ftc and greek bailout. >> from london to sid any to san francisco, journalists and the world have stopped work and called on egypt's government to set our colleagues free. it was a year ago today that al jazeera'saljazeera's peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were arrested and imprisoned. andrew simmons has more. >> al jazeera's doha headquarters parking an anniversary we find hard to absorb. reporting arrests of three of the network's journalists in cairo. then 12 months behind bars for just doing their job!

you have the ftc investigation.ell me when they are going to act, but i think the more , at somee problem point the government is going to finish the work. >> is as much of your lp's money in this trade as it was in december 2012? formal, we changed the position. it was originally and all short position. position quite a large . at 1.15% of our capital. chunk of thebig short. we actually increased the potential for profit, because we are now share many more shares and we were originally, but we reduced the amount of capital at risk. so, this is today about a 7% position. the opportunity for profit is actually greater than it was. >> since we began this interview, herbal life is down officially over 2%. you mentioned your friend carl. have you discussed herbalife it all? is kind of stuck. he was on the board of directors, got five directors, five affiliates on the board. i think he just can't sell. i would love to see himself. it would be great for carl. but he is a stockholder, i think i would describe him. >> take

we are obviously actively engaged in discussions with the ftc.orry, i'm looking at my computer. we are confident our approach strategic pricing decisions is correct and superior to family dollar and dollar general and has no intention adopting a flawed strategy now or after an acquisition of family dollar. i will tell you dollar general, this is people close to the situation, is in active discussions with potential buyers of divested stores. not sure where those things stand. i heard different things on different names. i won't share them but you would want to reach out. would walmart be interested in buying 8,000 stores? would supervalu, safeway? that would enhance your ability to say we are going to 3,000 stores or the 2,500 i believe is a good negotiating point. >> you solved the puzzle piece. my trust owns dg. what you know is let's reverse the stock. that's it. they have a plan. >> they may. it's not clear they are getting or where those -- yes, would you reach out. >> that explains why a stock that should have been down is up. that explains

ftc and greek bailout. >> from london to sid any to san francisco, journalists and the world have stopped work and called on egypt's government to set our colleagues free. it was a year ago today that al jazeera'saljazeera's peter greste, mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed were arrested and imprisoned. andrew simmons has more. >> al jazeera's doha headquarters parking an anniversary we find hard to absorb. reporting arrests of three of the network's journalists in cairo. then 12 months behind bars for just doing their job! right across the world there were newsroom vigils, protests outside egyptian embassies. associate them with what egypt described as terrorists. all charges against correspondent peter greste, bureau chief mohamed fahmy and producer baher mohamed were false. baher's wife speaking from her home in jeement spoke of frustration. >> my life is wrecked and those of our children. in prison for a year for no justification or crime. >> peter greste's parents had spent crimples day christmas day in egypt getting an hour and a half to visit their son. >> he's been truly amazing the w

double-digit increases for the cftc and ftc, two important regulatory agencies.re are no riders that would gut the agencies. this is something the president worked with elizabeth warren to create, this gives consumers a voice. >> presumably the president was going to veto it before because he thought it would do great damage to dodd-frank. it still would do great damage to dodd-frank -- >> i think that is overstating it a little bit. >> why did he issue the veto threat? >> this would water down some of the abilities of the regulatory agencies to keep wall street in check and that's why we don't oppose it -- we don't support it. this doesn't go to the basic architecture we have in place to prevent another meltdown like we saw in 2008. this is a provision we don't support, but we don't have the same sort of assessment that this is a doomsday provision. the fact is there are a lot of other good things included in the bill that frankly nobody would have addicted we would get double-digit increases for two regulatory agencies with a republican majority in the house. b

. >> reporter: now, davis presented the idea of the state-specific labels to the ftc which they thought it was a good idea but too expensive. he developed a label with a qr code that would tailor rates per state something he hopes regulators will soon consider. >> another bit of info we could use. >> reporter: and save you a little money. >> thank you. >>> checking back on this bay area storm we have cooking, it was coming down pretty hard earlier this morning in marin county. parking lots were filling up with big puddles. >> and the rain proved to be too much for this oak tree in woodside. it came toppling down on some power lines at woodside and canada roads blocking traffic and knocking out power for some time. >>> want to check in with paul deanno right now to talk about what's coming next. we have had a series of storms. are we done? >> we are not. more rain is coming. for some folks, tomorrow may be wetter than today. >> wow. >> today was the wettest day out of about 340 of them so far this year in san francisco. not done yet. it could get stormier tomorrow. upper 50s throughout t

ftc >> good evening everyone thanks for joining us i'm adam may in for joie chen tonight. more fallout after rolling stone magazine apologized for not being thorough in its fact kc checking. the story about a gang rape, about sex assaults on campus. "america tonight's" lori jane gliha, talks to a rape survivor and she has a message for the woman whose story of a gang rape, is called into question. >> i've been where you have been. it's very hard to have so many people disbelief you but there are to many people that do believe you, i'm one of them, i know there's many more and every survivor goes through this and you will have a better day in the future. i hope that more information comes out but don't for any moment think that you're alone. survivor. at the university of wisconsin at madison two men fellow students assaulted her after a fraternity party. >> it was like it almost wasn't happening to my body. at one point one of them got on top of me and started pressing himself into me and i remember pudding hi hands up and saying no, i'm -- my hands --s -- putsing my hands

ftc pretty soon they start looking to you you release that pressure every time they put their eye onhey who are you, what's going on here? and from there they start learning to give to pressure. the first touch is always the -- you know it almost gives you the warm fuzzies kind of a deal. you reach your hand out there and they reach their neck and elongate the body and that's really the first connection and that feels really good. every horse that i've ever had that first touch with they kind of go hey yes this horse trusts me to this point and i'm not forcing it. i think if you use that trust and respect, is your main focus of your training, you have a willing partner. it's going to want to try its hardest for you. >> i'm just going to move the saddle up and down, that's part of the process, throwing that saddle up there. just another baby step. ♪ >> you know this was my dream. and i believe in being happy with life. and you know, there was so many people that are miserable doing their jobs. i mean you have one shot at life, and why be miserable doing what you're doing? go live life

ftc flight qz8501 left surabaya 5:36 a.m. local time on sunday. at 6:12 the pilot asked air traffic control to change the flight path to avoid bad weather. at 6:10 it disappeared off radar, was declared missing 25 minutes after it was due oland in singapore. debris from the plane began to surface just a few hours ago. that's two days after it disappeared. let's get more analysis on the situation, and weaver got chris yates now he's an independent aviation analyst. he joins us live from manchester in england. it's good to have you back ton show again. just take us through the reasons as to why it's taken three days for the wreckage and the bodies to be responded in the waters. given that this is the java sea is relatively shallow. >> it has to be said that the reason the real reason for the length of delay between the aircraft disappearing and the discovery of bodies and wreckage from the aircraft is because once an airn drops off the -- afternoonairplane are drops off the radar screen, there is no data that's available to air traft air traffic con

we'll see if dollar general gets more clarity from the ftc in the next month. so that they can potentially get more certainty to their bid by saying we are willing to save 2,500 or 3,000 stores. we'll not see a vote next week. >> my charitable trust owns dollar general. they say it's the best idea today and lays out a good fundamental analysis of it. this is all about the takeover. >> right. not about fundamentals. >> right. >> dupont, a potential fight. the deadline for proxies begins on the 24th of december. you've got to have your proxy in there or your slate. >> is that early? >> no. we are in the season. >> there are two magic wands in the world. you have the fed casting spells that gives you these huge moves in equities. you have the spell of dragging down rates in the u.s. based on what's going on in places like europe with their rates. to that let's look at an intraday and two day of tens. two-day gives you that historic hook-up at the hip to show you a relative -- we are still a bit elevated. yes, we are down two basis points on the day. up 11 on the w

believe that your information has been compromised and been a victim of identity theft immediately go to ftcaint assistant dot gov, safe shopping come on i'm in the holiday spirit. i don't want to you get problematic there. >> don't get scrooged. >> i like that. >> safe travels from across the pond. >> all right. >>> 6:40. kohl's is getting in the holiday spirit. the company's 1100 stores around the country will stay opened around the clock for the five days, before christmas, wow. that is 24 hours a day, five days straight. do you wanting to shopping at 2:30 in the morning? you can do it. 132 straight hours between december 19th to 6:00 p.m., christmas eve. my heart goes out to shows shoppers for pulling those overnight shift. >> my, employees god bless them. >>> award season is getting underway more nominations to be announce today. >> also ahead save date for david letterman's last show we will know when late show host will give us our last laugh. >>> and a panda mommies reuniting with her baby triplets, american four months after they were born,n, and, she has a very human reaction, we w

crowing about the fact they were able to increase the budget in the commodities trade commission and ftcgive a little but we got some for other agencies that republicans would like to go after. for now, at least democratic leaders saying, in the senate, that this is a fair deal. >> wow. so wall street could be back in the gambling business. i'm sure americans are very proud. from "the washington post," ed o'keefe, thank you very much. >>> now three things to know this wednesday. michigan's governor says detroit's bankruptcy is officially ending at midnight tonight. the city first declared bankruptcy in july of 2013. it was the nation's largest municipal bankruptcy. >>> the flu is hitting some areas of the country hard. one school in illinois is closed for several days for a deep cleaning. up to a quarter of its students are sick with the flu. this comes after public health officials said this year's vaccine may not offer full protections. >>> and nasty weather on the east and west coasts continues to hamper travel. east coast is bracing against heavy rain and strong winds that have alrea

. >> the ftc says the federal law only applies to interstate commerce.rally can't go after telemarketers calling from within your own state. and as for those violating federal laws? >> get several thousand calls per month. obviously do not have resource toss investigate, each of those complaints individually? >> since list inception in 2003. >> if you didn't have a did not call list, what you see, probably see even more calls coming into consumers. >> says, while his agency does go after the worse offenders, telemarketers are using technology, like spoofing, and voice over internet protocols, allow them to make millions of cars cheaply and without lead ago trail. julie watts for cbs news, san francisco. >> now, the federal trade commission says it is up to each state's attorney general, to go after telemarketers that make calls from within their states. >> right now coming up on 7:43, checking it with katie and our weather watchers, good morning. >> good mornings erika. yes, actually we take you out first and for most, where john and great picture for us

that's where you get to the full benefit of having the mac world represented by the ftc and the supervisione pra. >> a bloomberg news. ask about tension between the bank of england's objectives and policy? it seems would've had a show where the bank of england moves to mitigate. the government comes and asks for more. is there tension there? >> well -- and there are differing objectives. you look at our object is in terms of the housing market and there's a fundamental issue in the u.k. housing market was is the lack of supply. it is been issued for decades. we can't do anything about that. none of our policies are directly impacting supply. relatedly, we don't target house price. we are concerned the indebtedness. earlier this year, those measures were taken to ensure against a deterioration in underwriting standards of a sudden move for responsible underwriting standards which we have to reckless underwriting standards we saw in the past. we took out a short against it. these were measures that do not write. -- we took out insurance against it. were over to the right, if you will, and pre

technology companies online, social and media company, and communications clients before the fcc, the ftc and congress. before joining covington, jerry served as senior counsel on the house subcommittee on telecommunications and worked on the committee staff for over ten years. thank you all for being here today. let's begin with mr. lake. >> good morning, senator blumenthal and senator lee. i'm bill lake, chief of the media bureau at the federal communications commission. i'm pleased to appear before you today to discuss the recent fcc action to eliminate our sports blackout rules. a built of history may provide useful context for our action. our sports blackout rules specifically prohibited cable and satellite operators from airing any sports event that had been blacked out on a local broadcast tv station pursuant to a private blackout policy adopted by a sports league. the commission adopted a sports blackout rule for cable in 1975, finding that the rule was necessary to ensure that cable importation of distant signals would not reduce ticket sales and thus lead sports leagues to refus

so if the expectation is absolute, it's one of the main purposes of the ftc is to ensure the system ase, has this type of resilience continues to lend to households and businesses. so by ensuring that, we can help ensure that that happened. templely if they have less of an impact, that's what happened during the course of the last crisis. >> the management now taken decisive actions to stabilize the bank in today's world. and you can see this in terms of the capital ratio, which has reached to the 11.5% on the latest numbers. now, the stress test, is not a surprise. but it is, of course, very helpful evidence to provide the evidence of what needs to happen next. so to go to your precise point, you stabilize the banking space, it's not something we expect to happen, we expect it to be perfected against. so the revised plan is all about taking stronger action to provide the necessary -- >> so we've got the financial stability reports taking place and various government officials talking about that. central bank officials talking about that. looking also at what's taking place with regard

in one part of the government, the ftc and others are thinking that privacy should be protected.clampdown on facebook and others in terms of privacy protection and other arms of the government say we don't need any. you don't have any privacy, so we are going to take this data you have. i do think that our own government is really marching in almost parallel paths that don't seem to be intercepting very well. my only last point is you just created a title for some new blog review article that can you put it back in the bottle, genie, et cetera. >> michael. >> addressing the question of whether the idea of privacy to protect criminal at committee, i don't think anyone thinks that. i think to the extent the government can use surveillance techniques to prevent or prosecute criminal activity, that should be a good game. so the point of protecting the fourth amendment rights of criminals is to protect kids are the rest of us to have some area of privacy in their lives deemed to be valuable for a variety of purposes. it is difficult to strike the balance in this regard because you can

two web sites are t mobile refund.com for t mobile subscribers, of course, and then ftc settlement att.com. deadline for t mobile is april 30th. a continue and t is may 1st. when you get a moment, log in check to see if you are eligible for a refund. it may not be that much after legal fees and all of the distribution but maybe you'll get a couple bucks back. it is worth it it is the principal, you know what i'm saying. isn't that how life works. you have to do all this work to get your money back. even though they got in trouble for this. >> reporter: they never make it easy. in problem. >> joline. i like to sing her name. isn't she lovely. >> i love her. >> i'll tell you what is not good, it seems like the flu season is coming back for a second round, right doctor mike. >> yes it seems like another weird strain so my flu shot that we got i don't think it is even good anymore. >> it doesn't feel like it is. >> cdc says we have a flu epidemic in our country including the delaware valley doctor mike will come in here and say we need another flu shot is the one still good. >>> quincy is gett

technology companies online, social and media company, and communications clients before the fcc, the ftc and congress. before joining covington, jerry served as senior counsel on the house subcommittee on telecommunications and worked on the committee staff for over ten years. thank you all for being here today. let's begin with mr. lake. >> good morning, senator blumenthal and senator lee. i'm bill lake, chief of the media bureau at the federal communications commission. i'm pleased to appear before you today to discuss the recent fcc action to eliminate our sports blackout rules. a built of history may provide useful context for our action. our sports blackout rules specifically prohibited cable and satellite operators from airing any sports event that had been blacked out on a local broadcast tv station pursuant to a private blackout policy adopted by a sports league. the commission adopted a sports blackout rule for cable in 1975, finding that the rule was necessary to ensure that cable importation of distant signals would not reduce ticket sales and thus lead sports leagues to refus

in november 1, 2013, the deal between office max and office depot was made between the ftc and they madeifferent judgment about the market that exists for office superstores. that is the difference here. in what they had to say on november 1, 2013 was that the competitive dynamics are very different now as opposed to 1997. mass merchants like walmart, target and costco and sam's club have proliferated and expanded their product offerings and sales of office supplies. the explosive growth of online commerce -- there we go. had an impact on this market. >> not to mention web-based players like amazon. >> there we have it there. that's the key. that is why you have to think about the possibility of a staples deal pushed by activists. now it's not being. >> that would be fabulous. bricks and mortar, you just need one. you have to close every underperformance store. i wish eddie lambert did that with sears and k-mart. restoration hardware closed a store amazing to build a new store that was incredibly amazing. >> we'll get to the numbers later on. on a macrofront, retail sales were a nice bea

is pleased that the legislation puts a double-digit funding increase for the ftc.nd does not include any republican writers, which they have tried to attach to previous legislation, that would essentially got the authority. i know it is something that senator warren is a strong advocate for. and, you know, the president actually th her to create this agency that would be a voice for consumers here in washington dc. is a testament to, again, the reason that the president supported this legislation. not because it is perfect aand not because he supports every because he s net -- doesn't -- it would be akin to watering down one provision. the president does not support that provision. but on the balance, the president believes it is worthy of support. >> one of the things you did that a basically undoes what the voters in this district of columbia are voting for, which was legalizing marijuana. what is the white house position on the fact that to this bill, be undoing would democratic will? >> i will answer your question. as a general matter, it would be hard to take