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anna werner has details. [phone ringing] >> reporter: when wayne chertoff's caller i.d.old him the social security administration was calling, he picked up to hear a woman's voice. >> she said that in el paso, texas, someone was using my name and social security number to send thousands of dollars to mexico and colombia. >> reporter: it was news to him. >> she says, well, you have an arrest warrant out there. >> reporter: to get rid of the warrant, he followed the woman's instructions, buying $1,400 worth of google play cards at this drugstore and then giving the numbers off the back of the cards to the scammers over the phone. she told him he'd get the money back, but... >> when nobody called me the following day, i knew i was screwed. >> reporter: he's one of many. 76,000 people have complained to the federal trade commission about the scam, which is already outpacing the old i.r.s. call. remember that one? >> according to section 101, there was a miscalculation of your tax filing. >> reporter: the f.t.c. says that scam took in $17 million in its peak year. this social

anna werner looks into the financial and emotional toll in our series "your money, your health." >> this is the ultrasound from when we saw his heartbeat. >> reporter: lauren dill lost her son, simon augustus, last year, four months before his due date. >> my midwife came in, and she said, "you know what we have here is a perfect little baby without a heartbeat." and those words are just etched in my memory. >> reporter: dill had what's called a silent miscarriage, ly caused by a blood clot inhe umbilical cord. nexte hours labor.he >> i knew that once i delivered him, i wouldn't have long before i had to say goodbye. it was hard. >> reporter: not long after, the medical bills started pouring in for ultrasounds, medical tests, and parts of the labor and delivery not covered by her insurer. the couple's total out-of-pocket spending? some $4500, more than the cost of her other son's full-term birth. about nine months later, as we sit here, you are still paying for the pregnancy loss. >> yeah. i am paying for delivery of my baby who had died, and that's hard. >> reporter: it's not uncommon f

anna werner has more in our series, "your money, your health." >> congressman, no one should be rationingulin. no one. >> and they do, every day. >> reporter: drug manufacturers and pharmacy reps were grilled today about the skyrocketing price of insulin, that has led some patients to ration the life-saving drug. >> i've been here for a couple of minutes and, how frustrating it is to be on this side of the dais, and watch every one of you do this. >> reporter: some studies say the under-use of insulin could affect nearly 40 million people with diabetes by 2030. >> nobody cared or nobody understood that without this next vial of insulin, i wouldn't live to see another week. >> reporter: 28-year-old kristen whitney daniels started rationing her insulin after she was kicked off her parents' insurance plan two years ago. >> i can't really explain how isolating and how terrifying it is. >> reporter: she's now a patient at the yale diabetes center, where a recent jama study found one in four patients reported cost-related under-use. >> this is a wake-up call for us as a country. >> reporter: dr

anna werner explains why. >> reporter: environmental consultant wayne defeo has plenty of projects tonk about as he drives to meetings with clients, but these days he's forced to consider something much less pleasant-- his taxes. >> every year is a challenge, but this year it's more of a challenge because of the unknown. you don't know what to do, what to expect. >> reporter: small-business owners like defeo are struggling to understand the changes in 14.6 million individuals are l.l.c.s.ng exts yr, the confusion around the new lah do you think you'll be better later in the year when you actually have to file? >> i don't think i'll be happier, but i hope i'm better. i hope so. i don't know. >> reporter: the new tax law changes make calculating deductions this year more difficult. for example, who may qualify for business tax cuts, and how much they can deduct. that is still open to interpretation. so maybe you get this tax cut, or maybe you don't. >> correct. >> we're telling our clients, you know, to the extent they can, to go on extension. >> reporter: and it's making things difficu

anna werner looks into the financial and emotional toll in our series "your money, your health." >> this is the ultrasound from when we saw his heartbeat. >> reporter: lauren dill lost her son, simon augustus, last year, four months before his due date. >> my mid-wife came in and she said, you know, what we have here is a perfect little baby without a heartbeat. and those words are just etched into my memory. >> reporter: dill had what's called a silent miscarriage, possibly caused by a blood clot in the umbilical cord. she was induced and spent the next nine hours in labor. >> i knew that once i delivered him i wouldn't have long before i had to say good-bye. it was hard. >> reporter: not long after, the medical bills started pouring in. for ultrasounds, medical tests, and parts of the labor and delivery not covered by her insurer. the couple's total out-of-pocket spending? some $4,500. more than the cost of her other son's full-term birth. about nine months later as we sit here you are still paying for the pregnancy loss. >> yeah. i am paying for delivery of my baby who had died. and t

anna werner with why the callers seem so genuine. year. compare that to the similar irs phone scam. that nettet the fraudsters $17 million in its peak year. scammers are using authentic caller i.d. to scam their victims. >> this call is regarding your social security number. we found some fraudulent activities under your name. >> reporter: wayne chertoff got a call from a woman. he picked up because the social security office said they were calling. >> smn used my name and social security number to send thousands of dollars to mexico and colombia and that i had four different bank accounts in texas. i said i've never been to texas in my entire life. and she says, well, you have an arrest warrant out there. >> reporter: to get rid of the warrant he followed her instructions, buying $1,400 worth of google play cards at this drugstore, then giving the numbers off the back of the cards to the scammers over the phone. she told him he'd get the money back. he never did. monica vaca. >> they make you feel like you're in trouble and they can

but as our washington dc correspondent anna werner key reports, the president is threatening to vetot gets to his desk. >>republicans say congress should leave the internet alone. this is michael burgess from texas the internet for decades has thrived because it was not under the heavy hand of government while wall west right now the democrats like pennsylvania congressman mike doyle say consumers in need protection from big internet companies there's nothing to stop an isp. >>from behaving badly. >>that's why doyle introduce the scene the internet act to restore the net neutrality rules the fcc recently repealed. >>make sure internet providers treat all web traffic people and the walking no throttling no pay part is a should the bill would also require the fcc to police potential future broadband abuses, the heavy hand of government regulation always takes us back but georgia republican rob woodall said he thinks congress should delete this bill the wild west innovation. >>a style that has driven the internet and tech companies from day one shouldn't be boxed in by the government, t

able-bodied adults to go to work and get off government aid as our washington dc correspondent anna werner key reports, some democrats say people will go hungry if this rule goes into effect. >>i was a snap beneficiary connecticut democratic congresswoman jahana he says it wasn't long ago that she relied on food stamps to make ends meet i work 2 jobs was grossly underemployed and was a full-time college student, but he says more than 750,000 americans could soon lose these benefits now known as snap. the trump administration has proposed a new rules of this year that would expand work requirements for snap recipients as a simple minded approach to a complicated problem, massachusetts democrat jim mcgovern says the administration should be helping americans by investing in work training or transportation cutting off their benefit. >>because they find themselves in a difficult circumstance. >>the new propose rules say that if you're between the ages of 18 59 in are able to work at least 20 hours a week. you must do so in order to qualify for the snap benefits. >>nobody is denigrating these f

anna werner shows us the fight to curb the cost. i know you've been on the story for months. real issue. >> yeah. we've heard from patients for a long time now. they need insulin to live. now sanofi says it will sell monthly supplies of insulin for a fixed price of $99 for some patients. that moved the latest from a drugmaker to try to cool the intensifying anger over high prescription prices but one diabetic we spoke to said there's so much more that can be done. >> i cannot live without this drug. i cannot live without it. >> reporter: rob howe needs insulin to keep their blood sugar at safe levels. >> if i didn't have insurance it would be close $ $3,000 a month. >> reporter: two years ago he made a career change that would leave him without insurance so stockpiled insulin to protect himself. >> i almost didn't make it. a guardian angel gave me a month's worth of insulin to bridge the gap and saved me when i needed it the most. >> if you think you can, you know, just outtalk us without any transparency, without any accountability, i just want you to know your days are numb

anna werner is here with the controversy. >> good morning. we know the choices are endless.old-colored lips, eyes that pop, softer skin, shinier hair, but it's what's in many of those products that may be less appealing. thousands of chemicals, including lead, phalates and formaldehyde. now legislator tos, consumer advocates, and some companies are trying to change that. >> reporter: here in downtown new york, this looks like a typical cosmetics store. displays of lipsticks in different shades, blush, eye shadows, and creams. what you won't find in the store from a company called beauty counter is potentially dangerous chemicals, says its ceo. >> i think consumers, they want to know what's in their products. they want to know are these ingredients safe for their health. they want complete and utter transparency. that's forcing the entire industry to change. >> reporter: renfrow wants to lead a clean beauty movement by creating traditional products without traditional and often toxic ingredients, starting with a never list. over 1500 chemicals they say they'll never use in th

in 2014 he told cbs's anna werner he signed up for the raid after seeing a message for volunteers. >>s anyone want to sign up for a determination mission and you putture name down. >> yeah. >> why did you do that? >> there were already other people's names there. maybe it was an inspiration. >> reporter: while doolittle's raid was not necessarily a tactical success, it did serve a larger goal. >> the raid on japan did very little in terms of physical damage. it did have an enormous psychological impact on the american people. >> reporter: and for that cole and his comrades were awarded the congressional gold medal in 2014 when just four of them were still alive. but like so many of the generation that achieved victory in world war ii, cole did not want more recognition than any of the others who risked their lives. >> i don't want to take credit for anything but doing my job. >> the memorial service for dick cole will be thursday, april 18th, this thursday, and that's the anniversary of the raid. >> the training took place in columbia, south carolina, and when i lived there, it was th