New Official Royal Wedding Photographs Released; Royal Wedding Memorabilia Now Available on eBay
QUEST: Saturday's royal wedding has left a feel-good hangover or a feel- good factor, whatever you want to call it. Anyway, in the U.K. and Britain, people are certainly feeling it. Kensington Palace released three official wedding photos earlier on Monday. My word -- just look at that. And this of course is of just the bride's maids and the page boys and the flower girls actually as they are, and that of course is the picture of just a happy couple on the steps of Kensington Palace. Now other pieces of memorabilia are also available. The wedding goody bags handing out are now available on eBay. They were given to members of the public who were being allowed or invited to the grounds of Windsor. And they are now selling at a premium Windsor Castle, Windsor Castle, Windsor Castle. This one has six days to go and insisting -- it's asking 720 pounds, just shy of a $1,000 for basically a bottle of water and a packet of shortbread. In terms of TV ratings, 29 million people watched the wedding in the U.K., 18 million people were watching. Put all that together, Brian Stelter has been digging deeper into those ratings numbers and joins me now. Brian --</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: Yes --</s>QUEST: The numbers -- the numbers of people who watched in the U.S. is not surprising they were so high, there was an American involved.</s>STELTER: And I do the nets why this royal wedding out-rated 2011 with William and Kate. In the U.S. at least, this was a bigger event for the American-viewing audience. Cnn for example, three times the usual Saturday morning audience, I think that was all thanks to you, Richard, but across the dial, all 15 channels combined, you had about 30 million viewers watching as you said. And then -- and then the U.K., this is also the highest rated event of the year in the</s>U.K. QUEST: Brian, the Obamas and this weird deal --</s>STELTER: Weird?</s>QUEST: With Netflix -- well, you tell me what the deal is and why?</s>STELTER: When you leave the White House, what do you do? I guess you just don't write a book anymore, now you don't just open up an office, you don't open up a library, you even get a Netflix deal. I think the Obamas are paving the way here for how to have a media platform in a post-presidency. Both Michelle and Barack will be making shows for Netflix, sometimes they'll also be appearing on camera. What we don't know is what the shows will be. There will be a variety of them, reality shows, documentary, but we don't have the specifics yet. I think we're going to see the first show no sooner than 2019 because right now the Obamas have to go out and hire producers, hire staffers, things like that. But they clearly believe that being with Netflix, with the world-wide reach of Netflix is a way to stay visible and have a platform for what they want to promote in the future.</s>QUEST: All right, Brian Stelter, thank you, thanks for talking more about this, still a weird deal as I said. Is the car that Tesla needs to survive and it's just being panned, one of the most influential voices in the auto sector. The model 3 has failed to win a recommendation by the American magazine "Consumer Reports", it complains of long stopping distances, complicated touch-screen controls and inconsistent breaking tests. The magazine did say however, the car was exciting to drive. Jake Fisher is director of auto testing for "Consumer Reports", he joins me now. He didn't like it.</s>JAKE FISHER, DIRECTOR OF AUTO TESTING, CONSUMER REPORTS: Good to be here.</s>QUEST: What was it that fundamentally you didn't like?</s>FISHER: Well, actually, it's a whole lot of things that really did like about the vehicle, certainly the way it drives and certainly the efficiency. But there was a few things that just prevented us from recommending it. One was those long-stopping distances, we were able to get really one good stopping distance and then they got long. The controls, they're very complex, they're very distracting. The ride isn't very good on that, the rare seats is uncomfortable and there's a lot of wood noise. So there's a lot of things although it does so many things so well, there's a few things there that really prevented us from recommending it.</s>QUEST: Did you have much of an internal debate on this? Was it when -- you know, because obviously, there were several people involved, many people involved in making that sort of decision. So when you finally sat around, was it a good old argy-bargy of disagreement?</s>FISHER: Is argy-bargy -- is that a technical term? I'm not familiar with that. But --</s>QUEST: It's a very good term --</s>FISHER: You know, honestly, it really isn't about debate, what it really is about is when we recommend a vehicle, we look at the overall score of the vehicle. So we take all these different aspects, we look at the reliability, we look at the function, the -- all the different pieces, satisfaction and safety. And we put that together and we create it over our score. If the vehicle scores well enough, it's recommended, it's not, it's not recommended.</s>QUEST: Right --</s>FISHER: It's not even about, you know, whether or not we like the car or not, it's really about how does it perform?</s>QUEST: Good to see you, sir, thank you for taking time to