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quiet. >> you know he plays well -- >> be quiet. that is his two-year-old daughter and while dad tried to answer questions, she tried to have a press conference of her own. waving and speaking in the mic. then crawled under the table, super cute. thanks for being part of the real story today. here's greg in for shep. osama bin laden's love note job applications, and rants about spies all part of a treasure-trove of documents that navy seals found in his secret compound after killing the al qaeda leader in 2011. the feds just released them. and we'll talk about it live with a former cia analyst who helped find osama bin laden, her story and the stories of other analysts became the basis for the hit film "zero dark thirty." isis setting its sights on baghdad. the group on the march. is there a u.s. strategy to stop that from happening?
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if so is it a good one? and the operators of some cancer charities now accused of scamming nearly $200 million worth of your donations, and then using them on the fancy vacations, brand new cars luxury cruises, tickets to shows and concerts. so will this guy, the accused ring leader ever face any real punishment? breaking news shepard smith reporting, live from the fox news desk. and hello, i'm in for shep we begin with breaking news. house and senate leaders about to present the congressional gold medal to three dozen elite fighter pilots. that medal, the highest award that congress can give a civilian. these pilots are some of the only living fighter as veterans who shot down five or more enemy planes during conflicts ranging from world war ii to vietnam. we're going to bring you the presentation live ahead on the fox news deck. more breaking news from
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capitol hill right now, live look at the u.s. senate floor. the kentucky senator and republican presidential candidate rand paul railing against the government's snooping programs. technically, this is not a filibuster because there are no bills that are pending on surveillance programs currently on the senate floor, but senator paul is talking about his objections to the feds bulk collection of data on americans. last week you may recall the house overwhelmingly passed a bill to want back some of the controversial spy tactics under the patriot act, but senator paul says that bill does just not go far enough to protect american citizens from government snooping. by the way, the just leaked justice department memo indicates the feds will begin winding down that controversial phone metadata collection program next week. just ahead of the program's expiration june 1st. that is the reporting of the national journal and its a likely indication of how massive the program must be to take so
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long to shut it down. no word on how long senator paul plans to talk here on the floor. couple of years ago, he filibustered for nearly 13 hours in protest of the government's drone policies. osama bin laden did not trust iran had suicide bombers actually filling out job applications and he also told his wife hey honey, it's okay to narrate after i'm dead. that's just some of what we're learning from the documents the feds say navy seals recovered during the deadly raid on bin laden's compound. the government released those documents today, they also reveal the al qaeda leader was focussed on attacking americans until the day he died. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington what else are we learning from them? >> well greg the documents paint a picture of the al qaeda leader still fixated on striking the united states after years in
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hiding. on the 19 hijackers, osama bin laden, they're not exceptional freaks of history, but the vanguards of a nation that rose up for jihad, and millions of brothers eager to seek the same path. and while bin laden was portrayed after the raid as disconnected from the real world, in the new documents he writes about the arab spring celebrating the overthrow of middle east dictators, and trashing u.s. policy in libya, quote, the secretary of state declared that they are worried about the armed muslims controlling the muslim region. the west's position towards the libyan revolution is a weak one. the western countries are weak in their international role is regressing. one of the questions is why these 100 documents were released now. and that's because there's language that was inserted into a recent defense budget that mandated the declassification and public release, greg. >> catherine, how connected was bin laden to the outside world? >> well it's impublic to say for sure because we've only seen about 120 of the documents, and
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intelligence officials tell us that 1.5 million were recovered from that compound but at least the picture that's emerging is that bin laden was doing everything he could to remain relevant and direct operations from this compound even though he had no phone line or tv for security reasons. this is an undated external operations report and another on the u.s. embassy in russia and tells operatives to change it up to frustrate measures. quote, to make the brothers use new methodists like house knives gas or gasoline or diesel tanks such as airplanes, trains, cars as killing tools. a former military intelligence official emphasized the fox today that really only a small fraction has been declassified and that more than a million are left. >> what's most interesting is what with will come down the road. i hope there's more transparency we'll get insights
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into the communications and planning in relationship to not just his network but in terms of iran most importantly, pakistan and saudi arabia and other countries in the region. >> the number of references in the documents to president bush none of them complimentary as you would expect. we found only one reference in the letters to mr. obama, and the al qaeda leader expresses frustration that he was delaying the withdraw from afghanistan, but again, because it's such a small sample it's hard to draw a broad conclusions as to what the total picture may look like greg. >> catherine herridge thanks very much. let's bring in former cia analyst who helmed track down osama bin laden, the movie was partly based on her experience and the works of other analysts. she joins us, also appeared in the hbo documentary "man hunt, the search for bin laden." what do you make of the timing of the release of these
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documents, and equally important, the substance? what do you think of what's in them? >> well i think the timing actually could help spur the conversation around the article that we've all been hearing about that's discounting the obama administration's story on how bin laden was killed. the case at this point, but it certainly is sparking conversation i think the documents highlighted a little bit of what obama was, or what osama bin laden was thinking about while he was sitting in that compound. but i do think that the previous documents that were released that are now at westpoint actually speak more to the article in discounting it. >> yeah and with respect to those documents, what did you see in them? >> those documents, bin laden is talking about the fact that he is actually very leery of pakistan intelligence. he is telling all of his
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subordinates or anybody's who's coming to see him to actually watch for pakistan intelligence and make sure they're not being followed. that gives him a clearer picture of how the intelligence did not know about his whereabouts. >> as catherine was pointing out, he was absolutely obsessed to the very last bit of his life with attacking america, striking against america. does that surprise you? >> not in the least. it shows that he was staying steadfast to his original strategic plan. so he was very focussed on the united states. he was asking other jihadist organizations to stop worrying about establishing a caliphate and focus on attacking the united states. >> and for a guy who was in hiding he was still micromanaging, wasn't he? >> yeah he was. absolutely. he does not appear to be somebody sitting in his house and completely disconnected. he obviously was helping plot
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further attacks. he was intimately involved it appears, in selecting what types of attacks they would also use. >> yeah. and for suicide bombers, he actually had job applications. which is stunning isn't it? >> you know it's interesting because they are such a bureaucratic organization in so many ways. i mean most of the jihadist organizations, in order to survive, need some type of bur bureaucracy bureaucracy. while it's amusing to see some of their documents that where they have to wadely it paperwork, it gives us insight into how they operate. >> he was also collecting documents that reflected all the various conspiracy theories about 9/11. what was up with that? >> you know i do think that's really fascinating in some ways. it's about seeking the personality. clearly he's very ego centric, he wants to see what people are writing about 9/11 and the
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possibilities around 9/11 and the spear conspiracies about who could have conducted the attack besides al qaeda. and i wouldn't doubt that that -- you know, we were coming up on the 9/11 anniversary before he was killed. and you never know maybe he had a method to the conspiracy theorists on al qaeda's role in 9/11 but i did find that quite fascinating he was so fixated on that. >> also his will in testament, ordering his daughters to marry and his name sake to prove himself on the battlefield. this is a man who is twisted and obsessed right? >> uh-huh. absolutely. i mean he clearly has shown, you know pathological tendencies for wanting to murder thousands of people. and he's obviously not letting up on his, you know, pitbull-like tendency to attack the united states. he was very fixated on it until the very end. >> what are your thoughts on
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isis and, you know, an offchute of al qaeda? >> you know also what's interesting about the bin laden documents is how much he was arguing with what was al qaeda in iraq the predecessor for killing muslims. and it would be interesting to see his reaction today to isis. isis has gained strength by just being a very brutal terrorist organization. they don't worry about winning hearts and minds for local populations, unlike al qaeda. al qaeda was very brand-focussed and isis is not worried about that. >> talk to us about the importance of finding al-baghdadia the head of isis. >> you know i think he is definitely part of this significant operations and strategy for that organization i also believe, just like al qaeda, you have operational planners and deputies in other positions that could be just as important. >> yeah. nada bakos, thank you for being
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with us we appreciate your insights. >> thank you. the fed calls it one of the biggest charity frauds ever. they say a man and his family scammed donors into thinking their money would benefit cancer victims. instead the feds say that family spent much of the cash on themselves vacations, gym memberships, cars wait until you hear how much money they're accused of spending. we'll talk about it with judge andrew napolitano coming up next, stick around.
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all right. this story's going to break your heart. generous people a lot of them who may have thought they were helping cancer patients instead sent a wealthy family on luxury cruises, paid for their college tuition, new cars. that's the accusation from the feds in one of the biggest charity fraud cases ever. according to to the civil lawsuit, this man and his family in tennessee scammed $187 million from donors over five years. including the cancer fund of american breast cancer society based in arizona. as well as the children's cancer fund of america based in tennessee. our news deck producer tried to reach people at the now closed charities, no luck. what a surprise. let's take this now to the judge, fox senior judicial analyst, judge andrew napolitano. i mean it just breaks your
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heart. only 3% of the money actually went to cancer patients instead they were spending it on fancy cars concerts, cruises, jet skis dating services and of course salaries to themselves. do you envision a criminal prosecution here? >> it's hard to believe that there won't be but it is odd, as you know from your own work as an attorney greg that this started with a civil lawsuit by the federal government. a civil lawsuit against people who now do not have the money. ting came to $187 million. that's a huge amount of money. they don't have a fraction of that because they spent it. ordinarily the feds commence these cases with an indictment and get their conviction and then that makes the subsequent civil lawsuit also makes it easier to freeze whatever assets they have. why they started this in a civil case i don't know. but it's a tear-jerking story because as you said they didn't go to other wealthy foundations,
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they went to middle america -- >> people who were donating 20 $30. >> correct. and they promised those people actually an unrealistic promise, 100% of what you give us is going directly to cancer patients. >> and they filed false financial papers to support that. i mean doesn't that constitute fraud, theft, and probably a dozen other statutes? >> absolutely. all of those and the feds really had no choice but to indict them. the federal government knows they will not be able to recover 1% of that money, and return it to these people. but they also know that in order to punish this behavior and deter others from doing likewise they must prosecute these people. again, there's some problem with the evidence that doesn't seem to be that. >> the son james reynolds the ii who was part of this allegedly, issued a statement blaming government scrutiny for the
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demise of the charities, seems preposterous but assuming there is some criminal prosecution of these guys what would their defense be? could they simply say hey, you know what administrative costs are really high. >> well they could. they are allowed ordinary reasonable reasonable in amount administrative costs, they're allowed reasonable salaries and reasonable expenses but all of those expenses must go directly to the charitable purposes. it's hard to argue that many of these spent only a fraction of which you indicated in our opening, went directly to charitable expenses. interestingly, greg in doing the research the irs does not have a rule of thumb to state how much of a charity's income must go directly to charitable purposes otherwise it's not a charitiy but it is clear, it is clear beyond any dispute, you don't have to be a lawyer to know that you can't buy yourself expensive clothes and -- >> luxury cruises, dating
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services. >> gym memberships with money that's supposed to go to a charity. >> 85% of the money they collected actually went to the professional fundraising telemarketers. >> rule of thumb for them 10 to 15%. >> really? >> collective dollar give 85% to the charity, keep 15 cents on your own. i never heard of the irs, will say it never heard of 85%. >> you know what scammers are very very clever. they make all kinds of promises you know it's going to go to chemotherapy treatment, kids are going to be helped medications, hospice care transportation i mean and people are gullible because they have big hearts. americans have big hearts they want to help people in need. how can people out there prevent themselves from being scammed like this? >> hang up the phone. and just deal with charities that you know personally and you know the reputation of and you know have a track record of the demons rabble track record. don't fall for a person on the phone.
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>> all right. let me rename the charities here. we had it in our intro, by the way, go to foxnews.com, there's a story on that. the children's cancer fund of america, that is based in tennessee. also the cancer fund of america, the breast cancer society based in arizona, again, go to foxnews.com, you'll see the story there. check it out. judge, as always thanks. >> pleasure to be with you, greg. air traffic control towers may have cheated to get their jobs. that's what we're learning now from a fox business investigation. what does this mean for all of our safety in the skies? and another live look at capitol hill where some of the nation's top fighter pilots are about to receive the highest honors congress can give to civilians. we'll take you back there coming up next, stick around.
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welcome back. tens of millions of americans of course expected to be traveling this holiday weekend, and if you plan on flying well listen up to this. some of our nation's air traffic control workers may have cheated on their test to get their job. that's right. all of this according to a new investigation from the fox business network. you can catch "trouble in the skies" that's tonight, 5:00 p.m. as part of the willis report adam shapiro is joining us. quite a story. >> it is an incredible story. the faa has 15,000 air traffic controllers. they change their hiring process, and they instituted a new test which is a personality test and that's where the cheating has occurred. here's a bit of what you're going to see at 5:00 p.m. >> a diversity program for america's airport raises questions. >> very dramatic changes on the way they're hiring our air
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traffic controllers. this to me is really troubling. >> they threw you away what do you think of it? >> they don't really know what they want. >> and there's evidence of cheating to get crucial aviation jobs. >> there are some valuable pieces of information that i have taken a screen shot of. i'm going to send it directly to you because it's exactly how you need to answer each question. >> i was shocked. >> sounds like cheating. >> that is absolutely sickening. >> very very unjust. >> are american skies safe to fly? >> engineering at the risk of compromising safety. >> now the faa says there are no credible allegations of cheating but they've never heard that recording. they will at 5:00 p.m. >> all right. 5:00 on the willis report adam shapiro, great work to you and your staff. thanks. >> thank you. back to our breaking news now. a live look at capitol hill. three dozen of the most successful living fighter pilots in american history, about to
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receive the congressional gold medal. it is the highest award that congress can give a civilian that's a special status for pilots who shot down five or more enemy war planes in air combat. they fought in conflicts ranging from world war ii to vietnam. introduce peter doocy is live in washington with more. tell us about these incredible heroes and veterans. >> there are only 77 of the fighter as alive today. and the youngest one is 72 years old. to have three dozen at the same place and the same time is very rare. speaker of the house john boehner, this quote, this medal is meant to honor the feats these men achieved and the sacrifices their families made to keep the skies and the world safe for democracy. and the story's told, just by glancing at the biographies are breath taking.
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for example, james l. brooks is there from virginia. 94 years old, killed 13 germans flying a p-51 mustang in world war ii. then robert b. carlson from pennsylvania 94 years old. took out nine japanese planes between 1944 and 1945. or there's frank gaylord jr. from california 92 scored five and a half kills in world war ii before being captured held in prison until the end of the war, then serving again in vietnam. our country owes these men and the dozens of others honored today a great debt. that is why they are receiving today, the highest honor that congress can give on behalf of all of us. >> peter, i understand there was also a separate ceremony today for an airman tell us what happened. >> 96-year-old veteran from west virginia who worked as an aircraft crew chief never knew how to get officially recognized as part of the group. he got on the computer tried to figure it out himself, and
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didn't have any luck. eventually senator joeman chin's office got involved. and now he has a gold medal, he couldn't be happier for or more grateful. >> my mind is going a mile a minute. i'm enjoying every minute of it. i appreciate every one that's had the minutest interest in it and i thank all of them. >> that man, sergeant john watson also joe said he can't say he didn't wait long enough greg. >> all right. it's a wonderful ceremony for everybody today. thanks very much peter doocy. well there's a new warning from iran as negotiators work to finalize a nuclear deal before the deadline. the supreme leader says the united states and other world powers should not expect to get the access they are demanding. we'll have that story. and the pentagon is standing
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leader. also said that iran has agreed to a process that addresses military dimensions of its nuclear program. >> obviously that's an ongoing topic of negotiation, if we don't get the assurances we need on the access to possible military dimension related sites or activities that's going to be a problem for us and we said that. >> iran has agreed to give access to the watchdog. perhaps he just meant us the u.s. when he said quote, the rude and shameless enemy. for them to come and here talk and negotiate with scientists professors and researchers. it'll under no circumstances be given. well greg it doesn't seem in-line with the unprecedented access that the white house was hoping for. >> no kidding. you know trying to negotiate with these folks is really tough because they seem so schizophrenic, wait five minutes, they'll change their
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mind. this isn't the first time we've heard this from the supreme leader. >> back in april, when the white house announced that a framework deal had been reached, he came out blasting it. if you remember back then one of the clearer points that the white house has made was that sanctions would only be suspended after iran made good on its commitment. iran's leader disputed that saying sanctions should be lifted on the same day of the agreement. and the same speech he also reiterated his distrust towards the u.s. he said that his years of experience had basically made iran pessimistic towards the u.s. >> all right. leah thanks very much. now to iraq as isis makes huge gains down the road from baghdad, a spokesman says the pentagon is confident in its strategy for fighting the islamic state. really? well this comes after the wall street journal reported the white house is rethinking its game plan after isis took over the key city of ramadi.
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the white house has not asked them to consider any changes. what in the world is going on? j.d. gordon joins us now, former defense department spokesperson and retired nafl commander. >> good to see you, thanks for being with us. so the journal reports they're rethinking the strategy the white house says no no we're good with it. is this a good strategy should they be good with it or do they need to rethink it and change it? >> greg good to see you, i think the white house has to rethink the strategy because it's not working right now. this limited air campaign a couple raids in syria and cracking down on finances it's just chipping away at them. it's not enough to get the job done. for every day the islamic state exists we are at risk for mass casualty attacks from home grown terrorists that they're recruiting on the internet also possibly another 9/11. we have to step it up renewed sense of urgency to crush this group. >> you know u.s. senate said
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we are confident that we have the right strategy momentum will move us on our side. what momentum? they just lost ramadi they have the iraqis got routed there. was this a predictable outcome of withdrawing american troops especially when commanders on the ground said no mr. president, don't do that but he did it anyway. >> absolutely greg. we should have kept 5,000 to 10,000 troops there because basically we left the power vacuum that the islamic state filled. but the big picture is this is the 19 occupy since there's a proxy war between the shia-led iranians and the sunni-led saudis for control. every single president has had a problem with radical islam terror groups. jihadists with the sunnis or with the iranians. so we we've just been reactive. what we have to solve is the ideology of radical islam.
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that's got to be defeated. just like fascism was defeated, look at islamic state, it is just a detail. yesterday the problem was al qaeda, before that it was the taliban. he have the islamic state is defeated it'll be the next group. we have to stop the ideology. >> two days before isil seized ramadi the pentagon said quote, the strategy to defeat isis is working they're on the defensive. was that just blatant propaganda? or is the pentagon totally in the dark and they don't really know what's going on? >> i would say the pentagon is listening to the white house, and whatever political points that the white house wants to make the pentagon's going to say, unfortunately. here are some concrete actions that need to happen now. we have to start arming those sunni triable fighters in the province just like we had the great awakening during the iraq war. we need the same thing today to push back against the islamic state. we have to do a better job of arming the kurds and the
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christian my thats in the north. we also have to hold these iraqi military guys accountable. how many more divisions and brigades are going to run away while they leave our tanks? the military coalition has got to step it up. there was a big victory parade from isis in ramadi. where were all the bombs falling on them? you didn't see in. the coalition has to step it up. what's going on in that control operation center is in iraq? >> you know we have to make it quick i'm out of time but it was last year that president obama, you know, referred to isis as a jv team do you think to this day, he is still underestimating the threat and may not fully understand it? >> ideally he's not being honest with the american people. the real problem is the islamic radicalists radicalists. he's not being straight with the american people. >> all right.
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j.d. gordon j.d. thanks very much. >> thanks greg. just crossing the wiring right now, let me pull it up. associated press, syrian activists say the islamic state extremists have seized almost full control of the ancient town of al-amr it's unclear how much they may have. the syrian observatory reporting that the forces collapsed in the face of isis attacks and withdraw from the town late on wednesday. and now they're saying that town also is in isis control. the fall of ramadi and now the fall of al-amr. the militants continue to gain while the pentagon says the strategy is working, and they're on the defensive. clearly isis is on the offensive.
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italian police say they arrested a man suspected of helping carry out the terrorist attack on a tunisia museum that killed 22 people in march. cops say they busted the man at his mother's home nearmy lan after he entered the country on a smuggling boat. two months ago, islamic state terrorists gunned down tourists that were getting off buses in the capitol city before breaking into the museum and unleashing an attack with grenades and rifles. north korea now has many nuclear warheads tall enough to fit atop of submarines. they can fire them into the air. that according to a south korean media report citing a north korean defense spokesperson. of course we cannot verify this at least not yet. but it comes after north korea's state-run television released photograph that seemed to show a submarine launching a missile. there it is. dictator kim jong-un was there to take it in.
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the missile traveled only the length of a football field. really? experts say the images might be doctored. there is word that criminals are stealing data from debit cards at atms everywhere at levels not seen in two decades. how in the world are they doing it and what some banks are already trying to do to put a stop to it? coming up next.
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and a fox report now. more headlines from the fox news deck. one of the people arrested in that deadly biker gang shootout on sunday is a retired san antonio police detective. that's what law enforcement officials tell the associated press. the shooting happened in waco texas, at a shopping center. reopened today. nine people died and cops arrested some 170 others. clean up crews down on the beach after a broken pipeline spilled thousands of gallons of
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oil for miles northwest of los angeles. not clear whether the beach will reopen in time for memorial day weekend. and the father of an eight-year-old boy who turned up in a suitcase at a border crossings says he wasn't trying to smuggle his son into europe. the man has been in jail since security guards found the boy two weeks ago. his lawyer claims the dad paid $5,000 to send his son from north africa to spain, but insists he thought he was getting a legal visa and had no idea the boy would end up inside a suitcase. more breaking news on this busy wednesday. word that hackers had breached a major health insurance company with more than a million people's personal information, potentially at stake here the hackers targeted a company affiliated with blue cross and blue shield it's called care first. the notice is up on their website. it reports the hackers may have stolen some data on more than a million customers, both current
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and former subscribers. the company will offer free credit monitoring for customers, including the breach. you can log into the member's website for details. theft of debit card data at atms is now rising at an alarming unprecedented level. that's what one industry executive told the wall street journal, the newspaper reporting the criminals are stealing data at the highest rate in 20 years at atms inside banks, stores restaurants, you name it and tax at atms not owned by banks reportedly up 317% from last year. we are joined by robin, she broke the story firefighter wall street journal, good to see you. >> hi. >> so the theft on atms is soaring. >> yep. >> but so is our use of atms, put this in perspective. >> correct. our use of atms has been fairly steady. we think we go to them all the
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time remember there are so many other ways to pay, and people are using cash less. so the numbers are still going up on the hackers breaking in and getting your information. >> all right. now one of the ways they do it, you're right about this they use skimmers. and i heard about this. and i always look for them but i probably couldn't detect them. explain how they are and how they work. >> they are a tried and true technology that criminals have been using for years. they are devices that you put on to the atm, and you could put them in several different places including the card reader itself or on the pin pad and often there is a little camera that's taking a picture of you as you tap in your pin. >> so they're grabbing the information on the magnetic strip -- >> yeah. >> of the debit card and then the little miniature camera captures your personal identification number and armed with that what do they do? create fake plastic? >> that's exactly what they do.
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they create counterfeit cards which they can then use at a point of sale at a merchant or use at another atm. >> boy, and the theft is double at atms not on bank property. what about the use of malware, what is that, explain that? >> it is malicious software. it has been the root of some of the problems that we've seen in data breaches at merchants, but so far in this country, there have not been a lot of malware on atms. that said there has been a lot of malware spotted in other countries on their atms. so experts think that it's just a matter of time before it comes here. >> now, and you're right about this banks can use these computer chips on credit and debit cards. i look today, mine don't have them. >> the banks are all rolling them out. they're doing credit first, then the big banks are starting to roll out debit, but that doesn't help unless you have an atm that is also chip enabled.
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and the deadline is not until next year. >> all right. robin sidel, good story, learned a lot. people should check it out on the wall street journal website. thanks very much. thousands of passengers on board a cruise stranded board a cruise stranded for hours after their ship steered them on to a reef bed. they got stuck. we'll have the details for you just ahead. stick around. what up wheels! mr. auto-mo-deal! hey, it's the wheel deal! hey, hey, the duke of deals! i know a few guys in the rental car biz. let's go, 'wheels'. rental car deals up to 40% off.
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nfl commissioner roger goodell says he wants to hear directly from new england quarterback tom brady about the so-called deflate gate scandal. he spoke to reporters this afternoon, today after the team's owner said he is dropping his appeal. >> will robert kraft's decision for the patriots to accept their
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penalties penalties in any way affect tom brady's appeal and your hearing of it. >> no. >> that's pretty straightforward. brady is facing a four game suspension for his roll in deflating footballs earlier this year. the players' union appealing brady's punishment on his behalf. >> a cruise ship got stuck on a reef bed stranding passengers on board for more than six long hours. the spokesman for norwegian cruise line says a temporary problem with the steering caused the ship to stall. phil keating in our south florida newsroom. as i understand it this is not the first problem with that ship. >> no. two years ago that ship was dead in the water for two hours, and then in '09 on its way to miami it lost power and had no working toilets as well as ac and water. last night, though not so bad of a situation. power only out a very short
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time. and passengers say they really were not all that much inconvenienced. restaurants, bars and the all important casinos quickly got back online. for six hours, though the 3,000 people on board were stuck going nowhere three miles off shore with a fleet of tug boats fleeing her with high tide. the hanson family from new hampshire was at dinner when their floating vacation ran aground. >> the shud urthat happened before we stopped was big enough for everything to notice but there were no body falling over. >> after a thorough inspection the ship departed bermuda. there it is as it was 90 minutes ago. it should be back in boston on friday. no extra day at sea. >> it's so important to keep
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