♪ gerri: hello, everybody. i'm gerri willis. tonight on "the willis report" newuestions about sety at construction ses all over e country. as theallout mouse from the deadly building collapse in philadelphia. also, it i is the biggest dragnt of consumer information and our nation's history. the uproar grows. >> you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percentrivacy. gerri: t the market's jump. the dow higher for the week. how doou lock in profits? we are watchg out for you tonight on "the willis report".

gerri:ll of that and more, but first looking for cheaper prices and convenien. consumers are turning to online armacies to buy their prescription drugs. most o us are unaware of the hidden dangers. it is stimed that over more than 36,000 web sites selling prescription drugs, only 270 illegitimate. another 1500 may be legitimate, and ty're not. with more on this, the ceo of vital spring's technology. thank you for comin back on the ow. good to see you. i want to srt by talking abo some many of these web sites are complely illegitimate, the that is thit will be getting the drug did you think you're buying. because they may beroduced in

some other countries. you don't really know what the ingredients are. you could end up buying a prescription oredication that is completely fraudulent, and the side effects, god forbid you take one of those, interacting with another edation could be disastrous. gerri: and we are not talking here, righ but just drugs that are not meeting the same standards as u.s. drugs. we're also talking about dgs that are produced by criminals, by ggs who are just trying to make money off of americans who want to buy cheaper drugs online . >> that is exaly right. that is a significant component of tt, which is why there are talking about certainharmacies , as you said, that cod be outside of the united states it is very importa when you go to an onlin pharmacy to make sure that, in fact, it is credible becauseo few are. in fact, that there is a u.s. postal address on the website because there isheisk that a lot of ts is happening outside of the count.

gerri: where did theed flags? a lot of peoe want to save money on drugs.3 they tnk on-line shoppinis the way. what is that one red flag that will tell you, hey, this website is noood? >> well, a lot of these online pharmacies asou for a lot o personal information. and if they are not asking you for a prescription, that is a red fg. because any credible pharmacy is going to require a preription from a doctor before they're going to fill it. a lot of them actually start t suspect once stuck to ask you a lot of persol information. and with the uproar about data privacy and security that we are hearing about today, that is a huge red flag in terms of putting your personal information out there for people to scam. and you shoulde concerned. and the other staggeing numbeber that i waseally quite surprised, the nber of teags that actually use some

of these websites to buy illicit drugs. it is a huge number. and so parents that are listening today really need to y attention gerri: that think that is a good tell me, if youre somebody out ere who is desperateo reduce your cost of drugs, what do you do? toave money, how do you get a discount of pharmaceuticals? >> that is a great question. you know, companies like walmart and safeway he gotten very aggressive in terms of providing prescriptions and a very cost-efective price. there was a couple of years ago, this who notion of being ae to get a lot of the prescriptions at $ the other obvious option, of course, is goi the generic route. there are many medations that are availablin generic that are far more cost-effective than the brand name. and a lot of cpanies today are trying to make it more accessible for the amount of

copayment or co insurance that they have to pay in order to make it more amenable for pple to stick to their medications and make sure they take the. gerri: thank you for helping as out. great to see you. have a great wkend. >> thank you very much. gerri: loo if you remember anything aut this segment's, it should be this. lo for the simpl -- symbol. a pharmaceucal website. ans the vendor has been approved by the national association of board pharmacies. that is small thing. more to it later in the shown how to protect yourself. w it's time for your thoughts. here is our question, do you buy prescription drugs on line? log o to gerriwiis.com, vote on the right-hand side of tte screen analysis of theesults of the end of the show. andth house news, an fda advisory panel has voted to ease safety limitsn the former blockbuster diabes bill of india. back in 2010 the fdaimited the use aftertudies linked it to

heart attacks. that caused aa number of people using the dg supply from to under 50,000 to uer 3,000. the new studyays the heart attack link may have bn overblown. before you run out your pharmacy, there are still restrictions, including a requirement that you must sign a waiver stating you are aware of thside effects. while there are over a dozen diabetes medications on the market, this is one ofwo that increases patients sensitivity to insulin done by major way to break down, under its. this could be a major eakthrough for the nearly 26 million americans who suffer from the disease. remedies pictures, the building collapsed. killing six people, injuring many more. raising questions new details now emerging about the contractor and t people involved in the philadelphia accident. with us now, formerosecutor. welcome back to the show.

you know, very curious facts seeming to emerge from this sty. i have been following it closely you have to think, the federal government itself has ruled agait some of the things we are hearing hpened on the site. for emple, no -- no la section should be permant and stand alone without lateral bracaccng, and that was one of the criticisms of this demolition th we have been talking about and then you can see here. there was no bracing. in fact, many of the tactics, many of the ploys to bring this building down maybe not above board. what do you think of that? >> well, you know,t is being vestiged criminally as well as a civil suit already filed. u know, there are two things going on. complaints about this building made to the city. we may not want theovernment to be in our backs all the te, buwhent comes to safety in our cities we expect when they go out and inspect and they did

inspect this upon a complaint three weeks before and said it was fine, y know what they did , they went out and said the placards are in the window. this guy is licensed. that is it. then look at the disaster that happened. rri: unbelievable, now we're finding that the contractor haa rap sheet. he has been inrouble with the law, insurance fra, narcotics charges. goes on and on. assault. su, you may have had a legitimatete license, but you kw how it is with local government. i mean, let's face it. there are a lot of things that go on under the table in the city's. you have think maybe this was one of them. >> take look. what he put on his application. on a job thai understandould normally cost $250,000, he put do that he was getting paid $10,000. he hires workers and is not e give them hard hats. they are not secured on a line

wh they're doing the work. they're seen using crowbaas, just sitting brakes. there's nothing to protect the sidewalk. it is a very shoddy job. philadelphia des not license these type of demolitions, these lessons as a contrtor, maybe there really ought to. he is beingnvestigated like he wa the drug captain of a cruise ship. it requires some recklessness, but it was extreme recklessness on the contractor's board. gerri: in case this only affects people in philadelphia, the reality is on any given day the are some six and a half million people on 250 to 200,0 construction sites in the cotry. anything could happen. 300 open demolitionermi in philadphia alone right now. so it seems to me it is incumbent on all of us to make sure that the people who are doing these are keeping everybody safe. i mean, it is astonishing to me thaaere you haveeople working in a salvation army store next door by the demolition was proceeding, and it does people who got killed,

the losses tuled over on top of them. everybody in the neiborhood, ybody in construction some other kinds of things are talking about. saw the kinds of shoddy actices, nothing hapned. this could have been prevented. >> that's right. and they complained. it was n as if they were sile. they actually complained. the federal government only has osha regulations which are really about the safety of workers. it really does not have a place in determining these local issues about the safety of the whether ty should or shouldn't, i don't will tell you, but the contractors and a bunch of trouble and the town has been scrambling to go and rd inspect all e other sites because he has four sites in the city, o of them have already been found to be in violation when every inspected after the tragic. rri: i guess we will hear a t more out of philadelpa on the sto. thank you for coming on. great to see you. have a great weekend. more to come, inclung more on the big rally on wall street

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tapping directly into central servers of nine leading internet companies. is this leal? joining me now, attorney bill om can. i will start with you. what happened here. they went to a judge. audge signed off on this. now we're talking about verizon. it jus signed off on all this. lsi higher court says no, you were wro, what you did was illegal, by definition the judge orders stand. and it is legal. under the very narrow patriot act. youe a right here front of me. they can do i gerri: i want to shopeople some numbers because it truly is astonishing. a huge breath of theermission that is being collected. at&t has hundred 30 million, verizon 121, spread 55. where does this end? is this okay? i am kind of an errant teeseven erica.

>> said of know if it is okay in a sense that it is difficult fo people toeal wit security versus privacy. it is important for everyone to realize you're getting minute data which is showing that mbers that have be done by individuals who are suspected o bein terrorists to see wther calls are going. gerri: i don't get it. what does that mean? >> the term for going behind the calls to find out exactly just the numbers. in other words- >> so what y have wld be my name, your name, and the pne numbers. >> it would be the numbers and the length of the call. these numbers are being tracked by nsa and other security arms of the government. make sure that they're ting. >> on the same page. collecting verses access. collecting is 200 million different phones. access is if we can believe i

their only access to mccall's unr 1%. toet the actual text of our phone call together, we all have a three-way phone call, they have to get outiretap. gerri: so it is a proces i have to interrupt you. read to you something that mark wrote this afternoon and is facebook page. this is news that was broug to you. katie said to my facebook is not and never has been part o any program to get the u.s. or any other government direct access to our servers. we have never seen the budget request for court order from any government agency asking for affirmation data and walt like the one verizon reportedly did recve. if we did we would find it aggressive. have noheard of prison before. >> the government and did it anyw. the databases have itight here. they can actlly go in and without -- oe they have a court order to get the

intermission, they do not have to go to the compani, facebookverizon, never. >> judial review components of the law. the law has to be reviewed every three months. this law was passed and president bush was in office in 2007. gerri: just out of september september 11th. then it made sense. two weeks ago the president told us, he said, you know that war on terrorism, that thing is done th. it's a they're over or it's n. >> le it or you're getting the authorization, aid is about international terrorism. at connection cannot possibly ha? >> evidence that it has supported terrorists. it does not help all the time. if you or the family of a september 11th pern who lost their lives will of one or child who is growing up without a father, you would want to have had that. this is one of theways to do it.

am not saying it is an easy situation, but the botto line -- gerri: bill makes a good point re, which is that i don't believe the war onerrorism over. the president says it is, but o lieve it is. we have to be on guard all the time. is this a compromise we have to make? >> it is right now because it is legal. that is what the law states, but that you wor abo the slippery slope and about this overreachingy the court. is being given.ation the court the court could only si the signure on thi. the document is only as good as the information that the court gets. for government igiving informatn, then that really makes me nervous. >> into doesn't well, congress reaffirmed its. gerri: they are not sprised. >> it may be a surprise to the public, but it is not a surise gerri: thehe part that gets me s that here we're supposed to have this open and transparent

administration. everything is on the table. put everything on the web. secrets here. y find now we have been looking overour shoulder for the last four years. >> they wanto deal to stake out monetarists. there will be a will to meet the purpose for having the llw which is again reviewed by courts, part of t law. it does have checks and balances mlb perfect. is better tha having buildings blown upnd innocent people killed. >> there will never look to my calls. i'm so boring. gerri: every once in awhile. thank you. thanks so much. great job. r nation's veterans a facing joblessness and even melessness. yet government workers of the veterans affairs office are working on the taxpayer a dime to do union work fullime. fox business and liz macdonald ins me now with a shocking new details.s.

satorsom coburn and rob portman said theetter to the secretary of the veterans affairs a miniration this week. basically they are essentially saying 180 workers are working full time for unions, not military veterans. emma was striking is the list of whaa these workersre doing. senators blasting the viejo saying this is troubng. the comppomise, a data from -- i undoubtedly negatively impacts. v8 nurses, medical staffers, psychologists, therapists, security guards who we supposed to be protecting buildings. ing full-time union work. th is based on government affirmation and documents. and what the senats nt to know is, what exactly are they doing in terms of union work. we know that this bylaw federal rkers are not allowed to strike. by law the pay and benefits are set. what are they doing eentially inerms of grievances and

disciplinary matters? athat time whenhe viejo is also saying that the unployment rate for 18 to 24 year-old mitary veterans is higher than th national average. we are als seeing rapid melessness amg military veterans. gerri: that is a gat point. to put it into conte owhat is going on with our veterans, with this kind of shenanigans being pulled. what about -- what about the pay raises and bonuses? how does that work? they're doing union work full time. >> that is an important question because the senators ask just that. justifying any step increases in pay, any pay raises, bonuses that these workers could be getting in terms of taxpayer paid for pay and benefit so they're asking also for ten years of that information. and this is not just a problem that a specific. back in february when i talked about this is when it was breaking.

that is over 3 million federal workers. th is the number of hours they spent on union duties full-time. now the government is putting that information that in 2011 taxpayers pay for $156 milln in taxpayer paid for benefits. gerri: that is ridiculous. >> and salaries of from 12% the year prior. we don't know what that went to. not working for theederal taxpayer are certainly f veterans. gerri: reporting. great stuff. thank you for bringing to us. wow.eciate it. weel, later in the show we're pulling back the curtain and the bimoney behind broadway until yo how you can get any action. next, as markets once again near record territory,ow you protect your retiremen? looking after you and your money after the break. ♪

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the. up $3 trillion for a high of 70.5 trillion. good news people, good news. while many look up, it's important to look ahead protect your new wealth. joining me, prsident of the capital management, and, gar welcome bck to the show. great to have you on. >> thank you. gerri: this is interesting. if you look at preinvasion, it looks mighty good, and people out there now worry there's a bubblesomewherelse. what do you tell them about protecting he wealth rown over the last couple years? >> first off, it is good people tie the walth to the houses, whi prices are going up, and,f course, the market. what i tell people s learn we go through more arkets, that usually takes 30% away from your equity, and learn how to manage during those times. most people don' watch enough, andthey just sit there, everything's going to be a-okay, always comes back, and, look e

we just boke out of a 13-year range, took that long to move higher. hopefuy, it continues, it's whether or not to watch, and when it goes south, no problem th selling off and keeping the equity market. gerri: like, oh, the target's been own pull mone? is that what you mean? >> no, not a day or two. look, markets have an ebb and flow, fear, greed, emotions will be around. you get into moments intime wi bear markets, and th last 13 years, two50% drops in the s&p. that hurts. a lot of people get out in the midst of that, and a lot of people get out at the bottom. t to recogze when thins turn south. on't worry what people tell you, do the go to sleep index. if you are not sleeping well, get out. you can alwayset back in. gerri: you kno i see everybody talking abou dividend stocks over 12 months, and i'm wondering should you be thinking about omething else now? think about something else

besides bonds? corporate bonds the place to be? what do you think? when you look at thegreat big asset classes, what do you think? >> i'm a hug bear on the bond market. i've een tht way for quite a while. i believthe big bubble in bonds as the fed manipulated rigged rates down and prices higher. there's effects over the last hree weeks, bond funds gave back two year of income in principl droppings. i'd b careful thee. as far as dividend stocks, i'm good with it, just continue to work, i don't mind you getting 3%, 5% whleyou hold something, t people are tieded i becuse it pays in a dividend. if it drops 25% andyou get five, it's meaningless and not a good thing. gerri: check this out, oosting household wealth, people got 1. trillionfrm socks and mutual funds, 1744 # # billion, you

know, i can't tell you, gary, how many imes housing prices will nver go up, he stock market will nevecme back. they were wrong. >> hey were mpletely wrong. marke is fear and greed, but there's wind at the back here, there's severe pinting of money by the fed that's heped that. what i'm interest to see is what happens when the fedgets done, when we get normalized, when interest rates are normalized. we've seen mortgage related things and housing stocks taking a hit as rates hae gone up, but no doubt, you know, the fact that it's up is nothing but good new a hope it ontinues. gerri: gar, thank you for coming on. have a great weekend, good to see you. >> you too. still to come, we answer the question, how d you do that, withtipes on trowing a wedding for less, and how to get in oothe big money of broadway. how e bright lights could mean big bucks for you. staywith us. staywith us. ♪ [ jackie ] its just so frustrating...

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gerri: all this week, we lookedded at ffbeat investments from art to peer-to-peer lending to water. with the tony awards this weekend, we thought there's another one to the list. how about investing in brodway shows? with some advice on making money off the great white way is charles, a columnist wit market watch. all right, chrles, start by talking about how big a business is broadway? >> broadwy is huge, and it's gotten bgger. it's a one billion a year usiness, slightly over one billion dollars, up 50% over the last decade, and i mean you see thecrowds in times squares, everybody goes to a show, and that's a lot of money. gerri: it is. the hts are what maters there. how often do they turn to outside investors?

is it a small group of pople who fund the shows, or how does it work? >> it's a firly lage group, hundreds of people involved, each show is its microeconomyy if you ill, and producers have to find people to back sows. no producer has millions of doars intheir back pocket. gerri: why do people bank roll these things? it's hard to get aheadd >> right. it's the celebrity factor. you get to rub elbows with the stars. you are guaranteed ickets o @%ening night and to the after show prty. that's your chance to fee like you are part of the scene. gerri: how much does t cost to get the opening night ticcets? how much do you put down? >> a mium usually of $2,000 if t's a musical, and $10,000 if it's a pla if you want more of asay in the show, you put in more money. gerri: so how likely am i to have a bighit, though, if i'm investi 25,000? it seems to me that the hits are few and far between.

>> i was really surprised about this. i keep of thought, though, tat, youknow, if allhe people are doing it, somebody's got to make money. the truth is one out of every four shows turns aprofit, so the odds are really stacked against you. if you turn a profit, it could be big. gerri: how big? >> the great exale is when andrew lloyd weber was touting a show on backyard cats and cldn't find anybody, sold shares for $1500, but, you know, that rt of it a little invesment, and if you invested that, ers a 5,000% return. that's one of the most successful shows of all time, but, yeah, that money does exist. gerri: tis on picking winners? >> the thing about the thing about picking a winner who -- is what i was told is wat to avoid. don't pick the same subject matter or targeting the same audieece as other shows out there now. be careful about shows with not just huge budgets to begin with,

but ongoingbudgets. some shows hav wekly budgets of a half milion dollars. be careful. that's a lot of ticts to show. gerri: spiderman? >> that's an interesting one. 75 million dollars -- gerri:ow. >> the most expensive to produce, and it could makemoney back. it's stillgoing. gerri: stillgoing, unbelievably with all the problems they had. grea to see you. have a great weekend. >> you to. rri: broadway the focus of this day in business, greece opened on broa kay, the 190s working class known as the greasers. it was the longest running show in broadway history it came back twice in 1994 ad 2007. 1978, greasewent on to great success when the movie indust with the hit film wit jhn travol. today, it's the ighest grossing musical. wow. today, june 7th, that it opened

on bradway 41 years ag. when we cme back, we go in fashion at one of the top luxury handbag manufacturers here in new york, and next jun brides and grooms on average shell ot $28,000 for the big day. w to doit for less. stay withus. ♪

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theknot.co people in new york city spet $100,000 on a wedding, which, to me, sounds totally crazy, and the c costs are going ever high. right now, they average $28,000. why do the costs go up? >> the cots have gone up nd down depenng on heeyears and the way people feel. generally, about their money. in 2008, it was the average cost was 29,000, and in 2010, it's 2000. it's like a barometer of how people feel about their money. gerri: smart t just not get married in june? at's brial month. >> june, most parts of the economy is tee most expensive place, the most popula everyone's got a wedding bookedded. gerri: don't get married in june. >> rght. gerri: what else can you do? >> the venue is a biggest cost; right? what you want to do is ask questions. do have the tables and chairs included i that venue?

is the staff included? you coul add aot ofthings on tha add up a lot. venues need built-in decor, don't cover in thousands of flowers and draping. that dds up. findone that's beautiful on its own so you don't have to add a lot. gerri: trim the guest list. people are now ve steaming these weddings so they can cut their costs, what do you think? >> i think in geneal you're live streaming wedding for a andparent who can't make it. a lot of times it's notbecause we didn't want to pay for you to, le,eat dinner with us. gerri: kill the open bar, have a sigture cocktail. >> great tip. the bar adds up. the tabs are expensive. beer, wine, a ignature cocktail or just beer and wine. gerri: not 15 course, what do you cut out? >> if it's fall, cut out a salad, and if its summer, don't have soup. gerri:double duty flows, i on'tet that? >> tha means the flowers can

work for both the ceremony and your reception. you know, anything going on, even he bouquet that th brdesmaids hold ould go on the table the receptionto ake extraecor or put them in the bathroom. you didn't send an extra dollar. gerri: shop sample sales. shop that for your own wedding dress, look at bril salons, they have trunk shows with associated sales and things like that, a really great way to go. gerri: i wore a pantsuit. >> that's chic. gerri: that or silly. great to meet you, great information, good tis, people just spend too much money on this. >> look for ways to save. gerri: i'm cheap hough, thank you. paying for a weddg may be too much for the 55% of 2013 college grads heading intothe real world without a job, butcertain cities can provide more opportunities than others. i'm not just talking about employment. in order to rank the cities,

nerd wall let looks at important factors like, well,the price of pizza. that is tonight's top five, number fie, philadelphia, cost of living, moderate, andin the health care business? business isbooming in philadelphia. number four, baltimore, a low cost of lving, average rent is $13100 amonth for aone bedroom. that's cheap, people. they have the chepest movie ticke, number three denver, the mile high city with the most bars per capita. the modern unemployment rate a good thing. seatte, a walkable cty, expensive and riny,and there's a booming tech bsiness. the number one city is boston. this city has the most 18-24-year-olds of any ccty ad the second lowest unemployment rate, and te many universities in the area offer post gradtion options. the city with the lowest unemployment rate for grads? austin texas. love austin. next, in fashion looksat

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here to new york city, joined by nicole, thevice president at thefactory. how do you go from a designer sketch to an actu product? >> well, a designer firs meets withus in the showroom, passing us something that is a sketch. we then make a full set of patterns, and hena fiished samp. we work with the client to kind get the materials ey want, e hardware they want, the lining they want, and then we work with them o make sure that the baton looks ke what they had in mind. gerri: you know, the room i chalk full of people who do this every day for a liiving, nd i was urprised t find out how big a business is is inw rk city. somee$22 billion, 7,000 people working in the indndustry. is there big demnd from digners to produ here in the u.s. of a? >> absolutely. i've been getti calls,10-15 times aday, e-mails saying, you know, i want the bags made in -merica. they want to ake sure the factory is legitimate and make sure the lar rates a

apppriate, and they want to touch and feel their products. they want to come in and work directly with the workers. a lot of people ust also want that brand awarend. they wa customers to be able to look at their bags and see "made in america." ri:talk abou this manufactuuing site, though. you started with your dad' designs. how did it grow from there? >> well, 20-30 years ago you know, ever buildin in manhattan was a factory, very floor, and what happened was when thechina became so huge in manufacturing, we just couldn't feet. they were making, you know, $10-$20 bags. e business changed dramatically. what we do nowis me of a luxury product. we wo with over 0brands and constantly growing. we had a desiner who came in here back when we were not making the high end bags and she just wanted a bag, make a product and hr business grew into a $60 milion brand, so once we agree her to nothing to

60 million, everyone knocked on our door. wecan handle anyting from a small designer to a big desner with 2,000 piece order. gerri: how important is it these are made by hands? the's sewingmachines, but so much is done individually. >> well,the custors like that. the work overseas is automated withutomatic machines end cutting, you know and they don't need the peple. when they do, the laboris ow. i think people really like to see that things are made by hand, that the bags are cut with a knife or with a cutting machine, that there's alot of care. ople like that, and they pay a premium for it. gerri: a friend of the show, now, sh produces here as wel and uses pretty exotic material. >> yes, she does, the most beautiful snakes in tthe world. people importfromitaly, spain, even in from the u.s. from florida, california, and we take it and make it here right in new york city

it is a family business. i work with my brother, my parents retired, but 're continuing, doing everything we can to stay made in manhattan because that's what designers want. r gerri: not just handbags, but other ings well. >> yes, unique requests all the time. i mean, the other day, there was a bag for the southern womawho has her gun and, you know, wants to conceal it in her bag, so we made a velcro pocket, hole steers, unique tech products, and, you know, mall other goods, jwelry, made ut of leather, fabrics, bells, cosmetic case d pouches. those are popular. the turn aound time is quick. that's a reason why people prefer to work here her than overseas. our tn arou for a sample can be a couple days to a couple weeks. you can come i here with an idea and have a full collectio ready for a tra show or showroom within, you know,a month or two, nheard of overseas.

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