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Watts. this l.e.d. bulb from ge is only 9 watts. you're saving at 30 watts of energy every hour that you operate it. >> saving, you've given us an estimate of 75 bucks, that's over the life of the bulb? >> yeah. the savings of energy alone will more than pay for the bulb over the life. >> when is that going to be available? >> it will be available later this year. i have a demonstration here i can show you, it looks very much like a true incandescent light bulb. at 40 watts it's giving out the same light level, similar light level. it's giving out the same color and giving out the same distrib...

>> hey alex we continue to monitor the weather conditions that were in play when air asia flight 8501 was last heard from moving over the java sea. the weather a big factor across this portion of the world. it's flying through the area that we shorthand call the itcz. we talk about this during the summer months in the u.s., where we would look for tropical storm or hurricane development. but year round, it is a portion of the world infamous for huge thunderstorms. and these bright red colors are indicative of thunderstorm tops approaching 50,000 feet, far above the flight level of about 30,000...

The time that this was going on. what do you mean by that and what does it mean? >> well, certainly it means that the airplane was at a, what's known as a flight level. that would be considered pretty normal for a commercial aircraft. so anywhere between about 30,000 and 42,000 feet. we don't know specifically where it was, but that's typically where aircraft spend most of their time in cruise. as that's unfolding over the ocean, you can glean from the information that's being retrieved from the satellite thus far that this airplane was in a relatively stable condition and did not suffer the k...

Union membership as a portion of the labor force has declined, but the one place where it has gotten a foothold is in government and state workers. if these eupian rules go through, the new nonnegotiating rules go through, which in effect remove the union's ability to negotiate anything significant, it limits them to a cost of flight level, that sort of thing, and in reality, it seems to encourage the lack of a union. they're controlled to do exactly the same thing around the country. if state workers and state worker unions are so threatened, isn't this the most serious harm that could possib...