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Speaking of hot, another record performance on wall street sizzling. the mercury is rising, so is the dow. the s&p 500 closed with more than $15 trillion in value. to give you perspective, its not enough to cover the current year, $17 trillion of national debt. it shows how huge the stock market is. for the year, the dow and s&p gained 19%. the nasdaq rallied 20%. one of the best pulse checks on the global economy will be released this morning, thats general electric earnings. wall street is lis...

>> arthel: do we like windows 8? >> yeah. we have a lot of good things to say about it. we think that the touch friendly interface is really interesting and its kind of the wave of the future for these devices, for all devices. >> arthel: even on cars they have the touch screen. >> absolutely. yeah. so the surface tablet is really interesting. maybe rick can show you. >> rick: yeah. >> snap off the removable keyboard and snap it back on again. they offer you a couple choices of key boards, too. ...

Rollout of the surface tablet was a little on the modest side and facebook was up 4%. welcome news for that social networking giant. back after the break. [ male announcer ] humana and walmart have teamed up to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. ♪ with a low national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on your medicare prescriptions is easy. ♪ so youre free to focus on the things that really matter. call humana at 1-800-808-4003. or go...

The dow, s&p, and nasdaq moving less than a point each. facebook was a winner today after losing ground earlier. it ended nearly 5% higher. apple shares lost about $4 each. the stock is down now more than 23% from its mid september high. and microsoft fell about 2% after ceo steve balmer acknowledged distribution of its surface tablet was modest for its initial launch. thats it from cnbc, first in business worldwide. now back to "hardball." ♪ welcome back to "hardball." over the past year we...

Out the pen and paper. here are a few. an $1800 battery and pedal powered bike. microsofts new surface tablet. and what looks like a delicious $40 blue velvet cake. even at 5:00 in the morning. just ahead, bill karins is going to have the all-important weekend weather forecast. plus, how one family in eastern pennsylvania is making the best of being without power. well give you some ideas. youre watching "first look" on msnbc.

Ongoing war against apple, its weapon of choice, the new surface tablet microsoft thinks it has an ipad killer. but dont laugh just yet because microsoft could be on to something. >> this is tear tablet, first hardware device they are making, it is a tablet wannabe. >>guest: it is. it is exciting, though, for those who physical microsoft and who have been wanting them to succeed. they rolled owe the windows phone early this year it is beautiful. or last year. they upgraded it. it is beautiful so...

>> it latches on to the side and has a keyboard embedded in it. its a touch aung san suu k kyiboard but works like a normal keyboard and has a touchpad built in. >> the display is bright and beautiful and looks good from all angles. sounds like rob. microsoft isnt saying when the surface tablet will go on sale or how much, but its supposed to weigh about 1.5 pounds. >> six out of ten tablet computers sold are ipads. apple has a 62% share of the market. so, they got -- >> and when one of the exec...

Year. 17,000 of those relate to do credit cards and most of those the latest buildings. microsoft taking a bite out of apple. >> it could be the ipad killer. i dont know. microsoft new surface tablet does everything the ipad does not. i have one for instance i buy a lot of accessories to go with it i bought a key board and stand. the new surface tablet which is making the hardware is going to have that built in stand, the cover will be coming with it all of this fancy stuff. the key thing is t...

Keyboard built in. >> it latches on to the side and has a keyboard embedded in it. its a touch aung san suu keyboard but works like a normal keyboard and has a touchpad built in. >> the display is bright and beautiful and looks good from all angles. sounds like rob. microsoft isnt saying when the surface tablet will go on sale or how much, but its supposed to weigh about 1.5 pounds. >> six out of ten tablet computers sold are ipads. apple has a 62% share of the market. so, they got -- >> and whe...

the new ipad competition. will it actually give apple a run for its money and it happened in a matter of seconds. this guy walked up to a picasso in texas and then he does that. spray paints the masterpiece. what did he write? and is it permanent? and good morning to you. im carol costello. thank you so much for being with us today. we begin with a story that really has us buzzing this morning. you are about to see why. but first, a warning. some of you might find the next image ...