by the way, the other thing is, who is going to buy the instacart groceries?er: [laughs] that is such a good point. i wish more people were saying what you just said. i really think what you were saying is true.hi thank you for that. >> i don't think it's a partisan issue. >> tucker: it'ssnk certainly not a partisan issue! i'm sure there are things we don't agree on. i'm certain of it. but i agree with everything youee just said. thank you, congressman. >> i appreciate that. >> tucker: thank you, congressman. >> tucker: congress sets age limits for cigarettes and alcohol because both are bad for kids.wi is it time to do the same for cell phones, too? a libertarian disagrees. they will join us after the eebreak. shocking footage of the pre-dawn raid on roger stone's house. wait until you see the shirt he was wearing. pretty amazing. ♪ ♪ a sock-a-bam-boom ♪ who's in the room? ♪ love is dangerous ♪ but driving safe means you pay less ♪ ♪ switch and save ♪ yes, ma'am excuse me, miss. ♪ does this heart belong to you? ♪ ♪ would you like it anyway? [ scatting ] ♪ >>

reporter: working mom phoenix di corvo loved driving for delivery app instacart. >> i could set my own hours. the pay was competitive. >> reporter: until the nompany surprised her with pay structure last november. >> i'm missing at least 40% of my pay. >> reporr: under that policy, tips were being used by instacart to supplement the driver's base pay instead of being extra money in the driver's pocket. >> a tip is supposed to be extra, not a substituor your wages. >> reporter: tonight following an nbc news n, vestigat instacart is walking that policy back, promising to now add tips on top of the base pay and saying they'll provide back pay to drivers for tips they never got. >> your favorite restaurants now deliver with doordash. >> reporter: at rival doordash, a similar policy has been in place sinc. your tips aren't always extra. they go towards a driver's guaranteed pay. a pay model the y stands by. >> so if the tip isn't going straight to the worker, should we not even tip? >> you cannot tip, and the worker will still get the same amount, or you could also tip in cash. ep >>ter: fo

. >>> instacart is owning upo taking employees' tips and saying it will stop.e groceryivery app is set to overhaul the way tips are distributed. this follows an nbc news reppat that ces like instacart and doordash are using t customers's to pay the drivers. consumer groups say the tipping method is deceptive since the full tip isn't going directly to drivers as additional pay. instacart says it will roll out s new payment plan in the coming days,eshich g tips on top of base pay, and the company will give back pay to drivers for tips that you have already given. >> that's good. sounds fair to me. >> yeah. >> we want to know. >> that's not the concept of tipping as w allnderstand it. >> no. >> as a former pizza hutry delian -- >> i thought you were dominos? >> no, i was pizza hut, after three years, i couldn't eat that stuff after that. >> i bet 'mnot. >> back again. >> i've seen you dig into a slice of pizza >> i can eat it now. >> all right. doug, are we going to want to be calling the pizza guy in the nin? >> fridaht. i think that's the night we're going to be

that wasn't the case for a delivery servic instacart.t admits it has taken employees' iips and says will stop. the delivery app is said to overhaul the way tips are distributed. this follows an nbatnews report ompanies such as instacart and door dash are using the tips to pay drivers. it will roll out new plan in the coming days that will give tips on top of base pay. >> that makes me mad. if you are expectingo give a tip and you didn't realize the company is take it. >> fix that right away. >>> a new orleans saints fan is taking a grudge to the grave. >> henry jean died before the kickoff of the super bowl game. his obituary states, 65-year-old henry died on sunday a 1:00 p.m., determined not to watch super bowl liii. >> i don't blame him. >> the saints fans are fuming over a blown call at tend of the nfc championship game that kept them out of the game. >> even the fans knew that. the obituary didn't list the cause of death. but it said that henry was the life of the party and had a quick wit. he would like to see that in his obitua ob

because i use instacart the default tip is 5%. who tips 5%. usually you want to tip 10% or 15%. have a lower default tip because they don't want to make it seem like customers should pay more. and then, if you do pay more, they are taking that tip away. i mean, it's just a scam. >> tucker: you have been one of the only people in the congress to press an issue and i'm grateful that you have that's really important. where these companies basically send to the taxpayer a lot of their labor cost. they don't pay their employees enough. they don't even admit they are employees and then the public takes up the slack in the form of social programs. have you made any headway in getting the companies to pay for that? >> well, we had the stop bezos. amazon was doing that paying for food stamps and paying for a lot of the social programs. here the rich e. company in the world wasn't paying a $15 minimum wage. in response to that bernie sanders and i had that legislation. bezos announced a $15 minimum wage. they felt some pressure and did raise wages. that said, there is a long way to govern

much in the way that uber and instacart have different models in different cities, we are very awareve different tiers depending on the target demographic and the city we are in. emily: it could be cheaper somewhere else? jenny: it could be cheaper or a different tief. right now, we do giftwrapping, we can shop for any and everything. all the perks for this member saves them so much time but it is worth it. i think you need to rethink about the service, not compare it to others, but as a way to save time. time is worth that $50 a month. emily: are women your primary consumer? jenny: a lot of the consumers are busy moms. doing the bulk of household shopping and purchase decisions. busier than ever. macro trends, women are working more than ever before. primary breadwinner, yet they are still in charge of the household. emily: you can save me on valentine's day and other holidays? jenny: the surprise gift for your kids, the back-to-school sign. the last minute birthday gift for a kids party. or something that maybe you would want to buy but did not have time to get around to. emily: am

. >>> the silicon valley startup accused of stealing tips from workers is change in policy after instacart came under fire saying they are using tips to subsidize the base pay resulting in lower overall compensation. the ceo announces that tips witothe se pay and workers will be reimbursed for the lost tips. >>> we are learning more about the google expansion project on the peninsula. the tech guy plans for mountain view include 3 million square feet of redeveloped offices with 400,000 feet of community radio, as many as 8000 new homes and 35 acres of open space. google says the goal is to help the great affordable housing and mountain view city council will discuss the plans in two weeks >>> if you drive while holding yourself only could be more than a ticket soon. crashes caused by distracted drivers happen over 1000 times a day across the country in their working those not paying attention. under the bill 47 used your cell phone by driving distracted count is one point on your driving record. >> the finite now is $20 but if you later in the state of california it is $1000. >> insurance

pay drivers for tips had absorbed dating back to october of last year i'm not really an instacart user it up >> cart delivery last night. >> the workers are guaranteed a payment of $10 >> yeah, they get that service fee that's in there. >> there gu. somehow if it wasn't at least $10 and someone tipped, they added it to the order to make it $10. if the order was $9 and somebody tipped you $2, you only got $11 instead of $12 >> here's the thing. here's a good rule just always throw the driver extra cash on top because if you are too lazy to go to the store, as i was, you got to help them out. >> everybody likes cash. >> they're working hard. >>> delta airlines and coca-cola, they are apologizing for napkins that some passengers called creepy. the diet coke brand of napkins encouraged delta passengers to approach their plane crush and even had spots to write down your name and phone number delta and coke say they'll be e replacing the suggestive napkins with diet coke branded napkins >> tomorrow you're going to did a story in "trending" that's going to be, man, outrage on twitter as man g

instacart said it will no longer count workers tips as part of their guaranteed pay. the san francisco company guaranteed workers $10 on a delivery but that included tips. up to a point, the more a customer tipped, the less they paid the worker. they complained on facebook and reddit. they will no longer do that and will pay back wages as well. >>> you may not know this man but he changed the internet. craig newmark, the craig in craig's list. he just gave a huge amount for journalists to fight fake news. scenes from inside the chronicle newsroom, real reporters hard at work. >>> elon musk tweeted last night the model 3 cost $35,000. but note those parenthesis. that includes fuel savings over the life of the car. musk says he's doing everything he can to get the real price tag down to that targeted $35,000 but it's, quote, a super hard grind, he says. tesla is also handicapped by its own success. it sold so many cars, the government has reduced the tax break on tesla. new statistics, by the way, show half of all the electric cars sold were sold in california. here is

i sit here as a proud of instacart.vanize other grocers to get on board. i think the same thing with them creating more amazon go stores in the next few years, we'll see a cashier-less operation it's better, cheaper, faster it's all the things consumers want this is long-term investment, but amazon consistently is right in making these things and i really don't see this as -- >> it does come with a premium valuation. >> no doubt. that's why i stick to the -- i stick primarily to the private market when i am doing public market investing, it is long-term buy and forget >> how long has amazon been called profitless prosperity 15 years >> yeah. probably and the stock's gone up a ton. >> i've seen it. anybody that was a non-believer has been, you know, drawn and quartered. i wouldn't bet against bezos -- maybe in other areas of his life but not in this. is this a time where you invest and five years from now you go, gosh, that was genius. maybe not. i don't know right? >> i think they are going to be massively disruptive yo

the chronicle reports the san francisco based instacart is changing its tipping policy.viously the company used tips to subsidize its shoppers basedpay. other companies like door dash and amazon are using money fromtips to help pay workers. >>> time is 8:16. let's get back to sal and a look at monday commute. >> we still have a lot of slowing out there as you might imagine for this last hour of the commute for many. 8:00-9:00 is when it does drop off at 9:00. but we still have work to do here. carquinez bridge to the maccarthur maze 580 traffic is busy approaching 24. bay bridge at least a 15-20 minute delay. no problems on 880 northbound although it is slow getting up to downtown oakland. san mateo and dumbarton bridge commutes are heavy. also looking at the south bay as promised all of those freeways are slow. nothing unusual there as you drive up to the west valley. 8:17. let's bring steve this with today's forecast. >>> we get a little break today. today will be a dry day. there has been a few showers on the san mateo, santa cruz coast. it looks like a lot of that is

tech startups, like stripe and instacart from india.may not be rich now, but if they have a very successful ipo, a lot of stock options may turn into millions or maybe even billions. that funnels nicely into morgan stanley asset management and wealth management which overseas $2 trillion worth. they really need to compete in the online tech space with the likes ever fidel and e-trade. they are looking for younger clientele. they may not be even familiar with the wall street names like ms. morgan stanley seen more stable revenues and stable profits since 2000 but they have had problem with trading in the last quarterly earnings. wealth management seen more stable and possibly more lucrative with shrinking balance sheets with a lot of wall street firms. neil? neil: susan, thank you very, very much. amazon had already made it clear it was rethinking its commitment to opening up a center in new york. was it because jeff bezos was tired of the criticism he was getting in new york? one of those leading critics is next. aw, stop. this is why v