who is the ftc to question who elon musk hires and fires.sk for the private conversations of other companies like facebook, snapchat and google. i could go on. americans are fed up woke policies and selective bias. how about focusing on flailing economy? that would be a good idea. a survey shows americans are most pessimistic about financial futures since 2010. the gop has control over the house. we're ramping up the probes. we'll see more and more come to light. in the words of florida governor ron desantis at his state of the state address -- >> we buck the elites. we ignored the chatter. we did it our way. and i can promise you this, you ain't seen nothing yet. jackie: pretty remarkable from the governor of florida. i want to take a second to thank emac letting me sit in for the last few days. i had a great time. she willing back tomorrow. find me on the "the big money s" 1:00 p.m. eastern time on fox business. i'm jackie deangelis in for elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit." i will send it over to the "the bottom

i would make the money for the ftc part of that discussion.ould figure out who's abusing authority there to target musk and be sure they are no longer employed. >> what's the goal of the ftc here, tom? >> well, the ftc is on the cutting edge of the biden administration's effort to sensor americans online. they're very keen on doing this, using the powers of the ftc has and litigation. musk is a key figure and he's standing fast almost alone among the big tech companies in promoting freer speech online. joe biden opposes first amendment protection online and his ftc is acting on his behalf. you know, remember biden specifically targeted from the podium. he said there should be a national security review of what he's doing. oh boy, oh boy. >> lastly, why does the ftc needs internal documents about the guy who owns the company, elon musk? p >> yeah, it is harassment they're asking for every document that relates to the elon musk, including documents to be sent. if this is not petty harassment, i don't know what would be. frankly, other companies

one agency, one and almost the whole alphabet, but didn't mention one agency ftc. you know about them now. >> yes, we do. >> you know about them now in an up close and personal way. you didn't know then, but you know now, as i said december 2nd the first twitter file comes out mr. taibbi, and i think there are five others, including ones from mr. shellenberger. december 13th the very first letter that the ftc sends to twitter after the twitter files, 11 days after the first twitter file, five of them come out. the ftc's first demand in the first letter after the twitter files come out is identify all journalists-- i'm quoting, identify all journalists and other members of the media to whom twitter worked with. do you find that scary, mr. taibbi, that you got a federal government agency asking a private company who in the press are you talking with? >> i do find it scary. i think it's none of the government's business which journalists a private talks to and why. i think that every journalist should be concerned about that and absence of interest in that issue by my

my hope is expose it and reign back in the ftc.goody burger because they have opened their doors to us one hour early. the one who had the keys to the place andrew gosar williams a fifth generation business owner. this dates back to 1925. tell me about legacy. >> when goody goody was founded in 1925. a huge part of tampa bay. i talked to so many people this morning say their families met and got married because they were at goody goody. and my father had the pleasure of reopening the restaurant in 2016 giving it back to the community. >> brian: even though it's goody goody burger. number one thing for breakfast. >> pancakes are this big. >> brian: number one for lunch. >> the burger, of course. >> brian: how has the economy been. >> we have been so fortunate. great comeback after code. just by the looks of this morning see how grace great it is. >> brian: thanks so much. we will be bothering you throughout the day and talking to some people. talk so some of them now. first off, what's your name. >> mayan degree a masena. >> brian:

ftc going after him and internal communications journalists information. th i mean, where areto the journalists today crying out for the first amendment? ids unbelievable. ftc

>> and the ftc investigation of twitter you kw i they were investigating twitter. >> and the ftc was concerned with user data being hacked or used is tt correct they didn't have enough checks and balances on the data? >> i was notrivy to tha part. >> have you seen the connt decree? thats probably the use —- the rean they wer conrned if they were ging files to journalist data about users or iindividuals and employe. >> my understanding. >> i do not ask a question do you know he paid 44 billion are you aware? >> did you know that he received part of that funding from saudi arabia? >> i heard that. >> did you know one of those individuals and while he has canadian citizenship he is a chinese national? are you aware of that? and that he stated that was forhe cause tnk you for swerin my questions i yield back. >> weou yield for 20 sonds? >> thank you. is interesting the ftc is asking for your background and now the ranng member of the committee of weaponization of the government is asking for your sources. >> . >> yes you did. >> i asked if ty were talking tovon mask think hank you fork y

same folks, chair of the ftc, work for them. here's what she said in a letter where they ask about again they name for personally to fort journalist by the name or two of the four. i think it's frankly courageous and brave of you to sharpen of the federal government's got an eye on your person hears with the for that letter any background check twitter has done on journalists. now think about that the federal government to sing we want you to do a background check on members of the press, freedom of the punch mentioned the first amendment and they are doing that they want twitter to do background check on you before they can talk to in america? the ftc led by lena who used to work for these guys is asking that question? now we know, we all know why you guys said at the outset this is the most chilling story. "new york times" bestseller award-winning journalist. all of your time in the journalism field this issue most important. i even called complex you called? >> of the ship industrial complex brickwork is web of big government

elon musk chosen narrative. >> the first ftc letter to twitter after the first set of twitter files,he first question was, who are the journalists you are talking to? and you guys don't care. you don't care. >> sylvia garcia had this tense exchange with taibbi. >> when was the first time mr. musk approached you about writing of the twitter files? >> i can't give it to unfortunately because it's a question of sourcing and i don'- >> did you consider mr. musk to be the direct source of all of this? >> your trying to get me to say he is the source. >> i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. ♪ joining us now to analyze the coverage, molly hemingway chief of the federalist and connecticut, harold ford, former democratic congressman both are fox news conservators. what you make of the fact that they are demanding the names of journalists dealt with journalists because i find it troubling x. >> we had much coming out about how twitter was working with federal agencies as part of a big censorship scheme so there's interest the government should have and how privacy has been violated, the f

the ftc by basically an interested party. >> that is right. the complaint is being led by a center that is at tech ethics group well-known. behind it is a well-known tech advocacy advocate that is urging the ftc take action. ed: thank you. let's stick with this conversation, bring in our guest stuart russell. he was the second name on the list in that petition calling for a halt to ai element. he is also the co-author of the standard textbook artificial intelligence a modern approach. start with the basics. why did you sign the petition? >> the petition expresses the concern that these kinds of systems are extremely unpredictable. in essence, we have really no idea how they work inside. they simply don't comply with principles that have already been established for example the oecd has a set of principles that have been signed up to the united states and all the other advanced economies saying that ai systems need to be shown that they will not present undue risk to users. at the moment, there is no way we can show that these large language mo

was it against the rules of the ftc?things about people in the me media. the left will often use the government against the media. when did we see that? during the barack obama administration. they got their phones tapped and things like that. the left will always go after the media from that side of things. republicans get mad because we just want fairness. we just want to be fair. >> jesse: should republicans not be so fair then the next time they get in charge, weaponize the government against the left? judge jeanine? >> judge jeanine: i don't think they should weaponize the government against the left. they should prosecute the criminals violating the law. the reason the ftc is involved, allegedly they say that we are protecting consumers. from other people coming in, twitter files, finding out who said what at what time. basically they are saying protecting consumers is what the ftc does. lena con is someone who is, who has low marks, apparently historically low marks that people in the ftc for honesty and integrity

you can explain it better than me. >> the ftc called up a letter t a private company and ask them whatournalist, who in the press are you talking to. this may be the most egregious threat to the first amendment i have ever seen. this started when elon musk bought the company. at thing 12 lead letters and th span of 12 months. the most egregious part is the idea that they are going after journalist greatly name personally some journalist. two of the individuals are goin to be testifying in front of ou committee on thursday. so when you're saying what happened to jim baker one of th ask questions they ask elon musk , who are these journalist, these are the fort names we know . let's have you journalists, i don't know that i have ever see this kind of attack on first amendment freedom of the press like we see in what the ftc is doing. >> sean: make sure i understand this. you will now investigate the ftc , they are targeting a private citizen, his pictures o the screen, elon musk, demandin that twitter turn over his private communications because they are angry with him, how he's running

>> yes, the ftc and chairman woman at their worst.the chairwoman is annoyed with elon musk. imagine if there were a republican chairperson of the ftc. it would be leading network news claiming it is about all the twitter layoffs. even if that's true, which it isn't, the federal government doesn't get involved in the personnel decisions of a private company. this is about retribution for the twitter files release and us really as a public learning that the biden administration bullies social media companies including twitter. >> julie: talk about far reaching, tim. the ftc wants to identify all journalists granted access to company records and asks if twitter had conducted background checks on the journalists, among other things. we have a federal agency demanding a private company disclose its interactions with a free press including how much it snooped on those reporters. none of this is the business of the government. >> this house weaponization committee hearing will be another dud. the reality is what the ftc is trying to enforce

we dug into past ftc cases, the scale reaches a different level.tee suggesting the ftc has partisan motivation saying this, there is no logical reason why the ftc needs identities of journalists, it is inappropriate in journalists disclosing. elon musk fireing back, it is a shameful case of weaponization of a government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth. host of lawsuits and probes musk is facing, this is unique, representing government inquiry to first amendment protected activity. >> bill: i sense a few tweets after this story. thank you, nice to see you. >> dana: the senate is set to question intelligence officials on threats to the united states, china likely to be the main focus, our cameras are rolling and we'll bring you updates. president biden expected to make a decision on major oil project in alaska. senator dan sullivan on why drilling is critical. >> it is a game being played between the white house and environmentalists that got him there and people of alaska and this country. right now, we're preparing and ho

no reason the ftc needs to know the internal communication within this company. against what they see as a political foe, that foe being elon musk. all we have seen is transparency in terms of what went on there under jack dorsey during that era and now the ftc is getting involved? >> ashley: isn't it odd they are specific about james baker? >> joe: yeah, why is that? why did you fire him? how dare you. it is elon musk's company, they can hire and fire whoever they want. this is why there is such low trust in government and institutions in general when we see our government acting this way and putting their nose and butting into situations they have no business butting into. >> todd: ftc is engaging in hr question, that is not in their purview. isn't this biden and democrats thinks that the way government should work that you should be able to use the power of administrative institutions to abuse your enemy? >> joe: that is the way it works in moscow or pyeongchang or a democracy, which we are in, not how it should work. >> ashley: sounds like meddling to me. mlb

that's exactly what the ftc is trying to get to the bottom of.e ftc to acknowledge an investigation like this. it really doesn't happen very often if at all and it comes after the disclosure of about a do dozen letters that the ftc sent to twitter about the privacy practices and the letters were in the house staff report that was released yesterday. let me run through a couple of the things that the ftc is to have asked twitter about and the staffing changes after elon musk took over the company and messages about elon musk and details about the company's twitter blue subscription service, and even the office equipment that twitter was reportedly trying to sell off as part of its cost-cutting measures and a wide ranging set of topics that the ftc is interested in and it goes to these concerns about whether or not twitter may have lived up to its obligations as part of this settlement to protect users' privacy. the report itself from the house is this staff report created by the subcommittee intended to look at whether the u.s. government may have

the ftc is a little out of control.here are some, including some republicans, that want to give the ftc more control. this might blunt that effort. >> bill: elon musk is laying off people and saving costs and driving up advertising. he said in a few months twitter will be back in the black. if he does that he would be a heck of a businessman. >> dana: i've seen a lot of ads, i think he will be right. >> bill: the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is in the hospital today after a fall at a hotel in washington last night. here is the statement from the office of the leader. says mcconnell tripped at a local hotel during a private dinner and admitted to the hospital and receiving treatment. 81-year-old republican overcame polio and underwent heart surgery in 2003. 2019 he had a fall as well in kentucky and injured his shoulder pretty good. hoping for the best for his health and we'll let you know how it turns out. >> dana: someone who knows him well says he pitys the doctors to hold him down. i'm sure he wants to get

the ftc is interesting.y declined to, on the story we want to see whether actions will be going forward. alix: i want to get your report from apple and disney that apple could see some upside if it buys disney. is anyone chatting about this as a realistic thing? ed: the logic is apple has in-store devices it is he has a content library. the court's 25% upside to the stock if they were to buy disney. remember in 20,000 -- in 2017, hanging out with guy johnson, rbc made the same call. at that time, guy was not interested in speaking to me about tight at all. things have changed. [laughter] they have changed between us, i hope so. in the sense that the idea there is a rumor that apple could buy disney or 8 -- or a hypothesis that can happen. that is not new. our riverwind bob iger was reinstated as ceo. you asked a question, it will not go away? guy: i don't think it will go away. we can definitely talk about it. ed: very nice. guy: look at that. beautiful. you can catch ed alongside his coanchor caroline hyde.

blackburn: how many times have you called the ftc? mr. berchtold: we worked on an investigation in late 2019 or 2020. sen. blackburn: you called them once? mr. berchtold: that is the time we were able to have the information to work with them. sen. blackburn: why can you not identify a bot attack? you said you have a hard time distinguishing between a bot attack and a consumer. but the local power company down the road can figure out when they have a bad actor in their system. but you cannot? do we need to make sure you have better people around your i.t. team? mr. berchtold: it is an ever-growing arms race in fighting the bots. they are not trying to break into our system, they are trying to impersonate people to get tickets on an automatic basis and putting fans at a disadvantage. sen. blackburn: american consumers. i have one other question if we do a second round. sen. klobuchar: that will be good. i appreciate your questions. next up, senator blumenthal. sen. blumenthal: thank you, senator klobuchar. thank you for your work on this.

yes, the ftc has the authority. yes the legislation was signed into law.i agree that they are not exercising it but how many times have you called the ftc and said we need your help? senator we will submit in writing the answers to the questions that requested -- >> we work with ftc an investigation i believe it was late 2019 or 2020 post the covid shut down. >> you call them johnson said, help me out? >> that was the time we were able to work with them to get prosecution. >> why is it you cannot identify a bomb attack you told me yesterday you have a hard time distinguishing between a bomb attack and consumer the local power company down here that is not a billion dollar company you are they can tell when they have a bad actor in their system they figured out how to find a body in their system but you can't do we need to make certain that you have better people around your eye team? senator it is an absolute ever going on arms race in terms of fighting the bots. these are not trying to break into our system. they are bots trying to impersonate people to g

now, the ftc comes in and said ,who were the journalists you were talking to about the speech? the fbi told you to block? that is crazy, but that's exactly what's going on . that sounds pretty chilling. congressman jim jordan, we'll be watching closely. thank you. all right. coming up, we'll bring you the very latest on the tragic story of four americans kidnaped at the border. two did not survive. steven miller, chip roy, they weigh in on biden's endless border crisis madness. >> that's straight ahead. this is britain. debris, wet nail fungus grows, nonoxynol gel, cleans out fungus by removing keratin debris, using non-exchange 90% of nails improve by non-fixed at wal-mart, rite aid, cvs and walgreens. >> nail fungus is next up. the nail starts improving the appearance of fungus damage, toenails in just two days. it's clinically proven. formula penetrates the nail for results you can see quickly opti nail give fungus damage, toenails a makeover. >> three three hundred. >> and today, and today. i saw balance of nature on television commercials and i said, you know what, i'm goi

first it's the ftc coming after them.r their sources. yet the democrats say there's no attack on freedom of the press and freedom of speech? you have to be kidding me. i've never seen anything like this. then you couple it with this industrial censorship and industrial complex that they talked about. it is -- should frighten every single american. our effort is to get to the bottom of, this get the facts on the table and propose legislation to stop it. >> martha: it's interesting. when there was this symbiotic relationship between twitter and people who wanted these messages stopped and covid and other things or about the former president, they loved twitter, right? now that they have someone that says i'm going to make sure that we're not doing this to people, elon musk becomes this evil character in all of this. >> simply for embracing the first amendmented to the united states constitution which says that the freedom to speak our mind and not be harassed for doing so. not be attacked because it's a political position t

the ftc the attorney general can used to hit big tech.s was observed in the opening comments government power over big can have a bad effect on free speech. aiko out with its open end is terms and government imports meant the government can employ an internet platforms to silent government critics. i welcome the committee's questions. >> thank you very much. ms. lewis thank you for being here. >> chairman klobuchar and ranking member lee, thank you for the invitation to testify. i'm here in my personal capacity and not behalf of any clients. last congress showed strong bipartisan support for antitrust reform. especially for bills that would curb big tech and big pharma's monopoly power. there is a lot of common ground here. this committee advanced a coat in the open at market act on a bipartisan basis you deserve credit for doing so. enforcers as well as private plaintiffs are currently seeking relief in court to address some of the gatekeeper platforms anticompetitive conduct. butts, the unique challenges of digital market plus the time

the ftc just hired an acrosstivity rift who lobbied. elon musk to turn ovem of what's going on at the ftc for sure. and i think the twitte called paranoid and tin hat wearers. there was a government role in pressuring the taking down of information. it's inappropriate in a free society. liz: let's get your reaction to the twitter files journalists testifying the government industry controlled the narrative on social media. >> this kind of thing where the government is looking for information about reporters is usually a canary in the coal mine that something worse is coming, an effort to exercise control over the press. on that level it's disturbing. >> i never thought in my own country freedom of speech would be threatening this way. they have been building out mechanisms to proliferata a censorship industrial complex. it's not a slippery slope. it's an immediate leap into totalitarianism to gain control over what the social media platforms are allowing. liz: the twitter file journalists are saying there is a government-wide push to ce

that's biden's ftc federal trade commissioner. >> the hearings are on thursday. i am glad you are covering this. >> absolutely, sean, thank you so much. this is "ingram angle" from washington tonight. sabotage and smear. that's the focus of tonight's angle. when the press kept catching lbg, describing the true state of the vietnam war effort, it became known of his credibility gap, repeated assurances of progress that didn't pan out, only undermines support for the war at home. fast forward, another credibility gap is eroding public faith. everything that our so-called experts are saying led by the establishment of both parparties. last night we blewn the covid-19 lab leak where health officials and academics all refused the full truth of the origins of covid. instead of holding china accountable. these american officials smear american doctors and yours truly and a few others in rather raising bloody hell about any of these or demanding answers, the press helps the fraudster cover their tracks. can you blame them? now, time and again when our elites sense their

they're they're the ftc's proposing finding businesses up to $50,000 a day if they if they go throughthese different hoops and create these different tactics, and we're seeing this right now because there's been a boom and subscriptions, subscriptions are growing at about 18% a year, you can get a subscription for pet food. t just about everything. i mean, what are the measures they're going to take to make it harder for these companies to do it to us? well i think it's going to. it's going to rely a lot on customers filing complaints to the ftc, but the proposal is going to make it easier once customers filed those complaints for the ftc to crack down in other companies trying to get you news like anyone who's tried to call a help line. the last few months. i have they barely exist anymore. it seems they barely exist anymore, and they certainly don't want you to call them on the phone. you especially john berman. they don't want to hear you on the phone. so more companies, uh, frontier airlines breeze. book raisi the reservation platform. you won't be able to find those phone numbers

say the letters prove the government was harassing elon musk's twitter and the ftc says it has been watching twitter since 2011 over alleged security problems. the acting head of the faa getting questions from the center commerce committee. the hearing taking place days after the latest in-flight scare over the weekend. passengers had to subdue a man who was later arrested for trying to open an emergency exit and attacking a flight attendant. he faced questions about recent near miss collisions. >>> officials are working with mexico to get the bodies of two americans abducted and murdered in the country back on american soil. the two were kidnapped at gunpoint last friday, they were confirmed dead yesterday. two others have been brought back to the united states. one is recovering from surgery. the white house speaking on the case. >> this is a priority. >> the group of four were abducted while visiting mexico for a cheaper healthcare procedure. >>> california's high-speed rail project is dramatically overbudget. mie pessimis e stat >>> plus, "the doctor will see you now." but do th

the ftc is alleging that binance is trying to get u.s.rs on to its international platform in violation of u.s. rules because that platform is not registered. they take issue with a number of things. one is the know your customer process. verification process for people to trade on the platform. they allege that binance did not require customers to verify identity. they help u.s. customers to get on the platform offering vpn and evade compliance control. there is an issue with, they say, vip customers. binance helping high net worth individuals to evade sanctions and giving them a head's up to enforcement actions if they were coming. a number of allegations in the suit at this point. >> a couple of questions. why were binance trying to lure customers to the u.s. exchange? the second is talk about the significance it has on the exchange as a whole? we talked about the demise of ftx. binance was the last man standing. >> with binance, they were trying to get a bigger customer base on the international platform. that was the big motivation be

ftc so that's biden's ftc federal.cs you're goingsi to jim jordan sad the hearings on thursday. i'm glad you're coveringring. absolutely. sean, thanks s o much.s is i am jim griffin. this is ingram angle from washington tonight. sabotage and smear a. >> that's the focus ofmear tonight's angle. now, when the press kept catching lbj falsely describingt the true state of the vietnam war effort, it became knowwar n as his credibility gap. repeated assurances of progress that didn't pan out only undermine support for the war at home. >>y well, fast forward now to present day where another credibility gap is eroding public faith in almostou everything that our so-called , oparties. saying, led by course, the establishment of both parties. last night, we blew open the covid lab cover up where politicians, health officials, academics, all lea refuse to tel the full truth about the origins of covid worse thanf that, instead of holding china accountable, these american officials smeared american doctors and yours truly and a few others up.er and rather than raising bloodyes about any of t

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while they're asking those kind of questions, the day after the ftc did what they did, a person from irs who shows up at matt taibbi's home. didn't call his accountant, didn't call him, showed up at his home, left a note, said we'll be back in touch on monday. he had, think about what that means for a typical family. think about that the whole weekend for goodness sake? liz: right. >> this is frightening stuff. looks like intimidation of some sort. again why we want to know what communications were. were there more than just irs involved. was it more than new 87,000 agents hired for the $87 billion. i don't know we'll try to get answers to all those questions. liz: we're on the story. treasury secretary janet yellen testify about this today. watch this? >> i also sit on the house weaponization select subcommittee. couple weeks ago we have had a journalist before us, matt taibbi, by the way is not conservative. independent journalists known to be progressive to the left not to the right. during a few hours before he appearing before congress a irs agent appears at his home and leaves

the ftc now investigating those layoffs. >> trying to u.s. internal communication. it's part of the commission's probe into twitter's privacy and cybersecurity practices. since 2011, the ftc has been overseeing the company after twitter agreed to a consent order alleging serious security lapses in data scrutiny increase in the months us takeover of the company. let's head over to mill valley. just take a look at this sells food and candy, but signs posted that they're not for sale. this is at the walgreens on shoreline drive in mill valley, an employee at the store told kron 4 they were told not to sell food in their stories that they were not told what we reached out to walgreens who told us they had a pest issue and they say the pharmacy in the stores can remain open during this cleaning right? more trouble for walgreens, california. now cutting business ties with the drugstore chain announcing the state will not renew a 54 million dollar contract. this is all in response to the company's decision not to sell an abortion drug bust in states where republican offici

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what is the latest >> if you look at albertsons, they continue to do a good job from the ftc standpoint dialogue with the ftc we've prepared the information for the second request we've started the process of looking at divesting of stores and are pleased with the initial interest from other companies in terms of buying the stores that will end up being part of the negotiation. so we're exactly where we thought we would be, we would expect to be able to close in early 2024 >> would any moderation in inflation, specifically food, make this more palatable to regulators is it easier to sell if, in fact, we're not talking about record high prices at the grocery store every day? >> the federal trade commission will look at the competitiveness of every market and i'm sure from a senate the and congress standpoint it might make it easier but from a federal trade commission, we feel very strongly that the stores that become part of the continuing company we'll invest more than $500 million in reducing prices and we'll start day one. we'll invest in wages and provide better job security. we'll b

irs makes a strange house call on matt taibbi, the curious timing of the visit on the heels of the ftc names of journalists raises questions about potential intimidation. joining me now, grover norquist. thank you very much for being here. your thoughts on this irs agent showing up at matt taibbi's home. >> this is inexcusable in the united states. this is frightening. this cannot happen. why would the irs think that they could do this? well, when somebody in the irs stole thousands of irs information and audits and so on and handed out to a left wing group, nothing was done by the irs. nothing was done by the justice department. it has been two years since the administration has refused to let people know who the did this. they haven't even asked for the material back. so when the irs goes out and you attacks people that the president doesn't like and rips their privacy apart and by the way, we could do this to you, the administration says we're going to give you $80 billion more. they're not unhappy. they don't want to know what's been done. they the don't want it stopped. and i see

the ftc is now investigating those layoffs and trying to get musk's internal communications. it's part of the commission's probe into twitter's privacy and cybersecurity practices. since 2011, the ftc has been overseeing the company after twitter agreed to a consent order alleging serious security lapses in data that scrutiny increased in the months following musk's takeover of the company. next, how voters could decide housing in california is a basic human right. and >> what would that actually mean? plus, south san francisco and parts of the east bay are preparing for another major atmosphere river system tomorrow into friday. and then how much is too much and look look at the snow on the roof fat house is really a race against time with the snow and the rain making existing snow heavier. we got a lot of roofs in the sierra and even down in the foothills that could collapse. we'll give you some advice there. keep it here. kron. 4 news at 9 will head to lawrence. welcome back. communities in the sierra are still working to try to dig themselves out ahead of the next round o

also, the ftc will get money back for consumers.how to get rid of it. what's another way to track your subscriptions? >> the companies are counting on you to forget and they auto-renew. in addition to using those apps and setting reminders on your calendar, use something called privacy.com. it's a website where you can assign a unique debit card number for every online purchase, you can control how much they take out, cancel those cards at any time. so you don't fall into that trap of auto renewal. >> that's a great idea. >> you've got to manage it, but it works. >> thank you. >> nick jr. since 2016, like three months, i'm still paying for it. >> and now the kids are 30. >>> mr. roker, back with another check of the weather. >> but craig still likes watching doug. >> look at these temperatures today. d.c., you'll be up into the mid-70s, raleigh, 80 degrees. alexandria, 12 degrees above average at 85. that warmth continues through the south. 78, norfolk. tomorrow, tallahassee, 84. jackson, 85. and temperatures stay nice and mild righ

>> so in this instance the ftc is investigating the major layoffs that have been made at twitter sinceeir concerns have grown since musk took over, and in this instance the ftc is concerned recent staff reductions could compromise a company's ability to protect users. that's according to documents seen by "the wall street journal." as for musk he's had a pretty busy week speaking publicly and at a tech conference taking place and on tuesday he said twitter could have gone bankrupt in a few months and would have gone bankrupt in a few months if he hadn't taken steps to slash costs and effectively defending the move to layoff employees. we'll see what the investigation yields. >> and more on musk here. federal safety regulators are also turning up the heat on tesla, launching an investigation into reports of steering wheels coming off some of their suvs. julianna, i'm not much of a car guy, but that seems bad. what's the latest here? >> it does seem like one of the worst things that can happen when you're driving a car, fortunately it's only two complaints at this stage. safety regulator

the ftc says they are also required to notify all customers whose data was shared.service you use? first, the ftc says to opt out of targeted ads if possible and do so on every device and browser you use and second, customize your app's privacy settings denying permission to anything they don't need like your location. the case serving as a good lesson for dr. ati. >> all the technology that we have can be very helpful but it looks like it can be harmful too. >> reporter: lexi suitor, nbc 5 responds. >>> much more news ahead. >> stay with us. you're watching "nbc news daily." moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. and, they felt dramatic and fast itch relief some as early as 2 days. that's rinvoq relief. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. seriou

comes from because they do listen the chamber and when you do get someone like lina khan in in the ftc who's great and is doing a lot of the things that conservatives demanded the ftc do like the wall street journal will just you know, 15 articles about how lina khan is a woke marxist. and then all of a sudden in congress, all the republicans are like, she's a woke marxist. and then like, what has she done? and they're like, well, that's not the point. and i don't know, you have a coherent politics if you can't actually rooted in any governing details. you know, i'm really curious to the two of you how you see figures. i'm an ambitious up and coming folks like responding in a different political so i think buttigieg and lena connor interesting counterexamples in the sense that but a judge very much comes out of postwar thousandnine barack obama he's a rhodes scholar he's at mckinsey in the naval reserve. he's so smart it's not really that i'd be able to name any specific thing he has like expertise or technocratic in berlin a counterexample like she's actually like a deep expert. she b

the ftc and doj holding a spring enforcers summit. that's going on right now.ere seeing the shift from desktop to mobile. you see the incumbents having to resort to anti-competitive tactics to protect their dominance. this is another transition we're looking at to make sure if this is an opportunity for competition to enter the market and disrupt, we're allowing that to happen rather than illegal tactics. >> interesting perspective there. a point we made a number of times, we talk so often about the generative a.i., openai, chatgpt, barred at alphabet, but they're very expensive to run. >> yeah. >> not just compute powering. getting ahold of the data, the enormous data sets, it's not as though you can start company and have access to what you need to run those in a broad way. so it will be interesting to see how it all figures out. the fact is, microsoft really is supporting openai with the enormous amount of money they've dedicated towards owning a portion of that company. >> it's not just i created a user interface and have a algorithm and it's going to be a

i'll call this an escalation of the tension between musk and inflation and the intensity, ftc sends moren a dozen letters to twitter since elon musk took it over months ago and that's heavy handed and musk responds with a quickful shame of investigation for government agency for political purposes and suppression of the truth and the gop led judiciary committee is pushing back on ftc's demand and they say, look, the timing, scope, and frequency suggest mart san motivation. >> i -- partisan motivation, stuart: i think he's right on this one. let's move on, elon musk says twitter's cash flow could turn positive. when? lauren: next quarter so a matter of months. break even or turn positive and it's a big deal because he said the company was on track to lose $3 billion. why? ad revenue came down, costs went up, he came in and cut costs obviously with all those layoffs. twitter is not out of the woods and had to borrow a lot of money to take the company private and just the annual interest on what he borrowed is $1.5 billion. stuart: that's a ton of money right there. thanks, lauren. fed chai

before finalizing the role, ftc is in for public feedback.ing april 1 anyone who has not paid for hebert -- for a blue checked will have it removed from that social media,. anyone who wants to keep the verified status has to pay for it, it is called twitter blue and it will cost you from eight dollars to $11. reggie: a center will/19,000 jobs worldwide in an attempt to cut cause. the professional service company says it will spend 1.2 billion dollars in severance the cut 2.5% of its workforce. the process expected to happen over the next 18 months. the company specializes in tech services and consulting ss more than half of the layoffs in the back office staff. shares climbed as much as eight point 4% following that announcement yesterday. general mills says customers are thinking with his products despite the rising inflation cost. it makes everything from cheerios to cake mix and says higher prices of revenue by 13% in the last fiscal quarter. the demand for packaged food remains the same even as the economy changes. the company says it exp