spending growth to 2% per year we'd balance the budget in just three years. so let's do it! and that's our show. see you next week. so glad you could join us. hello, everyone. welcome to brand-new our inside america's news headquarters. >> topping the news this hour, one of mexico's most violent and notorious drug lords who did time in a u.s. prison shot dead by an assassin. get this. dressed as a clone. >> also glitches galore. congress prepares to grille those behind the obama care web site that's frustrating millions of americans. we're told the woman in charge is planning to be a no-show at those hearings. our political panel weighs in.

and gourmet foods at astronomical prices. are they really worth the money, or are they just sort of average fare wrapped up in pretty fancy paperer? "consumer reports" is here with answers that may help you save some money. we begin with an ongoing man hurt for two convicted killers who literally walked out the door of a florida state prison. joseph jenkins and charles walker seen here both serving life sentences are now roaming the streets. this is thanks to a handful of bogus documents. earlier today, one of the inmates' mothers pleaded for him to turn himself in take a listen. >> is there anything too hard for god? god knows who you are. i know who you are. your family knows who you are. and we want you to come home safely.

we love you. we believe in you. we want you to surrender yourself to someone who you trust who will bring you back here safely. we don't want any harm to come to you. >> bringing you now brian yennes following this live from our new york city news room. fake documents, brian? >> that was the mother of charles walker at today's press conference. walker walked freely out of franklin correctional institution in the florida panhandle on october 8th, just ten days earlier joseph jenkins walked out of that same jail. jenkins' father figure also pleading with him to turn himself in the orange county sheriff's office is now in day five of the manhunt for the two convicted murderers who managed to forge court documents and walk freely out of jail. both were serving live sentences. authorities didn't realize the men were mistakenly released until tuesday. walker's mother says they spent the whole week after his release

together. walker appeared in public places and even going before his church. mean while, jenkins's family says they traveled six hours to pick him up from jail. first stop was grandma's house. jenkins disappeared then, a no-show at his own birthday party on october 1st. orange county police say the families made no attempts to hide them. there's a $10,000 reward a piece for any information that leads to their capture. >> for the first couple of days until we got involved we found out that the release was not correct, they were walking around the community like nothing's happened. they weren't hiding. but the idea is that they still need to go back and serve their terms. that's what we're encouraging them to do. >> the forged documents the men used were sophisticated, and police believe they may have had outside help. the documents included signatures of prosecutors, a judge, and even correctly cited case law. the men even showed up to

another jail three days after their releases where they were fingerprinted, photographed and registered as felons, a requirement under the law. the florida department of corrections is going back and reexamining past prison release orders, and they are now requiring prisons to have all orders that call for an inmate's early release verified by sentencing judges. that sounds like a good idea. >> indeed. thanks so much, brian. inmates escaping from prison not terribly unusual. but it is getting less common. back in 1993, more than 14,000 inmates or about 2% of the u.s. prison population either escaped or went awol. by 1998 that number had gone down to around 6500. by 2008, that number had decreased even further to about 2500 inmates, even as the prison population rose to 1.4 million. in major drug lord in mexico has been killed by a gunman

wearing a clown costume. the eldest brother of mexico's once feared ariano felix plan shot to death in the beach resort town of cabo san lucas. felix served time on drug charges in the united states but was released and deported in 2008. that left him on the left in a sketch from his -- that's him by the way in the sketch on the left from his trial in 2006. he was once ruled -- he once ruled a major part of the drug trade in tijuana. and it is major, a major drug route there in california. former secretary of state hillary clinton attending her first public political event since leaving the obama administration. she rallied supporters of virginia's gubernatorial candidate terry mccallive. of course you may recall he was a top fundraiser for the campaigns of both president bill clinton and mrs. clinton. molly hind enburg live in washington covering this story.

hi, molly. did mrs. clinton by the way make any references to her own political future? >> reporter: not exactly, greg. she did talk about current events such as the government shutdown. and said that's what happens when quote ideology trumps everything else. but clinton who's widely discussed as a possible presidential contender in 2016, spoke mainly about her friend, democrat terry mccauliffe, he was the chairman of clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. and clinton has already hosted and will host more fundraisers for him. today the former secretary of state spoke about the upcoming election day in virginia but did not talk about what may be coming up in her own future. >> so we're coming down to the home stretch. i've been in a lot of elections.

[ cheers and applause ] >> and i know that at the end of the day it all comes down to who takes the trouble to show up and vote. >> mccauliffe is up about 7 points in the polls. >> pretty fiery words today from mccauliffe's opponent. >> ken cuchinelli has been at the forefront by a number of states to push back against obama care. today in the republican weekly radio address he talked about the rollout of the obama care web site. >> president obama's ideas are deeply flawed. and the implementation of this law has been a national embarrassment. let me be plain. the law that carries the president's name is the hall mark of a reckless federal government that has lost its way. >> cuchinelli who will be campaigning this hour in virginia with former arkansas

governor mike huckabee who's also a fox news host says it's not fair that citizens quote bear the brunt of the obama care law while big corporations and special interests get waivers. terry mccauliffe has says the debate is over on obama care and it's time to implement the law. greg? >> molly hindenberg in washington. thanks. the government shutdown might be over but they're still assessing the damage. astronomers across the u.s. are trying to figure out how much data was lost. one researcher describes the impact, calling it difficult because with the earth in motion the telescopes must work within precise windows of time to make measurements. half of the data now gone this. researcher also fears they missed a rare opportunity to document a black hole. after that 16-day partial government shutdown, another budget deadline is approaching in december. anchor chris wallace of fox news sunday speaks to senators dick durbin, democrat from illinois,

roy blunt, republican from missouri, two people intimately involved in those budget battles. he'll also talk to florida senator marco rubio to talk about immigration reform. that's the subject tomorrow and likely some other topics as well. check it out "fox news sunday" tomorrow. fox news extreme weather alert for you now. raging wildfires dismantling parts of australia's most p populous state. increasing heat and lack of rain in new south wales have not been helping their efforts down there. with more than 200 homes destroyed so far, police are investigating the cause as they search for survivors and assist recovery efforts. >> this is a very tragic fire. the impact on our community is enormous by residents are going to hear statistics and numbers

today that are going to upset them. but just hold onto that faith and hope that we'll see this through. >> my husband i remember when he carried me across the threshold. i remember having all my babies here. all the hard work we've put into everything all those years. and it's just gone. and you think, well, i'm 64 now and i've got to start again. but we will. >> as a family. >> as a family together. >> heart-breaking. okay. meteorologist janice dean here live in the fox news weather center with our weather. hi, j.d. >> hello. of course our hearts and prayers go out to those folks. we know what it's like. across the west we've seen wildfires, in this case just west of sydney they are dealing with 68 fires, 22 of which are out of control. it's been a very dry, hot winter here. and really no rain in the

forecast in the foreseeable week ahead. taking a look at the forecast as you can see it's very warm. the winds are blustery especially as we head into wednesday and thursday. we do have a little bit of relief on thursday, friday, saturday as the temperatures drop. and we could get a little bit of moisture which could help firefighters. but 1500 firefighters are trying to battle these wildfires west of sydney, australia. just heart breaking. across the u.s. we are dealing with a potential for some rain across the southeast, up towards the mid-atlantic, and then it's going to be cold enough for snow over the upper midwest, northern plains and the great lakes. taking a look at a series of systems that are going to dive down from canada, with that really plunge those temperatures. it's going to be 29 degrees overnight in international falls, 34 in minneapolis, 34 in green bay, 37 in chicago. you get the picture. the heat is going to be on this evening. extra blankets. a freeze advisories for half a dozen states here across the midwest. down towards even tennessee into parts of the southeast as well.

your highs tomorrow, you can see where the front is pushing southward. ahead of the front still very warm. but changes are on the way as we head through the new work week and into really the end of next week for much of the mid-atlantic and the northeast. also want to focus on our super typhoon. incredible. this is francisco in the western pacific. what would be categorized as a category 5 hurricane. but this is a super typhoon. winds of 160 miles per hour. unbelievable storm just the symmetry of it. you can see that pin hole of an eye. it is a perfect perfect typhoon. and unfortunately it could cause some damage across japan in the days ahead. it will weaken considerably, but this area was pummelled by a typhoon last week at this time. so we're going to continue to monitor this area. and it's been an incredibly busy typhoon season across the pacific. here across the atlantic it's been relatively quiet. back to you. >> janice, let's hope that

typhoon dissipates before it hits japan. >> let's hope. we'll keep you posted. former vice president dick cheney is out with a revealing new tell-all book. coming up, how his real life health concerns ended up turning into a serious matter of national security. plus the obama care web site riddled with glitches and delays. now congress is demanding answers. so will we get to the bottom of who is really to blame? we'll debate it. and u.s. beaches in exchange for playing video games? really? coming up, you're going to meet one of the so-called athletes being recruited to come here and take part in what's being described as an online version of the olympics.

time now for a quick check of the headlines. a big penalty payout to the department of justice by jp morgan chase. fox news now confirming that the financial giant striking a deal with the doj to pay $13 billion related to bad mortgage loans to investors. sources say this is only a tentative agreement, and the

deal does not include release from any criminal liability. 22-term florida congressman bill young has passed away. young was first elected to the house in 1970, a long-time member of the appropriations committee where he focused on military spending. he was 82 years old. and the 90-year-old texas football icon bum phillips died at his ranch yesterday. he coached the houston oilers to two afc championship games. phillips famously said of the cowboys quote they may be america's team, but we are texas' team." after weeks of delays and countless error messages, there are now growing calls for health and human services secretary kathleen sibelius to testify before congress about all the problems associated with the digital launch of obama care. new jersey congressman leonard lance telling fox news, it's time for the administration to come clean. take a listen.

>> certainly at the very least they were not accurately informing the congress. >> knowingly so? >> well, i don't know whether it was deliberate or not. but certainly in the signature issue of this presidency you would think they would have tested it and retested it before the rollout on october 1st. and they promised that it would work on october 1st. and of course it has not worked. >> let's bring in now our guest. mercedes schrapp and -- a democratic strategist. i want to welcome you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> hi, steven, i'm going to start with you on this one. who needs to be held accountable? and should kathleen sibelius make herself available next sfwheek if not should she be subpoenaed to testify? >> look, i think that kathleen sibelius ought to testify. everybody agrees that the federal site is having significant problems. but it is very early.

you're talking about 19 days. you're not talk about three months. if it's not fixed people should be held accountable for it. there is an interesting side note going on that's being overlooked, which is that the state exchanges which were essentially set up for free by the federal government in the states that accepted them are doing very well. there's over 260,000 people signed up from early states that are reporting. those are all in democratic states. the republican states decided that they shouldn't take them because they put thwarting president obama over the health and welfare of their people. yes or no. do you think mrs. sibelius should testify? >> sure. i said yes at the beginning. >> mercedes, how do you see it? >> i think when you look at delaware which is one of these hhs state exchanges, actually only one person has enrolled in it. so to say that they're being successful is not correct. >> there's 260,000 people all over the country.

>> half a million people, mercedes? >> when you look at what u.s. senator pat robert says, secretary sibelius won't shoot straight with the american people. whenever you're you've been in a technology company, a company would not release a web site if it's not truly functional. the fact is that she has decide's to take the political backlash because they didn't want to delay another component of obama care instead of really taking the warnings of the i.t. experts who said this was not ready to launch october 1st. and in week three, the insurance companies are receiving flawed data. again, we are experiencing not only glitches, not only error messages. when you're looking at states like south dakota that only had 23 enroll, they are far below -- >> you keep ignoring the fact i did say half a million people have enrolled so far. far below what was expected. let's say that. not just 22 people enrolled. steven let me go back to you. what needs to be done to fix obama care the web site and when might real and significant

corrections be made? because no doubt it needs to be fixed. >> i think they need to concentrate on it right now. they need to be working on it 24 hours a day. because they should have been ready. but it is still very early. let me address a couple points mercedes made. one, the comparison to the private sector is so speeshs. iphones rolled out with glitches over and over again. it's the most popular product in the world. >> steven, nobody wants to hear that right now to be honest with you. 48.5 million americans uninsured. >> i agree with that. that's why they need to fix it. and it's glitches at the beginning, which is it's 19 days, not three months or six months. if it's three months or six months it's obviously more of a problem. there is also a broader point here. the republican party is going right back to exactly what got them into the shutdown and default -- >> what are we talk about here? >> this obsession with obama care is exactly what got them into the -- >> what does that have to do with this conversation, steven?

>> a lot. because instead of doing exactly what the president the day after the shutdown talked about, which was coming to the table and having a broad budget agreement that addresses all of these issues, addresses health care, social security, that addresses medicare. they go right back to this obsession with obama care that's gotten the lowest approval ratings in the country. >> i'm jumping in, steven, like me say decemb mercedes need to stay on point here. if insurance companies are saying that the federal marketplace is generating flawed data, that is straining their ability to handle enrollees. is it possible that the technical issues could go further than let's say traffic and software issues, mercedes? >> well, i think they've talked about it. even robert gibbs brought it up one of the obama advisers that are there are poor architectural design in the software. we're having structural problems with the actual web site itself. again i think these are issues that should be addressed.

the mere fact that the hhs is refusing to answer the questions of the media. i mean, and of democrats and republicans that are concerned of this rollout. >> thank you, mercedes. running out of time. pardon me for jumping in let's say mrs. sibelius does testify. what would you like to hear her say? >> she needs to explain the process. back in march henry chou her main chief technology operator said he was pretty nervous they were not going to be ready october 1st. they need to explain why they decided to launch october 1st, knowing that there were so many technological glitches. you know when you're going to release the web site you have to have beta testing to make sure you release a good product. that's not what they did. >> go ahead. >> one point related to what you are saying. 48 million americans without health insurance. republicans are obsessing about the technological glitches to a web site instead of trying to

help actually insure those americans which is what this law is designed to do. >> what should the republicans do to try to help insure those americans? >> they should have taken the state exchanges and take advantage of them now. and work with the federal government to actually insure their people instead of trying to thwart president obama again. >> all right. i have to leave it there. obviously we could keep talking. appreciate your being here. mercedes and steven thanks to both of you. we'll have to bring you back so we can continue the conversation. >> appreciate it. >> thanks, guys. you don't have to be a chiseled athlete to travel the world playing games. the u.s. citizenship and immigration services granting special immigrant status to a new breed of professional competitors, online video gamers. los angeles hosting the league of legends world championships this month. and the international gamers? they're not playing around. dominic dinatelli live from los angeles with more. hi, dominic. >> reporter: hey there, greg.

no fooling around here. did you know that online video games dwarf baseball from little league to mlb? league of legends as you've identified it there has more viewers than traditional national physical sports. one in 20 americans are playing it. it takes some getting around your head with this one. like any big sport, foreign stars can draw in megacrowds here in the u.s. and the immigration service is now letting gamers in as pros. a packed sports arena and roaring crowds cheer the winning team. but these aren't ordinary pro athletes. they're video gamers. and to bring the international teams to the championship finals of the world to play online games the league of legends it took some convincing with the u.s. government to get them visas. >> it took double takes. hey we've got this video game that's a sport. what? that was the snshl reaction but when we started backing it up with viewership numbers and what

we're doing. >> reporter: alberto crum was one of the first pro gamers to apply for the p 1 a vees is a usually given to international sports pros. >> i had to show my popularity, show i was a popular person. show basically figures of people that follow me. and i also have to show videos, articles written about me. >> reporter: 16 million people watched league of legends played online, five times as many as those who view a typical national hockey league game. >> this is a sport in every sense of the word. it's played on a big scale. these athletes are true to form just like any other athletes. they're living in gaming houses with their teammates. they're practicing 10 to 12 hours a day six days a week to compete on the big scale like at staples center. >> greg, this is a u.s. phenomenon. look, staples center is home to the los angeles lakers. so national arena status for these pro gamers. one of the most significant

modern sport arenas in the country perfect fit really for the most modern of pro sports now. but then we do have a $17 billion industry behind this. and that you have to take seriously, greg. >> truly amazing story. dominic, thanks so much. >> who knew? >> he's a gamer by the way, dominic. >> it's called beer pong. >> that's my game, too. all right. coming up, as you know former vice president dick cheney has a long history of heart problems. five heart attacks and two pacemakers later he's revealing in a new book why he was afraid one of his medical inimplants was a target for terrorists. and flipping houses to turn a quick buck. it's nothing new, but now buyers are going after bigger fish. and they're making money hand over fist. how it might impact your home's value coming up next. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health

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welcome back. vice president dick cheney releases a heart-pounding new tell all. in "heart an american medical odyssey" the former vice president describes how he feared that an electrical device implanted near his heart would be used in an assassination attempt. elizabeth plan has the details from washington >> reporter: vice president dick cheney candidly revealing his fears in office in his new book "heart, an american medical odyssey." cheney says he as well as his cardiologist agreed to turn off its wireless implanted function in case terrorists tried to shock his heart rhythm. it was played out during an episode of the showtime series "homeland." during an interview with cbs's "60 minutes" cheney thought it

to be a credible theory. if he could adjust it who's to say others could as well? the device detects an irregular heartbeat and controls it with electrical jolts. >> i was aware of the danger, if you will, that existed. i found it credible because i knew from the experience we'd had and the necessity for adjusting my own device that it was an accurate portrayal of what was possible. >> reporter: despite his lifelong bat well heart disease and a family history, cheney said it never served as a distraction during his time in office. at one point in the book he writes "i never believed the des disease inhibited my capacity to do the job. i dealt with each problem that came up relying on my doctors to keep track of how i was doing physically." in washington, elizabeth prann, fox news. >> thanks so much, elizabeth. all right. house flipping. remember that old game? well, some found it was a pretty fast way to make a buck, a lot

of bucks during the housing boom. but that was before the mortgage crisis that led to the economic downturn big time. and now analysts, though, are seeing house flipping yet again. and they're noticing a new trend here. this time it is the high-end homes. so what does that mean for the average american family who's trying to buy or sell a home? let's bring in dominic davella, president of diversified financial consultants. dominic, good to see you. for our viewers out there who may be sort of middle income folks, not super wealthy or wealthy, the average american, what does this mean? >> i think it's actually a very positive and almost healthy part to what's going on in the real estate market. the lower-end homes have really been for economic reasons, because they were affordable, because first-time home buoyers could come into those markets, investors came in the smaller end or lower end of these homes got bid up. so values are starting to come back in. some cases up over 50% from the

low. >> wow. >> not where we were, but there really has been some appreciation in value in the lower end. the people who are looking to flip have to go to the next level up. that's that 1 to 3, maybe as high as $5 million bracket. >> what about the super wealthy? there's no competition for those folks, right? >> so look, they got hurt like everybody else did during the recession. >> but they're worth billions. >> when you lose a billion dollars, a few more or less didn't affect them. of course there were exceptions but they didn't have the proverbial gun to their head where they were going to get foreclosed on and their house was going to get taken away. the lower end person got foreclosed on this. middle tier group held onto thundershower homes, some of these houses have been on the market for three to five years waiter for a bidder to come in. flippers see this as an opportunity. >> all right. so if we have seen a 50% improvement from the lows, two-part question. why has it been so slow? it's take an long time. second of all, should people

hold right now? because if you've only gone up 50% you've got a ways to go to get to the to be. >> so the rise has really been in that lower end house. under the $1 million house. why so slow? we had to eat up the inventory. we built so many houses for so many years that we simply didn't need. we've been literally eating up that inventory between a half and three quarters to a million homes after year we've been sucking out of inventory. now that rise, people are able to sell their homes, able to move up on the ladder. that allows them to go to the higher end homes. >> but there are opportunities out there. >> opportunities. so the flippers are looking at what's still valuable in these higher end homes that have not appreciated as much because there's got to be a demand there. the economy hasn't been that strong. that's where the opportunity is. you can buy them at a reasonable price per square foot. $1 million may not seem reasonable. but a reasonable price per square foot, renovate them and flip them. >> in the old saw in real estate what are the three most important things? location location location.

still applies, right? >> right. you've got to go where the jobs are and the surrounding amenities. you put one of those houses in the middle of nowhere you're not going to get the price. by the beach, by the mountains. >> you're optimistic. overall for folks who want to buy a home or own a home. >> very optimistic i-think we are inn an upward trend for years to come because we're still not building as many houses as we need in this country. >> dominic tavella, good to see you. >> always my pleasure. >> location location location, right, greg? by the beach. i'd love to have that. wouldn't you? by the beach. okay. coming up, president obama drawing sharp criticism for sing print out bloggers in the latest washington meltdown. did he go too far? or maybe he had a valid point. we're going to break it down what he actually said. fair and balance for you. you don't see this every day. dozens of folks plunging hundreds of feet from a bridge. arcelle wants to do this. why this is happening and what's behind their fearless free fall. >> no way!

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this event. the fall, by the way, is about 876 feet! it takes about 8.8 seconds to reach the bottom. >> okay. i have nightmares like that, don't you? >> yes. >> where you're like falling and falling and falling? >> exactly. >> yeah. i don't really want to do that in real life. >> no. >> oh, look at that! president obama getting some backlash for comments he made following the last-minute deal to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling. critics sort of slamming him now for targeting political bloggers and in the words of some on twitter "slamming free speech." here's the president, take a listen. >> and now that the government has reopened, and this threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict and focus on what the majority of americans sent us here to do.

>> susan -- joins us professor of political science at usc and fox contributor. you know the blogosphere is all a twitter over this. in fact here's one tweet. i just plucked one" today will be remembered as obama's sister soldier moment throwing the bloggers under the bus." for folks who don't remember, "sister soldier moment" is an idiom, a politician is criticizing a famous group. in 1992 clinton ripped into the hiphop artist for her comments on race. but susan, back to this president, what about it? is he scapegoating bloggering and kind of taking a slap at the first amendment? >> no. i don't think so. i mean, look, he went after talking heads, lobbyists. i think he got it wrong. talking heads on the radio. i think talk heads are usually on tv. but anyway, i think what he's

trying to say, right, is that he wants congress to pay attention to the middle. the center that held when he got re-elected, when the legislation finally got passed last week. the problem is as you well know, in primary politics, in caucus politics and in the house of representatives, frankly, all the districts are drawn so that you get republican districts and democratic districts. and of course the republicans are going to pay attention to the idealogues who might challenge them in primary elections. >> i was reading the disapproval rating for congress 87%, mere 10% approval rating. that is utterly utterly irrelevant when it comes to the business of getting elected, right? >> absolutely irrelevant. it's irrelevant for two reasons. the obvious one is as people have said for years, everybody

always says they hate congress but they like their own representative. but more to the point in almost every state -- california's kind of an exception each days -- but in almost every state the districts are drawn sos a to protect incumbents. you've got safe democratic districts and safe republican districts. the republicans -- my guess is the republicans who are a little bit worried right now are not the ones who voted to shut down the government but the ones who voted to open it back up. >> yeah. good point. you know, back to the president and his penchant for criticizing everybody. he's a guy who campaigned on openness and transparency. i'm sure you saw this, the new study by the committee to protect journalists. it found that top reporters from all the major media outlets, they consider president obama to be the most closed off and openly hostile president since richard nixon. there's the double shot there.

you know, this report argues -- got to love that. the report though argues that obama's treatment of journalists has created a chilling effect on free speech. what do you think? >> i think obama's treatment of journalists has hurt him, all right? i mean, i think journalists are still out there doing their jobs by and large. i mean, i know we are at fox news. i think people are doing their jobs. chilled or not we're doing it. but the problem for obama -- and i think it is a problem -- is he takes this all personally. it's like somehow these people are trying to do him in. or even today's comments, it's like go blame the blogosphere. you're the president of the united states, all right? he needs to get out of his bubble. he needs to stop taking this all personally as if it's an attack on him. and do the business of politics. and not play victim, which is a really unattractive pose for the most powerful man in the world. >> it's very nixonian.

everybody's against me. everybody's my enemy. it's very nixonian when you read this report. people can go online and read the report. susan estridge, thanks very much. everybody should read your column which is syndicated across the nation. susan e susan great to see you. >> nice job, susan. listen up, guys. grocery stores like whole foods and target now producing their own upscale products. "consumer reports" has put them to the test against their designer brand competition. so are you really paying for the packaging? stick around because the results will surprise you. coming up next.

store brands are no longer limited to peanut butter these days. they have fancy dips and cookies and wine. >> some of the foods are compared to big- name brands. good to see you. >> you start with the humus.

this is from whole food versus the humus from the national brand. >> this is national brand and garlic brand much we like the whole foods. we thought it was a better balance of the lemon and hint of garlic and we thought this was a bitter garlic flavor and after taste. >> this is better. >> this is two bucks >> this is $3.75. >> that is a 47 savings per ounce. we liked it better. >> that is garlicky. >> we put ten products to the test. five, half of them were good or if not better than the national brand and you can save 50 percent. >> absolutely. >> and all for saving money.

this is for the cookie versus the designer. >> i love these things and i found out there was a store brand version and owned by a ldis. >> you can't get them in trader joes. >> you can look for the store and find the counterpart. >> these actually won. and this was the better cookie. >> i have to watch my sugar. >> 1.55 versus 3.45. >> it is a big difference. >> cut to the wine. >> i know a lot of store brands have their own wine labels now. >> this is whole foods. >> and this is chardona y. >> it is $9 for boggle and this is $7. but this is the whole foods

chardona y beat out 17 including some four times as much. when you are giving a big party. that is fine. >> i love like tha i peanut sauce. we have two. >> one is the national brand taste of tha i and the other is archer. >> tall one is target. >> this was a tie. one was sweeter coconuty flavor andar a cher farms is more peanuty and a 52 percent savings per ounce. >> perfect for the holiday. dipping humus. sf thank you so much. >> that's going to do. it >> as we are building up every day this week for sen days tis the birthday celebration.

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