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Joins us. >> airlines watching these storms, 3,700 airlines, may have jumped to 3,900 airplane canceled so we're going to see what happens there. right now, though, stocks have not moved. traditionally, though, depending on where the weather -- we're early in the year. if, for example, this happened and we had a number of storms that would impact things in a much bigger way. the other big news worth noting this morning is actually we just learned that imports of oil down to their lowest levels in ten years, and that's a stre good sign because it means we're doing a lot more on our own. and the...

>> my wife has the -- >> sam, check that, see if it works. >> the only basically indestructible case for the iphone but it's not as sleek and it's not quite as sexy but it doesn't break. >> oh, my god, you broke it. >> did she break it? >> it's not working. she finally broke the blackberry. bla blackberry has a new version, the ten. people like it and apple with samsung, people think there's chinks in the armor. the famous hedge fund guy suing them over the $137 billion in cash because he wants more of it thrown back at him as a major shareholder. so that's the issue with the folks at apple. j...

Doing the manti te'o fell stost i fell, right on my face. >> i didn't know what to do. >> you did the right thing, you said, are you okay? >> i fell flat on my face. it was awful. >> it was a moment that i don't -- i don't know how i -- >> you don't remember it? >> it's okay, black it out. >> a couple of things business wise, we just had jobless claims come out, 330,000 initial claims, down 5,000 from the week before. the lowest since january of 2008. so some optimism with the economy. look at the stock futures, the nasdaq still negative, and that has to do with apple. i know you already talke...

Still, apple profits continue to grow. besides, the company has just an astounding amount of cash on hand, $137 billion in cash. you want to know how much money that is? well, it could buy every team in the nba ten times over. 14 billion plus for the nba. they can play the entire gdp of iraq and afghanistan. or, how about this, buy 54 empire state buildings, at $2.5 billion a pop. if they stacked them on top of each other, that pile would be 15 miles high. why that's relevant to you this morning? we have no idea why. we thought it was kind of cool. so we told you anyway. the insight you only g...

Could become fairly normal and move on to their lives. so i think this is a very exciting and very important-- and obviously this is only phase one of this publication and we need to duplicate the study in bigger rates and bigger numbers and better genes, but i'm convinced that a lot of our problems and issue with disease such as cancer and this kind of behavioral problem is all in the genes. and we're discovering the secret of this. >> so these again genetic markers to autism, that sounds like an expensive test. when this comes online, fully, all across the country and the world, how accessib...