wall and associates says this is what happened in eckert's case. company said he didn't provide the information the company needed in a timely manner. he says he sent same documents multiple times after the company continued to ask for the same information. eckert said throughout his case he spoke with at least nine different people. wall went on to say average settlement of a client is 10% what's owed irs. when it comes to tax settlements, federal trade commission warns if the company requires a fee in advance, walk away. as for eckert, he's now an payment plan to irs. >> the $8,000 i paid the company i could have paid the irs in government debt. basically right now $8,000 lost. >> can't afford to pay your taxes? first thing you do is contact irs for free help. it's got different programs and payment plans. if you decide to hire help, make sure the company has enrolled agents and then check with the irs to make sure the agent is in good standing. check our consumer watch facebook page for more information on this story. >>> so too hot too soon for

major eckert, who we can use as a bodyguard, did not come.rker did not question and was let off and should not have been the garden the first place. all of the roots out of the city -- should have been the guard in the first place. all of the routes out of the city, they both say they were close. that was not true. it is hard to know if that happened. the conspirators being coded during the trial -- hooded during the trial, lafayette baker dying prematurely. it does not prove all that much for the conspiracy theorists. it was the movie "the lincoln conspiracy of quote got then-vice president walter mondale very excited. he had the department of interior, which oversees the national park service, requested ford's theater to look at the diary and missing pages and they reviewed the diary and said that there was no hidden message in ink and then there was another piece of evidence i forgot to mention, and that is a journal that lafayette baker own in which dots had been placed under the letters. the journal was dated 1866 by lafayette baker and

other stories following this morning, zeb eckert is here.ren buffett has -- talked about the candidate which will replace ms berkshire hathaway ceo. saying they need as significant array of skills. the successor needs to be more than just a stock picker, but will accept someone who has operational invest experience. australians biggest power producer is going head-to-head with tesla. it will offer a home storage battery to challenge the latest models. they have not revealed prices that they the lithium-ion cells will come with extended warranties and finance plans to make them affordable. teslas slightly larger batteries will come around $3000. appter is video streaming is caught in a piracy storm after people used it to watch the fight between manny pacquiao and like mayweather. -- floyd mayweather. hbo and showtime reportedly told twitter and its rival to take down the lifestream. h.p. open made a similar request over liveh streaming of the popular show, "game of thrones." penny stocks are often considered the walking dead of the investing

zeb eckert is in hong kong.these classic moments where the official data and the survey data tell different stories. zeb: they certainly do. the private survey data is what we are looking at this month because the april numbers are still -- are showing the steepest contraction in a year. that is what we saw today. interestingly, stocks advanced because the number was so bad the market believes we will see more stimulus out of china. that is what you would expect given this sharp fall in new orders. also, this event are in of domestic demand and the fact that production levels at factories stagnated in the month of april. 48.9, the steepest contraction in a year for the pmi figure. in march, the level was 49.6. anything under 50 indicates contraction. this is consistent with the overall slowdown we have seen in china this year. +++ will see an interest rate cut during the month of may by the chinese government. the reserve ratio cuts so far this year have tried to stoke lending, but not enough to counter the slow

zeb eckert is covering the developments in europe. zeb: it is welcome news, the payment they will make. they put in a transfer order which tells you that the money will be transferred. on if itaking a poll would be transferred or not. the big check is in the mail but there are many more tracks that need to be mailed -- checks that need to be mailed but it does not eliminate the threat of default. the changes that greece must make to satisfy creditors. on monday,t packed greece's problems are not insurmountable but they are big. the finance minister making it very clear. all sides being very honest that liquidity issues are coming to bear. in weeks, greece could be out of cash. isthe liquidity issue incredibly urgent. this is common knowledge, let's not beat around the bush. theeems to me that from perspective of the timeframe that we are facing, we are talking about the next couple of weeks. zeb: we take any signs of progress we can get. the markets are impressed with greece hasat authorized the item of payment but angie, billions mor