. >>> another powerful man fighting for gender equality is richard branson. the multibillionaire owned everything with the virgin brand. i sat down with branson to talk about how to even the playing field between the sexes. his answer force change and if it takes government action and quotas so be it. >> there's no question than women get paid less than men. >> he's one of the world's billionaires business pioneer richard branson built his empire at a time when boys ruled the boardroom. four decades later, that time is still now and so is branson's ever present quest to reject the status quo. >> we have to get to a situation where women feel 100% welcome when they go to work whether they have children or not got children whether they're pregnant or not pregnant. they must feel that have a chance to become president or chief executive of the company. >> branson teamed up for debate with cheryl sandburg and other corporate leaders. >> it's awesome to see you leaning in. >> well i like women. >> i like that you say that. >> i find that women who run virgin compa

richard branson's version group is getting a new gain. the company's new enterprise plans to take a run at what it calls participatory fitness events like running and cycling. she now runs new york road runners, the group behind the new york city marathon. the new firm will be headquartered in new york. those are your top stories. coming up in the next half-hour at the bloomberg market day, emily chang will give us details on the verizon-aol deal. tim armstrong will speak to me in the next half-hour to tell us why shareholders should like the deal. also, we get earnings from zillow and go daddy. is desperate for growth, unveiling plans to add kale to the many appeared it wants to snag customers who want healthy food but is this a real reversal for the company, which released an anti-kale add mocking vegetarians. joining me to discuss is mike and bloomberg business week's susan, who has done extensive coverage on the turnaround plan. what does the switch to kale represent? >> the ads were the predecessor's's. to createe an attempt mcdonald

sir richard branson's virgin group says he is getting a new game. the company says the new enterprise called virgin sport is going to take a run out what they call it discipline toward a fitness events such as running and cycling. the announcement says branson has hired harry wittenberg as the executive and she currently runs sick -- new york city road runners. the new firm would be headquarters in new york. olivia: those were your top stories. still to come, much more, including verizon making that $4.4 billion bet on aol. about -- big banks meet big pot. they need financial services to go but a lot of banks don't want anything to do with it. pimm: a picasso painting sells for $179 million, smashing previous records. we will show you some of the other top pieces of art that were ever sold at auction. back to our big story of the day, verizon has agreed to acquire a well in a deal valued at $4.4 billion. that sent a will shares soaring. mccracken joins us now to discuss this all and on the ventures.is eric of the former chief executive of the huffin

it has a giant s.hole that opened up at the top of the rock course in branson. the sinkhole 60 feet by 80 feet and it's 35 feet deep. heavy rain in the area combined with a possible cave below the course are thought to be the cause of the collapse. not leaving golfers scrambling. anyone with a tee time is still able to play. >> how would you like to be lining up for a shot right where that happened, and go down with it in the sinkhole. >> oh, well, gees, if you wan there you should say thank goodness no one was hurt. i wouldn't imimmediate my golf game at all because it's bad. >> a big hazard. >> thank you for joining us. that does it for us at 5:00. thank you for your time. see you again at 6:00. >>> welcome to "world news tonight." >>> breaking news -- not guilty. the cleveland police officer who stood on the hood of a car and fired, cleared. the barrage of bullets that killed the unarmed people inside. the reaction coming in right now, and the police chief's plea to parents tonight. >>> weekend washout. no holiday for millions of americans. the tornado threat

a few years ago, i had to introduce richard branson, you know -- >> seth: sure, of course. >> virgin records and airlines. and at a birthday celebration, i had just started dating ted turner. and so, i bring richard branson up on stage and he said, you know, you're responsible for me bursting my stitches. and i said what? he said "when i saw "barbarella", i had a late-life circumcision." and i still had stitches in me when i -- my -- you know, when i saw "barbarella", and it made me burst my stitches. in front of 2,000 people. [ laughter ] i couldn't believe. all of us were kind of, like, "did he just say that?" >> seth: it's also so inappropriate. and so, happy birthday. happy birthday, everyone. she bursts my stitches. um -- well, and i mean this in all seriousness. i'm sure those were not the only stitches you burst. [ laughter ] and it is such a credit to you, and it's such an honor to have you here. thank you so much for being here. [ cheers and applause ] >> great to be here. >> seth: jane fonda, everybody. "grace and frankie" is available to stream on netflix now. we'll be rig

and then i read a book about richard branson. i just wanted to be an entrepreneur. >> you became quite the celebrity on the atlanta hip-hop scene. ludicris and cee-lo were going to your parties. brittney spears. >> i was a good party promoter. got to a point where i was not throwing their parties. they were going to mine. >> when was your big break? >> giving me an opportunity opened up a whole world for me. but it could have been steve rivkin. he was the first person to give me a record deal for asher roth when no one did. >> in the early days, how were you looking for talent? >> everyone thinks that every act i have ever signed has blown up because we have been on a crazy run. but i had to learn the hard way. >> i failed. >> what is the myth of scooter braun and what is the reality? >> there is a myth about the greatest entrepreneurs that are boiled down into legend. >> the myth is that i plug them into this machine. it is hard work. every single day is hard work and i think there was a point in my career when i felt i had done

a massive sank hole opened up on this course in branson missouri this morning. it's 100 feet deep and growing. officials say it may have been caused by recent heavy rain causing a cave below the course to cave in. feel bad for the poor landscape folks. >> how do you get around that? >> i don't know. that's a big one to solve. >> right, especially with the holiday weekend we got going. >> a lot of folks will want to get out and maybe play a little bit of golf or anything because it's going to be so nice out there this weekend. >> great news. >> not only next week when we have to deal with the heat wave and a lot of people thinking maybe i should get the serviced before next week. windows open for the weekend. folks really enjoying things. we're getting real cool air that will start making its way into the area from a little weather front that's cross. storm team 4 radar right now, a little blip that you see, that's part of the weather system isolated shower around woodbridge west of route one and also down around 17 and through southern areas of fauquier county a

sheryl sandberg, author of "lean in," a book that sparked worldwide debate, and virgin founder richard branson. we talk about how men and women can take on these challenges together. thank you both for being here. i truly believe this conversation is so important and critical to the future of not just women, but men, women, and children, and creating a better future. i'm glad to be part of it. sheryl: we are too. richard: yeah.

emily: richard branson has a private island. steve ballmer is buying a sports team. marc benioff gives a lot away. what do you do? with all the money you have made? reid: so, most of it is still in linkedin stock. because i am building the world through linkedin. i serve on a number of different nonprofit boards, like kiva and endeavor and do something. i try to finance projects that i think are interesting. emily: are we ever going to see you start something else? another company? reid: probably not. you know, with series a and seed founders, i work pretty closely with them, but there is a long way to go with linkedin still. so i would say that it's unlikely. although, you will see me partnering with a bunch of great young entrepreneurs, and trying to help figure out how to build something big. emily: reid hoffman, thank you so much for joining us. it's has been a pleasure to have you on the show. reid: thank you. ♪ emily: he invented the self driving car, is considered the godfather of artificial intelligence. he cofounded google x, google's innovation laboratory

and i kind of just wanted -- and i read another book about richard branson. but the truth is i just wanted to be an entrepreneur. emily: you became quite a celebrity on the atlanta hip-hop scene. ludacris and ceelo were going to your parties. you threw a party for britney spears. scooter: yeah, i was good. i was a good party promoter. [laughter] it got to a point where i was not just throwing their parties. they were all coming to mine. emily: so when did you get your first big break? scooter: it might have been jermaine dupri saying you're more than nightclubs and giving me an opportunity to work at so so def, because that opened up a whole world to me. but it could have been steve rifkind who was the founder of loud records and src. he was the first person to give me a record deal for asher roth when no one would. emily: in the early days, how were you looking for talent? scooter: well, funny thing was, in the early days, everyone thinks that every act i have ever signed has just blown up because we have gone on a crazy run. but i signed a couple acts in at

my family and i have taken occasion to visit branson. it is a very family-friendly town where christians are very welcomed and i know that his christian faith was very important to him. at age 69, smith received a heart transplant and was given a new lease on life. there's a beautiful line i read in smith's obituary, which i'd like to read. quote smith would not want to be remembered for the accolades of his efforts but for a life rich with friendships. mr. speaker, thank you for giving me time to recognize smith brookhart a remarkable american, father, grandfather community leader patriot and servant of christ. i'd like to close with romans chapter 8 verse 38. for i am convinced that neither life nor death nor angels nor demons neither the present nor the future nor any powers, neither height, no depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate ourselves from the love of god that is in christ jesus lord. may god bless mr. brookhart. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. gutierrez, fo

ralph laurent richard branson of virgin air and other companies. of course most of us don't have totally original ideas but that doesn't mean we need a college degree. you don't need one to do computer programming. that is a job that pays well if you get good at it. for people who want to learn programming boot camp so sprung up. this one says anyone can become a designer in ten weeks. economist michael rosenbaum analyze thousands of programmers resumes' and found no correlation between having a college degree and being a good software engineer no correlation. but when he then shared his results were tech companies some still insisted on all the hiring people with degrees. only if you have the diploma the graduation certificate are you likely to be a productive employee. that bias led rosenbaum to start his own company which hires programmers who don't have degrees. paypal founder was so annoyed by the obsession with college's the four years ago he started giving a hundred thousand dollars per year to students if they would drop out or skip college

sir richard branson's virgin group is getting into a new game. they say the new enterprise is going to take a run at what it calls but is of a tory fitness offense like running and cycling. hired mary -- the firm will be headquartered in new york city. sequel opens" today in china. lton" is dominating the box office, it has taken $310 million so far. raked in moreovie than $1.5 billion but analysts say the sequel continues to fall behind the original. soaring to greater heights in dubai, a stuntman and his protege took to the skies in jet powered wings. moving through the air at 125 miles an hour. they completed the first twin human for nation flight in aviation history. those are your top stories we are following at this hour. hour, up in the next half bill gross is sharing his riches, giving away hundreds of millions of dollars. we will hear why he is sharing his fortune and how he defies success. progress inporting its discussions with finance ministers. they have agreed to maintain life support for the financial system for now. we will see ho

richard branson and elon musk, all seeking to cut -- the final year. i spoke about the business of spaceflight. >> i think it is great. it is about a really remarkable to come hereilege and represent your country. colleagues representing their countries as well p or we are the only two americans appear right now. i think it is a great thing. we are take time, but serious, industrious, talented people and we will solve the problem some day and hopefully in the future, maybe not the district teacher, people will have the opportunity to go to low earth orbit hopefully, but if not, some flight with all the beauty and the great things we get to experience by flying in space. that was amazing you were talking to them in space. so awesome. pimm: 250 miles above the earth. one thing to note is their food and water is something that tastes pretty good but they say the best part is sleeping in space. they obviously sleep in bags, but they do not secure them with velcro test to the side. they like to float freely in space. they say they're sleeping has been some

beautiful weekend for golf unless you are planning to play on the course on the top of the country club at branson missouri it expanded by four holes, the sinkholes are more of a hazard than an opportunity to sink a puck. the biggest 35 feet deep, 60 feet wide no golfers were injured. >>> today a birthday, this woman turning 116 making her the world's oldest living person. experts say you are more like lacly to win the lottery than reach 116. i'm erica pitzi, stay tuned. the news continues next. goodnight. >>> yemen's government says it will not attend u.n.-backed peace talks as saudi arabia air strikes target houthi strongholds. >>> live from our headquarters in doha coming up in the programme an opposition leader in burundi is shot dead in the capital after tensions in the capital bujumbura >>> oirld makes history

it's a massive sinkhole that opened up on this golf course in branson, missouri. this happened yesterday morning. get this. that thing is 100 feet deep and it's growing. officials say the recent heavy rain may have caused a cave below the course to actually cave in. >> would improve my short game. >> that's right. >>> okay. so tlc has pulled all episodes of its popular show "19 kids & counting" after a revelation of a member of the family. >> josh duggar allegedly molested several young girls as a teenager. erica hill has more on how the decades' old allegation is now coming to light. >> we're the duggars. >> reporter: the network tlc has now pulled the show effective immediately. allegations involving the high-profile family were first revealed by "in touch" magazine in a police report. at the request of one of the alleged minor victims with b a court ordered that report expunged. it says josh duggar was accused of repeatedly molesting five underage girls while they slept. on tuesday josh duggar now a married father of three said in a statement, 12 years ago as a

a massive sinkhole opened up on a course in branson, missouri yesterday morning. get this. if you put a camera in there, 100 feet deep and the thing is growing. officials say the recent heavy rain may have caused a cave below the course to actually cave in. how scary. >> wow. just head back to the clubhouse. >> that's right. >>> well a military plane goes off the runway and plunging into the san diego bay. >> the pilot overshot the runway while trying to land during a training exercise. many ran to help and saved the pilot's life. >> reporter: only half submerged in the water. the canopies detached before he ejected. but the rest was intact. visitors were startled from their holiday activities by what sounded like an explosion. >> heard a loud bang. >> i saw a parachute landing in the water. >> you see a big black, could be a person just hit the water hard. >> reporter: around 2:00 friday afternoon, the pilot attempted to land on runway 29. witnesses saw from higher ground the end of the runway painted with skid marks and the sand had deep wheel marks. this was a training e

up next the reason golfers in branson are yelling fore. what do you think of when you think of the united states postal service? exactly. that's what pushes us to deliver smarter simpler faster sleeker earlier fresher harder farther quicker and yeah even on sundays. what's next? we'll show you. wow. sweet new subaru, huh mitch? yep. you're selling the mitchmobile!? man, we had a lot of good times in this baby. what's your dad want for it? ..like a hundred and fifty grand, two hundred if they want that tape deck. you're not going to tell your dad about the time my hamster had babies in the backseat, are you?! that's just normal wear and tear, dude. (vo) subaru has the highest resale value of any brand... ...according to kelley blue book ...and mitch. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. >>> all right. the panel is back with me this morning. there's a lot going on. get caught up on some of the other headlines. you're looking live -- well it's not live. i just like saying you're looking live. that's a massive sinkhole opening up at a jack

. >> you also have search or branson. what's his connection and how did he get his name on this manuscript? >> again, just a letter and it was basically i had a friend who invested in a company and i sent a letter and he forwarded along. and it was really a blessing. these are not lockups. it's almost like a message in a bottle. >> people in general have been impressed by the journey you took, the honesty you took and nobody has really done that in your generation. you travel around the world in the report that to assault him what you have seen. and on behalf of the book people in austin and texas in general thanks for coming down here. it was a wonderful chatting with you and i hope you all get "coined." >> i also want to say that has been a great friend and a mentor. it's important that we remember the people who shape history and is also important to remember that people who help us remember history. you have a national treasure in austin here in doug brinkley. one day they should name a park for you. thank you so much

a total of $1 trillion in commitments from the likes of facebook's mark zuckerberg richard branson. >> these people are giving a minimum of 500 -- >> reporter: you're surprised? >> i have got an fair number of nos. >> we had no idea that we would get this many people to come together. >> reporter: tackling issues like poverty, education and disease, where they have seen considerable success. >> polio is likely to become the second disease ever eradicated and then we'll take that success and go after other diseases like malaria. we expect to cut the number of children who die, which is 6 million a year in half over this next 15 years. >> reporter: what has the most pressing urgent need today? >> how do we empower women and girls, they're at the center of the families. >> reporter: of the world's 1800 billionaires, 7% have signed the pledge, getting more new faces onboard, particularly international donors is a top priority. i do want to hear the elevator pitch. what do you say? >> i just say, hi, rebecca, what are you thinking about doing with all of that wealth that you got? you're no

> rose: so which raises the question of all these people like jeff bezos and elian musk and richard branson who wants to create some kind of vehicle to send to space. okay, don't laugh with me. >> no, no, no i'm with you. somebody has got to do that. whether or not they will succeed, you want somebody there. and they affect how other people think. i've had students in my class, in classes i have spoken to say one day i want to work for space x. and they're not saying i want to work on wall street and get rich. they say i want to work. the smartest kids in the class. i want to be exploring. i want to invent a new car. i want to invent a new transportation system. i want to invent the next rocket that is the influence that i'm telling you infusions into a culture when you go into space in a big way. the space is the carrot and everything else comes in after that. >> rose: is that part of your mission somehow to -- >> i don't have a mission. i would rather just stay home. -- . >> rose: when you get up in the morning. >> when i get up in the morning, i hope the phone doesn't ring. i want to sta

the amazon found der is competing in a space race with other billionaires like richard branson and elon musk. we're joined to talk about this. so what's going on with all these people thinking that they've got to go into space? >> there's a lot of excitement. a lot of people want to go into space. it's a goal of a lot of people to get into life. >> do they do it because it's their passion to do something like this or a gold mine at the end of the rainbow? >> it's a little bit of both there's an interview from jeff bezos in high school where he wanted to build hotels in space. it was said the world's first trillionaire will be made in space from asteroid mining and things like that. >> when? >> we're still a few years away. virgin galactic was looking really good but they had an unfornlt gnatun unfort nanltunate incident where they lost a co-pilot in a crash. if you have a million dollars right now you can write a check and get a ride up. it's not something i can do. >> you need to raise it if you don't have $20 million to go to the international space station. what's your definition oar

. >> pam moore: business mogul richard branson says his battle with dyslexia helped make him successful the virgin group foundered had dyslexia forced him to learn how to delegate roast others it also made him emphasize how to communicate clearly grants and adapted out he dropped out of school when he was 15 and part because of his learning disability dyslexia is a learning disability ability that cause is reading and writing difficulties >> pam moore: now san francisco is full of restaurants but there is a unique place just of third street in bay view it as an old field but it is run by young people 16 to 22 years all the kids come an ad at risk and leave with the recipe for success in this did new segment we call 25 and under we're going to the old school cafe. >>: i think all school to this community is hoping >> pam moore: this restaurant is run by young people who are learning a new way of life >>: i'm here and all school cafe kitchenware is very busy right now as it is look at the san francisco businesses opening about an hour from now stuff for one thing is this young people bett

is he jealous of branson and musk? what we know about spacex is they can't get the expulsion part to come back to ground safely. bob: so they can recycle it, and that would cut costs. betty: who are all these people lining up to want to experience space? bob: it is strange to have it become its entertainment thing. i want to go up in space for a minute. i want a trampoline. betty: as bob said, it is the .001%. will buffett repeat his song? ♪ betty: we continue our countdown to the opening bell. we are now halfway through, which means we it is time for our deep dive. at number five bank -- at number 5 -- berkshire hathaway. ceo warren buffett calls it the woodstock for capitalists. he attended the coca-cola shareholders meeting earlier this week, and he did this. warren buffett: ♪ i would like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony i would like to buy the world a coke and keep it company ♪ betty: taking me back to matt holliday. what else can we expect this weekend in omaha? joining us from omaha is lawrenc

amazon founder is competing with other billionaires like richard branson and elon musk. what's going on with all these people thinking that they got to go into space? >> there's a lot of excitement. a lot of people want to go into space. it's a goal of a lot of people to go into space. >> is it just their passion to do this or are they saying a gold mine at the end of the rainbow? >> it's a little bit of both. there's an interview with bezos in high school where he said he wanted to take on space tourism, so he wanted to do this for a long time. but it's also said the world's first trillionaire will be made in space. >> when? >> we're still years ago. virgin galactic was doing good and they unfortunately had an incident where they had a crash and lost one of their pilots and the goal is to make this affordable. if you have $20 million, you can go to the russian space agency and buy a ride up to the i.s.s. that's not something i can do. >> what's your definition of affordable? clearly 20 million is not. when you say affordable what does that mean exactly? >> the first com

. >> reporter: a southwest jet headed for branson touched down eight miles away. >> i can't just start moving the airplane around or trying to reposition. >> reporter: in just the past 1/2 years, five aircraft have landed at the wrong airport. safety investigators are calling for changes this morning. and here's what they would like to see happen. a pilot will not be cleared to land until they passed every airport except the one they're going to land at. and a software change that will make it less likely that they'll land at the wrong place. it's up to the faa to make them regulations. >>> shocking new allegations against banking giant wells fargo. accused of unlawful and fraudulent behavior taking advantage of customers. secretly running up fees. pierre thomas has that for us. >> reporter: the the city of los angeles is accusing wells fargo of gouging customers. in a new lawsuit, the city claims the bank charged bogus fees. when customers couldn't pay the feerks they allege lid dajd their credit rating. the lawsuit says bank employees opened up new accounts for people without them kn

host: branson, missouri up next don on the republican line. caller: probably my geography is not very good. it seems to me that the only people willing to fight are the kurds and the peshmerga and we are supplying money to iraqis. i hope somebody out there knows why are we not backing the kurds 100%. host: the statements by the defense secretary cut the year of the iraqi prime minister who talked about what he said in an interview with the bbc. here is the reaction that the bbc got. [video clip] >> i am surprised why he said that. he was very supportive of iraq. i'm sure he was fed the wrong information. >> ramadi was a disaster, wasn't it? >> it makes my heart lead. but i assure you we can bring it back soon. host: that is the prime minister and there is ramadi, a map in the center of iraq. that is the current counteroffensive taking place there. we are getting your thoughts on that. the vice president ended up calling the iraq prime minister talk about the statements he had heard and to smooth over concerns. the readout from the white house

in england, you have richard branson, virgin rail operating. >> yes. >> lines. >> here we have a soviet style management. we have no competition and people continue to protect that in congress and it soon be. >> that's a great point you paid there. it's a good one to end on, representative. there was a the pushback on speaker boehner. when he was like oh this is a stupid question. don't talk to me about infrastructure. this train was going to fast. you know that's a simplistic analysis. you know that positive train control would have made a difference here. we should be honest about it and address the failing. don't say you get better. don't say it's a stupid question. >> again, if we have better management. if decisions have been made. there has been another system automated train control that could have been put in. that was a management decision. i have researched back to see -- >> but it's relevant. it's not a stupid qui. you went back to look at it. it's not a stupid question. it would have stopped this accident. >> well again, it still appears speed was the major factor and that i

. >> you also have search or branson. what's his connection and how did he get his name on this manuscript? >> again, just a letter and it was basically i had a friend who invested in a company and i sent a letter and he forwarded along. and it was really a blessing. these are not lockups. it's almost like a message in a bottle. >> people in general have been impressed by the journey you took, the honesty you took and nobody has really done that in your generation. you travel around the world in the report that to assault him what you have seen. and on behalf of the book people in austin and texas in general thanks for coming down here. it was a wonderful chatting with you and i hope you all get "coined." >> i also want to say that has been a great friend and a mentor. it's important that we remember the people who shape history and is also important to remember that people who help us remember history. you have a national treasure in austin here in doug brinkley. one day they should name a park for you. thank you so much