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they are expecting sales of new homes to rise 1.6%. david: "the willis report" is next. gerri, those car recalls, they keep on coming, this time not from gm. gerri: that's right, thank you, liz and dave. that's right, is honda, nissan, mazda. big story today. also in our show, the g.i. bill, a game-changer for veterans, turns 70. is now the time for a new g.i. bill? would such a thing even pass congress these days? also how out of touch can one woman be? hillary clinton steps in it again with comments on her wealth. we're going "back to the future" in a winnebago. this time machine is anything but old-fashioned. we're going to give you a ride. "the willis report" starts right now. gerri: we begin tonight with another massive recall. this time involving airbags that may explode, shooting shrapnel all over the inside of your car.
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this isn't a gm recall but one from a japanese partsmaker this recall covers even wider range ever car makes. we have lauren fix the car coach. welcome back. who are the automakers we're talking about here? >> we're looking at a lot of japanese, honda, mazda, chrysler even bmw. this is because of poor storage by tikada who makes the airbags. they're doing regional action because the national highway safety traffic administration is requesting it. gerri: nissan among automakers making this recall, the biggest ever. 10 1/2 million worldwide. this is the fifth biggest in history. lauren, what is the deal with airbags? why can't people get these right? >> well this is a manufacturer problem. they were stored in a warehouse that apparently had moisture and moisture is causing for the deployment, the actual explosions, implosion to actually explode for no reason, leaving pieces of metal shrapnel
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inside of the cabin. there have been two deaths recorded we're aware of at this point. i'm sure that the lawyers will get their hands on it. there will be probably be more cases out there. gerri: one detail in this story, defective airbags were built at a factory in the u.s. what do you make of that? is that surprising? and, help us understand the difference between these airbags and the delphi airbags that are at issue in the gm story? >> okay. the fm one, we'll start with that. that is a reason for the delphi airbag not to dough ply because the ignition switch is off. when car parked at parking spot and hit by another air vehicle, the airbag doesn't go off. this situation is manufacturer made the airbags. they were stored improperly in a warehouse and moisture basically got to the connection. you have it actually exploding while it is in a car. where is it happening? mostly with a lot of moisture.
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puerto rico, alabama, mississippi. all the lower end of the country where there is a lot more moisture in the air. these are things you need to think about if you have a problem and unsure of any of these recalls, call your manufacture you are, whatever dealer in the area. tell him your make and model. if you have a problem, get it taken care of. gerri: get it taken care of. we'll post those makes and models on our website tonight, gerriwillis.com. check that out. interesting point though, lauren, what i'm hearing this was years in the making this issue just like the gm story. years in the making and record-keeping problems. what happened? >> i think what is happening, this seems to be a big thing, two-part. everyone is calling recalls. almost the boy that cried wolf. you want to be proactive. you do not want to be the next manufacturer in the limelight. everyone is being super proactivity on other side you have some people that are whistle-blowers brought it to the executives or maybe the ceo or possibly even taken it to court and never seems to get out
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in the press because the way the legal agreements work. so these are all factors that are now coming to light where manufacturers are saying we better get on top of this before we're the next one. so as far as consumers are concerned, what do you do? again, that is a problem. tough get online. tough report problems to nhtsa. believe it or not they actually track data. if they see a problem it will cause a recall. gerri: that is one of the issues right now for gm, going back to the gm story for a moment here, nhtsa has to build a case and decide to recall cars, right? and that is one of the things that slowed down what is going on with gm, right? >> right. as a matter of fact there were three people that had noticed spikes in data from gm with airbags non-deploying and possible ignition switch issues. they brought it to their bosses at nhtsa and it never went anywhere. how that happened, i think that needs to be investigated as well. it can't be 100% on general motors. it needs to be a combination of the person watching has also got
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to be the person being watched. >> that's right. nhtsa has dropped the ball here. so many of our guests have made that point. quickly, 8% of the gm cars have been fixed. that is well below they want to see done. what is going on? why is this taking so long? >> they have to get product to the dealers. dealers have to get the cars in. they know they will not get all the vehicles in. 60 to 80% of the vehicles still on the road will go in for this recall. that is why it is buyer beware when you buy a used vehicle. they're putting out incentives for dealers to do this quickly as possible. i'm sure they want to. the last thing they want to do is potentially have cars on the road with problems. smart dealers are using this as opportunity to turn into a sale. you know what? your car is on recall. there's a problem with it. let me show you some new product we're producing. they are producing new product and people are upgrading because deals are available. gerri: whole scenario. gm sales haven't fallen yet.
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this is a massive recall. lauren, thanks for coming on tonight. >> thanks for having me. gerri: continuing with the gm story, kenneth feinberg, who is heading up gm's victims compensation fund, we told you about that, is expected to issue his final report in the next few weeks. meantime many families of victims are getting ready for their day in court. with us now michael perez, whose 18-year-old sister emma was killed in a gm crash nearly nine years ago. thank you for coming on the show, michael. why are you convinced your sister's death is connected to this gm issue? >> you know, it is coming out in the reports that the problems with her cause was the cause of this interest. i really don't, can't go too far into the details as far as the connection of it. i'm not too aware of all the reports that have come out though. let's talk about your sister. 18 years old at the time she died in a 2005 saturn ion.
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tell us about the crash. what happened? >> i was deployed at the time. i can only tell you what i was told. i wasn't there at time of the accident. my sister, 18, in college, doing what all college kids do, having a good time with their friends, enjoying life. she went off into a canal off highway 73, her and her boyfriend had both drowned and died in this accident. at the time i got the call i was deployed. they were actually pulling the car out of the canal at that time. gerri: that must have been tough for you being far away from home at the time? >> it was pretty tough. me and my sister growing up, very close. gone a lot and stayed in connection, very close, talked all the time. we talked right before the deployment and prior to getting that last call from my mother about the accident. gerri: i can't imagine what that was like. your attorney, bob hilliard, who we had on this show many times,
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says there is evidence, her car, your sister emma's car, lost power, which would have meant the airbags would not have deployed and she would have no brakes or steering or would have been difficult to steer and brake. as you look at this, what kind of resolution do you want to see for your sister? >> a resolution for her and many other families that lost somebody or in connection to serious injuries, i just hope that that gm can step up and take responsibility for lack of providing information to the consumers in reference to defects of these cars. you know, i could say it a thousand times. no amount of money that can provide complete condolence to these families or my family as well for the time lost but i'm hoping that gm can do something most companies wouldn't do and step up and take responsibility for these actions and as far as compensation and all that that will all be hashed out in court between the lawyer and gm.
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gerri: just want to see justice done. if gm's ceo, mary barra, were sitting across from you today, what would you tell her? >> what would i tell her? you know. things happen. corporations, there is mistakes. that's understandable. we can't get back what we've lost but what we want to see in the future that no one else has to go through what we had to go through and many other families also had to go through this. i just hope they step up and they take care of all these problems. they don't allow the administration within their company to hide these kind of defects from their consumers. gerri: michael, thank you for your service and we're sorry for your loss. thanks for coming on the show tonight. >> thank you, gerri. gerri: good to have you here. wow, still a lot more to come this hour including your voice. your voice is important to us. that's why during the show we want to you facebook me or tweet me @gerriwillisfbn. at the bottom of the hour i will
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gerri: well, it looks like people are really only using social media to be social according to a new "gallup poll.." social media produces little buy for millions companies put into advertising. here is fox business's jo ling kent. jo, good to see you. >> gerri, this is so interesting. gallup did the poll 18,000 americans and companies spent $5.1 billion on social media sites for places like facebook, linkedin and instagram. we all looking at instagram ads. according to gallup there is no influence. 30% say some influence. 5% say it's a great deal. 3% say they don't know. it is interesting because, ads are such a big deal for revenue for these companies, right? and so if you look at by generation also, you can see it is all about younger ones. millenials, 43% say there is
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some influence the way they buy stuff. generation-x is 34%. on down, baby boomers only 26%. what i say is, yes, there is very little influence now. but people are saying, we're looking at teen market and we haven't actually gotten research on that yet so. gerri: so unanswered questions, right? >> yeah. gerri: should companies be spending $5 billion if there is no payoff now or should they hope for better things to come? >> looking at what ex-pers say, better things to come, for sure. if you're constantly on your phone all day long, i do it, you will be exposed to these things quite a lot. we talked to ignite president, jim tobin. he advises samsung, nike, he advises these companies. so if you have a problem with a product or maybe you're excited about something new that comes out, internal native advertising as it were. the companies should figure out what they want to get out of social media and do that. do they want to optimize their
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search engine optimization? do they want people to get to the website? set a goal and set to meet that goal. exactly. really good hard data is coming out. every time we get earnings report, we wonder ad revenue, ad revenue, start to show. gerri: showing up slowly but surely. thanks for coming on, jo. >> thanks, gerri. gerri: social media changed how we do everything from reconnecting to old friends to networking even how we eat. seems like we're dropping dinner conversations with person afrom us and instead dining with your smartphones. how big after problem is this. joining me is psychologist, dr. bonnie forest. good to see you. whoever wrote the intro has been sitting in on dinners with my husband. he is exactly with, on his phone. it is disconcerting. is it a problem across the country or is it just limited? >> i don't think it is limited just to the east coast, gerri or just to your dinner table.
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i've had the same problem at mine. i think we've become too sort of owned by technology. look, it has got its great pluses. you can go to dinner now, when you otherwise maybe couldn't go to dinner before because you had to take an important phone call but make sure people know that up front. that is a quick phone call two minutes. not checking for an email every five minutes, gerri. gerri: that's what everybody does. they stay on the phone. they're engaged with the thing in their hand all the time. and i think that is really hurting relationships and it is hurting people. is there a way to negotiate yourself out of this box? >> oh, i think so. i think, i think it is too fold, gerri. i think first of all, i think you're starting to see a curve. i think you had a big use of social media when it was new and ever present. but i actually think companies are starting to understand that it is making us a little best productive. so bosses are starting to say, okay, let's take technology
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breaks after 5:00. i will not email you or asked and i will schedule e mails to go out tomorrow morning. i think it is important to negotiate things up front. if i'm going to dinner, expecting a important phone call. i say to friends and my husband, i have to take this phone call for two minutes. otherwise i couldn't go to dinner. i make that clear up front. otherwise, have a technology-free dinner. i really need to have you hear me on something. i'm having a bad day. i have don't feel like i'm hurt if you're checking your email every five minutes. gerri: well, i wonder if you have luck with that. that can be a hard thing to pull off. let's face it, one of the things going on here, people feel so tied to their jobs and for good reasons. unemployment rate is still high. people feel like there is not a lot of opportunity out there. i have to hold on to the job i have right now. boy, if somebody from work needs me i have to back to them right away. how do you ease yourself off of
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that, and try not to focus on the pressure and instead balance out, you know what you're doing? >> look, gerri, i have practiced on wall street as an attorney at a high level corporation for a lot of years without social media and i think you can start to, those of us who remember that time can start to bring back many so of these -- some of those principles, right? say after 5:30 is it really an emergency? or send a quick email, you know what? i'm off-line from 5:00 friday night until sunday 2:00 or 3:00 unless it is absolute emergency. make people aware you're engaged that you still care about your job or care about your employment which is the key and you're an engaged employee but you also need down time to be more engaged on monday morning. that you will be more productive. i think bosses are really starting to listen to that and understand that. gerri: that is good to hear. i guess the other excuse is, we're traveling this weekend, we won't have coverage until sunday night. >> exactly right.
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take a vacation where there isn't any coverage. gerri: dr. forest, good to see you. later in this show, hillary clinton continues to insist she and bill are not well off. hmmm. how out of touch can one woman be? our panel will react. the g.i. bill turns 70. would this game-changer for millions of vets be passed in today's congress? are we doing enough now for our nation's heroes? stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] if you can't stand the heat, get off the test track. get the mercedes-benz you've been burning for at the summer event, going on now at your authorized mercedes-benz dealer.
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turn america into the greatest, most powerful nation on earth. joining me lieutenant colonel ralph peters. ralph is retired from the army but now a fox news strategic analyst. thanks for coming on the show, colonel. so we talk about it creating a middle class, the g.i. bill in the u.s. is that true? is that common perception valid? >> no, i think it's a slight misstatement. the united states already had, despite the depression, a burgeoning middle class. what the g.i. bill officially known as servicemen's readjustment bill of 1944 or act of 1944. what it did for us, gerri, to give us educated class unlike anything the world ever had seen. it democratized higher education, and not just for veterans although that as was the initial shock of literally millions of veterans having opportunity for higher education at university level or vocational training. also they went back to their communities showed blue-collar kids across the country, hey, you know, university educations
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are not necessarily just for the rich and well to do. so it really was responsible for the vast explosion and of the knowledge culture we have today. as you know, gerri, the g.i. bill was broader than that it provided low cost mortgages at same time we saw levittown and explosion of the suburbs. it was small business loans and even unemployment insurance for veterans. but the biggest thing it did for us a line that leads right from normandy beach to silicon valley, was give us this huge jump start in education as state universities went from quarter of a century from a few thousands students to 30, 40,000 students and despite all the negativity we hear about our university system, when you get to the core subject, still by far the finest in the world, thanks to the g-i bill. gerri: colonel, you make an interesting point about silicon valley and the education of millions and millions of
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americans. why was it deemed so necessary at the time to pass legislation that would allow these soldiers returning soldiers, to go to school? >> well, gerri that's a great question because the bill's intention was not to expand the knowledge base of america and create a knowledge based society at dawn of the information age with television and early computers. the goal was to prevent a repeat of the debacle that followed the first world war with confusion over veterans benefits. whether there should be any and depression that culminated really in the bonus march and public relations disaster of the hoovervilles of the hoover administration. president roosevelt and members both parties in congress wanted to make sure we didn't have that sort of a thing. we almost had 10 million men and women in uniform, suddenly transitioning from a wartime to peacetime economy. they would be flooding the market looking for jobs as
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they're demobilized. the bill was really intended to soften the impact of the returning troops and keep a lot of them out of the workforce for while the economy adjusted but the bonus of this wonderful, wonderful, nearly flawless act of legislation was to give us the wealthy, powerful, knowledgeable america we have today. gerri: you know, as you look back, and you compare the benefits of this bill, it seems pretty obvious it should have been passed but if we were looking at g.i. bill today, do you think congress would pass it? >> well i think they really already have. while we do hear about the undeniable problems at some veterans hospitals, nonetheless, gerri, i worked with armies around the world. we have for our military and for our veterans the best package of benefits, the best thank you for
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their service of any country in the world. nobody else even comes close. that doesn't mean it's perfect but we take better care of our vets than anyone ever has and we're still by the way, still educating citizens. we still have, although it has gone through several iterations since the original g.i. bill, we have gone through iterations that turned better young people back to our society. we have given, we're still giving them opportunity for education while in uniform, after they have served. myself, i was a different program in the 1970s but i was able to finish my bachelor's degree and get a master's degree while on active duty, working nights and weekends thanks to, what was called the a version of the g.i. bill. this is a way that our military thanks to congress being wise in this respect not only able to help young people grow up which is a military's role traditionally many respects but also to provide much more
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capable people for the workforce. gerri: that's right. >> reliance between our military and i hadcation system has been one never fully recognized. >> great points, every single one of them. i just really wanted to mark the occasion today because so many people have benefited from the g.i. bill, myself include. my father went to school on g.i. bill. i wanted to make sure people remembered this important anniversary. colonel, thank you. >> great that you did it, gerri. thank you. gerri: and time now for a look at stories you're clicking on tonight on foxbusiness.com. better than expected existing home sales according to the national association of realtors, existing home sales, in may increased 4.9% from the previous month. that's the biggest jump since last august. investors were unmoved by an improving housing market. stocks ending nearly flat today. no 17,000 for the dow. dow and s&p 500 ended a six-day winning streak. starbucks lawn offing handcrafted soda tomorrow in 16 states.
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. gerri: welcome back to "the willis report." yes, we are on the plaza today. and my question for you, have you ever wanted to see america from the road? well, let me show you an rv that will let you do that. joining me now, brad and his wife amy herzog. they spent 150,000 miles touring america. where have you been, and where are you going? >> 15th sumner a row doing the tour. the first 12 summers with kids and the last three with just amy and myself. gerri: that's great, right? >> the summer of love 2.0, it has the bells and whistles of a new rv but designed to look like a 70s rv. gerri: this is a great point, you look at this from the outside, you say old-fashioned.
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it's really not. we're going to go inside and show you the interior. i have to be super careful here. hey, amy, how are you? >> hi you. >> spent a lot of time in here, right? >> we do. i heard brad mention the summer of love 2.0. close quarters. gerri: you happen to like each other? >> luckily we do. usually it's much bigger than this. there is an area in here called the slideout. you can push a button and it creates 34 feet more space. gerri: you've got a full kitchen in here, a shower. >> correct. gerri: a bathroom. what else do you have? >> like the retrodesign with the modern twist, there's a lot of little secret hidden gems. the nice size dinet turns into a sleeping area, we have sleeping here, and a secret little bed that the kids love when they're with us, it comes down so fast and easy, and next thing you know, you've got
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another area. >> let me tell you, we're right here in midtown manhattan, right? and looks like we could be in somebody's home in a winnebago. when people look back, they think winnebago, covering the entire country, out in the countryside, how is today's winnebago different from then? >> i never thought i would drive one in midtown manhattan. what's great is there is all this modern technology and they use every inch of space, and all the amenities that make it more comfortable. i'm a home body who likes to travel, it's perfect for me, you have the comforts of home, you can be very plugged in these days on the road and work from the road, and you can -- there's a lot more comfort in that sense, you can sort of drop out of society if you want but you don't have to. gerri: you don't have to, and
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obviously there are lots of places to go, the parks that are taylor made for this vehicle. where do you take this when you travel, amy and where do you go to? >> i had never been to a national park in my life. i'm happy to say we hit almost every national park in the country, the best way to see the country, in addition, national parks, the nooks and crannies, discovering small towns, taking the blue highways and getting off the main interstates and seeing what can you discover. it's a lot of fun. gerri: the industry had a boom in the first quarter, up 13%. sales on fire now as the recovery eases somewhat. but before we go, i want to see more of the cool things in here so we can show people the shower and some of the things in the back of the rv here. amy, if you help us out. i'm going to let you get past me here? >> one of the things that's great about the rv, you have the kitchen with you. gerri: i like, this take a look
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at this. >> yeah. i don't have the water on right now. something has to be turned on. when you wear your kids especially, how many times do chicken nugan you eamany shop weave ave onnd arage, d can you have fresh food and an oven for cooking. toaster oven. but also -- gerri: and here's the fridge. >> this is the refrigerator in here, and like i said, it holds all our favorite snacks. cold drinks, great on a hot day. gerri: and the bedroom in back and the shower. so you are completely -- >> yeah, we're self-contained, self-contained. gerri: as we look forward to the summer, this is definitely one way to travel, really like it, brad and amy, thank you, i'm going to try to negotiate
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this now, if you want to try to help me. geo rad,hank mch we >> my pleasure. gerri: we will be right back in just a moment. [ laughter ]
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saying she's not wealthy. how did you respond to that? >> she's filthy rich, it's a disgrace, and hillary clinton has dug her own hole. she will never be president of the united states after a comment like that. she will never get it. the reason bill clinton became president in the first place, he was that everyone's man and spoke to everyone, and now they are in the inner sanctum. they are in the elite and to make it worse they have chelsea. there's three of them going about the country trotting around, picking up big amounts of money, and seemingly not working for it. gerri: alan, i thought that the whole thinking here is she was trying to align herself with her democratic roots and saying i'm one of you. i don't have a lot of money, how did it read to you? what did you make of her comments? >> remind me of way back in elementary school when i heard about the french revolution when marie antoinette said when
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the peasants have no bread, let them eat cake. reminded me of that, gerri. gerri: what do you say? >> the disconnect between net worth of individuals and the half a million americans that are working paycheck to paycheck, what is enfortunate is the denial or not recognition or what the individual is not telling the rest of america, the reason is because of the federal reserve's inflation policies and printing going on for 100 years, it increases the cost of basic goods and services like food and energy that make up a much higher percentage of the average work american's total income and total net worth versus a ultranet worth individual. and from a leader like hillary clinton, i'm disappointed. >> got to wonder who she is comparing herself to. maybe her friends are 1% people. and you brought up this, like the average family's wallet, what does it look like? a new bank survey that says
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very few americans have savings, especially savings for emergencies, we're not setting money aside, hillary to you, is this something you see in client us that have? do you find people are not saving much for the everyday things. >> i find it across the board, and that's what's frightening because if we have any kind of hiccup in the market, and it's coming, it might not be this quarter, i think we're going to have a good summer. going into fall, we are due a correction, it's natural, and when it happens, you have so many americans that haven't saved. they live paycheck to paycheck and hung on since 2008 and 2009 and we could be in for a terrible jolt because there isn't savings, we have no cushion. gerri: anthem, do you, is it a case of people not wanting to save or people are underemployed or unemployed, even this deep into the recovery. what's it going to take to get
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people focused on the financial bottom line? >> across the board, i think first it takes real education, and that's why i'm big on trying to educate people. what is the crux of the issue? the crux of the issue is legal tender laws that require us to use a currency continuously depreciatinging. the fact is if you are poor, you don't have a lot of savings. cost of everything is going up. wages around going up, that's the crux of the problem. we need to give people a choice in currency. government doesn't do anything well and shouldn't give them the 100-year-old monopoly we granted them. gerri: alan, we talked earlier in the day that folks should change jobs to get a pay raise. if you stay at the same employer, you're not going to get big bonuses, big money over time. the folks experiencing 3% wage increases and inflation is taking away the vast majority of that. alan what do you say about the
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tendency of americans to stop saving for the future? >> changing jobs might get you increase in pay. what i see, when people get more money, they're just spending more. so i don't know if that actually solves the problem. >> i don't think that's really what's going on. the problem is that we have such a jobless recovery, people aren't making the money, and therefore, it makes more sense to go and spend it at coach and cracker barrel, let's say, because it's a few dollars you'd be putting in the bank why, not indulge, education won't really help and jumping around. >> i totally agree with that, gerri, to play into, that people that are very poor happen to play the lottery a lot, right? so i think there is something called prize links savings that are outlawed in this country in most states except for michigan. michigan has put into -- gerri: i never heard of that. what is that? >> prize links savings, a savings account where a small
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portion of the interest goes into a lottery, a sweepstakes, there was just first time about a couple weeks ago, someone named billy joe williams put 75% in a prize links savings account and won $100,000. it plays into the mentality that the public has. if they have very little money, the hope and dream is to make money through the lottery. this solves both parts of it. gerri: i don't think it solves anything at all. wagering away, betting away saveings is a bad idea. >> i'm sorry, it's not wagering away the savings, it's saving money with a small portion of the interest going into a sweepstakes and it's very successful around the world. gerri: we'll check it out. sounds like an interesting idea. zeal to do a segment on it. thanks for coming on, hillary, anthem, great to hear from you, great panel, thank you so much for your time. >> thanks for having us. gerri: here's what some of you
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are posting on my facebook page about our poll question tonight. would you take an rv vacation? bud says no, it's too expensive and have no longer the skills to piloting that vehicle. brian says it makes for a great vacation, if someone else was funding it, i would do it in a heart beat. mickey from georgia, sounds off on the travel half of an airlines cause. for the last two years, we've gone on road trips instead of flying for our vacations when you have the time to do a good-old fashioned road trips are a delight. you can sight-see, stop whenever you want and see the country, not flying right over it. i won't fly unless is no other option. and brian from ohio writes i want to say i watch your show all the time, keep up the wonderful job. thanks for watching, brian. coming up next, a look at a new
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. gerri: imagine waking up with a migraine and realizing that you have no meds! usually you'd have to go to the drugstore, right? a new company may change all. that quicky is a drone delivery service based in san francisco right now that allows users to order from a pharmacy and have the order delivered to the
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yard. joshua ziering is here to tell us how it works. how did you come up with the idea? >> one morning after a late night out, i went to the kitchen and went to shake the bottle of the advil for the reassuring sound and it was empty. this is awful, we should have drones delivering this us to. i said this is a good idea. i'm going run with this. gerri: you're a licensed pilot, it was a natural thought that drones would be the right answer. >> i'm a lifelong aviation enthusiast. >> including drones. >> including drones. >> can we trust drones to bring us consumer goods to the houses? should we worry they're going to run into planes and crash into the backyard? >> we're working on collision avoidance systems and we'll be responsible about what we carry over people's neighborhoods, schools, yards and homes. >> when i heard about this, i
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was thinking about a hangover, i was thinking about people with a serious medical problem and need drugs quickly. seems like a solution to this problem. do you have any idea on the travel time? >> i suffer from tree nut allergy myself. the ability to summon an epipen would be at a college campus. they can cover 1.25 to 2 mile delivery radius. gerri: tell me about, did you connect up with a pharmacy, you're not a pharmacist, how did you solve for that equation. >> we're starting with nonprescription drugs, we can do things without regulations, advils, prophylactics. gerri: this is for young people right now. hopefully you hope to make it a much bigger service. >> like amazon started with books, we're starting with pharmacy items and move onto
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everything we can. gerri: you have big competition for amazon. >> we are thrilled to have them compete with us. gerri: joshua, thank you. i have to mention before we go, you are 28. good job starting the company. thanks for coming on. good to see you. >> thank you. gerri: we'll be back with my "2 cents more" and answer to the question of the day. would you take an rv vacation? i vote yes. . but for me, it starts with the opening bell. and the rush i get, lasts way more than an hour. (announcer) at scottrade, we share your passion for trading. that's why we've built powerful technology to alert you to your next opportunity. because at scottrade, our passion is to power yours. when folks think about wthey think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well:
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. gerri: earlier in the show, if you caught it, i got a personal tour of riding in style in a winnebago. would you take an rv vacation? we asked the question on gerriwillis.com. 56% of you said yes, 44% of you said no. an uneven result. remember steve mcqueen, the king of cool? he loved fast cars and motorcycles, and now his ferrari 275 gtb 4 is up for auction if you want it, you have to be willing to pay up. look at that car. the car is expected to go for 9
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million bucks at the rm's monterey auction in august. mcqueen ordered the car in 1967 filming the thomas crown affair, it was originally gold in color, the actor hated it and it was repainted red. mcqueen sold the door fellow actor guy williams of zorro fame. the car has gone through several owners but fully restored and in perfect running order. cool, huh? we talked about the g.i. bill turning 70 right. what a transformative piece of legislation that was. my own father went to school on the g.i. bill and many other americans have done the same. few other pieces of legislation have is reward the sacrifices of our veterans, starting with the greatest generation and continuing today. where would we be without the g.i. bill? tonight we learn the g.i. bill shaped a productive and expanding economy, set the stage for silicon valley and
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helped develop a broad and wealthy middle class. that's it for tonight's "the willis report." thank you for joining us. we don't have a winnebago tomorrow. we'll have something special. join us then. charles payne is next. . charles: tonight on "making money," the stock market, this is a great chance to get technical analysis 101. terms i use for guidance, all the time, should be understood and also know how to implement them. it's a hot-button issue for many reasons but we're covering immigration from a financial point of view. the scales are heavy on both sides of the debate but the costs are going to get much higher, a solution needs to come sooner rather than later. and a new segment, upon further review. rock star talking about how he's not planning on leaving fortune to his

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