in san francisco we cross to robert rosenthal he is the executive director of the center for investigative reporting all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want robert if i can go to you first in san francisco what is the state of investigative journalism in light of all of these affairs with whistleblowers and i don't have to name names because we all know they are. i think actually investigative reporter reporting in the united states is relatively healthy believe it or not even with the decline in the structure really of the business model and what's happened in this country is a lot of independent investigative reporting organizations have started up the center for investigative reporting as is the oldest actually and right now the largest. but there's a lot of interest in how do you sustain this kind of information information and investigative reporting the threats from the government which are real from the federal government have put a chill on not only the journalists but more importantly the whistleblowers but at the same time there are many many w

in san francisco we cross to robert rosenthal he is the executive director of the center for investigative reporting all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want robert if i can go to you first in san francisco what is the stay.

center for investigative reporting and the tampa bay times we now know of nearly six thousand charities that hire corporations to get donations for profit corporations how defeats the purpose of a charity doesn't it and all of those six thousand charities fifty of them raked in almost a billion dollars to pay off their corporate solicitors instead of the hands where it was promised. let's start with the shady project here for an operation that's raised over sixty five million dollars over the last few decades not a single penny of which has gone to funding any sort of care for anything in fact according to iris records after paying off solicitors project cure is actually three million dollars in debt and like many of these so-called charities project here is nothing more than a money making scheme with a name that sounds totally legit which brings me to the committee for missing children charity that took in almost twenty seven million dollars over the last ten years yet somehow less than one percent of that money was used to find kids so what the hell did the money go well it's called the magic formula for charity money making what these people do is hire a nice firm to do their telemarketing p.r. and t

for all of this, as this shutdown showdown continues. reporting live on capitol hill brianne carter, abc7 news. >> thank you brianne. the centers for disease control recalled workers to investigate the recent salmonella out break connected to chicken. more than 200 people got sick in the last six months from chicken packaged by foster farms. they're taking additional steps to control salmonella in their chicken. >> now u.s. aid to egypt. the banked a money could slash millions to that country. the ousting of the president there prompted a shift. the president says they would not pull the aid in the interest of national security this move could have profound effect on u.s. egyptian relations. >> new this morning, a building in northwest d.c. appears to be fine after a car slammed into it. the car hit that building around 12:30 this morning. it is located in the 2000 block of 11th street. no reports of any injuries or major structural damage. >> 6:05 in d.c., police say they are investigating an early morning armed robbery. it happened shortly before 1:30. police say the suspect is wearing a black hoodie and black pants. >> 6:05 now. 55 degrees. amanda is back. in just a bit she h

center of this ongoing criminal investigation. gretchen? >> all right. thanks so much for that clarification. thanks much, jonathan. >>> this next story raising serious questions about government overreach. a conservative reportere fed is in a predawn raid took her files while searching her home for guns. including a toy potato gun. she thinks the government may have an ulterior motive for conducting the search. joining us now in her first tv interview, audrey hudson, washington correspondent for "the colorado observer." great to see you, audrey. >> thanks for having me, gretchen. >> let's go back to 1986. i know your husband had some sort of a gun charge back then. is that what this all stems from? >> no. that has nothing to do with this. my husband was a federally licensed firearm dealer. however, what this has to do with is he purchased a potato launcher. it looks exactly like this. it's a novelty item. >> right. >> he purchased it online five years ago. the search warrant they presented at our house at 4:30 in the morning said that they came to recover this potato launcher. however, once they were in the house, the first thing that the homeland security officer asks me was, are you the same audrey hudson wh