so the feds slapped a 187% tariff on the imported hangers, more than doubling the cost to dry cleaners. >> that certainly did drive the price of hangers up. we were paying probably 4-5 cents a hanger. now it's anywhere from 8-10 cents a hanger. >> reporter: customers noticed. >> they never like it, but it's the cost of supplies. you have to do it. >> reporter: hangers are hardly worth harping about. the real cost increases are from utilities, chemical, and wages. >> reporter: when you run through nearly 10,000 hangers a month, every cent counts. and recycling is highly encouraged. if you have hangers hanging around the house, hand them back in! that's fewer foreign hangers that have to be purchased. >>> welcome to the wettest month of 2012! it was march until yesterday. now we've seen half a foot of rainfall in san francisco. we're dry tonight. how long is that going to stick around? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, the storm system spawned tornadoes in some states and out blizzard condit >>> a powerful winter storm that hit much of the midwest shows no signs of backing down. it spawned whiteout blizzar

cbs 5 reporter don tells us a fight over wire hangers has come to your neighborhood dry cleaners, andou could end up paying for it. >> reporter: who would have thought the simple act of dropping off your dry-cleaning would involve international politics. >> most all the hangers are made in vietnam or china. >> reporter: the u.s. commerce department says vietnam and china have flooded the market, forcing nearly all u.s. manufacturers out of business. so the feds slapped a 187% tariff on the imported hangers, more than doubling the cost to dry cleaners. >> we were paying probably 4 to 5 cents a hanger, now we're paying upwards of 10 cents a hanger. >> reporter: janice says customers noticed the price increase. >> customers never like it. but as costs go up for supplies, we have to do it. >> reporter: janice says hangers are hardly worth harping about. the real costs are from utilities, chemicals and wages. well, when you run through nearly 10,000 hangers a month, every cent counts, and recycling is highly encouraged. she says if you have hangers hanging around the house, hand them back

and he was shook up. >> and while the front of the dry cleaners is destroyed, shawna manages to keep mas cleaners open for business. >> none of our machines were hurt. just took out all of our computer equipment and the counter and all of that. you have to come to the back door and i'm sorry for that. but we'll take care of you however we can. we're able to go to work. can't keep us down. >>> an suv slams into a row of storefronts in new york city's spanish harlem. and right into an unsuspecting street vender. >> it hit right in the middle right where he works. >> the crash rattles windows and shakes up the people nearby. and it's all caught by a store's security camera. >> it was one of those things where, it's like, it happened so fast, you don't know what's going on. like, you just hear a big noise and your first instinct is, like, what's happening? that's -- it was crazy. it was a little scary. >> february 18th, 2008, c.j. morales is working in the stock room of a shoe storm when he hears a big bang. >> it sounded like a big thunderbolt or something. it sounded like -- like big cr

my grandfather was gunned down in his dry cleaners by two young black kids who tried to rob him. this was in 19701. -- 1970. my grandfather went to reach for a gun. i wrote about this. gun possession, gun laws, what we do about it all? he went to reach for a gun and shot him before he could do anything with it. >> what impact did that have on your family? >> a devastating impact, particularly on my mother. she is the youngest in my family. she was the last person standing. immediate family's side. both my uncles are deceased. my grandfather is dead. my grandmother died about 10 years ago. she is the only one left on her immediate family side. i have written about a couple times. it is a pretty devastating affect on my mother. she is close to my father. she wanted him to be able to live to see his grandkids, her kids. >> you start off talking about your blog. how often do you write it? >> i tried to write once a week. sometimes i am more inspired than other weeks. >> you can write your blog and put your headline on it. >> i can. >> of all you have written over the years, and by th

. >>> well, maybe you have noticed a high price tag at your dry cleaner's lately. as don ford shows us, part of it has to do with those wire hangers. >>> reporter: who would have thought the simple act of dropping off your dry-cleaning would involve international politics. steve sadler and his wife janice have owned a cleaner's in albany for 32 years. >> most all the hangers we buy today are made in vietnam or china. >> reporter: the u.s. commerce department says vietnam and china have flooded the markets forcing nearly all u.s. manufacturers out of business. so the feds slapped a 187% tariff on the imported hangers more than doubling the cost to dry cleaners. >> and that certainly did drive the price of hangers up. we were paying probably 4 to 5 cents a hanger and now we're paying anywheres from 8 to 9 upwards of 10 cents a hanger. >> reporter: the co-owner janice says customers notice the price increase. >> customers don't like it but as costs go up for supplies, you have to do it. >> reporter: steve and janice say hangers are hardly worth harping about. the real

don ford tells of us the fight for wire hangers comes to your dry cleaner and could you pay for it. >> reporter: who would have thought the simple act of dropping off dry-cleaning would involve international politics. steve sadler and his wife have owned a cleaners in albany for 32 years. >> most all of the hangers we buy today are made in vietnam or china. >> reporter: the u.s. commerce department says vietnam and china have flooded the market forcing nearly all u.s. manufacturers out of business. so the feds slapped a 187% tariff on the imported hangers. more than doubling the cost to dry cleaners. >> that certainly drove the price of hangers up. we were paying probably 4 to 5 cents a hanger and now we're paying up to 9 to 10 cents each. >> reporter: the co-owner says customers noticed the price increase. >> customers never like it but as costs go up, supplies, you have to do it. >> reporter: steve and janice say hangers are hardly worth harping about. the real cost increases are from utilities, chemicals and wages. when you run through nearly 10,000 hangers a month, every cent coun

are there a dry cleaners? yes. who remembers grand auto. they have solvants, cleaners, octane boosters. it's great until there is a natural disaster. where does this end up? on the floor. it gets mixed together and becomes a hazardous soup and it's usually slippery. safeway, what do you think they have in there, kids? we will show you. bleach. okay. bleach is great i used it this afternoon to get my shirt white it's great. do we need this much bleach at home? no. safeway need it? probably not. look what they have across from the bleach. it says don't mix ammonia and bleach makes a gas. these are bad things to mix with bleach. who's got these under their sink in i do. everybody does. you want to separate the ones that don't go to together. how do you find out? read the labels. these are department of transportation placards, they are colored. they are all red. they have the sort of flame thing up there. the little number here and number here. we've got books in our rig that tell us what these are. based on a number. we will see a 1219, look i

you can approach your dry cleaner. you can approach bill gates. there is no rule. there are people interested in art. art, looking back through centuries -- are always needs patrons. i think people will invest in film. they are patrons, in a way. it is a fairly high-risk investment. but there is a love of it and an interest in being involved in it. and an upside if it happens, obviously. there is always an element of artistic patronage, when it comes to investment in the arts, whether it be film or stage play. you look at the numbers. it is not like -- it is a higher risk type of investment. there is no doubt. tavis: i want to circle back to this project, "a dark truth." i want to talk about art and truth. they are not that disconnected, and it is real art. there is a lot in this film where you say, as the radio talk-show host, that people are not interested in truth. they are interested in entertainment. that is a line in the film. is that line true to real life? >> i think you could argue there is a lot of stuff on television these days that we are being presente

i want to tip my dry cleaner. the ladies in there, my clothes are perfect.an't figure out what's appropriate there for something like that. tweet me if you have ideas on that one. >> maybe just a simple thank you. >> i'll do that for sure. >> give her a signed autograph. >> nobody wants that. >> that's what i want for christmas. >> all right. today santa is going extreme. this afternoon st. nick will strap on the water skis for the 27th annual santa ride on the river at national harbor. this is video of last year's event. as always he'll bring around his knee boarding reindeer and flying elves. families can also check out national harbor's massive 65-foot christmas tree boasting more than 200,000 lights. santa is set to take off on the water around 1:00 p.m. >> a city in northern portugal could be home to the world's largest santa. it's illuminated by 250,000 l.e.d. lights and took 17 trucks, two cranes and eight days to get this santa seated there. construction took more than three years. this massive santa will light the city until january 7th. >> wow. tho

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anything over $1 million so for farmers, ranchers, small business owners all around the country, the dry cleaner or the flower shop or car wash, all of those people that had businesses in their family, they more likely have to sell because they are not going to be able to pass them on because they have to pay the taxes immediately. tracy: any discussion of this in the talk? have you heard anything? anybody conceding or bringing rates down? >> i continue to talk about it, put out a republican policy committee paper today, going through all of that, but the democrats don't eem to want to talk about that because they view that as additional money that they would have that they could spend, and the american taxpayers know you send more money to washington for the most part, washington wastes it. tracy: no joke. senator barrasso, thank you for taking the time to be with us, sir. >> thank you, trcy. tracy: ain't that the truth? all right? we have a lot more still to come this hour including a new report on the success of both the boehner and the obama fiscal cliff plan. hint hint, neither are successf

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we all know mom and pop small businesses, the dry cleaner down the street and others, don't make millions and millions of dollars. >> and let's remember, all the tax cuts are set to expire on january 1st so i've got to ask you, senator kyl, a lot of republicans, a lot of your colleagues, people you greatly respect and said, you know what, why don't we do 250. we've got to do what we can do. senator cornyn will replace you as the number two republican in the senate said i believe we're going to pass the 200,000 and below sooner or later. we really don't have that much leverage there because those rates go up by operation of law december 31st. i would focus on areas we have more leverage on. why would the president agree to raise that by -- >> i don't think you have so many republicans. that was one statement and the context was what is realistic as a deal given the president's adamant position he wouldn't compromise on anything above 200,0 $200,0 $200,000. let's get back to the theory. chuck had it right the first time. the more you sweep up the worst it will be for economy and small busin

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. >> steve: from days work at a dry cleaner. >> brian: i loved bill murray in "meat balls".you. here comes the boom did not make my top ten this year. >> gretchen: oh! >> brian: forget it! i'm leaving! >> gretchen: wait a minute. kevin, did you like "fred clause" years ago? >> you know what? it's a dekent movie. -- decent. way better than "here comes the book." >> gretchen: brian is redeemed. >> steve: kevin, thank you very much. and merry christmas. >> thank you so much. happy holidays. >> gretchen: what are we going to do? we might end up doing the rest of the show without brian. >> steve: he'll be back. you watch. >> gretchen: the blogs will go nuts with brian storming off. they don't understand you, brian. coming up next, 100-year-old family business about to be evicted by the feds. why they're being shut down and the owner who is not giving up without a fight. that's next. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the gift of all day pain relief. this season, discover aleve. all day pain relief with just two pills. military families face, we understan at usaa, we know

lifetime spilleding a small business in a community, and small communities around the country have a dry cleaner a florist, a car wash, those small businesses will be impacted by the change in the death tax that occurs on january 1. many will not be able to continue to hold that business in the family if they have to pay 55% of every -- of everything in value over $1 million. surrounding so manufacture of these communities around the couldn't are -- country are farms and ranches in the exact same situation. for those farms and ranches that may be for three or four generations have been in the family, they survived through famine, through flood, through drought, through fire, they faced all sorts of things over the decades, and the biggest threat to them has been from the government. and now if you raise the death tax to 55% on everything over $1 million, and i put together a paper with the number of farms and ranches that would be impacted, of the two million farms and ranches in the country, there are only 100,000 of them with assets of over $5 million. but when you drop the number down to $1 m

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most of the businesses we have in wyoming are small businesses, the dry cleaner, florist, car wash. a lot may have been in the family for a couple of generations and they want to pass it down to the next generation. when washington comes looking to take its 55% cut, which is what's going to happen come january 1, those businesses are going to be forced to sell off assets or maybe even just sell out entirely. when you look the the chart again, you see under the limits we negotiated in 2010, just 200 small business estates are hurt by the death tax. starting next year, it jumps to about 2,700 small businesses. jt like with family farms, we're not talking about big faceless corporations here. we're not talking about what happens when the founders of wal-mart die. we're talking about what happens when the owner of a small family business dies. if these death tax increases go into effect, a lot of the sons and daughters are not going to be able to keep the family business that their parents worked so hard to build and pass along. democrats and republicans agree this would be a terrible b

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