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we'll tell you about two san francisco companies that plan to compete with the website groupon. >>> fog is coming in fast. it is cool this weekend and today. there are big changes coming for the forecast. >>> new disturbing details about what federal investigators found at the farms linked to the massive egg recall. >>> getting more and paying less. a number of websites now offering dining discounts. some will get you more than 50% off your meal. but that's great news for your wallet. it may not be that great of news for the bottom line. ally is live in san francisco with our report. >> reporter: talk for example groupon.com. people sign up and they e-mail out different discounts and coupons for company. they have 15 million subscribers worldwide. san francisco-based company want to get in on the game. yelp.com is launching their owner mail deal of the week program for bay area subscribers to compete with groupon. it starts tomorrow. >> we looked at the model over the years. we want to test it. >> reporter: they are not the only once. open table.com started a dally deal pilot program wh

. >> and this is from a web server is that is not for everybody, like groupon and when you sign up, the and you a discount. for instance, if alike getting a carcass count. and a car wash, and i have to make a discount. -car wash, and that coupons good for one year. save something thaand also, my restaurant, the alike. and $35 for the amount of $15! >> and you print out the coupons and you take it to >> just give them your e-mail and it will evaluate keep on every single day. >> so the want to build up their e-mail? >> and in this case, 94170. so they know that, and that there are some many of us, and we're going to blast this out and you're going to get 15 of the 30 people because these are your neighborhood. is a greeting for businesses, and in these tough times, to save money. >> and it is not for everybody? >> and because the thing that cut earlier was facials i do not need a facial. >> [laughter] >> i see. >> and don with be wasting money. >> i got it in the next question is from the judy. and told thdo >> that is a technology that makes stereo that you here. >> sound systems. >> an

. >>> you hear a lot about groupons, the group coupons. >> you heard of groupons, you sign up at groupon.com and get major discounts this morning yelp will get into the act. the first one will be for a yoga place. go to yelp.com/deals, you can sign up. a new deal each day. this is the first day for yelp. the other kind of deal on the markets, wall street plunged. the dow down 144 points on monday. overseas, the nikkei hit a 16-month low. the dollar is weak. the case shiller report on the prices up about a percent. that is nationwide. that's good news. the bad news is that data looks back at when the government was giving tax incentives for home prices. i got a quick chance to look at the san francisco numbers. up 0.3%. if you look at the median price being 650 in the san francisco metro area, that's about $2,000 in pricing. >> those might be lacking a bit behind? >> yes. >> the san francisco metro market is such a wild market. so many variations. it's a little hard to get down to the block by block level. >> thanks, scott. >> 6:16 right now. new this morning, the military reports it is chang

the one i know is groupon. >> i talked to a small business owner who said when she got involved in grouponfering a coupon, she had more response in one week than she had in a year in advertising. this definitely works. good for business. and there are a whole lot of copy cat sites that have sprung up as well. the latest is called giltcity.com, it's g-i-l-t, like gold. it launches in san francisco today with discount coupons on the san francisco street food festival that comes this week. we've gotten word from our entourage that hbo will soon be coming to the ipad. hbo has an app already, but it's sort of lame. the new app would actually let you watch hbo movies and shows on the ipad. and that's coming, we hear, soon. and on the cusp of an ipo, general motors recalling a quarter million cars because of a seat belt in the backseat may not latch properly. it's the gmc acadia, chevy traverse, buick enclave, and saturn outlook built between 2009 and 2010. these are all fundamentally the same car. that nice suv that gm makes under those various different names, backseat problems. >> all right. w

. >> you heard of groupons, you sign up at groupon.com and get major discounts this morning yelp will get into the act. the first one will be for a massage and yoga place. go to yelp.com/deals, you can sign up for restaurants, exercise classes. >>> wall street, dow plunged another 144 points on monday. overseas, the nikkei hit a 16-month low. the dollar is weak. the case shiller report on the price of homes is coming out. we got the bad news on homes from the national association of realtors. the bad news just keeps pouring in. >> waiting for a break. hasn't come yet. >>> a shark warning is posted at a popular pacifica surfing beach. surfers in the water and on the shore say they saw an 18 to 25-foot great white shark devouring a seal yesterday afternoon. witnesses saw blood shooting into the air and a violent thrashing in the water. one man grabbed his video camera. he did get a glimpse of that thin moving through the water. he got on a boat then and went out to urge other surfers to get out of the water. >> just thrash the water while blood was just squirting and water was just viol

speaking of copy catting, you heard of groupon? the latest is a copy cat of giltcity.com. so discount coupon on the san francisco street food festival this week. gilt, g-i-l-t, not guilt with a "u," giltcity.com. the food festival itself looks fun. i didn't even know about it. with the trucks and all that. >> thank you very much, scott. >> thank you very much. >>> the california city who ousted its leaders for inflated salaries is trying to track down another money leak. bell ended a loan program started by the former city administrator that paid out $900,000 to city workers and at least two council members. the city council never approved of the program that gave out at least 50 loans over the last eight years. they're working on tracking down the money. a state audit last week also found bell overcharged residents more than $3 million during the past three years to pay for pension obligations. >>> 6:18 now. controversial comments from former president of mexico, vincent fox. he's one again saying mexico should legalize drugs to reduce violence in his country. fox says th

>> group deals are groupon meaning if enough people get in on the deal, we get a great price.ake off, somebody smart will aggregate them. two guys from harvard started a site called yip it.com and it's based on your prefrerences. so the best of the best get served up to you. >> another one that i really like here is called sherpa. what does it do? >> this is when you're at the store and you don't have the coupon, i wonder if there is one. you could be standing in the line, we'll take best buy by way of example, wonder it there's a coupon, i'll clickic quickly go to see if i can find it. it will pop up on my screen. i hand it over to 9 the cashier. >> you just punch it in, there's nothing to it. why and they don't even glinch. >> there's another one called my daily deal.com? >> sure. it's on my daily.com. it's their daily deal. and these are the freebies. when you search for free things on the internet, that's not always a winning proposition. these have been vetted by their he had et tors a editors and they will tell you what the catch is. >> so you don't always have to give a

. >>> speaking of copycatting, you've had heard of groupon, and gilt launches today with discount couponsthe country to go green. they installed solar panels meant to generate clean power for 25 years. the church is located in santa clara. >>> it is currently the largest chinese church in the fashion, with more than 2,400 members. we want to thank you for being with us today. we'll be back igndhtbrly e a br.ning ♪ >>> we're back on this winesday with some "who knew" trivia and today it's all about very familiar voices on commercials that you kind of know that but you just can't place. kathie lee is across the street at the msnbc.com cafe and it's good to see you. they'll see commercials and try to guess whose voice is on it. those with the right answer get $100 and those with the wrong answer get a kathie lee music cd. >> how do you think people are going to do? >> i think they're pretty smart, i think they'll get it. >> let's see if you're right, let's go across the street to kathie. >> first up, you're from wisconsin. let's watch this visa commercial for the winter olympics. >> a mighty