here is john blackstone. >> the orangutan! >> orangutans can fill us with wonder. >> partly because they are so much like us. >> they are so closely linked to humans. >> but these two at the oregon zoo, 52 years old inji and omigosh are part of a species fast disappearing. >> all of the apes are endangered, the orangutans are at a critical point right now. >> jennifer davis runs the zoo's primate program. >> she recently wanted to see orangutan's plight firsthand in their most important habitat. >> so i blue to sumatra and i expected to see just lush tropical rain forests and as far as i could see it was just palm oil plantation. >> huge plantations were producing palm oil, are wieng out the rain forests in sumatra where most orangutans live. >> you would be amazed just how many product it is in, it is in shampoos, it is in soaps, it is in your biscuits, including some very, very well-known brands, in chocolates and it is everywhere. >> singleton who heads the orangutan program in sumatra says the biggest threat is the growing

john blackstone on the fast disappearing orangutan. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> cowan: good evening, i am lee cowan. tropical storm isaac tonight is battering the florida keys, it is primed to power up to a dangerous category ii hurricane and forecast a hit to florida's panhandle all the way to louisiana, including the new orleans, some time on wednesday. that would be the seventh anniversary of hurricane katrina. right now, isaac stretches more than 200 miles from its center, with top sustained winds of 60 miles per hour. today president obama alerted fema to get ready to help states in the path of that storm and louisiana has already declared a state of emergency. we begin our coverage tonight with manuel bojorquez in key west, manuel, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening, lee, the worst of tropical storm isaac passed over the keys this afternoon, but officials here in key west say the night could still be dicey, with the continued risk of squalls, conditions like we are

john blackstone with the engineer behind the mission. wildfires in oklahoma. residents return for what's left of their homes. and they made the ultimate sacrifice. david martin with the 13-year-old doing all he can to help their families. >> you were working 15, 16 hour days. >> it was a sacrifice i was willing to make. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott's off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. why? it's the question we all ask when congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot last year it's the question we asked after the colorado shooting two weeks ago. it's the question being asked today after the shooting at the sikh temple in wisconsin yesterday that left six dead and a lawman and two other people critically wounded. why? why would someone walk up to innocent people and just start shooting? this is the man police say did it: 40-year-old wade page. elaine quijano is in oak creek, wisconsin, tonight, the site of this latest tragedy. elaine? >> reporter: well, bob, police are not giving a mot

john blackstone is looking a a new generation of rover on the surface of mars captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> and good evening, i'm jeff glor, police are calling it a case of domestic terrorism, a gunman opened fire during a service this morning at a sikh temp nell oakcreek, wisconsin. 12 miles south of milwaukee. the gunman killed six people and wounded three others before being shot and killed by police. law enforcement sources tell our homeland security correspondent bob orr this evening they are trace a semiautomatic pistol used in the shooting. president obama said this afternoon he is deeply saddened by what happened. >> reporter: the shooting occurred just before the start of a religious service at the sikh temple of wisconsin which served the congregation of about 400. >> our officers responded to a 911 call. and because of the heroic actions of our officers they stopped this from being worse than it could have been. >> reporter: the first police officer who responded to the scene was shot by the gunman. >> our officer, a 20 yea

john blackstone has our story. >> liftoff! we have a liftoff! >> reporter: the lunar land we are neil armstrong and buzz aldrin aboard was a mile above the moon's surface when aldrin said they got an indication something was wrong. you're coming in to land on the moon for the first time and alarms are going off in your spacecraft. >> right. and we had not memorized all the program logs. >> reporter: in mission control in houston, flight director gene kranz was already worried about a guidance error and poor communications. >> the tough decision i had to make was did we have good enough communications to continue the descent or should we wave off. >> reporter: the spacecraft came out from the dark side of the moon and it looked like there was going to be trouble right away. >> (laughs) we were... we had a peck of trouble there. >> reporter: it looked as if the landing was going off course and might have to be aborted. >> abort is not a word you use casually at mission control and, boy, everybody picked up at that time and we knew we were in for a

the curiosity is scheduled to touch down sunday john blackstone shows us before it lands seven minutes of terror. >>> the most complex and expensive robot ever sent to mars depends on a landing never attempted before. this animation shows the car sized rover name: curiosity " lord on cables dangling beneath their rocket-propelled platform >>> the first time offered up it was called rover the team said that was crazy and we put it aside >>> previous rovers' bounced on the planet wrap it in airbags but curiosity is 10 ft. long and weighs a ton is too big. >>> in which came upon the sky crane which we've come to love >>> in engineers created the largest strongest parachute ever made. at 200 mi. per hour the rocket breck's will switch on the sky crane would jam the lower curiosity to a penpoint landing on the martian crater. if anything goes wrong the two and a half billion dollar mission could be ruined. >>> it will be tense but it does not go without a nice big reward. >>> the first images could come back to earth within one half hour of the landing than curiosity spends two years search

john blackstone cbs news >>> from the cbs 5 weather center officials sundown a 12th as the sunset we captured the plume of smoke from the chevron a fire refinery the want to thank our viewers for sending in a incredible pictures to cbs 5 winds will play a important part as to how the particulate matter disperses across the area. winds up 217 miles per hour tomorrow morning winds are expected to blow 20 mi. per hour that will be beneficial to clear out the atmosphere. bay area quality district says air quality should be good. tonight a layer of clouds at the coast in the '50s, high pressure builds cent over the four corners states, our temperatures are going up inland. tonight overnight a blanket of clouds roll and we start with stratus early tomorrow, '50s and '60s beaches to low 90s in the in areas before they heat moves in. tomorrows high as 56 days at the coast all the way to 80 in the peninsula 88 @ morgan hill, a up to 91 in brentwood low 90s for the try valley. north bay stacking up to 85 at santa rosa. extended forecast calls for a triple digits in lend each and every day and

john blackstone cbs news >>> today's research at today's hearing was recessed after three half hours >>> problem pled ballot measure in south bay has won a legal battle that faces a second, a judge ordered affects on they have billion dollar parcel tax from santa clara valley water district the expiration date said on june 30th, 2029 instead of 2028, a second problem likely in court, a taxpayer group says it will sue over at the start meeting to fix another minor mistake because they fail to give the public the required notice me. a failed parcel tax in the east bay as a silver lining the east contra costa fire district has accepted and $8 million federal grand allow it to reopen three stations and hire a couple of dozen firefighters the cuts can after voters rejected a tax in june. >>> battle over a south bay mosque not over yet despite objections in san martine it will be billed reporter kiddos as the islamic community accuses the city of imposing unfair conditions. >>> it has been a bittersweet summer >>> is there some racism or islamic phobia? >>> yes there are, >>> this 15 a. pl

curiosity touchdown last night after the seven minutes of terror john blackstone shows us out nasa did it. >>> in mission control the team for 10 years working toward this day watched nervously as curiosity near the end of its 350 million mi. voyage to mars a decade of your life resting in the last few minutes >>> difficult to describe >>> adams dulcimer led the team that came up with a crazy idea landing the car size rover on mars by loring get on cables from a jet propelled platform lots of things could have gone wrong but nothing did. >>> touchdown confirmed >>> that room exploded >>> there were hugs high-five's tears. an image from a nasa satellite shows rover dangling from the parachute that slowed its descent to mars as we talk today still snoring was e-mailed another photo from mars. >>> a picture from power heat shield of curiosity being dropped that is amazing. >>> he seemed unlikely candidate for developing a complex planetary landing ever >>> ipads geometry with an f + because the teacher did not want to see me at third time >>> curiosity has started its mission expected to

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bullish case for the s&p rally, byron wien of blackstone gives us his argument. he called the move. [ male announcer ] at scottrade, you won't just find us online, you'll also find us in person, with dedicated support teams at over 500 branches nationwide. so when you call or visit, you can ask for a name you know. because personal service starts with a real person. [ rodger ] at scottrade, seven dollar trades are just the start. our support teams are nearby, ready to help. it's no wonder so many investors are saying... all ] i'm with scottrade. >>> welcome back. big strength in financials. jpmorgan, citi, up 3%. you can see right there pretty nice gains there. what do you think? >> yeah. some of the regional bank names i suggested in the past, tcbi, names like that, taking profit on here. what i have done personally is rolled out of the individual financial names. just want that broad exposure. still think they could go higher. in the near term you may see selling pressure. >> you had gotten back into jpmorgan. still there? >> still there. to me this is part of

here's john blackstone. >> reporter: in mission control, the team that for ten years had been working toward this day watched nervously as "curiosity" neared the end of its 350 million mile voyage to mars. a decade of your life resting on what happened in that last few minutes. t> yeah. it's difficult to describe. >> reporter: adam steltzner led the team that came up with many called a crazy idea-- landing a 2,000 pound car-sized rover on mars by lowering it on cables from a jet-propelled platform. lots of things could have gone wrong by nothing did. t-prouchdown confirmed. ed.eers and applause) >> reporter: then that room exploded. >> yeah. >> reporter: there were hugs, high fives, tears. >> yep. >> reporter: an image from the nasa satellite shows the rover dangling from the parachute that slowed its 13,000 mile an hour descent to mars. as we were talking today, steltzner was emailed another picture from mars. >> that's a picture of our heat shield below "curiosity" dropping away toward the martian surface. just came down. that's amazing. >> reporter: in high school, he seemed an unl

here's john blackstone. >> reporter: in mission control, the team that for ten years had been working toward this day watched nervously as "curiosity" neared the end of its 350 million mile voyage to mars. a decade of your life resting on what happened in that last few minutes. >> yeah. it's difficult to describe. >> reporter: adam steltznerer? led the team that came up with many called a crazy idea-- landing the 2,000 pound car-sized rover on mars by lowering it on cables from a jet-pro felled platform. lots of things could have gone wrong by nothing did. >> touchdown confirmed. (cheers and applause) then that room exploded. >> yeah. >> reporter: there were hugs, high fives, tears. >> yup. >> reporter: an image from the nasa satellite shows the rover danging from the parachute that slowed its danging from the parachute that slowed its 13,000 mile an hour descent to mars. as we were talking today, steltzner was mailed another picture from mars. >> that's a picture of our heat shield below "curiosity" dropping toward the martian surface. just came down. that's amazing. >> reporter: in

john blackstone is at the courthouse in centennial, colorado. john. >> reporter: bob, it was a one-hour, 20-minute hearing in which james holmes did not seem to be engaged in any way. he sat with his hand shackled, folded in his lap, often just staring at the courthouse ceiling. when james holmes first appeared in court july 23, his demeanor and expression raised questions about his mental state. in court today, he seemed little changed. as holmes stared wide-eyed around the courtroom, defense attorney daniel king referred to him as mentally ill. he told the judge, "we cannot begin to assess the depth of mr. holmes' mental illness until receiving more documents in discovery." holmes' orange hair is fading with darker curls showing beneath. he has grown long sideburns and a mustache. there was one outburst. a young woman with a shaved head shouted to the judge she had information vital to holmes' defense. not even that seemed to get holmes' attention as he stared into space. >> he seems like he's crazy, yes, definitely. >> reporter: miranda norse

john blackstone reports. >> orangutans can fill us with wonder. partly because they're so much like us. but these two at the oregon zoo are part of a species fast disappearing. >> all of the apes are endangered. orangutans, we're at a critical point. >> jennifer davis runs the zoo's primate program. >> open. good boy. >> she recently wanted to see their plight firsthand in their most important habitat. >> i flew to sumatra and expected to see lush tropical rainforests. as far as i could see it was palm oil plantations. >> huge plantations for producing palm oil are wiping out the rainforests in sumatra where most of them live. >> you'd be amazed how many products it's in. it's in shampoos, soaps in your biscuits, including very, very well-known brands. it's in chocolates and it's everywhere. >> ian singleton who heads the orangutan conservation program says the biggest threat is the growing demand for palm oil. >> it's a very, very precarious situation. >> those working to save the animals are asking consumers to start looking for a label like thi

here's john blackstone. >> when the package from holmes to dr. fenton was discovered in the university mail room, investigators sent in the bomb squad, fearing it contained explosives. instead, investigators reportedly found a notebook with crude drawings that seemed to suggest planning for a mass murder. while much about holmes remains a mystery, documents from the university of iowa released today give some insight. in his 2010 application to graduate school at the university, holmes wrote, he had a strong desire to explore the unknown. he wrote about working at a camp where children with schizophrenia were heavily medicated saying this did not solve their problems, only create new ones. in response to holmes application, one university official advised do not offer admission under any circumstances. this time in court james holmes seemed slightly more engaged, talking briefly a couple of times to his defense attorneys. but he still often had that strange wide-eyed look as he peered around the courtroom. i did not see him look directly at the p

john blackstone, cbs news, san francisco. >> o'donnell: diana nyad is forced to end her swim from cuba to florida. will she try again? that story is next. next. [ male announcer ] this is anna, her long day teaching the perfect swing begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. more than 50 times a day? so brighten your smile a healthy way with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. it's the only rinse that makes your teeth two shades whiter and two times stronger. ♪ listerine® whitening... power to your mouth. >> o'donnell: diana nyad is back on dry land tonight. her goal of becoming the first person to swim from cuba to florida without a shark cage ended early this morning. she did cover about 48 miles which means she could have crossed the english channel twice but could go no farther. elaine quijano was in key west for nyad's arrival. >> reporter: an exhausted diana nyad swam the final yards of his 103-mile journey. it was a symbolic finish while short

as john blackstone reports, facebook isn't the only internet company facing a tough market. >> reporter: three months ago facebook employees cheered as founder mark zuckerberg launched the social network as a publicly traded company. for a few hours that day, facebook was valued at more than $100 billion. today it's worth half that. >> has the social media bubble burst? >> it depends how you're viewing it. if you're an investor, you could definitely make that argument. >> reporter: brian cooley is editor at large at the site c-net. social networking was hot and then hot. >> wall street judges hot differently than the rest of the world. it's all about momentum not necessarily just about size. >> reporter: with nearly a billion users, facebook is still huge but its slowing growth rate has left investors disappointed. same thing with the on-line gaming company that went public in december at $10 a share and is now trading at just $3. groupon, the discount coupon site started at $20 a share. it is now trading under $5. a few months ago enthusiasm for social media stocks was so high, the sta

john blackstone has more. >> reporter: much of the huge market for mobile devices could feel the shock waves from apple's billion-dollar win over samsung in the california courtroom. cnet writer josh loewensten followed the trial. >> it comes down to he said/she said of who created something. >> reporter: samsung is not the only maker of look-alikes. >> for a lot of other cell phone makers who have similarly looking devices they may have to think how to redesign phones and tablets. >> reporter: the verdict sharpens the competition with google. android phones now outsell iphones three to one. apple said the verdict sends a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right. samsung called the verdict a loss for the american sewerage which could bring potentially higher prices. the company says if will appeal, and for now, at least, the affected products will remain on the shelves. and this isn't the only legal clash between apexpel samsung. a judge in south korea yesterday reached a split decision in a similar patent case. the two technology giants are battling in courtrooms around the wo

john blackstone reports. >> orangutans can fill us with wonder. partly because they're so much like us. but these two at the oregon zoo are part of a species fast disappearing. >> all of the apes are endangered. orangutans, we're at a critical point. >> jennifer davis runs the zoo's primate program. >> open. good boy. >> she recently wanted to see their plight firsthand in their most important habitat. >> i flew to sumatra and expected to see lush tropical rainforests. as far as i could see it was palm oil plantations. >> huge plantations for producing palm oil are wiping out the rainforests in sumatra where most of them live. >> you'd be amazed how many products it's in. it's in shampoos, soaps in your biscuits, including very, very well-known brands. it's in chocolates and it's everywhere. >> ian singleton who heads the orangutan conservation program in sumatra says the biggest threat is the growing demand for palm oil. >> it's a very, very precarious situation. >> those working to save the animals are asking consumers to start looking for a lab

john blackstone, cbs news, pasadena. >> pelley: best of luck. from attic to auction, baseball cards collecting dust are now collecting a fortune. next. es like a squirrel stashes nuts, you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® liquid gels. nothing starts working faster than zyrtec® at relieving your allergy symptoms for 24 hours. zyrtec®. love the air. today training depends on technology. and when it takes a battery, there are athletes everywhere who trust duracell. they rely on copper to go for the gold. duracell. trusted everywhere. they rely on copper to go for the gold. for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux disease. osteoporosis-related bone fractures and low magnesium levels have been seen with nexium. possible side effects include headache, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. other serious stomach conditions may still exist. talk to your doctor about nexium. you know how hard if yit can be to breathedo, and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control m

john blackstone has the story. >> the lunar lander hills was 1 mi. above the moon service when buzz aldrin said they got an indication that something was wrong. >> your coming in to land on the moon for the first time, and ones are gone off? >> yes, we had not memorize all of the programs. >> the flight director was already worried about a guidance error and poor communications. >> the tough decision i had to make was, did we have good enough communications to continue the descent, or should we wave off? >> the spacecraft came from the dark side of the moon and a look like there would be trouble right away? >> we had a lot of trouble there. >> it looked as if the landing was going off course and i have to be aborted. >> aboard is not a word you use casually in mission control and never won perked up at that time and we knew that we were in for a battle. >> in 2000 of from said he was going into a dangerous looking greater. >> there were steep slopes covered with very large rocks about the size of an automobile, that was not accomplish someone to try

john blackstone spoke to the man with armstrong that historic day and how the mission almost didn't happen. >> lift-off. we have a lift-off. >> reporter: the lunar lander with neil armstrong and buzz aldrin aboard was a mile above the moon's surface when aldrin says they got an indication something was wrong. you're coming in to land on the moon for the first time and alarms are going off. >> yeah. >> reporter: in your spacecraft. >> right, and we had not memorized all the program alarms. >> reporter: in mission control in houston, flight director gene kranz was already worried about a guidance error and poor communication. >> the tough decision i had to make was did we have good enough communications to continue the descent or should we wave off? >> reporter: the spacecraft came out from the dark side of the moon and it looked like there was going to be trouble right away. >> we were -- we had a peck of trouble there. >> reporter: it looked as if the landing was going off course and might have to be aborted. >> abort is not a word to use casually in mission control, and boy, everybody pic

john blackstone, cbs news, pasadena. >> pelley: best of luck. from attic to auction, baseball cards collecting dust are now collecting a fortune. next. next. es like a squirrel stashes nuts, you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec® liquid gels. nothing starts working faster than zyrtec® at relieving your allergy symptoms for 24 hours. zyrtec®. love the air. today training depends on technology. and when it takes a battery, there are athletes everywhere who trust duracell. they rely on copper to go for the gold. duracell. trusted everywhere. they rely on copper to go for the gold. for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux disease. osteoporosis-related bone fractures and low magnesium levels have been seen with nexium. possible side effects include headache, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. other serious stomach conditions may still exist. talk to your doctor about nexium. you know how hard if yit can be to breathedo, and what that feels like. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps con

john blackstone is looking a new generation of rover on the surface of mars. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> glor: and good evening, i'm jeff glor, police are calling it a case of domestic terrorism, a gunman opened fire during a service this morning at a sikh temple in oak creek, wisconsin. 12 miles south of milwaukee. the gunman killed six people and wounded three others before being shot and killed by police. law enforcement sources tell our homeland security correspondent bob orr this evening they are trace a semiautomatic pistol used in the shooting. president obama said this afternoon he is deeply saddened by what happened. enest ferre begins our coverage. >> reporter: the shooting occurred just before the start of a religious service at the sikh temple of wisconsin which served t c

john blackstone with more. >>> the most complex and expensive robot ever sent to mars depends on aligned and and never attempted before. this animation shows the car sized nuclear power rover name " curiosity " will be lowered on cable's bolt a rocket-propelled platform. >>> the teen said that is crazy >>> previous rovers' bounced on the plan that wrapped in airbags but curiosity 10 ft. long and weighs a ton is too big. >>> we came upon the sky crane which we live >>> engineers created the largest supersonic parish you'd ever made. at 200 mi. per hour the rocket power brakes which john, and the sky crane jim miller's curiosity to a pinpoint landing in the martian crater. if anything goes wrong the two and half billion mission could be ruined. >>> will be tense but it as a big reward at the end. >>> information will be transmitted within a half-hour transmitting evidence of mars was capable of caring life. >>> i use robots to extend our human reach it is absolutely exploration >>> after suffering budget cuts nasa hopes success will read it night enthusiasm for planetary exploration. failu

john blackstone on a daring mission to mars. and elaine quijano goes to the hometown of gabby douglas. >> it makes meantime to push myself harder. >> pelley: the history-making powerhouse of gymnastics. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. too many unemployed workers chasing too few jobs-- that is the bottom line in today's unemployment report from the labor department. hiring did pick up in july with 163,000 jobs created, more than twice as many as june. but that wasn't enough to keep up with the growing demand, and so the unemployment rate ticked up 0.1% to 8.3%. unemployment has been at 8% or higher for three-and-a-half years. nearly 13 million americans are out of work. rebecca jarvis now on the competition for the new jobs available. >> i applied for seven different jobs just on monday alone. and i haven't heard back on any of them. >> reporter: carol hardon is 62. she lost her job as an office

john blackstone is at the courthouse in centennial, colorado. john. >> reporter: bob, it was a one- hour, 20-minute hearing in which james holmes did not seem to be engaged in any way. he sat with his hand shackled, folded in his lap, often just staring at the courthouse ceiling. when james holmes first appeared in court july 23, his demeanor and expression raised questions about his mental state. in court today, he seemed little changed. as holmes stared wide-eyed around the courtroom, defense attorney daniel king referred to him as mentally ill.

says john blackstone shows us the technology sometimes kills results that so and no one ever expected. did waves millis 10 days old and is given up for adoption in 1960. i had been looking for my biological mother for my entire life. he grew up in montreal. questions about who he was. it's like having a picture puzzle into pieces missing. finally he turned to technology. the sent down to california. a test tube from the silicon valley 23 and renamed after the 23 pairs of chromosomes in human dna. in this region the information gathered by 23 and me is the most personal of all the genetic code. third is your information. and there co-founder of 23 and me she's married to a survey grand a co-founder of google her goal is to make a genetic information as accessible as google has made so many other information. on the 23 and the web sites they can learn how third genetic makeup may play a role in more than 200 diseases in physical traits we started the company with the idea that we want to do something revolutionary. where consumers can come learn tons of information about themselves and

john blackstone with the geometry-failing engineer behind the mission. wildfires in oklahoma. residents return for what's left of their homes. they mey made the ultimate sacrifice. david martin with the 13-year- old doing all he can to help their families. >> you were working 15, 16 hour days. >> it was a sacrifice i was willing to make. captioning sponsored by cbs veaptioning sponsored by cbs with scott pelle this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> schieffer: good evening, scott's off tonight, i'm bob schieffer. why? it's the question we all ask when congresswoman gabrielle 'sffords was shot last year it's the question we asked after the aglorado shooting two weeks ago. it is the question being asked estionafter the shooting at the it is the sikh temple in wisconsin yesterday that left six dead and a lawman and two other people why?ically wounded. why? why would someone walk up to innocent people and just start shooting? this is the man police say did it: 40-year-old wade page. elaine quijano is in oak creek, wisconsin, tonight, the site of this latest tragedy. e

blackstone and general atlantic taking 87 million each. td ameritrade and nicolaus will take the rest. they will own 70% of the firm. market cap dropped to $397 million from over a billion on wednesday. following a trading glitch that cause ad $440 million loss. the company's outstanding shares seen more than tripling to over 50 million to 98 million. while the deal is not finalized the ceo saying he was comfortable with cnbc reporting. as i mentioned this came after a wild weekend where you saw a number of interested parties filtering in and out of knight's headquarters throughout the weekend. citadel's ken griffin was among those coming in with a grouch bankers. citadel was more interested in just buying the trading platform. we'll have more on this coming up later. knight ceo tom joyce will be sitting down with our own bob pisani. stay tuned for that. >> quick question before we go. by the way, thanks for talking over the cops there. but -- >> it was a fire engine, andrew. >> fire engine. hopefully not a fire there. anyway. the question

reporter john blackstone shows us face book isn't the only internet company facing a tough markets. >>> three months ago face up employees cheered as founder mark separate launched a social network as a publicly traded company. for a few hours that they face book was valued at more than $100 billion. today is it is worth half that as the bubble burst it depends on how you're doing it if you're an investor you could definitely make that argument. bryan cooley is editor at large that the technology tracking websites social never came. it was tots and that it's not wall street judges how differently than the rest of the world. it's all about momentum not necessarily size. with nearly 8 billion users is still a huge but is slowing " growth rate has left investors disappointed same thing with seeing that the online gaming company that went public in december at $10 a share is now trading at just $3. coupon discount coupon sides started at $20 a share and is now trading under $5. a few months ago enthusiasm and 30 would make $1.9 billion in taxes on facebook stock sales now that cash strapp

million deal are investment banking firms jefferies, stephens and stifel financial, private equity giant blackstone, trading competitor get-co and customer t.d. ameritrade. ameritrade was one of knight's big customers that stopped doing business with it after wednesday's trading trouble. ameritrade has since returned as have other big customers. as for its investment in knight, an ameritrade spokesperson tells n.b.r., quote, "we have an interest in preserving choice and competition in the markets," end quote. knight capital matches buyers and sellers of thousands of stocks and billions of shares. it also buys and sells stocks itself, helping keep money flowing, so when it's new trading software had a problem, the firm was stuck with hundreds of millions of dollars in losing trades. that sent shareholders fleeing, driving down its stock price, leading knight to look for help. but the assistance comes at the expense of diluting current shareholders interest. that pressured knight stock today, down 24%. knight's rescuers get preferred stock that may be converted to common stock at $1.50 per share plus

and they say that every member of the parliament gave them to blackstone, the writer and eventually got too many others and had a tremendous impact. some said it industry. blacks in america felt that if they ran from virginia to massachusetts they'd be free. but it didn't work and it started with a call freedom suit, but it wasn't. then he had a tremendous influence from people in france. he had found something called a society for friends of the blacks. but that wasn't the first time the french had come together. the french had slave and congress, and senegal in places like dykema said they they were becoming wrist by that. at one point there was much debate. it was formed with ideas of freedom and no slaves. in fact, some of the work and what he did those who brought about the haitian revolution in 1791. a lot of this can be traced to the ideas that they eventually put forth. >> host: professor jackson, is anthony benezet known at all today? wears his legacy? >> guest: very important question. next will be 300 years. it is one reason i decided to write this book. everywhere that they

john blackstone is at the courthouse in colorado. john. >> reporter: scott, today, james holmes came face to face with the psychiatrist who once treated him at the university of colorado. now, dr. lynne fenton told the court their doctor-patient relationship ended on june 11. on that day, dr. fenton said, she reported concerns to the campus police. the next day, holmes' access card to the university was canceled. now, more than a month later, on july 19, the day before the shooting, holmes put a package in the mail to dr. fenton. when the package from holmes to dr. fenton was discovered in the university mailroom, investigators sent in the bomb squad fearing it contained explosives. instead, investigators reportedly found a notebook with crude drawings that seemed to suggest planning for a mass murder. while much about holmes remains a mystery, documents from the university of iowa released today give some insight. in his 2010 application to graduate school at the university, holmes wrote he had a strong desire to explore the unknown

john blackstone, cbs news, centennial, colorado. >>> "moneywatch" time on this friday. the buildup for ben bernanke's speech. ines ferre with more. >>> how the stock markets move could depend on what the federal chairman says. bernanke is expected to give his assessment of the struggling u.s. economy during a meeting of bankers in wyoming. investors will be looking for signs about what the fed may do next. more worries about china's growth sent market down. tokyo's nikkei dropped 1.5% to hit a four-week closing low. hong kong's hang seng lost a quarter of a percent. >>> wall street stocks ended lower as investors wait to hear what bernanke says. thursday, the dow industrial average lost 106 points, the nasdaq was down 32. >>> consumers did some spending this major. some of the nation's major reers say it was up in august. and industry trade dprups back to school buying drove sales higher. >>> amazon says the kindle fire tablet computer is sold out. the tablet was launched last november. amazon won't say how many were sold but it captured about 22% of u.s. tablet sales m

since the nato bank's popular uprising resulted in a doctor's ousting and deaths last year an editor of blackstone news molten milton on the knowledge it believes the security situation in the country lonely gets wise before it can any chance of getting bad start. it's not definitely known who could be behind these kind of actions i think what might be disturbing is that normally when these kind of activities start they don't just and so sadly there could be such more actions as similar explosions in the days and months to come and judging by the situation on the ground it's not clear that things are any better in libya today than before the nature intervention i think there's a rush to try to create a semblance of normalcy you really cannot have stability without addressing the issues of the weapons that are widely available at the end of the day the people that really exercise power in libya today are the armed militias there was some talk and the international criminal court that nato would have to be brought to account for what amounted to war crimes who is going to address those issues so rat

it right there thank you so much mr milton ali maji who is the publisher and editor in chief of the blackstone thanks for being on r.t. . right other news in brief now egypt's president mohamed morsi will visit iran for summit at the end of the month it is a first trip there by an egyptian leaders his relations with to run down decades ago the invitation was delivered earlier this month by iran's vice president to the first high ranking official to visit egypt in years current to run they have not had full diplomatic relations since one thousand nine hundred eighty following iran's islamic revolution and egypt recognition of israel. the u.s. military top general martin dempsey has arrived in afghanistan for a meeting with senior afghan officials over a recent wave of the so-called friendly fire tacks against international forces the latest on sunday two afghan police mentoring their weapons and with troops on the border with pakistan killing one ten u.s. soldiers have died in such incidents in the last two weeks of. the wife of former chinese communist politician has been given a suspended dea

john blackstone takes a look at the verdict and what it all means to us, the consumer. >>> much of the huge market for mobile devices could feel the shockwaves from apple's billion dollars win over samsung in the california courtroom. >> this is a really big deal. it comes down to this he said she said argument of what created something. >> the jury agreed apple created software for on screen actions like pinching and zooming. and the arrangement of icons on the screen. samsung is not the only maker of look alikes. >> for makers they might have to rethink how to design phones and tablets. >> google maker of the android software runs on many smartphones and tablets. android phones now out sell iphones by 3-1. apple said the verdict sends a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right. samsung called the verdict a loss for the american consumer, which could bring potentially higher prices. for now at least the effective products will remain on the shelves. this isn't the only legal clash between apple and samsung. a judge in south korea yesterday reached a split decision in a similar