it as far as tim cook, we've seen tim on stage several times with steve talking. he's a very confident leader, has a lot of loyal followers within apple. and of course you remember steve jobs has not been going to work every day at apple as it is. as chairman of the board, not a lot changes there. this is -- this is not good news for apple by any stretch of the imagination. but -- but stay calm, it will be okay for silicon valley and northern california's absolute most important company. >> it's interesting you say to stay calm. steve jobs is really everything about apple. he brought up tim cook, a workaholic. in terms of steve jobs, how would you describe him? this guy's tough to work for -- demanding and very perfectist, correct? >> absolutely. i mean, that is legendary as far as how much of a perfectionist he is. look at the products he gets out of it. extraordinary products that they can sell at a premium. the average laptop coming out of apple is far more expensive than anything else. and then of course look at everything that everybody's tried to do with tab

tim, doing well as always. thank you so much. >> thanks, alex. >>> presidential hopeful mitt romney, political, of course, is defending a controversial comment he made in iowa about corporations being people. romney, who leads national polls and several state surveys, is the most formidable republican challenger to president obama's re-election campaign. he says his comments were not a mistake. the former massachusetts governor was heckled for those comments during his first public appearance since thursday's iowa debate. >> corporations are people, my friends. we can raise taxes. of course, they are. everything from corporations ultimately goes to people. where do you think it goes? >> it goes down their pockets. >> whose pockets? people's pockets. okay. human beings, my friends. >> nbc's xaen garrett hake is following the campaign in new hampshire. a good morning to you. how is the romney campaign dealing with this latest episode? how do they feel that romney fairs against all the candidates in iowa right now

it's tim lincecum. tim lincecum with the bat. one big hopper. that was enough to make it 2-2. lincecum, the game winning hit. and on his 124 pitch, he gets him in the eight. he is 12-10 for the year. barry bonds like it, the giants win 2-1. and believe it or not, because his e.r.a is so low, lincecum creeping into the cy young discussion. he won it with 15 wins couple years goy. before the game, giants claimed heath bell. more saves than anyone since 2009, even brian willen is on the disabled list list. here is bell. >> it's brian wilson's bullpen. not mine. me just representing the giants as much as possible, if i do become part of that organization i will help that organization win a world series. >> the giants have till 10:00 a.m. friday to make a deal. guess who has a chance to sweep the yankees in new york? yep! he can't believe it. he is a yankee's fan. he is watching the oakland a's come from behind. nick swisher gone. he homers twice. the yankees led but in a tie game, coco crisp singled in scott. mark teixeira takes it back in the eight with a solo jack to tie it up 3

whether or not you thought tim pawlenty was going to win the nomination or the presidency, tim pawlenty is out of the race for a reason that statistically speaking makes no sense. first of all, tim pawlenty initially said if he finished anywhere better than sixth he would see that as a victory and stay in the race. he ended up finishing third and dropped out anyway. second of all, the decision point for him here was the ames, iowa, straw poll. basing a decision about whether or not to continue a presidential campaign on the straw poll is like basing that kind of decision on who's going to win a game of bingo. if you can afford to play only one bingo card and you're playing against somebody else who just bought 50 bingo cards, the 50 cards person is more likely to win. yes, there is chance and some skill involved, but basically you need a 1st grader's knowledge of math. it costs money to vote, costs $30 to cast a ballot. some of the candidates who really want to win the straw poll buy the ballots for people and then hand them out so the people to whom they hand out the ballots will vote

you mentioned tim pawlenty. the do you think she has her sights trained on tim pawlenty? he's the one she wants to get knocked out of the race the most? >> it surprised me thursday night during the debate. you know, it's difficult to tell whether she wants to get him out of the way now or whether that spat that happened at the debate just happened during the course of events or happened because pawlenty himself planned it. >> jamie, thank you. >> thanks, alex. >> we invite you to stay with msnbc today. we have live coverage of the iowa straw poll. we'll have live reports throughout the afternoon into this evening. >>> in history classes we are taught that abraham lincoln, winston churchill, martin luther king, we're taught they were great world leaders. all four dealt with some form of depression, at least that is what a new study claims. it goes further saying their depression helped these men lead in times of crisis. good morning, doctor. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me on. >> how did you come to this conclusion? >>. >> well, i looked into the backside

you can cross out tim pawlenty's name. he dropped out after a third place finish in the ames, iowa, straw poll. michele bachmann won the straw poll with over 4,800 votes. she squeaked out a victory over ron paul by 152 votes, however, her first place finish has led the media to declare bachmann a real contender. it was noted saturday night her vote total was roughly equal to the number of people who visited his blog that hour. but the real realignment in the republican race came with rick perry's presidential announcement on saturday. quick primer on perry, he served lieutenant governor to george w. bush starting in 1998 and assumed the governorship after bush became president. he was elected to full terms in 2002, 2006, and again this past november. he's run ten races and never lost a single one. the late, great molly higgins who claimed for george w. bush -- if american was only governed like texas, america would be a lot more like texas, which for perry could be a good thing. here's perry making the case in south caroli

tim pawlenty in third. after officially announcing in south carolina he's entering the republican presidential race, texas governor rick perry quickly headed to the first in the nation primary state of new hampshire. there he met and greeted voters at a house party in greenland, new hampshire. he also addressed those gathered taking aim at the president. >> we'll limit and we'll simplify our taxes. we will repeal this president's misguided, one-size-fits-all government-run health care plan. >> kristen killinger is in new hampshire live from the house party there in greenland where governor perry just finished speaking. well, he took some questions from those gathered. what did you learn? >> hi, chuck. that's right. he did. he talked about his immigration policy, that was one of the big questions that was asked. he said, look, in order to secure our borders we have to have boots on the ground. he also took some questions on foreign policy and said he'll be much stronger on foreign policy than president obama

so take tim pawlenty and michele bachmann. they've been fighting it out over whosee bachmann talks a go game. she fought t.a.r.p. and you got t.a.r.p. she fought health care and you got health care. she's not a leader. small slivers of thing. rick santorum could surprise people here today. if there was somebody that popped into the top three unexpectedly, he would be one of those folks that could do that. but he's been hitting rick perry and michele bachmann because he says they are so into the 10th amendment and states rights that they are overlooking this issue of marriage and they're not against gay marriage enough. they try to take little disagreements and blow them up into big disagreements. that's the nature of primary campaigning. >> what's the sarah palin factor there today? making a stop on her bus tour and not being on the ballot or saying whether or not she's going to run. what's it about? >> well, look, other campaigns fear that she's here almost as a rick perry surrogate. she herself said no, i'm still thinking ab

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he is -- it's funny, tim cook is sort of an operations guy. he was a lifer at companies like come pack and ibm before he came to apple. he really came to apple to manage inventory, make the trains run on time, and then he just really proved himself, and obviously took on much, much more responsibility. but there's nobody that knows this company better than steve jobs than tim cook. >> having said that, it's massive shoes to fill, now that he's got the ceo job. and part of steve jobs' brilliance was his personal marketeer for the whole company. and as an innovator. from what you're saying, it's not really the kind of thing that his successor is really that skilled at. will he have to learn that kind of ability, do you think, to go to these conferences once a year and excite the world the way steve jobs does? >> i don't think you can learn steve jobs. he is the closest thing the business world has to a super here rove. i don't think anybody would deny that. in terms of the marketing flair, i don't think tim cook needs to have that, to steer the

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i think tim pawlenty has a lot more to lose today than to gain. if he wins this he's still winning living in debt over rick perry. bachmann is certainly not going to bomb here. she's going to do well even if it's not a first place. you know, if he comes in third, really the question is where is the money going to come from even if he wants to go forward. so it really is a make or break day for him. and the organization, the money he's put into that, he acknowledges the campaign acknowledges how important this day is for them as well. >> all right. thanks so much, andrew rafferty with the campaign. there you see him standing behind the curtain. hoping the curtain, they're going to be introducing him, so we'll take a quick break, come back with more. special live coverage of the iowa straw poll continues after this. it's been a good year for chevy. and not because silverado's the most dependable, longest-lasting full-size truck on the road or because heavy duty made motor trend's 2011 truck of the year. no, it was good because you told us so. consid

there was a fight between tim pawlenty and -- well, not a literal fight, but back and forth between tim pawlenty and michele bachmann. and there was also a bit of scrap between rick santorum and ron paul over whether or not the united states is imperial or not. but mitt romney was sitting in the back and just watching the whole thing take place and probably just enjoying the whole spectacle. because he came out of it pretty much unscathed as the front-runner. >> although i saw an editorial, the winners of the debate were rick perry and president obama by virtue of the fact they weren't on that stage. >> that's a good point. is that people who weren't on the field yesterday, rick perry making an announcement tomorrow, as the straw poll is under way, that he is going to be running. and, of course, president obama, who was nowhere to be seen yesterday with the republicans. although, his name was -- he was pretty forceful in speeches he was making yesterday. and, hey, keep the football analogy alive. the president is going to meet with the green bay packers today at the white house. >> this

tim pawlenty quits his run for the white house. but look who finished first. where does the gop race go from here? >>> market madness. after last week's stomach churning ride on wall street, what can we expect when the opening bell rings tomorrow? >>> plus, one of many american towns that jobs are passing by. >>> and making a difference. some heavy hitters pitch in to keep kids on the path to success. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. we begin tonight with that horrible tragedy at the indiana state fair that turned an outdoor concert arena into a death trap. it happened last evening in indianapolis. the cell phone video was agonizing to watch because there it's plain there is simply no time to escape when a strong and sudden gust of wind first shakes the stage and then collapses it on to the crowd of concertgoers. tonight at least five people are dead, dozens are injured, and there are questions about how officials reacted to warnings of

as mark told us tim pawlenty wanted up his remarks. already from a couple of other hopefuls, rick santorum and ron paul. >> the problems are very large. they are very difficult. the solution is not complicated if you understand how we got into this mess. basically we got into this mess because we have lost respect for our law of the land, constitution, and we have lost our enthusiasm for freedom. that we ourselves can take better care of ourselves and take better care of our money and our lives and our children's education. the whole works has done much better without the federal government down on our backs and in our wallets. it is time we restored freedom to america. >> for every little bit of recognition we can get. i had to wave my hand and ask for recognition. this is the little engine that could campaign. >> what are the stakes for all the contenders going into this weekend's poll? caucus blogger michael sheer is covering the poll for "the new york times." national correspondent kate zerniki. michael, let me start with you since

tim pawlenty who will be at the soap box at 1:30 p.m. eastern time. >> i would like to address the previous caller's questions about entitlements and anton amon reform -- the one who said he was on social security. i understand where he was coming from. i called in a couple of months ago and spoke to congress and the sarah -- becerra, and he said republican plan was to means test and income level was going to be 20,000 a year. the democrats, the best i could gather from that side, their plan is more lenient, 254 american -- married company -- for a married couple and 200 for single. i think maybe three, five years -- they have hit us before like this with retirement and drawing social security, deducting one from another. means testing is a fancy word saying based on your income. we have to be prepared because money changed the bankruptcy laws in 2005 and they used the fancy used -- word means testing. everybody, just hang in there and we will just have to wait and see. thank you so much for taking my call and you have a blessed day. >>

former governor tim pawlenty and michele bachmann. th >>> meanwhile, mitt romney currently leading in the national polls among the gop presidential candidates. he's not in iowa today. instead he's focusing on new hampshire. last night he spoke to voters trying to clarify remarks he made at the iowa state fair when he said corporations are people. >> it's really astonishing to me that the obama folks would try to argue that businesses aren't people. what do they think they are? little men from mars? the businesses are comprised of people. it's amazing that the democrats and president obama are so far behind the times, they're locked in the 1960s, not to understand that when they tax business, they tax people. businesses are comprised of people. >> well, romney won the straw poll in iowa four years ago. president obama today is urging voters to afeel to lawmakers to end the partisan bickering in washington that's stalling progress. >> if you refuse to settle for politics where scoring points is more important than solving problem. if yo

tim pawlenty's hope is many the mechanics, the organization. they lined up a bunch of buses earlier. this is such a cut throat game that the paw electee people put aside the buses. the bachmann people said fine, we'll just ride your buses. >> the bachmann people riding in on the pawlenty bus. >> that's happened before. there's no sort of loyalty test twist this time is that the pawlenty people set up a shuttle. if you want to come in and vote, they'll take you in and vote they'll take you back out. you don't have to stay around and eat the barbecue, although, i sure will. >> we hope we can always. we've got some flies here. >> it's a fun place. >> let's talk about rick perry. you had an exclusive look at his announcement speech in south carolina tomorrow. he's in alabama raising some money for the party. thoed they go into charleston. today the kick off in new hampshire and then iowa sunday. he really is trying to steal the thunder from what's going on here. >> oh my goodness all the buzz is not only about rick perry how smart it is. this place

tim cook is going to come in and do just fine. but the visionary part, and we were talking about this earlier. this is steve jobs, a bay area emblematic of the silicon valley. born and raised here. he loves that and heat loves the visionary part of that. can that be duplicated? >> yes, it can. for now steve jobs wants to be chairman of the board. let's assume they'll appoint him to that position. that's the kwiequivalent of wha he's been doing now. there's no way steve jobs was coming in and balancing the books with a pencil. he has been the visionary and hands-off ceo for what, two years now since the first time he stepped away. >> but his deal is hands-on and he's a hands-on guy. >> a hands-on idea guy. a hands-on show me the product. a hands-on this is not good enough sort of guy and he can still do that as chairman of the board, i have no doubt. his student, tim cook, will learn from that as well. >> okay. we move on. thank you for your insight. we continue to cover the story. the buzz and speculation is in full effect. the nu

if tim pawlenty finishes three, is it pretty much over for tim pawlenty? >> i think he'll have is a tough decision to make. he will have to significantly -- as he told a few reporters, retrench and reevaluate. throw a lot of his staff overboard. he has the biggest overhead of any presidential campaign. he can barely afford it now. beginning monday, if he gets third place, he wouldn't be able to afford it. we'll have to see how bad he wants this, how much he wants to live off the land and sort of retrench. someone is going to emerge at the end of this process to be probably the alternative to mitt romney. he would have to go into hibernation for a while. >> bret: if he surprises, it changes the dynamic. >> he's got a second potential problem with rick perry getting into the race and tim pawlenty does not do well, he has the potential that a lot of supporters could go to perry, as could some of his top campaign talent. >> bret: is it possible that other campaigns who are on the ground here, the mitt romney folks, the perry folks, would help another campaign

>> tim pawlenty has the most to lose. he has moved his expectations around throughout the last few months. he had said in january that he needed to win or do well in the caucuses. once you say win, you have set a bar for yourself. now he has said about his caucus performance and his straw poll performance that he does not necessarily have to win, but he finished so low in the newspaper poll, that he needs to show improvement. he needs to factor into the story line coming out tomorrow. maybe that is first, second or third. if he does not finish strong and show that he has something on the ground here, he has to think about how long he can stay in the race because i what is very important to his campaign. >> tom moment, now with the associated press -- tom belmon aumont, now with the associated press. what is the price of admission? >> i think it is $25. >> it is $30 for admission, but for the tents, i think it is $30,000. >> the starting price was $16,000. >> does it feel like a carnival atmosphere? >> yes, it feels like a

i think what's happened to tim pawlenty in this race is very unfortunate. anyone who has met him will say he is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet in politics. and i think the best play for him in this campaign would be himself, basically. be the low-key slightly self-deprecating guy from the upper midwest who has a pretty good record as governor. instead, he's been forced in this desperation role where he's lashing out at romney and especially at bachmann. because bachmann is stealing his thunder in iowa. and pawlenty has this entire campaign now riding on the outcome of the straw poll saturday. if he finishes third, he probably doesn't make it through to the end of the year. so he's got to finish first or second. and so you saw that last night with pawlenty going after, with a line of attack that could tell over time. saying is she doesn't have accomplishments, and suggesting she's not that serious a figure. but that's the kind of judgement voters make five days before a real caucus or a real primary. i don't think that's going to work here in the

. >> tim has seen when that mouthpiece can do. he worked for mitt romney's 08 iowa campaign and dace detests romney. >> with mitt romney, he has no record on any issue, from the bush tax cuts to immigration amnesty, to life, to marriage, he has no record at all. >> so starting in late 2007 from his old station, who in des moines, dace launched his personal air war pummeling romney. >> we knew what he was saying and he helped turn out a new breed of evangelical voters. >> he has a lot of passion and it oozes out of the microphone and i think that he takes this really seriously. >> can i give someone an opportunity to prove they are the real thing and when they have that opening, can they exploit it and take advantage of it? you bet i can. >> huckabee won the iowa caucuses and if you look at the results in central iowa, the counties huckabee won ring des moines, while like a radio signal. >> that's where we helped mike huckabee is we helped him get known. but he still had to close the sale. >> earlier this week, dace predicted miche

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for example, if tim pawlenty doesn't do well and tim pawlenty is a very competent guy, i think his candidacy is finished. he has to finish in the top two or three or else he is in deep trouble. >> well, i want rick perry to join the race if for nothing else scaring the bejabbers out of everybody. >> that shows how old i am. >> good luck with the breakfast with the corporation. >> thanks. >> thanks to lady luck. you'll meet them next on msnbc saturday. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities. excuse me? my grandfather was born in this village. [ automated voice speaks foreign language ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. ♪ in here, forklifts drive themselves. no, he doesn't have it. yeah, we'll look on that. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that's it right there. [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. >>> in tech watch the federal deposit is working on plans to upgrade the nation's 911 system. the new one would allow you to send text me

and do or die for tim pawlenty. joining me in saim "washington post" white house reporter chris cillissa with us. and bloomberg view columnist. first to you, chris. let's talk about what you were seeing outside, long lines outside michele bachmann. could have been for the brisket, we don't know, the barbecue. randy travis, a lot of draws there. she has a lot of money to spread around not she's been handing out tickets. >> she has. there are reports that she handed out more than 6,000 tickets. if that's true, she's likely to win this thing. if you look at past results, basically the biggest we've ever seen was george w. bush in 1999, 7,418 -- don't ask why i know the exact number -- 7,418 votes. he won about 31%. that's the most votes we've seen anyone get. if bachmann is close to 6,000, we don't expect turnout to be anywhere near what it was in 1999. in 1999, 23,000 people voted. by contrast, in 2007, 14,000 people voted. if she can get anywhere near that number, she's likely to win. i think the person to watch real

tim pawlenty, yes, he's been sort of struggling. he has small crowds. he hasn't attracted as much pop as she has, but the republican voter s here who i talked to, some of them are beginning to understand that she's the candidate of the moment. she's probably a summertime candidate. i asked her this afternoon, she had a formal media availability in a town outside of des moines, almost like a presidential press conference. reporters were seated. she called on us by name, which was curious. i asked her what are your real accomplishments. she went back to minnesota. she talked about her education efforts, she talked about getting a marriage amendment on the ballot. i think when she is pressed on these, she knows that she falls up short. but the question is is there enough time for governor pawlenty? what are voters at the straw poll going to do? perhaps it's an unfair test for him, but he walked into this. tomorrow, like it or not, is important for him. and if he happens to do better than her, then i think she has a tough few months ahead. >> who can make t

tim pawlenty go after romney? i thought romney was the big target, he is the front runner. >> well, at the moment he is focused on iowa where the person who is eating his lunch is bachmann because they're both from neighboring minnesota. let me make the point i was making, juan. the point is that bachmann showed a capacity to do the things very, very well. that a lot of other women candidates have not been doing well. hillary can't attack without sounding shrill. sarah palin sounds defensive when she is rebutting charges, even when they're inaccurate. she managed to do both of those really well. and, romney to me showed an ability to laugh at himself. when he was challenged on investments that had gone badly or layoffs that had happened on his watch, he gave a sophisticated answer that really explained it carried the charge. i also want to mention santorum. until now now he hasn't been a factor in this case. his statements on iran. his aggressiveness on this issue i thought really put him on the map in this race i

shaping up as a critical test between michele bachmann and tim pawlenty. with a lot of grassroots support for ron paul. until those results are tab a little about an hour from now, the biggest news of the day has been rick perry, the texas governor declaring in south carolina that he wants to pink slip barack obama. we noticed something pretty interesting. rick perry also seemed to be channeling an even more iconnick democrat. take a look at this. >> we are americans! that's what we do. >> yes, we are all americans. this is what we do. >> well, teddy kennedy may not exactly be what rick perry wants to emulate, but it did seem like a little bit of copying from ted kennedy's final speech. of course, that was denver in 2008. as an experienced campaigner with a big war chest, perry, the long-serving governor, is an immediate threat to the field, especially tim pawlenty who needs a big finish in iowa to keep his hopes alive. joining me now, pawlenty campaign adviser phil mussert. you've been trying hard. the governor spoke. what do you do about being overshadow

. >> tim cook has been named the new ceo. he proved he can build high quality products and ship them out on time. apple's short-term plan is solid, but beyond that, the company needs another visionary. >> i don't think apple can be the same a year or two from now. they will start to vary and veer in some way. someone has to run that company. there has to be new leadership and in this business, you don't come in to run a company to babysit it and carry out what steve used to do. that's a formula for disaster. you need vision. >> and stock prices now trading down 5% in afterhours trading, the big test will come tomorrow morning on wall street at the opening bell. >> all right kit is live in cupertino. we are going to go to linda yee who is standing by with reaction from the apple faithful. the customers, right linda? >> well that's for sure. some people called jobs the soul of the company, the genius of the tech world. now that he's gone, will apple fans stay loyal? he's as iconic as his company symbol and steve jobs decisioned

the ones that had to do well was tim. you got the sense that, to use a baseball metaphor, any ball that was thrown remotely in front of him, he took a swing at it. he went after michelle. sometimes he did it in a serious policy way. sometimes he was cheap about it. same when he went after minute. you could feel the air of desperation with him. you see that with his campaign. there is a feel of a do-or-die moment with the straw poll. then you had michelle brockman, who early on seemed really prepared for getting hit. she was ready for these attacks by tim. she seemed to get tired. frankly, at the end, i think she came up with a position on the debt ceiling. when she came up on the debt ceiling and said, we never should have raised it under any circumstances, that is a minority view even inside the house republican conference. that is not going to go over well with the business community. that makes it hard for her to take this leak from being a tea party favorite and making the leap to a possibility of becoming a mainstrea

i will conclude i see the floor. >> thank you, tim. simon. >> well, now you know all about how computing. [laughter] let me give you a slightly different angle. i think of the cloud as being roughly categorized into two worlds. there is the clout as envisaged and manifested within the enterprise, which includes the city of santa francisco. large organizations of people who have i.t. needs. then there is another kind of clout, which is the cloud that is in your pockets, which is most of what jim spoke to. everyone of us walked into our job every day with a cloud in our pocket, okay? that is the apps that sit on your smart device. you are driving cloud adoption far faster than enterprise i.t. can adopt anything. actually, most enterprise i.t. shops since 2003, if you are lucky. we are delighted with this experience, delighted to innovate upon, and that is where you see all this amazing innovation on top of new form factor devices like tablets and smartphones, and yet, the real world, which is the world in which we live -- absolutely suck

presidential hopeful tim pawlenty at the mic. >> signed the economic recovery act into law. and it ignited in that time of challenge for our country massive revenue growth, massive job growth. massive economic opportunity for the american people, and as we face similar challenges today, we know what to do, don't we? >> yeah! we know what america needs, but unfortunately, barack obama has absolutely no clue. he is like a manure spreader in a wind storm. (cheer (cheers) >> about hour years ago, barack obama came through iowa and convinced the democrats of this great state to catapult him toward the white house and they did. but today's the day that republicans in iowa, independents in iowa and conservatives across this country send the message that barack obama's got to go. [applaus [applause] >> he's been talking a lot about the full faith and credit of america's debt and barack obama should put his full faith and credit in the american people. [applause]. now, the way forward may not be easy, but it's not complex. and as we look over the history of this great nation, we know

new chief is tim cook. what will apple look like with cook in. >> cook is doing the day to day stuff while steve jobs was still involved with apple but not with the intensity that he used to zblb tim cook is not the next steve jobs. he is the guy that steve jobs' play book and he is going to do what is involved in the short term. >> just last week when they opened the store, new apple store and crowds were crazy as they always are at apple events. they waited for hours to be the first one through the door. there was no new product. there may be one in the next couple of months. that is good news for apple shareholders because it looks like there is enough in the pipeline for the foreseeable future to keep things rolling. iphone 5 coming up in the next few months. still it is trading about $357 a share. in half an hour we'll find out what the folks over on wall street think about steve jobs is out. he is still chairman of the board but the ceo, day to day hands on person like he has been. >>> we posted steve