brill. welcome, mr. ckerry. >> thank you, chairman rockefeller, senator thune, members of the committee. i bought them the opportunity to be here today and discuss with the -- i welcome the opportunity to be here today and discuss with you how we can best protect data privacy and the digital age. this is an issue that affects everyone. at this committee's hearing on march 16, the obama administration urged legislation to establish basic commercial data privacy protection for all u.s. consumers. what we recommended an had three elements. the first is baseline privacy protection in the form of a consumer privacy bill of rights, adapted from widely accepted fair information practices principles. the second is for government to convene a multi-stickle the processes to encourage the private sector -- will be- stakeholder processes to encourage the private sector to develop context-specific code of conduct that apple and the bill of rights -- implement a bill of rights. the third is to grant explicit authority

alex brill worked for the republican staff of the tax- writing ways and means committee. he says republicans fear democrats are demanding a tax increase so they can use it against republicans in next year's elections. >> there is no need, from a budgetary perspective, to bring that onto the table in order to get a deal. that's a political issue. >> reporter: brill expects a short-term debt limit extension will be needed before a final agreement is reached. but political economist tom gallagher says investors are expecting the final product will contain a big fudge factor. >> my guess is that the outcome of this process will be they won't solve the deficit problem, but they will manage it. it will be a step in the right direction. markets aren't showing much concern in the current level of deficits, so i think it will be fine. my guess is it will be a package that the budget policy experts-- you know, the policy wonks-- won't like, but the market will be fine with. >> reporter: inside the beltway, the break-up of the talks is seen as a sign the parties are now getting to t

commissioner brill. as you know, senator pry major and i have addressed -- what are your thoughts on this bill quickly? >> strong federal -- the commission supports strong, federal legislation dealing with data security and breach notification just like this bill and this bill does satisfy the requirements of such a strong, protective bill. >> thank you. our bill gives the federal trade commission rule-making authority for companys with large databases to protect consumer data. do you think companies are doing enough to maximize protection of their databases? >> companies can do more. we have brought many cases. we have investigated many more. we are not seeing case s that areclose calls. these are -- that are close calls. they are sometimes not even following their own security procedures. so yes, companies can definitely do more in the area of data security. >> thank you. taking enforcement action against companies like twitter for not adequately securing consumer information. can you talk about your e

ivan julie brill, commissioner of the federal trade commission. i appreciate the opportunity to present the commission's testimony. vast amounts of personal information about consumers are collected and used by many different types of businesses. employe years, retailers, advertisers, data brokers, lenders, insurance companies, and many more. imagine the cash strapped mother working as a substitute teacher and waiting for a permanent opening. she and her husband have mounting bills. to tide them over between paychecks she gets paid a loan. she then goes to the drug store and buys diapers and children's tylenol with her loyalty card. soon after in the mail she gets coupons for diapers and children's motrin. she receives an offer to refinance a mortgage on terms that seem too good to be true. in the evening the mom goes on line to spend time on a social network sight. while on-line she notices she is receiving ads for toys and children's cough medicine as well as more loan offers. could the drugstore and social networking site have sold information

i am julie brill a commissioner of his federal trade commission. appreciate the opportunity present the commission's testimony today. vast amount of personal permission about consumers are collected and used by many different types of businesses are going players, retailers, advertisers, data brokers, lenders, insurance companies and many more. imagine a cash-strapped mother working as a substitute teacher and waiting for a permanent opening. she and her husband have mounting bills so to tide them over between paychecks she gets a payday loan. she then goes to the drugstore and buys diapers and children's tylenol with her loyalty card. soon after in the mail, she gets coupons for diapers and children's and she receives an offer to refinance her mortgage on terms that seemed too good to be true. in the evening the mom goes on line to spend time on a social network site. while on line she notices she is receiving ads for toys and children's cough medicines as well as more loan offers. could the drugstore and social networking sites have loaned inform

what's your arabian sea pakistan pakistan about which is that so that industry has this strongest brill's. strategy which consists of let's you know pakistan eventually in sri lanka. but this is interesting it's great spectrum dublin and spent a girl but it's different it's got back the chinese joe it's already been going around rome. yes. there so we're considering the fact that maybe seven real general in the pentagon and it's you said that they're strangelove ideas paper we'll leave it there thanks very much indeed for your time pepe escobar asia times correspondent joining us live on his webcam from thailand thank you thank you. well we're staying in thailand now because the case of a russian man the u.s. accuses of being an international arms dealer will be heard in a huge new york court on thursday well victor boots been awaiting trial since his arrest over three years ago in thailand as artie's more important are reports his detention raises many questions over the legality of the case. he is the russian citizen america fought relentlessly to adopt victor boot was secretly and swif

alex brill studies the impact of tax policy in the u.s. economy. he was formerly the chief economist to the house ways and means economy and in congress and at the cea. mr. brill worked on a variety of policy issues, including international tax policies, including international tax policy and u.s. trade policy. he graduated with a bvpt .a. in economics and received a masters for boston university. we're grateful you're here. >> my wife is a massachusetts native. so i'm glad to be here. >> the national ceo of manufacturers. the largest manufacturing trade association in the united states representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector. he became the national association directors in january of 2011. he's a lidding advocate nearly 12 million americans employed directly in manufacturing, educating the public and policymakers on issues that affect this critical sector of the u.s. economy. he previously served as chief of staff to a congressman a governor and allen. mr. timmons graduated from the ohio state university. welcome, mr.

brill. mr. timmins. >> thank you, chairman casey and members of the committee. i appreciate having a chance to speak to you today about manufacturing in the united states because i truly believe in the power of manufacturing, not just for families, but for our country as well. back in the 1930s, my grandfather left the firemen stood in in line for six months at a local manufacturer, waiting for a job at that facility because he knew then what so many manufacturing know today, the manufacturing job paves the way to the middle class and did so for my family at that time. today i'm president of the national association of manufacturers and as you mentioned, are the largest manufacturing could association and the country may represent 12,000 members of all sizes and where the voice of 12 million americans who work in manufacturing. i think it is safe to say we're all frustrated with the pace of the economic recovery. in fact a recent "washington post" poll found that the majority of americans actually think the recovery has yet to begin. manufacturing can lead to re

. >> well, um, ian brill low who is the author who has lived in mexico for the last ten years has gone inside the drug insurgency in mexico and has interviewed everybody involved from the gang leaders to the police, and he tells the inside story of what is happening in mexico, the extraordinary upheaval in their society, um, and because he tells it from all angles you come to understand who is responsible for it. it's not just the gangs, the government bears responsibility as well, and it has a huge effect on the united states because drugs, obviously, from mexico are all over the united states. >> "american crisis." >> bill fowler is a distinguished professor of history, and we were talking a few years ago, and he said he wanted to write a book about the famous speech george washington gave to his troops in 183 -- 1783 right after the war had supposedly ended. but the war hadn't ended, and i said to bill i thought he ought to write a larger story about that. we think that the war ended in 1781 when cornwallis surrendered to washington at yorktown. in fact, it didn't end for two more y

san luis obispo county lichbility that's why it completely blocked highway 1 between carmel and camp brill 0. 5 million dollars was used to remove the rock and dirt and flying in equipment by helicopters. businesses are of course thrilled the road is finally reopening. >> short time ago decision in san francisco on who controls the gay pride flag that flies at castro and market street. flag owned by the merchant association and tonight city officials ruled that the association has the right to decide when to fly the flag at half staff. merchant pay 5000 dollars a year in insurance for the flag. resident requested the flag fly at half staff when elizabeth taylor died. association denied their request t.community activist say it isn't fair that one merchant group controls the iconic flag. >> state senate says starting friday it will meet through the weaned to hammer out a compromise on the budget. deadline is next wednesday. main sticking point of course taxes. pvl annette reports on the latest plan to bridge the political divide. >> we are 5 days away from the budget deadline. >>reporter: t

my book opens with this 21-year-old -- he's almost like a movie star from the 1950s with the brill cream0th he was thrown into a paddy wagon. but he stuffed a second cell phone into his pocket with. 40 people crammed into this paddy wagon he calls his mother a prominent dissident and they chase down this paddy wagon. she swerves the car, blocks it from going in, and then they storm the back and they let all these people out. he says to me, i said, so are you muslim? he says, well, you know, i'm perhaps not as devout as people say i should be. i identify myself with a muslim. and then he walked arm in arm off with a girl to the rehearsal of one of his four rock bands. so these young people, they're saying they're muslim but it is a different kind of islam than is often portrayed in the media here. >> there is also still so much fear in the united states and growing fear in a lot of parts of the united states about islam. >> yes. >> and it's odd because it is happening at this time when that question of, well, why isn't there a reformation in the islamic world? we're seeing some of that as

brill made about productivity very substantial productivity gains. the question i have is how much when you consider both of those and consider the productivity gains the one-tenth of jobs in manufacturing contributing one-tenth come only one-tenth of the jobs what has happened with regard to the wages, and it seems that even though we've had a pretty substantial to and productivity i wonder how much workers benefit from that, what can you tell us if anything about the wage growth in 2009 to 11? >> senator, i can't speak to that specific. i can tell you, however, that there is some restriction in this area including staff of the bureau labor statistics. the productivity growth in the manufacturing sector has outpaced the wage growth in that sector. that's true and fairly something legitimately something of this may be concerned with. it is not clear with the expectation for the trend would be. economists are certainly familiar and comfortable with the fact that productivity growth and wage growth doesn't necessarily move hand-in-hand certainly not in

taryn weren't brill is here with more on the big switch.ed the my plate and it's been in the works for two years. the new circular model aims to show that healthy eating doesn't have to be complicated. can you teal me what this is? >> the food pyramid. >> the food pyramid. >> the food pyramid. >> at willard elementary school in ridgewood, new jersey, almost every kid knows the old standard food pyramid. >> it says the categories of different foods. >> grains, vegetables. >> fruit, milk. >> and meat and beans. >> reporter: but do they understand what its colors and shapes mean? how do you know how much to put on your plate? >> really i don't know. >> reporter: this version of the more classic food pyramid was the latest in a long list of national nutritional propaganda. >> the government has been playing a role in what americans eat ever since there was a government. >> reporter: in the 1930s the emphasis was on eating enough calories to battle malnutrition. these days it's aimed at the exact opposite. >> we wanted to end this country's epid

into smaller particles and sinks to the bottom and course fees get into the sea grass brett -- snr brill problem for the seahorses and other creatures who live down there. we are currently looking as john mentioned that around pelican was a rare success story under the endangered species act where to come back from just really a few hundred to tens of thousands individuals in the last 20 years, a real happy story. but the spill has really put the recovery in jeopardy and now we are looking and talking to a variety of scientists about whether it will be necessary to put the brown pelican back on the endangered species list through this. we filed an endangered species listing petition to get the atlantic lieu fin tuna added to the endangered list and we have some. the blue fin tuna is a very highly prized fish that is becoming rarer and rarer. it is one of the fish that has high-end sushi restaurants. you see it a very expensive piece of sushi that is over 10 or $15, there is a good chance it is blue fin tuna. earlier this year a blue fin tuna upwards of 1000 pounds was auctioned off in to

. >> the only other pet that i was present for the brill buurial w that my grandmother had, similar circumstances, but that was given to us by the vet. no other family pet that i can recall being present for the burial or if i was i was too young to remember. >> and how was that pet given to you? from your grandmother's. >> it was also in a black plastic like garbage bag. it was taped, i believe it was more of a clear tape, and it was very cold. she was kind of on ice until we picked her up. >> who was in charge of burying your family pets? >> typically would have been any parents. >> i have no funch questirther >> cross-examination? >> none. >> may the witness be excused? thank you, sir. you may be excused. >> you may. >> we are still waiting to see if the defense is going to call any additional witnesses. until they say that they have concluded or wrapped up, there is still the possibility or potential that they will call additional folks to the stand. clearly holly the question we've been asking from day one is whether or not casey anthony would take the stand, whether or not that'ses a good i

brill made about productivity, pretty substantial productivity gains, the question i have is how muchn you consider both of those, when you consider the productivity gains with that one-tenth of jobs manufacturing contributing one-tenth of the jobs, what has happened with regard to wages? it seems that even though we've had pretty substantial up tick in productivity, i wonder how much workers benefitted from that. what can you tell us, if anything, about the way it -- >> senator, i can't speak to that specifically. what i can tell you, however, there is some research in this area, including some work by staff at the bureau of labor statistics that productivity growth in the manufacturing sector out paced wage growth in that sector. that's true, legitimately something to be concerned with. it is unclear what the explanation for that trend would be. congress is certainly familiar and comfortable with the fact that productivity growth and wage growth don't necessarily move hand in hand, certainly not in the short run. however, in the long run there should be a strong correlation between

taryn winter brill has more. >> if your family vacation includes visiting some historic destinations. coltrane's music it would be a fantastic thing. >> and just like the coltrane home, most of the sites don't get a lot of visitors. however this year, the national trust created a brand new category putting the entire city of charleston, south carolina, on lock status because tourism has actually been on the rise. a new cruise ship terminal could threaten the city's historic waterfront, the irony that tourism could hurt a city. interesting. >> thanks. >>> to learn more about the list of endangered places logon to earlyshow.cbsnews.com. >>> 100 years ago today four companies merged to become ibm. the high-tech giant is celebrating its birthday working to compete with the new kids on the block. michelle miller has this report. >> reporter: it's a logo known the world over, three simple letter that spell a quantum change in information. ibm launched the computer age, landed a man on the moon and developed the world's first super computer. "wired" magazine's john abell says it's a company