john dietrich reporter with a mile walk the journal sentinel thank you so much. they do well it's back to work for us. congrats on the docket today it would be upping the national defense authorization act. something that congress has easily win you over the past fifty the air as partisan bickering has done the better part of the bill for the past couple of months. today the senate and house armed services committees took up a new version of the indy a bell for twenty fourteen deadline for a final agreement if one has to be reached by the end of this here is friday the bill to be passed in time and the full senate will not be able to debate the hundreds of amendments that were passed on to regional defense bill back in november. no one is that how about the nba from being signed within a minute aiming to revamp the military isn't sexual assault policy. hudson and whenever strike and a commander's authority to overturn a jury conviction in cases of sexual assault acquiring this honorable discharge. for those who were convicted. authorizing the nda is so important

their undercover sting operations before arresting and charging them with the milwaukee journal sentinel sifted through thousands of pages of court records and found numerous cases of the agency's abuse and failure and one case twenty eight year old chauncey wright was hired to hand out flyers promoting a fake store right as an i.q. in the mid fifty's which is considered extremely low agents paid right with cigarettes merchandise and money they eventually convinced him to bring them drugs and guns off of the street a month later he was arrested and charged he now faces up to life in prison now chauncey relatives say that the agents knowingly took advantage of a mentally disabled man and run into is not alone there are at least four other instances where a.t.f. agents use mentally disabled men before arresting them now congress and the department of justice want answers to talk about some of the other findings from this investigation i was joined earlier by john di direct he's a reporter with the milwaukee journal sentinel who has been investigating this story for quite some time now and

investigation i was joined earlier by john dietrich he's a reporter for at the milwaukee journal sentinel who has been investigating this story and i first asked him to walk us through some of the other arrests of people who assisted the a.t.f. the way this started was we had a sting here in milwaukee that had all kinds of problems including you mentioned at the outset a mentally disabled man being used to promote the operation we've been investigating this all year and what we found in our most recent best gauging is this was not an isolated incident at the a.t.f. it used mentally disabled people at several locations around the country to promote their storefronts and then turned around and charge them at the end now i want to go ahead and talk about some of the other discoveries in your investigation things like losing weapons things like damaging buildings can you walk us through some of the bullet points that your investigation found sure at the beginning and you're referring to the locky one of the most shocking findings in that initial investigation was that a.t.f. agents themselves

this investigation i was joined earlier by john diedrich he's a reporter with the milwaukee journal sentinel who has been investigating this story and i first asked him to walk us through some of the other arrests of people who assisted the a.t.f. . the way this started was we had a sting here in milwaukee the had all kinds of problems including you mentioned at the outset a mentally disabled man being used to promote the operation we've been investigating this all year and what we've found in our most recent event gauging is this was not an isolated incident at the a.t.f. it used mentally disabled people in several locations around the country to promote their storefronts and then turned around and charged them at the end now i want to go ahead and talk about some of the other discoveries in your investigation things like are losing weapons things like damaging buildings can you walk us through some of the ball a point that your investigation found sure at the beginning and you're referring to a walkie one of the most shocking findings in that initial investigation was that a.t.f. agents th

released showing him an awkwardly worded apology for killing north koreans during the war he told "the sentinel post" that is not my english. >>> a storm is wreaking havoc and paralyzed roads causing a deadly pileup on the pennsylvania turnpike sunday. more than 1,000 flights are cancelled nationwide today. >>> a week long good-bye to former south african president nelson mandela begins today. president obama and others will be among the tens of thousands for the memorial service on tuesday. mandela died thursday at the age of 95. >>> and protesters in ukraine toppled a statue of soviet state founder vladimir lenin and attacked it with a hammer rejecting the historic influence over ukraine. thousands were demonstrating against the government abandoning a pact with the european union and moving closer to russia. one online video helped to ensure that cat lovers got eight hours of uninterrupted fun. christmas cat tv was live for 48 hours and allowed viewers to interact with a cat lady via twitter. to help celebrate sony's christmas album. along with the north shore animal league. 48 hours of cat

but the tutor sentinel side in bed with assisted opening salvo trying to straddle the meadows has given a clear message that any crunchy con trying to put to good use of double sided week he stormed off. we knew said that the misty we did was to try one of us who discriminates out to find other countries are the people of other victims who are we to put testes venus had to set up such time that the trial court and to try though. but the good dose of genocide and that is of any positive theme of the dishes done. well was hanged at the same to jane austen due process of law nobody can make to two minutes of meeting the execution is given a week's duty to seek clemency from the wisdom of the country. interest will always try to hide. he was not given this option. you and people that the key to the billy bush eduardo and others. family members of those victims so for those with the call to duty bill or the tv teams in the audi was making four just east of the mouse forty two years and outside the sky. in the cut shot off the beauty that we have seen for the last seven and the kids among oth

he told the sentinel he was well fed and kept comfortable. when asked about his televised apology, he said that's not my english. he said his wife now controls his passport. >>> this is the first sunday since nelson mandela's death. south africans prayed for him in and out of church. the celebrations of mandela's life have not let up since his death on thursday. today mandela's ex-wife is headed to one service. at another, his successor eulogized the country's first black president. >> what he was able to do, to engage in struggle, to end in justice. >> president obama and first lady michelle will leave tomorrow for south africa. they'll attend a national memorial service for mandela on tuesday. >>> bay area churchgoers also honored the former south african president today. john shows us the celebration of his life and legacy at san francisco's glide memorial church. >> reporter: when san francisco's glide memorial church remembered nelson mandela at their services, the only thing missing was sadness. the mood was joyful as the children's cho

the milwaukee journal sentinel spoke to the economist who wrote the grant.n can continue to rise up the list. economists called on governor walker to lower the state tkt for the wealthiest individuals, to slash the upcoming tax rate and the economists told the journal sentinel, this is not rocket surgery. indeed. this is not rocket surgery. that is a very eloquent way of saying something important about the quality of the scholarship you get when you buy your own scholarship. indeed, it is not rocket surgery. "first look" is up next. >> good tuesday morning. merry christmas eve. right now, another change to the new health care law as the obama administration extends a key enrollment deadline. >>> two astronauts aboard the space sayings gear up for a christmas eve spacewalk. target suffers blow back and a holiday shopping bust for retailers. the end of an era for san francisco's famed candlestick park and santa's had helpers making a difference for sick children. good morning. all right. if you are up early to do last-minute shopping you've got a couple hours

the santa cruise sentinel reports conservationists believe getting it named a national monument will bring in money to preserve the land. the farm has been closed for decades but that's expected to change when the federal government takes over in a few months. >>> it is time to get a check on weather which warmed up today. >> right there in santa cruz, 70 degrees with the high today. tomorrow getting up close to 73 degrees. a nice warmup in store for the bay area. don't get used to it though. things start to cool down rapidly as we head into midweek. doppler 7 hd right now, high clouds that continue to move from southern california right up in our direction. and these clouds will help insulate us a little bit more this evening. don't look for as chilly or as cold a temperature spread tonight as we had the past several nights. here's a live shot of the transamerica pyramid in san francisco. san francisco right now 53. we have 33 in redwood city. los gatos 44. from our mt. tam cam, looking over the bay and the city, santa rosa 53. already in the 30s for petaluma and napa 37. we have 44

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you might even create yourself, food columnist from the santa cruz sent nel, donna -- sentinel, donna yes, everybody likes chocolate. you can do these things at the last minute. not so much running out the door, they have to set. but pretty quickly. >> okay. now you have to have the ingredients first, you can't start the recipe and find you don't have butter. >> this is easier than that. >> the ingredients, doesn't that kind of get expensive? you start buying baking things, groceries are not cheap these days. >> no, they're not. but all of these, and i will show you, all of these are made with stuff that you probably have around the house. >> old stuff? no, all right. what is this we're looking at? >> here, you just take ordinary marshmallows, correct. and you turn them in to chocolate dipped market mall owes, sprinkle them with the jimmies if you want them to look festive. >> how fresh do they have to be? >> reasonably, you know. i mean, i wouldn't use them from last year. >> okay. [ laughter ] >> okay. but. >> if they bounce on the table, it's too old. >> right. exactly. or you can

speaking to the santa cruz sentinel today, newman said he was kept comfortable and well fed. when questioned about his televise ad polling, newman said that's not -- televised apology, newman said that's not my english. newman said his wife is now in charge of his passport. >>> federal investigators will question witnesses and experts in washington this week to try to find it out what caused the asiana airlines crash at sfo this summer. many experiments believe human error was to blame and a report in today's chronicle shows the first bay area responders lacked training for a disaster like this. >>> after four people were killed last week in a derailment in the bronx two federal lawmakers want cameras mounted in trains pointed at the tracks and at the engineers on board. the national transportation safety board made a similar suggestion. one of the senators says the cameras will be able to detect and prevent problems. >> as we move forward from the crash, we have to focus on the lessons that we learned in the past week and make sure that these things don't happen again. repor

the 85-year-old palo alto man spoke to the santa cruz sentinel today. he said he was well fed and kept comfortable. when asked about the apology that was broadcasted earlier this week, newman said that's not my english. he added his wife is now in charge of his passport. newman returned to the bay area yesterday. >>> this afternoon a medical team from stanford hospital returned from the philippines. the team spent two weeks providing medical help in the region which was hard hit by typhoon haiyan. in their first four days they spent more than 2500 patients. on average they saw several hundred people a day at vier us where clinics throughout the affected reg -- at various clinics throughout at affected region. witnesses and experts will be questioned in washington this week to -- >>> witnesses and experts will be questioned in be with washington this week to find out -- in washington this week to find it out what happened with the plane issue at sfo. a report in the chronicle shows today that first bay area responders lacked training for a disaster like

i see i'm on the abc's left her monthly concert hall it is up for the sentinel. they're dodgers our customers. out of it. so my job is to make sure they become good customers french people don't just village fairs because they don't want to pay its own national tradition. even former president shot she got one slept over the barriers with obvious enjoyment. some of the pompous to see i wasn't shocked by and then returned to his good barrier was broken but still it's too soon and he just goes to show how meticulous. close up photo comes from. she might not have been deliberately are daunting but instead it is a legendary nonetheless an illegal student insurance scheme for fare dodgers even references the photo its ad campaign. armed with a hidden camera wi fi and is into its office in the end. in northern france. i did though. go google it the top. it's at this time distance key to saving the money that otherwise has been on a monthly pass as well as any fines incurred by fear god too. the numbers add up. it's not really above board but journalists only teaches th

neither can you know the dimensions are offering partners can match the music and to get out the sentinel thousand troops on the fourteenth army troops in total the french contingent when his deployment is complete. for a country which is much bigger and wrapped an arm and chances are you'll esteem is more more and more mature home on two sources who stepped in. it will intensify in mali for instance on the international service from stuttgart to tune in to hear from the french are still there are some numbers on the jr testament since the current domestic animal from sudan and chad and so on austin will be intact suspicion is that the french who buckle you don't just use you. taking the country. it was a giant chevron his team searching for shale gas in romanian village has been the center than confronting practice for over two months now. watch as expected this weekend. this is one of the day this week as police clashed with demonstrators the newspaper said the fourteen campaign is with great but the specific account next to the field the drilling. the gas is extracted. welcome to come

knox's death comes amid increasing tension and eleven on a sixty mile and spilling over from the sentinel in syria has been on is backing the regime in syria against any of them is seeking to oust has been shot and has been done has been used it for the attack. tuesday night in blog land. i think a certain date and eighty six but the efficiency and tingling on on thursday. i respect of common sense and across the capital bangkok flirting with the amount of protests. opposition forces say they still want the government to step down and they'll take up their cause again on friday. but for now both sides have rested now. it is dizzying and cocaine police today appealed for action. when hundreds gathered outside the skateboard is to win this season and into the compound you'll start east and central and the opposition said they wanted was for the teams to handle the protests. yet all of the total the police tool useful to the senses. not to use double standards. the two sides it covered up with the dead. the trees is tempting me to demonstrate is speaking today denounced the pool they want i

the sentinel thousand troops over fourteen hundred troops. salutes the french contingent loans to one's country. continue to grow bigger and wrapped an arm. chances are you'll was dearest more more and more mature and on all souls who stepped in. the intensifying money for instance on the internet's most interesting part to tune into here. she's still there are some numbers. the artist and since the current density and removal from sudan and chad its own. austin will be intact. this decision is that the french who buckle you don't just use you. taking the country. some old news in brief that suicide bombings killed at least nine people in an attack on the pickup trucks carrying members of the maritime police units in northern somalia. the eighty seven offices burleson when viewed in the attack may think this is macy padding at the cell without too bad the seniors are nice like the culprit has been forced from their strongholds the al qa'ida neat incision pain is being trying to gain control of the country's north. in pakistan's capital hundre

when children present an ideal saakashvili husband to let the sentinel fourteen ukraine kiev has also bought fifty five other people from georgia the heat and beat us from entering the country all of them suspected of lacking with the ukrainian opposition during the ongoing anti government protests on tuesday crayfish color as well. well the most prominent person on the list is obviously former georgian president mikhail saakashvili at wellness support of the state called color revolutions. he's already visited the key is independence square at once and december. lately i'm twenty nine georgians on the list among them is the man who is on didn't catch a wanted list for being behind the unrest that the account during the protests in may two thousand and twelve in moscow this twist to it since they're all from the european union and us citizens who invented and treat the ukraine a train in parliament member who initiated this move. sad that all these foreigners have been working with the opposition to destabilize the situation in the country however from what we know there aren't any hy

few shows this though this syllabus or special about it what did he create that has most of the sentinel so of the basic idea during the second old law that was headed machine guns but to actually use the phone. on the stuff up in large masses of internship i know quite small and cold but the submachine gun so that he was clutch ecological forced to use intermediate cartridge almost as awful as a machine gun cartridge but given this kind of up fighting goodbyes to post all the fishermen and their entry into the ocean does the will of the ice is the rifle that can shoot multiple rounds it still had this thing through the fax machine. ah actually ask them to death of a deal for soul truffle is having a machine gun but just a light or small compact and the vast every infringement can use it and it gave a different attack an infant especially awesome firepower. that's why he is so try for the console port from all over the world. it's easy to use highly reliable than it has level of technical innovations for something like shooting the use of an assault rifle the court cases that the state o

i did the holland sentinel on from a pr standpoint for the bakers can talk a little bit about that too. some readers of this is a win win right. i mean i think that the games would be doing the right thing but they're also doing an npr piece from this because nobody really likes them stale there's still this big pot there is a big ask jpmorgan twitter experiment that people are content to do just a month or so ago when they said. turns out to get some questions and a cot ethically troll that they were asking funny question people asking serious questions but the sort of upside and it was that people are still very angry and so i think if they were just it's very common sense thing antique wine made in one year it would july to boost their independence and their spending on these money on advertising mother still lacking behind the scenes when they gifted for their own pr let alone the secretary on each axle each while assisting me in the new you've been wanting to get fifty thousand signatures on this petition and the eur he had forty seven thousand which is amazing that only three tho

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we have a database, called sentinel, and we have a network, and consumers can enter data directly bytinel going online, or they can call in and speak to a counselor, but the bottom-line is this sentinel database collects consumer information, both fraud information as well as identity theft information. host: and then what do you do with that information? tost: it becomes available law enforcement, and we have thousands of partners who can go geographicd do it by location, the type of identity theft, so we support law enforcement, but we, ourselves, do not prosecute instances of identity theft itself. host: do you investigate it? we collect the information and give that over two and make it accessible to law enforcement. if you are a victim of identity theft, what is your first step to take? there are a few things you need to do, and the sooner, the better. puttingt is considering on a fraud alert on your file, and basically what the fraud alert does is it notifies potential creditors that you are at risk, and the creditors would have to take steps to identify lending youbefore money, so

he tells the santa cruz sentinel, he was well fed and kept comfortable.hen asked about his televised apology, newman said that's not my english. he added his wife controls his passport. >>> happening today, the senate will debate whether to extend a law regulating plastic firearms before it expires tomorrow. the law mandates every plastic gun have a piece of metal attached to it so metal detectors and x-rays can spot a weapon. gun control advocates want an extension for another decade. they say the law has added importance because of the availability of these 3d printers. >>> cars, flowers and a whole lot of fans. and the market just opened t take a quic why this tribute to actor paul walker drew thousands of o people. >>> and the market opened 10 minutes ago. let's get a quick look at the early numbers. not too bad. we'll get an update from our financial reporter, jason brooks the baking time of year. you need special ingredients. you need the staples for homemade. you need safeway sugar for just a buck eighty-eight. and that magic thing that makes every

but these are sentinels of ocean and human health. long-leave lived apex predators at the top of the food chain. it's important and we need to learn for them and better characterize their cause of death and try to gain a better understanding of their life history. >> was it surprising to see 50 of these whales earlier this week and some of them died, of course, and then another 20 or so over the past day? >> well, it does raise cause for concern amongst the public. of course it's a very interesting event, and for the management agencies like noaa fisheries, it's obviously a big cause of concern for the-- they responsible for managing these types of -- >> is dl a virus going around of some kind? is it sonar? what can you point to that is having so many of these whales coming closer to tshores of the u.s.? >> it could be for a variety of reasons. seismic activity or a multi-beam echo sounder that the oil industry sometimes uses to map the ocean floor, low frequency active sonar has been used in military exercises. it could be socially i

the sheriff confirmed to the orlando sentinel that two handgu handguns, a shotgun, and an assault rifleimmerman. his girlfriend picked up her gun as well. the couple's weapons were removed after that same girlfriend called 911 to say that zimmerman was threatening her. >> what's going on? >> he's in my housebreaking all my [ bleep ] because i asked him to leave. he has his freaking gun breaking all of my stuff right now. no this is not -- >> okay. >> i'm doing this again? you just broke my glass table. you just broke my sunglasses and you put your gun in my freaking face and told me to get the [ bleep ] out because this is not your house. get out of here. >> as we know she later dropped the charges. no charges so he gets his guns back. what do you make of this news? >> he gets his guns back. obviously a lot of prosecutors and the rest of the people watching this story are disappointed. it was so frustrating after listening to the tape and hearing her exciting utte ining that what was happening was actually happening. then she came back and recanted and said she felt safe and didn't want

for more on the latest attack milwaukee sent sentinel is with us.njuries are obviously horrible. can you tell me what happened to him? what time of day it was? >> well, yeah. this latest incident happened on monday. monday night around 7:30. he was getting off the bus, the victim was getting off the bus and he was walking. he noticed that there were four young men, teens, following him. so he attempted to cross the street. and he said that as soon as he turned to look back, he was sucker punched and he immediately went down. he said that they started reigning punches down on him. he suffered a broken nose. some facial lacerations and he said he noticed them laughing when they were walking away. so, by all means it seems like it was part of this knockout game. >> all right. besides sort of the laughing which is sort of a a signature characteristic seeing in the knockout game, there is often no robbery. nothing is ever taken from the. was he robbed of anything or just a punch. >> no. he said he was just whit a punch. he was not robbed. but he said he

rouhani went on an interview with the sentinel times, and this is creating big problems with iran's neighborse up their right to enrich and the saudis already paid for a nuclear program. pakistan, all they have to do is call that debt in and say, send it over. proliferation is a real threat, but the question from the white house is, what are the options? >> isn't it a question, too, about who gets to decide about israel having its own nuclear capacity? does the united states have the ability to direct that? >> no, but our policy should be those who have it should keep it and those who don't shouldn't get it. that's the root of stability in the middle east and we're losing that. the problem with iran is it's not like negotiating with the soviets in the '80ls. the iranians still believe in the resolution. they still have that religious ferv fervor. that's why it's dangerous. they have religious fervor combined with nuclear weapons. it's just bad. >> you've got issues like afghanistan, but principally iran, that could become an even larger issue here in his second term, the president's second te

. >> the korean war veteran told the santa cruz sentinel he was well fed while being held and he wasroom, not a jail cell. he says he was comfortable if not even bored during his detention. joining us now on the phone is the former new mexico governor, the former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, bill richardson. i was surprised. i don't know about you, governor, that he was released sort of unilaterally without you or former president bill clinton or jimmy carter or someone going there to very surprising. that he was suddenly deported, that there was no requirement for a dialogue with a high profile person. what is also interesting was that he was kept in a hotel. that he was not kept in a prison, which means that the north koreans did not mean to keep him in prison very long. i think once he made his confession, but it's very bizarre, the way the new leader, kim jong-un, is handling these cases. as we both know, there's another american, kenneth bay, that is still in prison. one year, no requests for dialogue. in fact, an american envoy went out there, and the north koreans sa

the milwaukee journal sentinel spoke to the economist who wrote the grant.isconsin can continue to rise up the list. economists called on governor walker to lower the state tkt for the wealthiest this is not rocket surgery. >> indeed, it is not rocket surgery. that does it for us. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> exactly one shopping day left for christmas. >> want insurance by new year's day? >> new deadline will be tomorrow for the aca. >> the obama administration

rouhani went on an interview with the sentinel times, and this is creating big problems with iran's neighbors their right to enrich and the saudis already paid for a nuclear program. pakistan, all they have to do is call that debt in and say, send it over. proliferation is a real threat, but the question from the white house is, what are the options? >> isn't it a question, too, about who gets to decide about israel having its own nuclear capacity? does the united states have the ability to direct that? >> no, but our policy should be those who have it should keep it and those who don't shouldn't get it. that's the root of stability in the middle east and we're losing that. the problem with iran is it's not like negotiating with the soviets in the '80ls. the iranians still believe in the resolution. they still have that religious fervor. that's why it's dangerous. they have religious fervor combined with nuclear weapons. it's just bad. >> you've got issues like afghanistan, but principally iran, that could become an even larger issue here in his second term, the president's second term, that

>> well, on the sentinel review and what i try to publish of the past eight years is to increase the transparency and the accountability of the fed and you mentioned the trips to capitol hill and i've testified many times as have my colleagues and there is a notion that the fed is not audited but they have secret books. as you well know, we have complete openness to the general accountability office and we have the inspector general of our own in a private accounting firm that does all the books as well and they have very tough standards. we publish regular reports on all aspects of the operations and we are very open and we are by all means willing to work with congress to see if there's anything they think can be done better or in a more effective way and we are open to that. i do hope that those reviewing the central bank will recognize that central banking is an old activity. the 17th century is when the bank bank of england began operation and we know a lot about this and we know a lot of experts, a lot of them, every major country has a central bank. so we are not starting from

of our mission is partnering with law enforcement, is sharing information with the ftc's consumer sentinel database which as most of you know is accessible by law enforcement agencies all over the country. so the hope is that they can make connections among individual cases and do a better job in catching the bad guys and putting them in jail. >> great. well, let's start with a general question. over the past 15 years, congress, the executive branch, state and local governments and the private sector can't to great lengths to address the problem of identity theft. as you mentioned and that the bureau of justice statistics did a state id theft rings a problem of massive proportions. what are we doing right on this and what could we be doing better or differently? throwing it out to the panel. >> i'll go ahead. i think that we have made progress, tremendous progress in the law enforcement area. the itrc has been around since 1999, and when it was first started the primary complaint from consumers was that they could not get police to acknowledge that a crime had been committed. they couldn't

and consumers could enter data into the sentinel that work directly by going online or they could: andto a counselor. the database collects consumer andrmation and fraud identity theft information. host: what do you do with the information? guest: the information becomes available to law enforcement. we have about 2000 law enforcement department -- partners that have access to the network. they can do searches by geographic location, the type of identity theft. we support law enforcement but we ourselves do not prosecute instances of identity theft. host: do you investigate it? guest: no. we collect information and we give that over and make it accessible to law enforcement. host: what is your first action if you are a victim? guest: if you are and identity theft victim, there is a few things you need to do. the sooner you do them, the better. consider putting on a fraud alert on your file. notifies alert potential creditors that you are at risk and the creditors would have to take steps to identify who you are before lending money . if you are taking out a loan, that is a good step. a

. >> the florida sentinel ten whales have died and dozens others are stranded near the everglades inrida. they are trapped in three feet of water in the area the size of a football field. park staff and biologists are using boats to herd the whales to the ocean. >>> "wall street journal," apple is extending its reach to china after signing a deal with the world's largest mobile carrier. china mobile will offer iphones later this month. it will have a customer base of 7 million users which is seven times the size of verizon wireless. >>> "new york daily news" shows the generous of the late actor paul walker. ten years ago newly engaged couple walked into a jewelry store shopping for an engagement ring. walker struck up a conversation with kyle when he learned kyle served in iraq. the couple left without a ring because of the $10,000 sticker price but walker bought it for them and asked to remain nameless. store employee felt now was the perfect time to reveal paul walker's act of congress. >>> a woman from ontario became a surprise millionaire ever misplacing a winning lottery ticket.