>> tonight's winner with 986 votes, 37.1%, herm cain! >> rick: fox news alert and the governor of florida announcing the results in today's florida straw poll. as you just heard, herman cain is the big winner and by a wide margin. glad you're with us. i'm rick folbaum. >> arthel: i'm arrest they will neville. welcome to a brand-new hour inside america's headquarters. we go straight to carl cameron live from orlando. talk about i guess we can say an upset, yeah? >> sure. absolutely. the georgia businessman, herman cain, clearly winning going away

and it's an expression of his strong debate performance earlier this week, a raucous speech at the political conference that took place here yesterday, and again, rallying the crowd today behind basic core conservative common sense principles, and herman cain's victory clearly comes at the expense of texas governor rick perry. perry had invested a lot of time and mone in this straw poll and was widely considered to be the odds on front runner until he had his debate performance earlier this week in which he got very dinged up for his positions on illegal immigration, something which conservatives have a lot of disagreement. perry drops to second and didn't even get half of what herman cain did and he sees on his heels mitt romney, most of the national polls and statewide polls with the exception of new hampshire suggest that perry has a significant lead on mitt romney outside the margin of error. but this straw poll suggests those two are still in for a very, very fight battle. as you skip do you know, rick santorum who has been making the argument that he's the only conservative with a consistent

record of achievement and work in washington, showing that he has actually done something with 11% in fourth place. this could breathe new life in his candidacy. ron paul, who consistent lie wins straw polls but not able to turn it into serious election results in two previous runs, also in double digits. newt gingrich, john huntsman. michelle bachman with 1%. she won the iowa straw poll a month ago. that historically cat putted republicans to win. she's gone from winning the iowa straw poll to coming in dead last in the florida straw poll. that's got to be particularly bad news for her. a huge triumph for herman cain. the sense that republicans in florida are very upset with rick perry, particularly on illegal immigration, but perhaps because there is a high percentage of seniors which perhaps is his

views on social security. these are issues rick perry will get the signal on. he and mitt romney are in michigan now. but the noise from florida is loud. herman cain's common sense conservativism with his 9-9-9 jobs and economic plan has gotten the attention of the sunshine state. it will echo around the country and particularly for rick perry. he'll have changing of policies or at least adjustments to make in the wake of this defeat. to come in with less than half of herman cain's support is a serious blow. he and mitt romney have a serious race ahead. fundraising after straw polls is key after long-term success and whether or not herman cain has staying power. now herman cain is at the top of the straw poll in florida and that means he's going to be on the top of the minds and mouths of republicans across the country in the days ahead. >> arthel: carl, it just makes it all so exciting.

thank you, we'll talk to you later. >> rick: we will have is a lot more analysis of the results out of florida. the surprise win for herman cain and what's going on with romney and perry and the rest of the gop field? that's coming up a little later on in the show. but first, some are calling it the solyndra stonewall, execs for the failed solar panel maker keeping quiet at congressional hearing yesterday, pleading the fifth. congress looking into half a billion loan guarantees from the fed. molly henneberg is live in washington with more on that. hi, molly. >> re, rick. lawmakers say they're not giving up. they still want to find out, for example, why solyndra executives told members of congress in july that their business was on the rise. only to declare bankruptcy six weeks later. and they want to find out where the stimulus money went that was given to the company. >> at the end of the day, we've got to find out what happened to this taxpayer money. half a billion dollars.

and we have letters in the pine line requesting more information from the administration. we have more interviews to conduct. and we are not going to conclude this until we get all the answers. >> initially the solyndra executives said they would answer questions at a house hearing. but with the f.b.i. investigating the now bankrupt company, lawyers advised the execs to plead the fifth on capitol hill yesterday, which they did over and over. house democrats who say they want to know how the solar panel company went belly up say it's fair to taint other companies because of solyndra. >> to tar every company in this industry with this brush is wrong and also to use this as an excuse to try to gut programs that support clean energy is in our estimation, a mistake.

>> republicans such as darryl issa have been critical of the president's green energy agenda, including the solyndra loan, saying it's costing too much money and not creating enough energy or jobs. democrats say issa has supported and pressed for government money to help electric car technology in his district. issa responds he supports job creation in all sectors. not just certain green energy projects. rick? >> rick: molly henneberg in washington for us. thanks. >> arthel: we turn now to an emotional conclusion to a high profile murder trial in florida. >> we the jury find the defendant guilty of second degree murder as charged. >> arthel: you heard it. a jury finding bob ward guilty of fatally shooting his wife. the millionaire real estate developer argued he was trying to save his wife from killing herself. but in the end, the jury says he knew exactly what he was doing. what's next? steve harrigan has more from

orlando. >> it was a very difficult few moments inside that courtroom. it was largely silent for the ten minutes before that verdict was read. silent except for the sobbing of bob ward's two college-age daughters. two years ago, they lost their mother to a single gunshot to the head. today their father was convicted of second degree murder. right now bob ward says -- his defense says they plan to appeal, but they also -- it will have trouble appealing against that 911 tape. it was on that tape that bob ward said on five different occasion, i just shot my wife. his defense says that's going to be an extremely difficult hurdle to overcome. >> it did come right from his mouth, but it's the interpretation of it. we're not going to change the words on that tape. the words on that tape are what they are. >> immediately after the verdict, bob ward was fingerprinted and handcuffed a short time ago. he was a multi-millionaire real estate developer. now the 63-year-old is in jail. he'll be sentenced in six weeks time and he faces a minimum

sentence here in florida for second degree murder with a hand gun of at least 25 years. arthel, back to you. >> arthel: thank you very much. >> rick: a major curve ball today in the appeals trial of an american student in italy. amanda knox. prosecutors are asking the court to increase knox's sentence to life in prison. she had been sentenced to 26 years. knox and her co-defendant, a former boyfriend, had been convicted of killing her roommate in 2007. both maintain their innocence and have from the beginning. knox's defense team is appealing the conviction, focusing on questionable dna evidence. we have some amazing video to show you right now off the shores of milwaukee, wisconsin. several water spouts could be seen in the area. they're essentially tornadoes over water, but they're usually much weaker and they don't last as long. checking in with maria molina, she's now in the extreme weather

center. >> good to see you. those are incredible images from those water spouts and just like you mentioned, they're a lot weaker and short lasting. but if you are over water, you do want to make sure you stay away from those and they come on to land occasionally and then you're talking about a tornado over land. as far as today, the weather, we do have two extremes, very warm weather out west, talking about temperatures generally above average, upper 80s across parts of montana, down into portions of the four corners, even phoenix now looking at a hot temperature of 103 degrees. if you look at the eastern half of the country, very cool. great lakes area, in the 50s right now. 59 in chicago. near normal across portions of the northeast with temperatures in the 70s. as we head into tomorrow, you'll notice the cool temperatures located over the same area across the midwest and it's actually because of an area of low pressure that's spinning in some cool air from canada. that's the same system responsible for some of those water spouts across portions of lake michigan. you can continue to see that storm system right now spinning

near the city of chicago, some light scattered showers, thunderstorm activity. nothing really in the form of severe weather where we do have heavier rain across extreme eastern portions of north carolina. that's where we're looking at the most significant amount of precipitation here over the next two days. both of these areas are going to see heavy rain. eastern north carolina, total accumulations possible in excess of four inches locally. so you're talking about localized flooding possible and across portions of the great lakes. widespread scattered showers across portions of eastern half of the country. otherwise the tropics still very active out there. i know we're headed into fall, or we are in fall already, but the tropics, hurricane season does run until november 30. we're going to continue to see some troppal activity and right now, we do have tropical storm ophelia generally a weak storm system. sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. it's actually forecast to remain relatively weak over the next several days. then take a turn toward the right. so further off to the north.

we're not thinking we'll be looking at any impact across the eastern coast of the u.s. if you live in bermuda, watch out. we're look at potential impact coming up by the end of next week. back to you. >> arthel: let's hope for just in general, a very quiet hurricane season. all right. thank you. >> rick: after days of suspense, nasa's dead six-ton satellite plunging to earth stomach overnight. most of it burned up. but several pieces, some weighing hundreds of pounds, may have survived and nasa is now trying to find out where that hardware landed. casey stegall is live in los angeles with more. this was one of the first questions my wife had for me today, did that thing land? are we in the clear? >> i think we're in the clear, rick. i don't know if you read the book "chicken little" to your kids, but the sky is not falling here. this was a former climate research satellite that nasa put up into space in the early 90s.

it was built and launched prior to nasa developing new programs that would prevent an uncontrolled crash like this. however, this is the biggest nasa spacecraft to collide with the earth since 1979. only a few pictures starting to trickle in of this possible space junk entering the earth's atmosphere overnight, looking like small stars, twinkling in the sky there over southern california. the six-ton satellite coming out of the sky somewhere over the pacific ocean before 1:00 a.m. eastern time. its last track included canada, starting north of seattle, then arcing further north and even south. but according to the u.s. air force joint space operation center, they are not sure if it all fell in the ocean or if parts of it made its way to land. some here were hoping to find bits of it, like lote williams, she says back in 1997, part of a returning delta 2 rocket plopped

down right in front of her in an oklahoma park. >> i guess i was in the right place at the right or wrong time. i always keep saying that 'cause i don't know whether it was the right or wrong time, but i was there. >> this was a 35-foot satellite that was estimated to break up into about 26 pieces before it actually came into the earth's atmosphere. the person's odds of being struck by any of this, a mere one in 22 trillion. so pretty low, rick. >> rick: i told my wife, i said, we have nothing to worry about, honey. thank you very much, casey. let's put this satellite crash into perspective. nasa tracks all 19,000 known pieces of space debris that's roughly the size of a grapefruit or bigger. they fall into the atmosphere about once a year.

most are fragmentation debris, dead batteries, broken up satellites. here on the ground your risk of injury from orbital debris is one in a trillion. 700,000 times more likely that you'll actually be struck by lightning, arthel. >> arthel: i'm very assured now. thank you for putting it in perspective. an american wing flyer pulling off a wild stunt today. he took a leap from a helicopter thousands of feet above ground. whoa. then soared right through a large hole in a mountain of central china. he later called it one of the greatest winged flights of his life. the attempt made him the first wing suit stunt man to fly in china. >> rick: while we're talking about things falling back to earth, a brutal week on wall street. its worst showing since the financial meltdown a few years ago. how close we could be now to a double dip recession and how can you best protect your financial

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>> rick: we got news on a saturday afternoon as we check the headlines for you. herman cain winning the florida straw poll and by a wide margin. he received more than twice as many votes as the second place finisher, texas governor rick perry. also two american hikers held in an iranian prison for two years will be back on american soil tomorrow. finally. we have learned they boarded a flight and they have left the country of oman and they expect or we expect them to arrive in new york city, hopefully a little before noon eastern time tomorrow. jar fattal and shane bauer, who were released on a million dollars bail, or ransom, earlier this week. 52-year-old, roughly a quarter of the way through her record breaking swim from cuba to florida. it's called challenging, saying she's been stung several times

by schools of jelly fish. we wish her the best. >> arthel: speaking of being stung, wall street coming off its worst week since the financial meltdown of 2008, the dow shedding nearly 6 1/2% of its total value, raising worries america is on the edge of a double dip recession. here now, managing partner of chapwood investment. hi. >> hi. >> arthel: first of all, tell us what is double dip recession. what would it look like. if i'm a lay person, how would i know if we're in the middle of one and what's the likelihood of that happening? >> the likelihood gets greater and greater. a double dip recession is going back into an earlier recession. two successsive quarters of negative gdp growth or very slow gdp growth. some people say we never really came out of that recession. it's still debatable, but that's what people are looking for. i don't think we're there and i don't think we're going to get there. but people are very concerned about it, without question.

>> arthel: because they're looking at the numbers tumbling on wall street and then their investments going down the drain as well. you still say at this point, don't get paranoid. right? >> you shouldn't get paranoid. what's happening right now is you have to think about the world economy, like a 747 has four different jets. excuse me, four different engines. one is north america, one is europe, one is asia and the other is the emerging markets. when one of the engines starts to faulter and doesn't do well, like europe isn't right now and the united states isn't functioning well, the pne doesn't crash. the other engines pick up and it continues to move along, eventually these other engines, these two engine, europe and north america will get fixed and everything will be fine. we're just not in this world crisis which everyone seems to think. the economy in the united states is suffering. it's not doing great. but stock prices i still think will go substantially higher. >> arthel: you seem to be calm, but there are people concerned about what's happening in the european region. how does the u.s. buffer its economy in terms of what's

happening over there? >> it's tough. we are in a world economy and everything that happens throughout the world literally we can find a dotted line back to the united states. so everything that happens all over the world does impact us. we can't be buffered from it. we just have to understand it and figure out how we can work with it. a lot of these major events that we've seen happen, egypt, the tsunami in japan, what's going on in greece right now, all of these events are earth shattering in a lot of cases, but they don't necessarily impact us economically. we have to be careful 'cause europe could spread. there could be a con stagen, everything is systemic. we have to be careful. when w start hearing france and italy and spain, then we start to get our attention. but right now, i'm okay. we certainly have to watch out things develop, but i just don't believe it's going to be a major impact just yet in the united states. >> arthel: okay. ed, speaking of getting our attention, do you think our lawmakers in dc are paying attention close enough attention to what's happening in the world market as they play political

hot potato coming up with budget proposals and ways to bolster the u.s. economy? >> yeah, i mean, that's a great point. i've been very outspoken against the policies of this administration and the entire team on how they're handling things in the united states. we have to take care of what's going on here in this country. i know geithner went overseas to try to show european community how to deal with the crisis. the central bank is helping out quite a bit. they're doing what their role is by offering short-term money. we've got to get our engine going first 'cause our engine is the most important when you look at the plane and our engine has to get going first and i don't believe the policies we have in place right now are going to fix it. but maybe we'll have is a new pilot next november. right? >> arthel: okay. but it doesn't matter who the pilot is and how well he or she flies. the plane is broke, the engines aren't working, the plane ain't going to fly. what's the best way to fix the u.s. engine? >> it's real simple.

the only thing we can do is cut corporate taxes, cut individual tacks. we all say it, but that's what we need to do. we need to get rid of the wet blanket on this economy. we need to let people know that it's okay to go out and take some risk and put their money out there and get it invested into the overall market 'cause that's also going to help the overall economy. right now, there is a lack of clarity across the board. people don't know what it's going to come down next from washington and because of that, we need to really get rid of all the regulations, everything that the republicans are saying right now, because it's obvious it's not working at this point. and we have to get some clarity going forward and where we're going to get that is by having something different. there is an old line, when riding a dead horse, dismount. right now, we need to change and we're not changing. that's one of the fears is over the next 12 months is that we're not going to see any changes that are really material and that's one of the biggest fears. what we need to do is change the tax structure. that's one of the biggest things in this country. >> arthel: listen, there is some jockeys there, jockeying for position in orlando.

we'll see if they'll be the person to challenge the current jockey in place, so to speak. ed, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> rick: a man in texas is now in a custody battle, but it's not with the mother of his child. it's with a local charity organization. his local catholic archdiocese is now suing the man to keep him from gaining custody even after he passed a paternity test and even though the boy's mother doesn't want him anymore. fox station, kriv in houston has more. >> my son is not someone who needs to be on someone else. he's someone from god. >> rick: that's courtney hunter's letter to a harris county judge, pleading for legal help. he says while god didn't take his baby away, he insists the archdiocese of galveston-houston did. >> i'm overwhelmed by it. i'm just -- i can't believe it. i never thought i'd be fighting the catholic church for my child. >> to give you perspective,

let's take you back eight months when he broke up with his fiance. he says she was pregnant at the time with his son, courtland. you see, the two-month-old here from hunter's last supervised visit. but at the breakup, hunter says his girlfriend promised him one thing. >> she told me that i would never get the baby ever. >> he says after delivery on july 29, his son was immediately given up to catholic charities, an arm of the catholic church that has an adoption service. a service hunter says isn't needed since he proved with this dna test he was the father. and he says most importantly, he wants to keep his son. >> i did the dna test and they say you're the biological test, i said given me my kid. they say no, you're not the legal dad. >> this is that lawsuit. it's to terminate his parental rights to allow courtland to be cooperated. a process this man says he will

fight even on an income of just $350 a week. >> i'm not rich, but i can raise my son. >> fox 26 news placed a call to the archdiocese of galveston-houston. a spokesperson is researching the matter and hopefully will provide us with some type of response next week. in the meantime, hunter is just hoping to see his son again. so far, he says he's been able to see courtland two times since he's been born. >> rick: that was isaiah of kriv in houston. if he is the biological father and he can prove that, he should have his little boy. >> arthel: absolutely. it's nice to see a father fighting, a single father fighting for his father. keep us posted on the story, please. also we're going to keep it in texas right now because new polls are showing that mitt romney is closing in on the texas governor, rick perry. after a blockbuster start, is governor perry's campaign losing steam?

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american for the murder of her roommate. the appeals court's decision expected in early october. >> rick: back to politic, the pressure is on rick perry. herman cain's victory in the straw poll in florida today capping what has been a bit of a tough week for the texas governor. his first real tough week since he entered the race. perry's fast rising campaign losing steam, according to some. his top rival, mitt romney, closing the gap in key polls as conservative pundits blasted rick perry's performance in recent debates. here for a fair and balanced debate themselves is david, president of go pac, an organization dead indicated to electing republicans, and margie, a democratic pollster and president of momentum analysis, llc. it's great to see you both. let me start with you, david. what's the saying? the bloom is off the rose? is that the case with rick perry? >> well, this election certainly has had its twists and turns and

every candidate had good days and bad days. and governor perry, i think even he has admitted maybe didn't put in his best performance the other night, but the campaign is not over. he also this week received the endorsement of governor sam brownback and he continues to build his fundraising network and -- look, the thing to keep in mind is as you look at some of these national polls that maybe have him down this day or another candidate up, is these national polls aren't good indicators of who our nominee is going to be. >> rick: we have a -- each state has a primary or caucus. margie, first of all, as a democrat, you probably don't mind so much that piling on that's going on this week when it comes to rick perry. but is it fair? it's so early in the process. this stage of the game, four years ago, people were counting out john mccain.

right? >> look, can he recover? sure. i think the issue here is that perry seems to think that he can clearly, about -- speaking about what you would do as president is like having a nice hair cut or nice boots. but being able to speak clearly is really important. it's crucial. and we already had a cartoon cowboy, governor from texas in the white house and we ended up putting the economy off in the ditch. it's still recovering. so i don't think voters are going to make that same mistake again and i think perry does a disservice to voters when he dismisses the importance of being able to speak clearly and coherent will he about his platform. >> rick: i'll let the cartoon cowboy fly because we don't talk about former presidents like that. but david, this could be the first president ever to end the term without having created any new net jobs and yet, at the same time, the gop is still

going to have to put a candidate up against him who is going to be able to win the party's nomination and then win the general election. who is going to be able to do that? >> well, look at the debate the other night or even this weekend, every one of our candidates has put more proven ideas for creating jobs up for voters to consider than barak obama. look, the national polls about who our nominee right now are not nearly as relevant as the polls that continue to see barak obama's approval ratings going down. not only his job approval rating, but also his personal approval rating. the one thing the white house would claim, oh, yes, but they still like the president. well, voters are saying, look, we may like you, mr. president, but you don't know how to create jobs. that's what we want our president to do and we want someone else. >> rick: margie, isn't it odd to think this is a president with his record on the economy and the way things stand, he could

back into a second term. he's got to go out there and win this. who do you think they're looking at on the republican side as posing the greatest challenge to his winning another term? >> i think the president is focused on talking about his jobs package and i think to say that the presidential candidates on the republican side have offered more plans than the president offered just in the last few days, few weeks is laughable. you're talking about a very detailed plan that's put forward, versus michelle bachman saying nobody should -- we should pay zero dollars in taxes. that's her plan. i think it's really unfair to say that the president somehow doesn't have a plan and the republicans do. i think what he's doing is talking to the american people about what the urgent needs to get our economy back on track rather than talking about what the republicans are talking about, which is ending different fighting over ending social security as we know it. that's what comes up in these debates. >> rick: david, i think in all

fairness, a lot of people are listening to the republican candidates saying, i'm not hearing any grand pla. i'm not hearing any big ideas. we have herman cain with his 9-9-9 plan that i think a lot of people are beginning to tie jest and possibly understand. but still, where is the inspiration going to come from? where is this sort of candidate on the republican side who is going to ride in and save the party? where is he or she? >> we have a number of qualified individuals who all have track records of creating jobs. governor perry has created jobs in texas. governor romney has created jobs, not only as a governor, but also in the private sector. herman cain has created jobs in the private sector. look, the difference between the republican candidate and barak obama is all of them have offered proven ideas that will create jobs and president obama, even his current plan, are ideas that won't create jobs. he's already shown that in the first two years of his administration. his ideas don't create jobs.

zero, zero. >> rick: margie, we have a couple of seconds. i think the people who voted for barak obama, the last time around, i think they were voting their aspirations. if someone is going to go into a polling booth next november and vote for barak obama again, what is their motivation there to do that? >> i think it's very clear to me and it's clear to a lot of people and clear wn you look at polls that the president is offering a more understanding in putting the middle class first as opposed to republicans who have really walked the plank as a group in order to defend corporate jets and tax breaks for billionaires and refuse to even consider options that include asking the richest to pay just a little bit more. they refuse to do that. while president obama is putting forward a variety of different tax cuts across the board and that's just one example of how the president is more interested

in -- >> rick: i don't know. i think that a lot -- >> the president has -- >> rick: they're glad it's early in the process and hopeful that someone is going to step up either on the republican side or president obama is going to step up with some kind of a clear inspiring vision to get america back on the right track. we appreciate both of you coming on. david and margie, enjoy the rest of your weekend. >> thank you. >> arthel: noah launching -- nato launching a new round of air strikes in libya. nato confirming they hit a series of targets, including an ammunition depot, all of this as rebel fighters push into the city in an everett to disperse -- effort to disperse any remaining gadhafi loyalists. david is streaming live from tripoli. david? >> hi. yes, fighters who support the provisional government have been hammering away at the defenses of gadhafi's hometown of sirte for over a week now. but today they did make a breakthrough. they managed to get into the

heart of the town and they are expanding and digging in because they're still facing some fierce resistance from gadhafi's followers there. one of the rebel commanders said they made the push now because they're concerned that many of the families of the fighters, many from misa at that from making town are still there hiding in basements and they really want to get those people out before they get hurt. also there has been some message s intercepted in sirte, rebel commander said, which allegedly came from senior figures in the gadhafi regime. they didn't say who they were, but there were reports earlier in the week that one of gadhafi's sons had been sighted in that town. 90 miles southeast of here, there has been fighting, but they haven't been able to break their way into that gadhafi

stronghold. the suggestion that there may be a new front from the south now to try to get in, but also reports that there is a lack of ammunition there and some of the fighters have decided to go home. also this time is an interesting report coming out on syrian bank tv. one of the daughters of gadhafi has been speaking this and she says the gadhafi is on the front lines fighting with his men. of course, very difficult to substantiate that claim. but it's interesting that his daughter has been able to speak even though she has been in algeria and the libyan government has said that she shouldn't be allowed to communicate in that way. back to you. >> arthel: david piper, thank you very much for that ongoing situation there. >> rick: quick break. when we come back, on-line reviews. do you read them? are they helpful shopping tools or are they hiding the ugly truth? we will tell you about a new business model that may be leading on-line shoppers astray. >> arthel: and some call it the best part of waking up.

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>> rick: very interested in this coming story. the on-line review a lot of people use this, shoppers on-line who want to get advice on everything from hotels to gadgets, to restaurants. but it turns out not all of those positive reviews are coming from real, actual happy customers. julie banderas has more on this. hi. >> can you believe it? if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. at least when it comes to reviews of your local shops and restaurants. a new business is blooming on-line apparently, where freelance writers are hired by review mills to make an easy few bucks by selling fake, positive or negative reviews. look out for them on amazon.com,

city search, trip advisor, on-line site yelp has created a review filter that does an excellent job of sorting ought the fakes from the genuine and says trust from consumers is the key to their success. >> consumer reviews are very important pieces of information when users are looking to make a spending decision. we've seen from our very earliest days that some businesses will always try to write good reviews of their selves or game the system. >> cornell researchers call the false advertising accidenttive opinion spam. they recently even published a study about it, creating a computer algo rhythm to distinguish fake from real and found the fakes tended to use words like i and me more frequently and more super latives than descriptions of a hotel stay, for example. >> after a while they lose their credibility if they've got a lot of reviews you can't trust. i think that we're seeing more web sites come along where it's

easier to trust the reviews because the only people they invite to review are people who have actually experienced the product. >> experts say the best advice, ignore the extreme, like it's the best place in the world or worst, but probably in between. >> rick: i read reviews all the time and now i'm going to be -- >> read with caution. >> rick: thank you. >> sure. >> arthel: i read them, too. if you're in the hunt for a better brew, our next guest is for you. that's coming up after the break

>> arthel: welcome back. coffee provides a pick me up and helps many of us get our day started. but not all coffees are created equal. >> rick: where does the best coffee come from and which brands offer you the best buzz for your buck? joining us is sue from "consumer reports." you brought in one of my favorite things of the i love coffee. >> arthel: what came up on top and why? >> this came on top. first of all, we tasted 20 different coffees. we tasted colombian, that's what you're having now. that's gloria jean. we also tasted ethiopian coffee. we have actually two winners. we have two winners in the columbiaian and we have two winners in the ethiopian.

this is the top. this is gloria jean. >> arthel: medium roast? >> yes. then we have the newman's own, and this is a bonus. these are made from organic beans. >> arthel: medium roast? >> medium roast. you want to give it a try? >> rick: how do you take your coffee? >> arthel: black. >> rick: how do you take it? >> with tea. >> rick: oh, you don't drink coffee. it's good. >> this is the newman's own. these are the colombian. i have the caribou, this is a coffee bean and tea leaf. these two were neck in neck winners in this. this is a more complex, stronger coffee. if you haven't had it, you might want to -- it kind of takes an acquired taste. also market shares. that's how we -- >> rick: how do you do a test like this? it's so subjective.

everybody takes their coffee a different way. >> well, it sounds very much like wine tasting. because this is also the same kind of thing. it's a grown crop, coffee beans have good and bad years, believe it or not. >> rick: really? >> our top coffee from last year didn't even make the list this year. this is how they do it. it's a blind test. meaning they don't know what they're tasting at all. everything is done exactly -- all the coffees are made the same way, made in the same kind of coffee maker and they're served black. nothing in them. >> rick: that's how we're drinking it. i don't see any of the big major brands. >> no. >> rick: why not? >> the folger's and the other one made our not too hot list. >> arthel: and you brought the kirkland brand. >> i did. i brought runners up and this is an interesting runners up. this is the new england coffee. this is a decaf, it's the only one that made -- we pitted the decaf against the caffeine and

this came out. >> this is the k cup. these are k cups and they go into special machines. they make a single serving. >> rick: cheers. thank you for joining us, everybody. >> arthel: we'll see you next week. ♪ [ male announcer ] each of these photos was taken by someone on the first morning of their retirement. it's the first of more than 6,000 sunrises the average retiree wl see. ♪ as we're living longer than ever before, prudential's challenge is to help everyone have the retirement income they'll ed to enjoy every one of their days. ♪ prudential. bring yr challenges.

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