. >> richard blumenthal and chuck schumer are now demanding immediate federal investigations to prevent a breach liking this from happening again. >> we could get to the bottom of how target's in-store payment security was compromised in order to make sure that will target in the future and all other stores adequately protect consumers from this kind of devastating theft. >> some customers in california have already filed what could become a class action lawsuit against target. saying the chain "failed to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices." target said on sunday it notified millions of affected customers via e-mail and is working with the secret service and financial institutions to resolve the problem. they also offered customers 10% storewide discounts this weekend as well as free credit monitoring. so no doubt, this has a lot of shoppers frustrated about what

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democratic connecticut senator richard blumenthal joins me now.ee you, senator, good morning. >> good morning, chris. good to be with you. >> should we read into this budget beyond a desire not to see another government shutdown? is there a sense there on the hill that this agreement might mean more are possible? >> i think that this agreement is a very good, positive, even exciting template for what we can do going forward on measures like intelligence and immigration and the farm bill. so i think working together requires the use of muscles, the compromise muscles, if you will, that haven't been exercised for a while. the more we use them, the stronger they are. and i think it's a very good bridge to the next year and i hope it augers well for what we're going to be doing. i came to washington three years ago to try to accomplish things, do things, get things done, which is what the american people want, particularly on economic policy, job growth and economic progress. >> let me ask you about another economic issue, because i know you're planni

now the meddling after the big christmas delivery delay, democratic connecticut senator richard blumenthalmmediately calling for ups to give customers refunds, and the target hack attack triggering this. >> ilso want to know if the federal trade commission has the teeth to hold retailers who fail to protect the customers' personal information to account. >> democrat new jersey senator bob menendez suggesting new regulations may be needed to protect consumers. but john, when the government gets involved in the private sector, is that when the consumer really pays? >> you think? this is like going to the town drunk and asking him how to get sober. otis campbell doesn't teach sobriety campbells. a government that can't build a website, you want to talk to em about hacking? 47% of the fraud in the united states is despite 24% of the usage. computer chips would help that. that's what we need to go to. as far as the ups, they hired 55,000 part-time workers, 23 extra jets, they still underestimated demand. the market will deal with them. congress dealing with them, good lord, get your own house i

coming under fire from connecticut senator, richard blumenthal, who is demanding the shipping giant refund all customers affected by the delays. >> i'm asking, in fact demanding that u.p.s. and fed ex both commit they will make full refunds by december 31, end of the year. >> reporter: u.p.s. said it would only reimburse customers and retailers who paid for guaranteed delivery by air. and we're learning more about what created the delivery debacle. u.p.s. says the problem began when their fleet of planes was overwhelmed by last minute surge in guaranteed delivery orders. even though the carrier added 23 planes to their fleet of 400, it just couldn't keep up. so consumers should check with their online retailers, many are offering anything from gift cards to complete refunds. and the good news here, david, u.p.s. is adamant, they will be able to get those delayed packages delivered by tonight. david. >> let's hope so. alex, thank you. to a major ruling in favor of the nsa. a federal judge, now ruling that the sweeping surveillance program is legal. determining necessary counter punch to ter

senators chuck schumer and richard blumenthal claim the n-t-s-b recommended cameras be installed on both the inside and outside of trains five years ago, but nothing has been done. a commuter train derailed in new york last week, killing four people and injuring 67 others. r >> "as we move forward from the crash we have to focus on the lessons we learned in the past week and make sure that these things don't happen again. reports are now pointing to human error as the cause of the crash. it's now generally accepted that the engineer "nodding off" during the trip, possibly due to what's called highway hypnosis - when you see so many things go by quickly and repeatedly you get lulled into sleep." >> schumer says the cameras would monitor train crew members and provide video evidence in the event of a crash. currently, amtrak and california's metrolink commuter rail trains have cameras installed. >> lake tahoe might soon be using ferries for transportation around the lake. officials are hoping that.by the summer of 2016.they'll have a pair of 120-passenger ferries shuttling people from the

liz: democratic senator richard blumenthal out of connecticut putting out this statement right now urging ups to give refunds because he says christmas is on the line. he is saying the men and women at ups as well as u.s. postal service and fedex to tremendous work this time of year putting in a grueling long hours producing a mac delivering gifts, but it is incumbent upon these companies were the customers quoted a delivery date ahead of christmas that they arrive on time. he said a very real sense christmas is on the line,calling ups to do the right thing and provide refunds to people whose christmases are little less cheery as a result of the late delivery, cheryl. you noted it was down fractionally, naturally under a lot of pressure. fedex is up, amazon still say it is reviewing its relationships with the package deliverers. basically getting $20 gift cards and refunds to amazon customers who experience shipping delays. this is a developing story. but is he would also happens. going to give it back to you. cheryl: the only issue for me is what happens without all the returns. we expec

constitution grants congress the power to regulate commerce, and this is congress' job to do so, and richard blumenthal is only doing what he was elected do which is stand up for his constituents. if you lied and said it's going to be there by the 24th and i wasn't, you should have to pay that money back. >> they didn't lie. they said they were going to get -- try to get the packages there. clearly they would rather have had -- no they said the packages would be delivered on time. >> they've did right thing and said we're refunding the customers' money, we tried, we're sorry. you know the alternative? go to u.s. postal service. would it be there on time? >> i think it would be. the u.s. postal service can handle the volume. you know, their volume has dropped off. what these companies did was take on more work than they could handle, and they lied about it. and they should be held accountable. >> steve, they immediately issued these refunds before the senator got involved. these senators -- that's like the third center that took too the podium and started attack thing -- attacking the free market. >> yo

chuck schumer and richard blumenthal say that the ntsb recommended that cameras be installed on the insideand outside of trains five years ago but nothing has been done. the train killed four people and injured 60 others when it derailed. >> as we move forward from the crash, we have to focus on the lessons we learned in the past week and make sure that these things don't happen again. reports are now pointing to human error as the cause of the crash. it's now generally accepted that the engineer, quote, nodded off during the trip, oxc.gca highway hypnosis. when you see so many things go by quickly and repeatedly, you get loathed into sleep. >> schumer says the cameras would monitor crew members and provide video evidence in the event of a crash. the metrolink trains have cameras installed. >>> it has been a month since the typhoon ravaged the philippines. bodies are still being uncovered from beneath the debris in the hardest hit cities. tens of thousands are living in shelters. haiyan left over 5700 people death and 4 million people were displaced. >>> hiker eric ralston is facing domest

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. >> we have democrat senator richard blumenthal out of connecticut weighing in on this.e, christmas is on. line with delays at ups and the other carriers. and fedex. look what he is saying. he is saying we're grateful to ups and usps and fedex, do tremendous work and grueling long hours however it is incumbent on these companies that when customer is quoted delivery date to get the pack an on time, he goes on to say that christmas is on the line. he calls on ups to do the right thing and provide refund to people whose christmases were a little less cheery as a result of late deliveries. it is odd and interesting he only quotes ups to do the right thing, provide refunds. ups is saying it is sorry. it expects to get all the packages, nearly all by tomorrow. ups traded higher today at the close. it is near its 52-week high as cheryl pointed out earlier. you could see the trend line there. the question is, here's the deal, here's the bottom line. as customers pile on to ups's facebook page to complain, it is retailers who made the online promise that is these packagings woul

. >> connecticut senator richard blumenthal is an advocate for tougher gun safety laws especially after the newtown tragedy and he joins me now. thank you very much. just briefly before we talk about guns, i want to ask you, what's your take. is this short-term budget deal going to pass the senate? >> i believe very confidently it will pass the senate. i shouldn't say very confidently, nothing can be predictive with certainty in washingt washington. i think it will pass because it represents a compromise. people like myself that want unemployment insurance will have to compromise. so will the other side. these compromise muscles atrophy if we don't use them. those muscles have weakened. here we have a chance to use compromise muscles to move forward, establish a template for the debt ceiling and other controversial measures. everybody knows there's another day for unemployment compensation insurance and we need to move forward. >> now, want to also ask you about gun legislation. our new nbc news "wall street journal" poll, support has slipped for stricter gun laws. it peaked obviously i

." >> reporter:u-s senators richard blumenthal and chuck schumer are now demanding immediate federalvestigations to prevent a breach like this from happening again. >>"we can get to the bottom of how target's in store security was compromised in order to make sure that target, in the future, and all other stores, adequately protect to consumers from this kind of devastating theft." >> reporter:some customers in california have already filed what could become a class-action lawsuit against target, saying the chain quote, "failed to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices." >> reporter:target said on sunday it notified millions of affected customers via e- mail and is working with the secret service and financial who problem. >> catherine: target also offered customers a 10 percent discount this past weekend. also - free credit monitoring. >> catherine: it's always good to think before you tweet. an example of what can go wrong --- a former p-r executive says she's sorry about a tweet about aids and africa. but as pamela brown reports, the damage is done. >>

we had congressman richard blumenthal on talking earlier in the last hour in "jansing & co."connecticut has done and they have certainly tightened down. but when you look at the example that newtown has given us, how do you hope that this series then continues? because we have a long way to go if we want to amend our federal contract with the country and what it means to have our constitutional right to bear arms. but what that means in reality if we lose our children to that constitutional right. >> right. and i think what the wheelers said too about just talking to parents and making the country safer for all children i think is critical. but i think without some serious sort of federal gun reform, you are leaving it into the hands of states, and states like connecticut choose one path but not all states do. we did a big series of louisiana, where there's -- people are dying from gunshot wounds every day. and that is not a state that has moved in the same direction as connecticut has. >> and there's cultural responses to how some people are raised with guns or how some peop

. >> so for that and the budget, we bring in democratic senator, richard blumenthal.hank you for being here. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> senator, let's start right there. the white house seizing control of this nsa debate, something that the president hasn't spoken about at length since august. part of those recommendations that we would see in his panel, this would be president obama's panel, would be to take this massive databases away from the nsa. it's not clear whether the president supports that. his panel might, according to the "washington post," today. where do you stand? >> i think there needs to be fundamental far-reaching reform to make the nsa process and our entire signals intelligence gathering program more accountable and more transparent. and this report is a beginning. it's a first step. not binding on the president. but the president has indicated that he believes that reform is necessary. he said, for example, he thinks that some kind of adversarial process within the foreign intelligence surveillance court, as i have proposed, a constitu

." >> u-s senators richard blumenthal and chuck schumer are now demanding immediate federal investigations to prevent a breach like this >> "we can get to the bottom of how target's in store security was compromised in order to make sure that target, in the future, and all other stores, adequately protect to consumers from this kind of devastating theft." >> some customers in california have already filed what could become a class-action lawsuit against target, saying the chain quote, "failed to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices." target said on sunday it notified millions of affected customers via e- mail and is working with the secret service and financial institutions to resolve the problem. >> customers a 10 percent discount this past weekend. also - free credit monitoring. >> a lot of people are still scrambling to finish up their shopping. for those who have finished, there is a little time for and join the holiday spirit. kron4 just bush went to union square in sampras's go where people were seeing the sights. >> what is christmas classics, or local

senators charles schumer of new york and richard blumenthal of connecticut held a news conference sundayal transportation safety board has suggested the cameras. the railroad administration hasn't immediately responded to messages seeking comment on the idea. a lawyer and union leader for the derailed train's engineer have said he briefly nodded off or experienced a daze at the controls. more than 60 people were injured. up next on the kron four morning news. we're keeping an eye on the cold temperatures in the bay area. we'll have live team coverage coming up. the cold is causing a lot of problems for the homeless. so far four people have died in the south bay. welcome back. we're keeping an eye on the cold temperatures in the bay area. we will have live team coverage coming up. and it's causing a lot of problems for the homeless. so far four people have died in the south bay. we'll have more on the temperatures and a moment but first a traffic check up with dan. >>: southbound 101 near san antonio northbound lanes. expect delays. in multiple car involved. reports of people slain and a

senators charles schumer of new york and richard blumenthal want the cameras after the derailment of new york. it killed four people and injured more than 60 others. reportedly, the engineer may have nodded off before the drain detailed. >>> new this morning, tony larussa has been elected to the baseball hall of fame. larussa ranks third in wins among managers. he's won three world series, once in 1989 with the oakland as, and in 2006 and 2011 with the st. louis cardinals. former yankees' manager joe torre and bobby cox were elected. congratulations to them. tony larussa still involved in the bay area. has the animal rescue foundation which helps rescue a lot of animals in the east bay. >> bra bravo for him. >>> sal, the commute has been bad. >> can -- it has been. people start getting to school later in the week, we might see a break there. but we still have a lot of slow traffic out there. bay bridge has improved ale will bit here. you can -- a little bit here. you can see traffic is backed up as you drive up to the toll plaza. it will take you 20 minutes if you are just an ordinar

senators richard blumenthal and chuck schumer are now demag a breach from happening again. >> we couldm of how target's in-store security payment was compromised in order to make sure that target in the future and all other stores adequately protect consumers from this kind of devastating theft. >> reporter: some customers in california have already filed what could become a class action lawsuit against target saying the chain failed to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices. target said on sunday it notified millions of affected customers via e-mail and is working with the secret service and financial institutions to resolve the problem. they also offered customers 10% discounts this weekend as well as free credit monitoring. according to national retail federation, we could see more problems like this in the future, simply because of the magnetic strip on the back of these cards, technology they say is also used on cassette disc, cassette tapes i should say, the same technology that can be easily compromised, chris, kate, and copied. >> george, i must mak

senators chuck schumer and richard blumenthal are asking congress to meet the obama administration's100 ate $5 million for the next fiscal year. it's a $15 million increase over this year's budget. this comes as the special team of federal safety inspectors arrives in new york today. they're going to conduct a 60 day probe into operations on metro north. a train for the commuter rail line derailed this month killing four. >> a high speed train from spain to france cuts travel time in half between the two countries, at aljazeera reports, not everyone is happy about it. >> although the cheapest fare costs more than $80, there was no shortage of willing passengers when the tickets went on sale. sunday, those ticket holders streamed on to the platform to take the inaugural journey. >> it's a very good thing, not only do we win time, it's also a way to bring two countries closer in a very effective way. >> i wanted to be the first one to go to paris. i'm happy to make the first journey. >> high speed rail links are approval controversial in europe, with a tunnel under the alps costing $12