TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. Money lead now. Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft, heads up our money lead. He says he will retire in the next 12 months. Ballmer, he's one of those people who is in the right place at right time, friends with Bill Gates when Microsoft was still a little upstart tech firm. Ballmer was named CEO in the year 2000. Microsoft had a few wins during his tenure but it also had rough times, losing more than half its market value, putting out a buggy operating system and falling behind Apple and Google in the mobile market. Company shares actually went up 7 percent when he announced his retirement. It's a dubious distinction to say the least -- the deadliest job in the U.S. right now logging. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says so. Sixty-four loggers were killed on the job last year. And the overall percentage of fatalities in the industry is up. In fact, if you are a logger, your job is 40 more times likely to kill you than the average job. Experts believe one reason logging is so risky is because of the boom in new home construction. Companies might be hiring inexperienced workers to meet the demand. And the movie "Norma Rae" comes to mind, except this is about quick meals and not textile mills. Fast food workers in the South plan to demand higher wages since the bigger campaign began last year. Next week, they'll serve up protests in Memphis, Raleigh, Tampa and other cities. They want $15 an hour and the right to organize without a fear of getting sacked like a bag of fries. Right now, most folks who take your orders and serve up your burgers make about $9 an hour. Over a year, it's nearly $5,000 below the government defined poverty level for a family of four. Coming up -- the evidence points to a massacre. Will it be enough off to change the president's calculus this time? CNN's one-on-one interview with President Obama coming up next. And later, they're training for the battlefield kicks in on the home front and saves a life. Stay with us.
Logging Deadlier Than "Deadliest Catch"