies to store data and run software without having to own the technology themselves. >> tom: stocks and metal prices continue climbing, despite nervous investors, and that's a good sign according to tonight's market monitor. mark leibovit is chief market strategist at vrtrader.com, and author of "the

the court ordered mattel to pay for copy right infringement. a traunt chain adopted a plan to fend off a take over. for the first time in three weeks, wall street closed the week in positive territory. the dow gained 52 and nasdaq add 17 partly on the strength of apple two and half percent on a strong earnings report yesterday. >> the glitch that left a lot of social networkers lost in the clouds today. we'll tell >> an out age in ama zon. then people could not acess because was problems run by ama zon.com. four square reported out ages. ama zon rents out computers. they are investigating the problems. >> a new uc berkeley study links exposure to pesticides to lower intelligence stores in children. the study focused on agriculture and people living in the valley. >> are there way to grow productively. and can we use less amount of the chemical. >> they suggest that all pregnant women should wash fruits and vegetable to avoid exposure to pesticide residue. >> san francisco park reopened first time since a dog died there. the dog's symptoms mimic

waverly her tenth example search of the mill stone who took some country house holiday in the bull mattel's the rim brands the crew made the choice to feel the most acute much of the oil the rubens hotel. you know this is our take on the second now the main stories we're covering and the libyan regime has a bluntly rejected the deal proposed by the opposition call for the cease fire exchange for troop withdrawal from the resignation of colonel gadhafi. and an israeli investor get seven years in a georgian jail toughman complete to the dr lee says it was set up by the georgian government which owns him a hundred million dollars apiece to pay the debts. of. work on cleaning up and securing the fukushima crowds will take longer than expected and went nuclear facilities leading some to question if japan could be. the next explore the russian side of paris with mawson entries in the moscow. the one. zero hour welcome to the show on this week's program i'll be taking a look how bush lost history and culture in paris how much better to stop in the epicenter of. a loose museum unlikely place to fin

pedigree and we're now once again topping the timetables in practice ahead of the chinese grand prix mattel's red bull team mate mark webber second place on friday a slippery track hardly stopping the power from running rampant in shanghai bought a pair of michael owen calls on the suv behind to fall behind lewis hamilton and jefferson bottom separated from the winning by in the hundreds of seconds rushers with the early future all finished in the talks and the renault driver who claimed the third spot on the podium in the opening grand prix say it's nine. goals now and j.j. hanrahan still saying share the lead after the opening day's action sinking in birdie mode on the sixteenth both human hands are a hole in their efforts to god. for the day on thursday last as runner up and defending champion in san antonio adam scored has decent chances of retaining his title though lying just back alongside the group will pull players all over the man of the opening day was korean american kevin not was to the goals record books in style his struggles on the line for any human score of sixteen that's th

oil prices with oil hitting one hundred twenty two dollars a barrel the silver companies are probably mattel. are worth more than four percent because underlying silver processors are up strongly against a day hitting new record highs we saw weaknesses in x five the retail company on speculation of the company i mean merged with a global retail giant in a move which would dilute the company's exposure to the fast growing russian consumer market and either from the business for today join my colleague or even really care and she will be bringing you an update to morrow morning eight moscow time that's for me i'll see tomorrow. disarming saddam hussein. target iraqi citizens. this event brings further assurance it's a torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever. playfellows again over embassy in kabul. chance to launch occupied afghanistan. and now occupy sales at guantanamo bay. met. it is appropriate to get a record of this which is which if he didn't have a good face slap stomach slap if you can shoot him enough so that it shocks especially for just the stuff but you don't actua

hotel the old waverly hotel a canal so to the mill stone hotel some country house holiday inn the full mattel's the rembrandt the crewmate the chesterfield the most acute hotels the royal the rubens has no. top stories this hour on t.v. publisher of a kind. the website which supports an internationally wanted terrorist goes on trial for helping chechens enter finland illegally however the country's authorities continue to turn a blind eye to his links with extremism. the actions of nato and libya should return to a diplomatic level if you go beyond the limits of the un resolution says the russian foreign minister so you have all of this summit with the unknowns in berlin . and the global financial system must be overhauled to prevent future disasters as the russian president's economic meeting in china the asian girls. with more on those stories with less than fifteen minutes from now the meantime sport is next with natasha. hello and welcome to this live sports update with our t.v. headlines this hour on. a long flight back in the cage finals against a love bug winning game four to come up in

ok mattel if i go back to you it's interesting let's put this all into a global environment here we have a lot of volatile volatility when it comes of our oil prices we have events playing out in the greater middle east where no one can predict predict an outcome. the u.s. is still grappling with its deficit and the dollar is is all the time as well i mean how does the how do it how do russian companies go out in markets themselves with this tsunami going on in the world. but i think at the moment the full of this global forward to it is name i will see play fable to russia and russian companies because i think it's russia still as i mentioned seen. one of the group a clone and then i wanted to draw and i quote the story so as a result the scene at the moment the fact of having prices skyrocketing things to recede in the middle east developing. north african and global world instability this is rather how paying russian companies to present themselves because i think here as opposed to quick rise the store while pre-crisis russian companies was positioning himself as you know companies w

mattel is coming out with a new doll aimed at 6-year-old girls that promotes waxing and shaving. [ scattered groans ] creepy white van sold separately. [ laughter ] doesn't come with it. and finally, i don't know what to make of this, a man in california was busted for smuggling a cell phone into jail inside his rectum. [ audience groans ] it's pretty bad, he's been butt dialing his friends all day. [ laughter ] the friends are like, "call me bad, dude, it sounds like crap. i don't know what to tell you." [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show tonight! give it up for the roots! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: happy friday, everybody! hope you have a great weekend. we have a huge show tonight. they are starring in the new movie "limitless," which opens everywhere today, bradley cooper and the one and only -- [ cheers and applause ] -- mr. robert de niro on tonight. robert de niro was my first guest ever on this show. he's the nicest human being on earth and one of the greatest actors. and i'm just psyched to have him back on the show and be able to talk with him. i love

this is targeted toward 3-year-olds. >> 3 to 13. >> mattel made a statement. they said girls see female body images everywhere. they say it's important to remember barbie is a doll 11.5 inches. >> she is not a real person, we know that. the point you're trying to make, barbie alongside all the other ones, is a cumulative effect to make a young girl say, gee, i don't look like that. what's wrong with me. >> congrats, girl. >> hope you got an a on it. >> thank you. >> you're adorable. >> it's green week at nbc. >> yes. >> we have a little contest that people already entered and now we are judging this contest. it's ways you can take things you would normally discard and turn them into thinks you can use. >> like spanx? >> why would you reuse them? they fall apart eventually. >> you don't want to put them in land mines. >> these are the finalists. someone created out of zippers jewelry. which actually look cool. >> very clever. >> very retro looking. beautiful. and these brooches. >> these brooches made of zippers. finalist number two created earrings, these are

mattel is coming out with a new doll aimed at 6-year-old girls that promotes waxing and shaving. [ scattered groans ] creepy white van sold separately. [ laughter ] doesn't come with it. and finally, i don't know what to make of this, a man in california was busted for smuggling a cell phone into jail inside his rectum. [ audience groans ] it's pretty bad, he's been butt dialing his friends all day. [ laughter ] the friends are like, "call me back, dude, it sounds like crap. i don't know what to tell you." [ laughter ] ladies and gentlemen, we have a great show tonight! give it up for the roots! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: happy friday, everybody! hope you have a great weekend. we have a huge show tonight. they are starring in the new movie "limitless," which opens everywhere today, bradley cooper and the one and only -- [ cheers and applause ] -- mr. robert de niro on tonight. robert de niro was my first guest ever on this show. he's the nicest human being on earth and one of the greatest actors. and i'm just psyched to have him back on the show and be able to talk with him. i lov

all this a mattel, westbound, no delays, very late especially on the right side of your screen. golden deep-101, easy ride. thi they're still reconfiguring the lanes. >> mark: thank you, police arrested a suspect in in the act in the fatal shooting of a man inside his own home. police responded after woman called nine and when saying her ex-boyfriend was at her house with a gun. when the officers arrived they found a male resident suffering from multiple gunshot wounds the woman's ex-boyfriend fled the scene but was later arrested. >> darya: the city council of state carlos voted not to outsource its fire department. it also approved redwood city to handle its fire operations. many were opposed to the private company who would've taken over they say they have never handled or rent in municipal fire departments before. >> we run the kennedy space center, cape canaveral. but never for city. >> reporter: do think it would be challenging? speak- e yes for them and press. >> what happens if they fail, will any of you guarantee that they can save my house? >> at 3:00 a.m. when i want