car washers, cabdrivers in la and new york. hese are people who don't work in any concentrated location. how do you reach them? >> there are other groups. i should correct you on one thing. you can still organize a mine or a factory. we also do domestic workers. >> home care is huge and growing. >> we go at it very labor intensive. go and talk to them and find out their needs. bring them together and start to develop issues to work together. it is very labor intensive. we have been successful at it. 27,000 taxicab drivers in new york city. domestic workers from los angeles to michigan to ohio. car wash workers in new york and the west coast. we are organizing. >> you are seeing other signs of people getting interested. you are seeing fast food workers that are fed up with minimum wage and the bad treatment they get starting to come together and demand better wages. walmart workers, thousands across the country coming together to try and change the walmart model, which quite frankly drives the low-wage model in the country. >> a

cheryl: talk about getting lucky in las vegas a cabdriver discovered a brown paper bags loaded with $300,000old his card company about the money and they found a poker player who abandoned the cash. the driver was named can be of the year, and it remains to be seen, the lucky poker player will reward the caddy for his honesty? >> he should. that poker player was in colorado gambling. with 2013 a good year or bad year for americans it turned out most people think it was no better than last year. the associated press poll 14,000 people, 46% of americans saying this was the same as last year. and 20% of americans reported they were worse off last year, and 40% of people under the age of 30 calling 2013 a better year than 2012. we hope 2014 is better for everyone. cheryl: looks like to good has taken a page from jeff besos's book. nobody would blame you if you thought you spotted a prototype for one of amazon's drone delivery services and that is what you are looking at on your television screen accept this unmanned aerial vehicle at another mission to spread holiday cheer. this was the missile

. >>> the las vegas cabdriver who returned a huge wad of cash left behind by a passenger received a big reward for his honesty. he turned in $300,000 that was left in the backseat of the yellow checkered cab he was driving. money believed to be winnings from a local poker player. today the unidentified gambler gave him a cut, $10,000 as a reward. he says he is a devout catholic and plans to donate some of the money to his church. >>> even more starbucks customers are perking up and paying it forward this holiday season. since christmas eve workers at this starbucks have counted more than 1,000 customers who have paid for the people behind them in line. the generousity continues across the country like in nevada where 70 customers have done the same thing getting their caffeine while spreading a little holiday cheer. >> we will keep the good stuff going. some 49er players suited up and showed off their big appetites. their coaches and their families huddled over a whole lot of meat at the house of prime rib for the lineman dinner. he has been hosting this event for decades decades and wants to give much needed recognition t

. >>> the las vegas cabdriver who returned a huge wad of cash left behind by a passenger received a big reward for his honesty. he turned in $300,000 that was left in the backseat of the yellow checkered cab he was driving. money believed to be winnings from a local poker player. today the unidentified gambler gave him a cut, $10,000 as a reward. he says he is a devout catholic and plans to donate some of the money to his church. >>> even more starbucks customers are perking up and paying it forward this holiday season. since christmas eve workers at this starbucks have counted more than 1,000 customers who have paid for the people behind them in line. the generousity continues across the country like in nevada where 70 customers have done the same thing getting their caffeine while spreading a little holiday cheer. >> we will keep the good stuff going. some 49er players suited up and showed off their big appetites. their coaches and their families huddled over a whole lot of meat at the house of prime rib for the lineman dinner. he has been hosting this event for decades decades and wants to give much needed recognition t

. >>> the las vegas cabdriver who returned a huge wad of cash left behind by a passenger received a big reward for his honesty. he turned in $300,000 that was left in the backseat of the yellow checkered cab he was driving. money believed to be winnings e unidentified gambleryer. gave him a cut, $10,000 as a reward. he says he is a devout catholic and plans to donate some of the money to his church. >>> even morecustomers are perks customers are perking up and fos paying it forward this holiday season. since christmas eve workers at this starbucks have counted more than 1,000 customers who have paid for the people behind them in line. the generousity continues across the country like in nevada where 70 customers have done the same thing getting their caffeine while spreading a little holiday cheer. >> we will keep the good stuff going. some 49er players suited up suip and showed off their big appetites. their coaches and their families huddled over a whole lot of meat at the house of prime rib for the lineman dinner. he has been hosting this event for decades decades and wants to give much needed recognition to the o-line.

. >> a las vegas cabdriver selflessly returned $300,000 that was found in his cab.ntained in a bag of cash and it justry confirms sort of the power of, you know, human decency and compassion, and the fact he's been rewarded with an outpouring of support not just by his company but by americans, you know, all across the country has been a wonderful thing. and reconfirmation during this holiday season of the spirit of america. >> definitely did the right thing. i wonder what i would have done in that situation. >> i wish i had something quite as meaningful. i learned i think this week how little there is to learn. this is a week in which almost no news happened, a week off from the daily churn. you realize how much you miss the daily churn opening up an empty newspaper and empty twitter feed. >> you mastered the churn. >> can i say we learn the same lesson trying to come up with 30 game show questions in the slowest news week of the year. always something. someone's always going to eat reindeer and tweet about it. we've got that. thanks to our guests today. msnbc's cr

. >>> a las vegas cabdriver returning a huge amount of cash left behind bay customer has received a reward. the man turn in0,000 that was left in the back seat of his cab, money believed to be from a local gambler. he received $10,000 for a reward. he is a devout catholic and plans to donate some of the money to his church. >>> some players suited up and showed off their big appetites last night. the entire niners offensive line, their coaches and families, huddled over a whole lot of meat at the house of prime rib for their annual linemen dinner. the event has been hosted for decades, as they said, to give some much-needed recognition to the o.-line. >> the face is changed but you have the same characters. always the same, great camaraderie. you saw earlier how nice they are to each other. and this is in kind of a private atmosphere. >> that's personally delivered the biggest hunk of his tender roast beef to rookie tackle carter. word on the street is he did eat most of it. straight out of the flinstones as someone said this morning. up next, you pay your credit card bill on tame, but is that really enoug

. >> a las vegas cabdriver who returned a huge wad of cash left behind by a passenger has received a reward for his honesty. he turned in00,000 that was left in the back seat of his cab, money believed to be winnings from a local poker player. yesterday the unidentified gambler gave him a cut. 10,000 bucks as a reward. he said he's a devout catholic and plans to donate some of the money to his church. >> the niners offensive line met at the restaurant for an offensive line dinner. the owner said he wants to give recognition to the you saw earlier how nice they are to each other. and this is in kind of a private atmosphere. >> he personally delivered the biggest hunk of his tender roast beef to rookie tackle carter. word on the street is he did eat most of it. >> up next, you pay your credit card bill on line but is that really enough? 7 on your side's michael finney helps a woman who wassen to the collec hose who've been denied ewelcome to covered california. now, you can no longer be denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. enroll today at coveredca.com. >> welcome back. we are starting this half-hour with