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hi there, everyone, im j.j. ramberg. and welcome to "your business." where we give you tips and advice to help your business grow. every halloween we always scare up a good small business story, from haunted houses in atlanta, to an entrepreneur who makes sofas out of coffins. well, today, were taking you to meet witches in salem, and to hear about some entrepreneurs in nashville who were forced to innovate after getting a little smoke in their eyes. well, when the fog started to lift,...

Hopefully theyll know the fate of amanda knox and her former boyfriend by this weekend. alex? >> okay. certainly winding down. thanks so much. well, amazon is angling to take a big tech bite out of the apple. the online retailer unveiling a tab december let device called the kindle fire. will it catch fire with buyers and eat in to the core of apples already booming ipad business. whoever wrote this is sharp. lets go to dan ackerman. whats the low down on this in terms of whether or not this t...

implore you to -- as a citizen of this country to please, sir, to reconsider. >> that heartfelt message you gave me is also not a reason for me to do it. that reason has to reside inside me. i thank you for what youre saying. and i take it in and im listening to every word of it and feeling it, too. >> im joined by tara tadel and ron christie. welcome to the both of you. >> thank you. >> good morning, alex. >> ron, the governor didnt exactly slam the door shut. he said im feeling it, t...

welcome to the both of you. >> thank you. >> good morning, alex. >> ron, the governor didnt exactly slam the door shut. he said im feeling it, too. but the question is, why is the gop so obsessed with christie? >> well, i think hes a successful governor and a blue state of new jersey. hes done very well to help balance the budget and work across the party lines with the democratic legislation to balance the budget but the fact of the matter is, alex, i think this is a lot of courtship ...

>> you cant keep talking about this car in the ditch. im so tired of that ditch and that car. >> all right. lets get you live to kristen welker at the white house. lots of back and forth here. what is the white house saying now? >> reporter: well, the white house is saying look, they wanted to move this date because their priority is to get the presidents message out about jobs, but certainly a big back-and-forth yesterday. the white house came out and said that the jobs plan would be ...

about the plan? we have been getting glimpses of it all week. heres the president on tom joyners radio show. >> theres no doubt we can take steps that would mean the economy was growing a percent or percentage and a half faster, that could mean half a million to a million additional jobs. >> yesterday at the white house, he called on congress to extend bills that would keep road workers and faa employees on the job. >> im also proposing that we reform the way transportation money is in...

premeditated because it is. but any way you slice it, any way you put it together, casey anthony is guilty of murder in the first degree. >> a dramatic day in court. and now drama as we wait for a verdict. nbcs lilja luciano is at the courthouse in orlando. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, jeff. definitely were waiting -- yes. >> go for it. >> reporter: im just waiting like everybody else in the middle of a great deal of tension outside of this courtroom. people are gath...

were not facing another great depression, thank you very much, so we dont need people jumping out their window. people are in a state of real fear, there is no question about it. if you look at the statistics on the economy that have come out in the last month, theyve almost all been negative. but sometimes things are bleakest before the dawn, and i think thats the case right now. but youre right, the big problem is because people are in such a state of fear, theyre not spending, busin...

im tamron hall. "news nation" is following several big stories this hour, including the new mitt romney/nbc news interview and the latest on decision 2012. right now, live pictures of the florida courtroom where it has been a dramatic day in the casey anthony murder trial. casey anthonys mother cindy has been on the stand all day. and she is still there now. earlier, she broke down as prosecutors introduced perhaps their biggest piece of evidence so far. the 911 call cindy anthony, the...

>> im a mac. >> oom im a pc. thats funny stuff. when it comes to operating systems, it largely comes down to personal taste, budget and i.t. and software needs. walking us through a quick comparison is dan ackerman, senior editor at cnet.com. good to see you. >> great to see you. >> i always use my pc. all of my good friends use macs and they have the cool factor. younger, we said we would open a restaurant and they would design it. they like mac better. how do we decide? take it down in chunk...