tv MONEY With Melissa Francis FOX Business January 12, 2015 2:00pm-3:01pm EST
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entertainment industry as well, i'm sure you have a good perspectives on golden globes? melissa: without question. we have things to get to first of the isis on the inside. u.s. central command is hacked as president obama touts stepped up cybersecurity measures. cheaper fuel prices rekind kills talk of raising gas tax. before congress rolls out sob stories how we need to fix crumbling roads and bridges you want to hear with the current money we're giving them. you wouldn't like it. kiss of debt for one wedding shop. no amount of cleaning could wash away stigma of ebola bribe. a store owner forced to close up shop. even when they say it's not turns out, it is always about money. melissa: breaking news this hour. isis launching an apparent cyberattack against u.s. central command, with peter barnes who
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has latest on this story. >> that's right, melissa. hackers claiming to be from isis hacked twitter account and youtube channel of the pentagon's u.s. central command which manages u.s. military operations in 20 countries. working with centcom which confirmed attacks. twitter taken down its account for centcom and youtube taken the centcom channel down. on twitter the hackers posted messages like, american soldiers, we are coming, watch your back. isis is already here. we're in your pcs in each military base. they posted documents with personal information about officers including names addresses and phone numbers and they posted photographs on youtube. they posted jihadist videos. the hackers said they were part after cyber caliphate. eight his daily briefing still ongoing white house press secretary josh ernest was asked about the hack. >> i can tell you something this is something we're obviously looking into and something we take seriously.
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a note of caution to folks as they're covering the story. this is pretty significant difference between what is a, a large data breach, and the hacking of a twitter account. >> and just to follow up on that, so far it does not appear that these hackers have gotten into central command's actual computer networks melissa. back to you. melissa: peter wow, thank you so much. ironically the cyber strike against our military hours after the president obama visited the federal trade commission talking about online security. here to discuss all of it, our own charlie gasparino. kennedy, host of "the independents." guy benson senior political editor at townhall.com. a fox news contributor. guy, that was a lot of downplaying from the white house, huh? >> it is not this bad stuff being hacked. just a twitter account and youtube account. that might be true on some substantive level but make no mistake, if it is isis, we're
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still trying to get details if it is isis this is huge public relations coup for them. it is morale booster for them. this is hugely embarrassing for us this is central command. no way in my estimation the timing of this was coincidence with president giving cybersecurity talk. melissa: we don't know if information posted about family as information is real or not but that would be devastating. >> i'm starting to side a little bit with josh ernest on think you communist. >> just call me, a liberal. i won't be able to appear back on the air again. here's why. i think the public is sort of immune to a lot of this at this point. i think we hear it every day that is minor breaches. i don't think this is as bad as, you know, you're making it out to be. we don't even know if that is real. we don't know if it is really isis this is warfare. melissa: centcom's own account got hacked you don't think that is bad? >> twitter account.
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ap's twitter account got mack hacked and said president was shot. twitter accounts are get hacked they're not most real secure things. you do realize that. >> that doesn't worry you at all. couldn't think of -- >> twitter. it is twitter. it is facebook. it is use tube. those things are hacked every day. people get spam messages from those every day. if they hack into centcom central intelligence i that's a problem. melissa: we got to move on. what do you think? >> i think it is very dangerous for the white house to be downplaying this kind of stuff. they talk a lot about optics and they obviously don't have any but, i think how this could look could be, you know very devastating. i agree with guy it could be morale boos term they have to be especially careful about things consider how they look at ignoring festivities in paris. melissa: speaking of that, 56 world leaders linking arms in a show of support after the paris attacks in paris but president obama nowhere to be found. the administration notably
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absent from the proceedings across france and secretary of state john kerry isn't making any apologies about it. >> the president also went out within hours and spoke about it. and, we have offered from the first moment our intel our law enforcement and all of our efforts and i really think, you know, this is sort of quibbling a little bit. melissa: fixes it. moments ago the white house admitted it made a mistake but turns out may be too little, too late. the backlash here at home, everywhere splashed across the front page of the "new york daily news," including the headline you let the world down. >> don't ever end with a preposition. you let down the world. >> it is a headline. >> it is "the daily news." melissa: president obama meeting to welcome the nba champion san tone know spurs. the fact that he can't go to france. if this had been bill clinton,
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wild horses could not have kept him away from the march. he would have shimmied in between hollande and merkel. still at this press conference that just went on, his security is more intense then all of the other world leaders that is what kept him away. that is what josh ernest just said, his security is more intense. >> it should be. melissa: than the other world leaders. that is he most important leader in the entire world. >> i actually thinkdy, do you think bill clinton would stay away from that. >> you want to hear a breaking news headline fox news alert. i think the president of the united states is not most important leader in the world. i'm just telling you that president obama is the most important person in the world. >> there is a united front and that we want to protect free speech. we want to protect free expression. our journalists mean something to us. we're making a statement to the world that our way of life is more important than you coming in and in cold blood murdering journalists, satirize --
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>> even if it puts our president at risk? >> yes. >> david cameron the british take their security very seriously. david cameron was there. israelis take their security seriously as serious as anyone on the planet because they have to. benjamin netanyahu is second largest target. >> after the whom? >> after the president. i'm open to arguments he didn't have to be there himself but the fact they sent nobody and holder was there and left before the rally -- >> should have sent josh ernest. melissa: after 9/11 we were devastated and world leaders stood up to embrace us. we're here for you. that was soothing. it is such an awful time. >> they marched in washington or new york? i don't remember that. melissa: tony blair. >> he came. >> incredibly arrogant and tone deaf. short sighted. >> this was a public march out in the open. >> huge march, the fact that it shows the world in that part of the world we take our way of life and these protections
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seriously. >> listen there are many things there are many things -- >> just too many of them. >> there are many things -- >> go golfing and u.n. >> many things the president should do and could do. putting him in harm's way is -- melissa: not putting him in harm's way. >> right in the middle street. >> everybody has a opinion. we love it. embrace it. democrats hitting panic button on the economy devising a new plan to redistribute wealth. congressman chris van hollen, rolling out, paycheck bonus credit paid for by new taxes on wall street. it will be transaction tax on, i think it is on stock trades, right? they will redistribute that to the middle class because is funny, because the stock market is only thing that is working as you point out many times. >> they have been trying some sort of a stock transaction tax for a long time. it generally gets beaten back and i will tell you why. because a lot of democrats run state pension funds. they realize that will hurt,
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sort of holdings and returns that they give to teachers -- more like teachers they care about. seiu all their left-wing groups. melissa: firefighters. >> i know. but what does the left care about that? >> i think he is absolutely right. >> not going to happen. >> nancy pelosi loves her money and that wealth will be at risk if you start redistributing it. melissa: oil free-falling to new lows dipping below $46 for the first time since ape of 2009. the slide comes as goldman sachs slashes its forecast and slaps oil with a $39 six-month price target. guy benson, what do you make of this, what do you think it means for keystone? >> look, i will leave the economics of this to charlie. as a consumer who drives a lot i'm thrilled. i will be standing there the at gas pump recently expecting to keep seeing numbers to go up, $350, fill a tank it will stop way short. whoa.
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it makes huge impact for average people i think the white house will seize on this and positive economic news as an excuse to further slow down and sort of push off the keystone pipeline. >> there are conservatives calling for a gas tax. melissa: we dug into details of this. we'll have this coming up later in the show. would you like to know the ways they're wasting current money they're not building potholes. they're building museums. >> since this is business investment show, i make the point wall street is freaking out by the low gas price. prince alwaleed -- melissa: never going back to 100. >> i can't remember where i read that. but he is saying that. at same point wall street is worried that the whole dow can collapse because of all those all those oil-related stocks. not only that there could be some bankruptcies in the lenders to who lent to the fracking companies. melissa: you think those are valid concerns? >> they're valid concerns in the short term, but never listen
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i'm 53. almost said only -- melissa: you don't look a day over 49. >> thank you. i was looking for that compliment. i'm 53. in my long lifetime i don't remember when you had low oil prices and crummy economy? do you remember it? melissa: no. i love you. very good point. >> so i think $15 in gas the other night and went to sap poe's bought a 300 pair of shoes. -xapo's. >> what is xapos. we'll tell you later with the facebook. melissa: that is crazy. not just about cyber jihad. cities in new york on high alert. running on empty washington claims, the highway trust fund is bankrupt? and they want to raise the gas tax on you. but you have got to hear what they're doing with the money they already have. they're not fixing roads. more money coming up. ♪
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melissa: president speaks on cybersecurity, isis takes aim at a government account on social media, calling it cyber jihad. hackers today, infiltrating the twitter and youtube accounts of the u.s. central command that oversees the middle east centcom. sensitive information on military personal images from inside facilities and alleged u.s. intel on other countries posted as tweets for the world to see. here is richard grenell, a former spokesman to the u.s. ambassadors to the u.n. and fox news contributor. jeff lanza is here also, a retired fbi agent. thanks to both of you for joining us. richard, i want to ask you. it is very early, attacks on social media just took place. we don't know all the details and don't necessarily know the information put out there was classified or accurate. we're still learning all the facts but give me your reaction to what went on? >> i agree with charlie
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previously and it is twitter and a lot of people get hacked on twitter however the information being presented by this group is very troubling and it is also something that we need to be watching. i mean look this is an administration that already kind of dismissed the growth of isis into syria and out of syria. so the fact that if this is, you know, fingered to be the isis group or, some sort of a terrorist group and they are downplaying it just simply because it is social media, this is now a pattern that the white house would be downplaying serious threats. dierdre: right. >> that is not good for them. they will look very foolish. melissa: jeff, let me ask you if it is not a big deal are twitter or youtube account got hacked maybe they shouldn't have a twitter account? do they really need to tweet? if it is that not secure why do
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they have one? >> i think it's a big deal, even the military does mark connect right? but it is easy to prevent that. this happened at associated press a couple years ago. melissa: right. >> "washington post" also had their twitter account hacked. you have people in the office. they're logging into twitter through a link. you should never log into a place where you put your user name or password through a link. you go there directly. easy training prevents the thing from happening. more of an embarassment from anything else. melissa: i think it's a huge embraer massment. saying it is not them being hacked, it is twitter should they protect their password better than anyone else in the universe? aren't they all about secrets and security? if they can't protect the twitter account, do we trust them to protect everyone else? >> i actually agree with your earlier statement. i'm not sure they should have a twitter account. i don't think any u.s. government agency that has classified information should really be having a twitter account. when i was the head of communications for the u.s.
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ambassador to the u.n. for eight years, twitter was not a thing. so we didn't have to worry about social media. i would have never allowed the computers inside the office to be linked to some sort of outside website. melissa: right. >> i think that is very troubling and think they shouldn't have one. there is no need. people can go journalists can go to the website or call the office if they want to know. melissa: that makes a lot of sense. before we run out of time, jeff, let me turn back to the story of everything that went on in paris and the idea this female terrorist. hayat boumeddiene was able to move out of the country. we now know more about movements. how she went from spain to turkey and around turkey. we think she moved on to syria. do you think is she gone now? is she in the wind and how big after blow do you think that is? >> it is a big blow. if she made it to syria, that is place to be difficult to get her back from the country. i don't believe there is any formal extradition to any country in the area especially
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france or the united states. that is a tough blow to have her go to the other country and other countries getting there. they were probably smart doing it that way. melissa: appreciate your time. thank you very much. oil takes another leg lower. crude hitting another new multiyear low breaking $46 a barrel. wow. go to nicole petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. what is the reaction going on with oil there nicole? >> when you say wow that is probably the right word. everybody sees oil sinking once again. energy sector has been particularly weak, not only today but 2015 kicked it off much like 2014. that is really weak area. 46.15 as you see, 4 1/2% to the down side. the dow is down 99 points. had been down over 160. better than before but lost some momentum in the last couple of hours. tiffany a name we're watching closely, that has been down significantly and there is a couple of reasons. number one weaker same-store sales.
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americas have been weak and strong dollar which affects tour riffs here and at home and don't buy as much abroad. the stock is down 14%. melissa? melissa: nicole, thank you very much. mitt romney drops hint about another run for the presidency but it could be a strategic move to undercut a long-time rival. plus hollywood laughs off the cyberattack on sony literally. here is comedian margaret choe's take on kim jong-un at the golden globes. >> are you enjoying show so far? you don't think it is fun to see all the big movie stars? >> you have baby playing guitar at same time. you no have people holding up many cards to make one big sav picture. worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees from the bank where no branches equals great rates. want to know how hard it can be...
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melissa: a lot can change in a year especially if you're mitt romney. he is now telling donors he is considering a run for president in 2016, just a year after telling people there was no way. somehow ever are seeing this as more of a tactical move against an old rival. charlie and guy are back with us. with more on this, joining us on the phone anthony scaramucci, founder of skybridge capital fox business contributor. mooch you were at a special dinner or meeting? >> it was a lunch at woody johnson's office in midtown on friday. what is the tactical move though. that is what i'm not following. >> that is me, anthony, throwing some gasoline on the fire. melissa: explain yourself. >> we should point out anthony broke the story for you that mitt romney was thinking about running months ago. melissa: right. >> he has been all over this thing. melissa: september 15th. >> i'm putting this out there anthony based on some of the stuff you told me. you've been on here talking about jeb bush.
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you said jeb bush and mitt romney have a good relationship. they probably wouldn't run against each other. now that we see, romney possibly throwing his hat in the ring, the thing i'm thinking of, he is trying is he doing some jujitsu move on chris christie who romney is no fan of after christie hugged out with obama? is he trying to push out the fund-raising away from christie to maybe him and jeb. >> i don't see it like that. on september 15th i said he would run if jeb didn't run. he probably wouldn't run if jeb ran. i think what is different and melissa says, what a difference a year makes even in three months, governor romney is at the top of the polls. you take any poll, put his name in it, particularly new hampshire, three or four key early states, governor romney blasts everybody away. people like the governor. what ask at issue now, melissa will that fund-raising team that all-star one billion dollar plus fund-raising team galvanize
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around governor romney or jeb bush? melissa: jeb bush, no. you're a political guy. what do you think? >> i think polling at this point doesn't matter at all. melissa: where does the money go though. >> let me finish one point. melissa: sorry. >> the reason he is at top of the polls, people know his name. he is nominee last time. he is honorable guy i respect him. i don't understand what it would be for romney campaign this time around? i'm of opinion if you run before there is such a strong new crop of people up-and-coming why would you run again. >> people don't realize, i want to ask anthony a really interesting question and you have romney and jeb both actually run you will split that country club northeastern anthony scaramucci vote in half. open the door -- >> can't get into a country club. >> we've had this information. you will open the door for a john kasich, for scott walker, for someone more right-wing to come in. that is what it could do. the question i have for you anthony, who are you supporting?
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you're a conflicted soul right now. >> i have to wait until the leaves shake out. as i said to governor bush, i'm very, very loyal to governor romney. i disagree slightly on the whole thing about the new crop okay? in 1979, they sat with ronald reagan and said, do not do this again. you're 69 years old and don't think it is a good idea for you to run. and he changed his campaign. he eventually fired his campaign manager and he went more aggressive. if governor romney goes more aggressive here, and runs a little bit of a different campaign i don't see how a guy who wants to be president looks at those poll numbers no matter how earlier this, and looks at the poll numbers says i'm not doing this if he wants to be president. melissa:fy doesn't all the money go to jeb? does he seem like somebody who could actually win? >> that is the jeb plan. they're throwing out big numbers. in "new york times," washington poet they want to raise $150 million ahead of the pray
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marries. that is big scary money for other people to stay out of this race. it is ours to win or lose. i think that is what they're trying to do. i appreciate the reagan analogy, there is some merit mitt romney and i respect him, mitt romney and ronald reagan are on different planets to connect with people. >> he is no ronald reagan until he become as ronald reagan. ronald reagan was not ronald reagan until he became ronald reagan. >> anthony conventional which is do, karl rove very big particularly raising soft money will go with the bushes which he has obviously a family connect with. melissa: right. >> i heard that is not necessarily the case. he doesn't have the same relationship he had with the other bushes. he likes romney. is that a real, good analysis? >> i think karl, i know karl very well. he has been to the salt conference many times as you know charlie. i think karl wants to win. average republican wants to win. >> this is a headline he is not
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♪ ♪ melissa: gas prices have fallen 102 days in a row saving americans $14 billion just last year. not surprisingly, politicians in washington are licking their chops hoping to get their hands on some of that cash. they are already paying for ads on the radio have you heard them? pushing to raise the gas tax screaming about the fact that
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the highway trust fund is totally bankrupt! as our roads crumble all around us. but before we give them another red cent, let's ask them what the hell have you been doing with the money we've already begin you? they clearly are not using it to fix potholes. we dug into cbo numbers and found that last year five billion went for mass transit projects, not roads and bridges. nearly a billion more went for pedestrian walkways and boik paths. -- and bicycle paths. and millions more of your tax dollars were doled out to improve hiking trails and build transportation museums. museums! dedicated to the bridges and the roads that are crumbling around you. the irony! once the money is dispersed to states it gets even further away from our highways, texas spends 25% of its fuel tax revenue on education. kansas uses it for medicaid and for schools, new jersey spent almost every dime it got paying
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interest from other borrowing. here's my point: the next time you hear a sob story about a bridge that's going to fall down any minute and you feel that politician reaching into your pocket, tell them to halt every dime of spending that doesn't actually go to fix the roads. let's take a break there the museums, and once we've done that, we can talk about whether or not they actually need more of your hard earned dollars to fix the roads. here now, peter morici, economist at the university of maryland emily goth from the heritage foundation guy benson is back as well. peter, what do you think? >> in the good old days when we drove gas guzzlers, those 20-foot yachts, they got used to tapping into the highway trust fund for all their boondoggles. you know no greater waste of money is present than on mass transit systems. take a look at how poorly they run and the kind of wages that they pay. that's a real problem. another thing is davis-bacon. what money finally gets over that nickel on a dollar they
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spend on roads is basically a gift from the president to the democratic party through the unions. i'm not willing to raise the gas tax. melissa: emily, look at these expenditures, as recently as just december as the highway trust fund was about to go under and "60 minutes" is running this long piece on how we're going to die if we don't fork over money for the roads, in december they went ahead and spent in kentucky, they put up the transportation museum. they spent almost a million dollars. the museum's going to highlight and educate the public about the history of transportation. the museum will feature varying modes of transportation including railroad expansion and illustrates the significance of economic growth. oh my goodness. emily, this is why our bridges are crumbling. >> it's not getting anyone closer to their job or at home to spend time with their family. they've been wasting gas tax dollars for years up to 25% or more of this money gets wasted every single year. it's spent on the transit the bike paths the museum things
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of that nature that don't help motorists get to where they want to go in a timely way. melissa: guy, are you as angry and frustrate as i am? >> i know it's hard to be quite as angry but i'm close because i know it's a distinct issue, but didn't we borrow $800 billion in 2009 for the so-called stimulus for the express purpose of fixing crumbling roads and bridgings? now it's broke, this other fund we have to raise taxes to do it? melissa: that's a great point. >> it is nutty that we are talking about any form of tax increase right now given that voters just put republicans in charge of congress in both houses. this is, should be an absolute nonstarter. melissa: peter, go ahead. we're looking at a scroll on the side of the screen that's going to make me vomit. it's everything that this money is going for that is not our roads. go ahead. peter? >> oh. no doubt they took all that extra $800 billion and gave it to the department of education to sue universities. this administration will find any conceivable way to use the
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taxpayers' money except the way that they'd like to have it used. most taxpayers would like the roads fixed and the mass transit systemses run more efficiently. the trouble is whenever you give barack obama or that character in the new york city a dollar they spend 95% of it fixing the social ills of the world. melissa: no, it's so true. i just think if i'm forced to give them more money, they're still not going to use that new money to fix the bridges and roads. thanks to all three of you, we appreciate it. "money" took to the streets to see what you had to say about this one. here it is. >> i think the federal gas tax is a crime. it's not going to rebuild these roads and bridgings. and it's -- bridges. it's an absolute crime. >> i don't think that's right. >> we do need the money for infrastructure. >> they should probably use the tax for our vehicles that makes more sense, doesn't it? >> i think we should raise the gas tax and make sure that it's used for roads. >> that's where it should be going, fixing the roads and bridges. melissa: yeah that guy who said raise the tax takes the bus
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every day. on twitter chip said quote transportation museums are clearly more important than repairing crumbling infrastructure. our facebook friend bob powell says quote: i am not surprised that the obama a regime spends gas tax on more than roads remember the stimulus program. government makes more off gas tax than anyone else. also on facebook diane said i want my tax dollars to go towards fixing the roads in my town. what a novel idea! i hope congress is listening. follow me on twitter like me on facebook.com/melissafrancisfox. all right, ebola's latest victim the bridal store visited by an ebola-infected nurse now forced to close its doors. customers are just too scared to return. we are talking to the store manager that served her. plus why this man spent nearly $3 billion on a penny. at the end of the day, it's all
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goldman sachs coming up. and a new ad for mcdonald's setting off a twitter storm. the commercial features restaurant signs that have given words of encouragement and support to americans over the decades. seems nice enough. some viewers, though have found the ad's message to be a little bit inappropriate. and spacex is celebrating the successful launch of a rocket to the international space station. it did however, fail its touchdown on the landing platform in the middle of the ocean. something that has never before been achieved. so close! that is the latest from the fox business network giving you the power to prosper.
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♪ ♪ melissa: last year's ebola scare now claiming its latest casualty, a bridal shop visited by an infected nurse is shutting its to doors after after 30 years in business. the manager of that store joins me now on the phone from akron, ohio. kayla, thank you so much for joining us. tell me, what happened in the store after, you know, amber vincent came through she tried on a bunch of dresses she later came down with ebola although i understand she didn't have symptoms when she was in your store. what happened next? >> well, not that we knew of, she didn't have symptoms when she was in our store. you know then she she flew back to texas where it was later discovered that, you know, she was diagnosed with ebola, and
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that she had flown to the akron/cleveland area. and at that time her name, you know had not been released yet, and, um, you know when her fame finally got released -- her name finally got released all of us that worked at the store kind of put two and two together that, wow, she was here on saturday all day. so that's kind of when, you know when the panic started. melissa: when the panic started, and i read that almost instantly your sales dropped by about 60%. there were thousands of dollars worth of ever canceled orders, including vincent herself who also wanted a $500 refund on the dress that she had come in and bought because of the unusual circumstances. why -- go ahead. >> she wanted her bridesmaids. she bought her dress in the summer her wedding down. she, that day she was in shopping with her bridesmaids. and she wanted the refund for all of her bridesmaids. melissa: so not only did you
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guys lose a lot of business, you were also placed in quarantine yourself for a full month? >> for the 21 days yeah, i was. melissa: wow. and i understand business never really came back to the store? what did you guys decide to do or what options were there for you? >> well, i mean, we tried to -- we reopened in november. we lost, you know, one of our biggest months in the bridal business brides getting ready for their summer weddings. you know, for the following year. so we lost a huge month. we had to issue tons of refunds because girls just were not feeling comfortable with their dresses, just, you know the whole stigma of the ebola, you know, we hear the ebola dress, the ebola store or, just lots of stuff like that. melissa: i mean -- >> so a lot of that happened afterwards. melissa: i know you called in a specialized cleaners from new jersey to clean everything with an ultraviolet light.
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you talked to the mayor who had ideas about changing the name, starting again, finding a new location. you guys went through all the different possible things you could do. you know, they were all too expensive. i asked who would you sue, you know, because damages, there's kind of who would you sue? there's no one necessarily who's responsible depending on how you look at it. kayla, i understand the store's closing. thank you for coming on and sharing your story. we were really sad to hear ant this, and i -- about this, and i hope the universe rewards you with some good luck here. >> thank you. melissa: maybe some will have an idea or take pity on you based on this. we're really wishing you the best, and thank you for coming on. >> okay. thank you so much. melissa: bruise trick el -- bruce trickell joins me now. bruce, my heartbreaks for this poor woman and everyone who worked for the store. >> yeah, what a terrible story. as a small business owner i can certainly empathize. here you have someone who's done
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everything right and built a brand that attracts people, and what we're seeing we're going to see more often. not just ebola, but this is the physical manifestation of this whole concept of a global economy. it goes there africa to akron ohio, and now these poor people are out of business. it's just, it's just awful. melissa: i know, it's terrible. all right thanks, bruce. we're going to see you later in the show. a few stories on our radar divers retrieving the black box for air asia flight 8501, they believe they've also located the cockpit voice recorder but haven't been able to reach it. the flight crashed two weeks ago, killing all 162 people onboard. the republican-controlled senate moving ahead on the keystone pipeline despite the president's veto threat. a test vote is scheduled for later today. but could be delayed due to weather. the house approved the bill last friday. and amazon making history last night as the first online streaming service to ever take home a golden globe. its series, "transparent,"
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winning the best tv comedy. the show's star also won for best actor. let's check in with liz claman and see what she's got coming up. liz: i just want to quickly mention this because it is breaking right now, crude looks to be about to go below $46 a barrel, it's at $46 even. we're watching that. because it definitely might very well affect earnings numbers. but the breaking news that will be at the top of the hour comes out of the pentagon and out of the u.s. government. peter barnes on the centcom hack story, hacked by people who say they are with the islamic state and the threats on this are unbelievable. you've been talking about them, melissa. we've got more detail on this. and the very latest on how dramatically cyber stocks are reacting to that. speaking of cyber but on a totally different level, you know all those dating web sites from timber to hot or not j
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date? guess what? there is a new one that specifically bases its algorithm on ambition. ambition equals amore? well guess how league is deciding whether you get in or not to its dating web site. we'll have it all with the founder and is ceo, stay tuned. a very interesting story, melissa. i bet you would make it if you weren't married. [laughter] melissa: wow i can't wait to see that segment. [laughter] all right. hitting the road, "money" heads to the automotive capital of the world. plus, you win some, you lose some, chris christie. the world's biggest dollars cowboys -- dallas cowboys' fan be receiving condolences. you can never have too much "money." ♪ ♪
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♪ melissa: whether it's on wall street or main street, here's who's making money today, anyone with a piece of best buy. the stock spiking following a piece in barron's that say shares could rise by 20% this year. best buy's founder has 61 million shares, meaning he made an extra $48 million since this morning's cup of coffee. that's not too bad. liam neeson's very specific set of skills grabbing the top spot at the box office, taken 3 raking in more than $40 million over the weekend despite receiving pretty questionable reviews there on quality. and one man paying a pretty penny for rare coins, ken lipton shelling out a wouldn'ting $2.5 million -- a whopping $2.5 million for one penny. the coin was made in 1792. it is the most money ever paid for a single penny.
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work that one out. college football crowning its champion tonight the ohio state buckeyes and the oregon ducks facing off with the ducks starting the day as a six-point favorite. the ducks. and one unusual strategy could play a role. the oregon coaching staff operating with a strict no-yelling policy. bruce and guy are back with us. bruce, do you have a special guest with you there in studio, is that right? >> i do. i walked into the studio ready to talk about football, and my childhood idol from miami number 22, mercury morris was right here in the studio with me, so how could i not bring him out? melissa: ask him what he thinks about the no-yelling policy. it seems to be working for oregon right? >> what the hell is a no of- no-yelling policy? what does that mean? i've been away too long. all i know is it looks like they're getting ready to to play a super bowl tonight. melissa: absolutely. bruce, what do you think of the no-yelling policy? >> i think it's nuts!
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melissa: you're yelling right now, so i'm not surprised. >> i'm sitting with mercury morris. >> wait a minute, hold it. explain to me what the no-yelling policy is. melissa: they put their arm around the shoulder and say, you know, you really shouldn't have dropped that ball. it's like a loving coaching style where you're embracing and you're loving your players, and you're not yelling at them and scolding them and cursing. instead you're encouraging them and embracing them. i mean, they're winning so i don't know -- >> who came up with that? melissa: i think their coach did. it's been out there for a couple years. relate me ask you about another -- let me ask you about another story. new jersey governor chris christie he's no lucky charm. the cowboys couldn't pull out a win against green bay on sunday. remember christie's awkward hug with jerry jones last week. governor christie, do you need a hug now? guy benson, of townhall.com is
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here as well. what did you think of this political repartee? >> it's fun. scott walker also a huge packers fun, obviously, was needling governor christie. he was in the stands walker was, christie was in the owner's booth again with the jones clan. look chris i'm a new jersey guy and a giants' fan so i will not make any apologies for chris christie's disgusting support -- [laughter] but when you make a big deal out of it, hey, i love my cowboys, chris christie. when they lose in this controversial fashion, of course you got to be prepared to take the arrows. melissa: bruce, give your special guest a big high-five for us. >> you got it. melissa: the concept cars of the future, we've got a look at the hottest creationings out of the detroit auto show. jeff flock us a peek, at the end of the day it's all about fast cars. ♪so a ♪ nts? that's right. it's just that i'm worried about you know "hidden things..."
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melissa: >> reporter: back at the detroit auto show, and we love it when there's some excitement and something new we didn't expect. take a look at this guys you've got to see it, this is called the hyundai san that cruz. dave who runs hyundai, this we didn't expect. >> we kept it under wraps, we wanted to surprise hemo. >> reporter: it's a truck right? >> absolutely. >> reporter: a small truck. >> it's a crossover truck is what we like to call it and really what it does, it sunt try to be a truck in -- it doesn't try to be a truck in terms of towing capacity and ground clearance. there's a lot of people out there that need the versatility of a cuv but have to have an open bed. >> reporter: interesting. we're out of time but, liz claman, this is an incredible thing. didn't expect it, and in your show we will have perhaps the most celebrated auto executive in the world. in your hour, coming up. stay tuned. liz: okay.
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