when he would call a journalist, this busines sharyl: thanks so much. howie: gooto see you. sharyl: as we say goodbye to 2015, it is worth noting that it waste. politicians just seem to give on -- keep on giving. not your money, tax dollars. the national debt is skyrocketing upwards of $18 trillion. as we prepare to root out more stories in 2016, we thought we would say good riddance to fe of our favorite examples. number five, congress questions $1.8 million tax dollars spent on homeland workers on paid administrativeeave. the government accountability office estimates it cost taxpayers $3.1 billion over three years. number four, who could forget the state department making a generous gift of $250,000 tax dollars to pay for 24 pakistani kids to attend space camp in america. number three, a handful of u.s. treated to the gift of life in these luxury villas courtesy of $150 million tax dollars. the inspector general said almost all of that money was wasted. the workers could have livededt a military base or embassy for next to nothing. number two, while u.s. vets suffer long

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for nbls nnls i"nightly busines i'm julia boorstin in los angeles. >>> before we go let's take anotherhis down day on wall street that snapped a three-day win streak and wiped out yesterday's stock market gains. the dow jones industrial average off a big 253 points. it closed at 17,495. nasdaq dropped 68. and the s&p 500 fell 31. stocks pressured by a decline in oil prices. domestic crude settled, sue, below $35 a barrel. >>> well, lower gas prices straight ahead, right? >> lower gas prices straight ahead. and you outed me on not having started my christmas shopping. >> you'd better get out there and start shopping. or the stockings will be empty. that will do it for "nightly business report" for tonight. i'm sue herera. thanks for joining us. >> and i'm tyler mathisen. i'll be shopping soon. have a great evening, everyone. we'll see you here tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ captioning by vitac, underwritten by fireman's fund >>> announcer: the following kqed production was produced in hi-definition. ♪ >> it's all about licking your plate. >> the food is just fabulous. >> i should be a psychoanalys

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was a county health inspector, the county health department is revisiting all rest rabbaurants and busine issued certificates by farook, replacing them with new certificates that no longer bear his name. erica? >> gadi, thank you. >>> turning ining to the attack paris. one month since terrorism darkened the city of lights. kelly kohas the latest, as we learn of more arrests, this time in switzerland. >> good morning. the swiss prosecutor says the two men are from syria. these two new arrests. they're suspected of making and transporting explosives and toxic gas. they were arrested on friday, found with traces of explosives in their car, officials said. this as a massive man hunt continues for at least four other suspects. >> reporter: heavy armed police patrolled geneva, on a heightened state of alert after a tip from the cia that four people with ties to the islamic state may be planning a specific attack. swiss prosecutor said the two syrian men under arrest are not tied to that man hunt. they spoke no french, he said, and had recently arrived in switzerland. a month after the attack on

many suspects don't have jobs because police say they ran their operations like a busin s business. some going on social media bragging about their incidents. >> some textbooks where they're talking about how much money they make burglarizing houses. >> police say gang members would wait outside jewelry stores to identify victims, follow them home and burglarize their home. >>> turns out the hot item for under the christmas tree also a hot item for thieves. this is from atv wholesale outlet in sacramento. those are three thieves getting away with $1,000 in hover boards, each won worth more than 300 bucks. store employees say they thought they might have been getting robbed when the thieves came? >> one goes to the other. hover board there, hover board there. here comes the third one. >> when they first came in, i got scared for a second they had their hands in their pockets, hoods on. at first i thought it was going to be a robbery. >> surveillance cameras caught the two suvs used in the thefts as well as the lookouts. the store owner chased them out to the suvs. the suspects got aw

second busine second, a contested convention with several candidates having a few hundred delegates. third, another contested convention, and this time an all-out brawl, the nominee doesn't clinch a first ballot nomination, the convention goes to a second ballot and maybe more after that. that kind of chaos within the republican party and voters' rebellion against the establishment is at the center of these scenarios and the focus of a new "new york times" magazine piece by robert draper, where he writes, good governance has become not just an oxymoron but a politically poisonous phrase from a dead language. to utter it is to mark your political extinction, or so the thinking goes in the winning camps these days. joining me now, robert draper of "the new york times." the brokered, contested, deadlocked, whatever term, convention scenario. i guess i'm a little cynical about it, it seems like every four years, we reach a point where somebody can say, this is how it happens, this is going to be the year, and everyone in the media would love to cover one of these things. so the argument

delgado, this has an impact on american busine business. some of the most technologically advanced businesses are located in the united states. can you comment on any american business for a perception in other countries that privacy is not secure in you use an american product. >> yes, i can easily burn up the rest of your time with an answer to that question. it is a significant impact on american industry that there's a perception outside of the united states, europe it's no secret, certainly holds its perception. the data held by a u.s. company is somehow for the taking from u.s. government. this bill, the e-mail privacy act, is getting rid of that perception to make sure our statues protect what the fourth amendment offers. >> if i can, you may not have the answer to this, but certainly this is not just an issue for google but for facebook and twitter, all the isps. >> i need to get back to you on that. it's not on the tip of my tongue to be able to answer that. >> that's fair enough. i would like to just mention that the chief justice

want to be out of business and you don't hear many people say that, but i would love to be out of busine business. >> reporter: that's not like to happen any time soon. martin tells me on the coldest nights last winter they were sheltering more than 50 men and women at a time. based on what she has seen in lower bucks this summer, including an up tick in the number of pregnant young women out on the streets she expects an even busier winter this time around. lucy? >> that is a sad thing. all right, bruce gordon thank you very much. popular apple gadget helping bridge the gap between local breast cancer patients and care providers. folks at polaris hell directions in delaware county testing new app using an apple watch. 30 breast cancer patients receiving treatment at m.d. anderson cancer send at cooper hospital will use the devices over the next nine months. now each day the app will automatically collect data on things like heart rate and exercise. it will also ask patients questions about sleep quality, pain, stress and depression levels. that information goes directly to their doctor

she may have her personal busine . >> manning says that he's never taken any of these substances. he was treated at the guyer institute. he had a lot of surgery and recovery time so hebetays the interesting though that the interview with carson this morning, the al jazeera reporter now says the documentary is never really pointing the finger at peyton, instead saying specifically the only person named was ashley manning, though the whole report is really about athletes using performance enhancing drugs. so i think it can be inferred by that reporting that that's what people are going to make the connection. >> but if you listen to the interview, it sounds like she's walking it back. >> backtracking a little bit. >> take a listen. >> two quick tnsngs. let's assume that it was sent to mrs. manning. aside from the recanted statement of charlie do you have specific evidence that peyton manning himself has ever taken hgh? >> we've not said that in the program. >> you're not even alleging peyton manning took the substances? >> the only allegation in the program from charlie lie is that

pentagon confirmed that defense secretary ash carter used a personal e-mail account for government busineness. "the new york times" reports that carter continued to do so after the flap of hillary clinton's e-mails began. the defense department says carter now believes it was a mistake. >> i like the phrase "the flap." raising interest rates for the first t time in arly a decade. the quarter-point increase shows the fed's confidence in the u.s. economy. the announcement sent stocks higher. the rates for consumer loans, suchs mortgages and credit cards are likely to rise. but not by much. >>> a snowstorm that dumped more than 30 inches of snow in the higher elevations of the rockies has now moved on to the upper midwest. snowplows were out in full force. you see there in minnesota. the snow slickened roads, making for some slow going. look for more snow today in the upper midwest, as another storm comein from the pacific. and here's our guide, justin povick, at accuweather. hey. good morning, justin. >> reena, richard, thanks. good mning to you, as well. we're not wasting any time. here comes

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