with chris buck and we appreciate his work in that regard. our briefing was the best we could do and i think i hope you had a chance to look at it beyond what chris buck laid out -- there were other issues that kind of indicated to us that the for example the 2 street trees that are we plant in the 20012 strawberries, are severely impacted by the current way that the stone pine has grown. we think those 2 trees and -- we did a planting all along sergeant in 2001 part of friends of the urban forest. all the other trees are in much more robust shape than our 2 strawberries which have been growing at the same time the stone pine was employees even though -- pruning was done they both impacted each other in the stone pine won most of the efforts we think that the strawberry tries will be better off with this tree gone. not clear to us how much weight is put on this. i there is a serious problem of the stone pine growing up against our houses. it is not clear designation who does what and the sierra it is 10 feet back. we have not pursued that par

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folks a flight to fantasy but a visitor who is out a couple hundred bucks said they need a dose of reality. i'm consumer investigator chris. nbc bay area responds next. >>> i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri and on this friday night the cold temperature settles in. another freeze warning over the north bay. temperatures in the 20s and 30s. i'll take a closer look at tomorrow morning and your entire weekend forecast plus if entire weekend forecast plus if you're doing - [narrator] stimulant use disorder is a disease, not a choice, but getting help and finding treatment for your meth or cocaine addiction is up to you. treatment for stimulant use disorder is often covered through medi-cal, medicare, and many private insurance plans. choose change california. find proven treatment options like contingency management that are right for you at choosechangeca.org. (gentle music) >>> tonight we respond to in a space family hughes amusement park pass was not amusing. >> they call their consumer investigator. >> happy friday. kimberly and sandy paid monthly for an annual theme park pass and even paid dues during peak covid-19 whe

folks a flight to fantasy, but a visitor who is owed a couple hundred bucks may need a dose of reality. i'm consumer investigator chrisa responds next. >>> then at 6:00, caught in the act. how police stopped these robbery suspects before they ever made it out the door. ke it here. ke it here. epyo look mom, i found one. oh, yeah, you did. but we need an atm from our bank unless you want to spend a small fortune in fees. uh, no, thank you. banking with us means more fee-free atms than the two largest us banks combined. well, that would be convenient but there is no b-m-o here. ah, you can just call us bee-mo, and there is now. you know what else is convenient? mobile banking that makes it easy to track your goals and manage your money get out of town. but we... just got here. when a bank helps you get and stay ahead. that's the bmo effect. ♪ bmo ♪ >>> welcome back. nbc bay area responds to an east bay family whose amusement park pass was not amusing. >> and the call to consumer investigator chris chmura's team has the ticket they were looking for. here is the case, plus the invitation for you. >> happy friday. kimberly

chris chmura. >> yes, michael in san jose said, i do to the dating site eharmony. for 40 bucks a month.got an annulment of sorts and took this screenshot here that says he could break up with eharmony without any penalties as long as he did it within the third business day, following the date of his agreement. done. right? wrong. a few days later, eharmony charged michael $42.16. twice, he says, he asked representatives to reverse the charge and they denied him. michael called us for help.we asked eharmony what happened. they thank us for bringing this to our -- to their attention, rather, then said, upon further review of michael's initial request, we reached out to michael directly to issue a refund of $42.16. they went on to say, they also confirmed that all future charges have already been waived a few years ago, eharmony paid more than $1 billion to settle an auto renewal case with the coalition of 5 california city and district attorneys. state law is clear here. companies must make canceling a subscription just as easy as signing up. if canceling is more cumbersome, you can conta

chris chmura's team to make advances with his case. michael in san jose said "i do" to the dating site eharmony, for about 40 bucks per month.he changed his mind and sent an email to get an annulment. he took this screenshot that said he could break up without any penalty or obligation within the third business day of subscribing. done, right? wrong. a few days later, eharmony charged michael $42.16. twice he says he asked reps to reverse the charge. they denied him. michael called us for help. we asked eharmony what happened. they thanked us for bringing this to their attention and said upon further review of michael's initial request, we have reached out directly to issue a refund of $42.16. and to confirm that all future charges have already been waived. a few years ago eharmony paid more than a million dollars to settle an auto renewal case that a coalition of five california city and district attorneys filed. state law is clear here, companies must make canceling a subscription just as easy as signing up. if canceling is cumbersome, you can contact your local d.a. to investigate. or you can contact us. scan this qr code

chris, i promised there would be no math. i'll just give you math, if something costs 100 bucks and it goes up by 10%, it's 110.flation rate goes down from 10% to 2%, the next month it's 112. you don't go back to that 100. you never really go back to that 100 because then you have a deflation problem. it's absolutely right that people have to get used to these higher levels. wages have gone up commensurate with that, but people still look at those lousy grocery numbers and say you know what, things are tough out there. >> which brings us, elise, to 2024, we know one of the huge problems for joe biden is the economy, so even though we see all these signs the economy is doing better, even consumer sentiment is better, it is not reflected in the numbers of how he's handling the economy, which is very frustrating. do you think that the political mood will catch up with the economic numbers, elise? >> well, first of all, bidenomics was just so tone deaf and to tell people they aren't experiencing the reality that they're experiencing is nevada a good political strategy, and so they have kind of tried to move beyond

bucks. and shipping is always free. go to dealdash.com right now and see how much you can save. >>> when i first sat down with new hampshire governor chrisu back in may, i asked him about the republican front runner, and his reprehensible rhetoric. this is what he told me at the time. >> he's going to be the nominee. i just say that's a hypothetical, but i think everyone is reassessing, even some of his reporters are saying, okay, this can be the message. >> okay, but we are seven months later, donald trump is now extending few 69% in the fox news poll, leading in iowa, leading new hampshire, and that two candidates with the best chance to stop him are still behind him by double digits, and have taken a while to forcefully criticize him. it's difficult to see how the governor's prediction will be right, but if it is, and he knows better than anyone it's going to take a surprising outcome in his home state next month. he's betting nikki haley will be the one to do it. new hampshire governor chris sununu joins me right now. governor, there is a tape for everything. before we get into the new hampshire race, and of course, that cbs poll, wh

buck. talent not at all... culkin’s incredible performance impressed hughes so much that, having written the script for the comedy at home alone, he advised chrisy in the role of kevin mcallister. mcculley, who had previously crawled under movie theater seats in search of randomly dropped coins, received his first big fee - $100,000. his father, having found a gold mine, decided to turn his son into a money-making machine. for sikovil alone at home, he was already paid 4.5 million. 2 years later, the fees doubled, but all the films with culkin, those released that year, including the rich ricci, flopped. the studios no longer wanted to deal with the exorbitant appetites of culkin sr. and generally stopped inviting his son. so at the age of 14, macaulay, by his own admission, retired. his parents separated and tried to divide the millions their son earned in court. as a result, macaulay removed both names from the management of his trust fund. and handed it over to a professional financier. after that, the father decided to sever all ties with the family and did not appear again. makaley for a long time i sank into depression for years. he was n

where does the buck stop i >> -- >> well, i agree with what chris hobbs just said in respect of this,piece in times comes >> that piece in the times comes from home office, from leaks from the home office, and i can only assume home office officials. now, i, together my friend lee together with my friend lee anderson, of anderson, have the pleasure of being select being on the home affairs select committee been committee and if anybody's been watching the last watching that over the last couple of weeks, you'll know how the office officials the home office officials can't get right on the record, get facts right on the record, let the record. so let alone off the record. so there is no , as far as i can there is no, as far as i can see, credence to this whatsoever. um, and so there's not really very much to say except to say when a policy is announced the government, um, announced by the government, um, it will very robust, as it will be very robust, as i think said at the of think you said at the start of this, the government have said we place we have a robust policy in place to pla

bucks. i'm consumer investigator >>> and nbc bay area responds to a north bay man who needed help getting a company to fulfill a promise. >> a $750 promise. he asked consumer investigator chriso step in. >>> marcus in lake county said his verizon phone stopped working, so he filed a phone insurance claim. verizon sent him a replacement, plus a box to return the old one. he says he did, and this tracking email right here, that says proof of delivery, shows us verizon got it. but then marcus says verizon sent an alert stating it was charging him more than $700 for failing to return the phone. he called verizon and said a rep confirmed his old phone was delivered. the rep then sent him this email guaranteeing that that charge would not be on his bill. guess what? the charge still appeared. he protested, then said verizon said he sent in the wrong phone. marcus saw our report on a similar case, so he asked for our help. we contacted verizon. within two days it credited $751.76 to marcus' account. here is what verizon told us. we apologize for any inconvenience we may have caused and we hope to have the opportunity to continue earning marcus' loyalty. if you feel a company is put

bucking the trend. it is a reminder the market's intuition above our own is what matters. >> chris, thank you. >> we wantle o of .350 or less. how many times did babe ruth strikeout? >> i don't know. >> a lot. a lot. >>> coming up, the final trading day before christmas. up next, the check-in with norad. the command center that monitors north american air space and santa. consider what goes into this. weather and protected air space that you don't want santa flying over. they track him with rudolph's nose to track him with the satellites. we will talk about all that when "squawk box" comes right back. knock, knock. number one broker here for the number one hit maker. -thanks for swinging by, carl. -no problem. so what are all those for? uh, this lets me adjust the base, add more guitar, maybe some drums. -wow. so many choices. -yeah. like schwab. i can get full service wealth management, advice, invest on my own, and trade on thinkorswim. you know carl is the only front man you need. (phone rings) oh, i gotta take this, carl. it's schwab. schwab. (feedback rings) have a choice in how you invest with schw