liz: attorney john burton is representing martinovsky. he claims the insurance industry and law enforcement target and harass successful medical providers. john: they targeted him. liz: is there any merit to the claim that law enforcement is targeting worker's comp doctors? gary fagan: yeah, i'm hard pressed to say that i'm-- liz: gary fagan is the chair of the insurance fraud committee for the california da's association, and a chief deputy da in san bernardino county. he says medical provider fraud is viewed as one of the biggest cost drivers in the system. gary fagan: i think there's a recognition that it is a serious problem. liz: it's estimated that all types of worker's comp fraud cost the state between $1 billion and $3 billion a year. to tackle it, fagan says investigators take on a variety of cases, like the examples in this training video. female: this dock worker claimed he was injured. liz: catching workers who, according to law enforcement, lie about injuries, and busting employers without insurance. male: and do we have to d

aids was beginning to rear its head, and john burton, a mentor and i worked for him when he was in congress and helped me my whole career but when i went to congress and i went -- got eelected the board of supervisors we didn't talk much and he called me and said he's take item drugs and alcohol and checking into rehab facility in arizona and i would consider running for his seat. oh, my god. my kids were in high school. just a little too young to be perfect time. but i took it up with them and they said, mom, these opportunities don't come along very often. so i went for it. and i got there. i got there. and -- i got there -- >> host: go ahead. >> guest: i got to the house, serve the in house for ten years, from a very safe district. >> host: people fog kansas on women blenders which you had. well, in barbara mccosky and you had these women colleagues incredible and i love the detailed stories about nancy pelosi and die u dieeen fine tine. bit you had male mender. ... >> >> but that was hard. most of my races were hard. >> so then you get to the house of representatives is an exciting time

foundation john burton has his annual birthday party we celebrate tomorrow night he started that yearsgo as a birthday party to himself and switched to a fundraiser for fosters children anyone that wants to do in a the three that fosters children up to 18 now putting them through college we'll see tomorrow night an old group graduating or - after 18 person often their own their whole life another worthwhile thing but the toy program and while i've got the mike tell the general public you never knew that room was packed with interested people that are employed by the san francisco fire department many are emts or going to school and they are the most perfect behaved people we've been to thousand of meetings no meeting ever compares to this the whole year never a disruption respectful of all the speakers and never doing anything inappropriate i wish you all the best and happy holidays and many of you will be selected by this department for something and we were if you could see the credentials they carry the studying and the volunteerism remarkable people and wanted to thank all of you f

so when john burton's seat for congress opened up in 1982, i jumped in. it was a longshot and i'll always be grateful to the people that brought me to that dance, working people, environmentalists, child advocates, they put me over the top. after i won the election, i began hearing about the mysterious disease that was stealing the lives of so many in my congressional district. i remembered feeling so helpless because we didn't know what it was and what caused it, but one thing was clear: aids was devastating, and too many in washington were just not taking action. when we found out it could be transmitted sexually, i had to go up against the far right wing who didn't want to provide any information about the disease. yet here i was, a middle-aged mother of two from the suburbs talking about condoms. it was uncomfortable. but this would become my way. in the face of a crisis, never look away, never back down, and never be afraid. in the case of aids, i got to work with the chairman of the house appropriations committee, a southern gentleman. he never hear

goes to the the locker room eagles dealing with long snapper injuries, john dorenbos hurt, and emergency long snapper tray burtonnes save i had, the 41 yarder, eagles take 22-21 lead. redskins come right back. oh, no chris thompson, touchdown, eagles down by five but they have every shot to win it. final minutes. carson wentz, and, final seconds, drivers down the field, and then he is drilled. matt tobin beat by rice an kerrigan. eagles lose the ball, game, 27 -22. they are licking their wound once again. they have lost eight of ten. lets go live to jamie apody. they have lost four straight for first time since 2012. a lot of questions after this game, is effort one of them. >> no, jeff, not today. six days ago doug pederson called out effort of his team saying his players didn't play hard enough. today, that wasn't the problem it is just a case of them not being good enough. >> this one hurts this one definitely hurt. nfc east game, lost to the redskins twice this year. i mean, it is tough. it is definite the liz tough. >> we finished the game, you know, we have been in situations like this where we got to fini

john lost, they needed a little magic for the field goals. the backup long snapper came in but they couldn't complete the field goal. then burton came in, the third string long snapper. they were able to complete that one. it was not easy. burton's first snap in a game since pop warner. >> when something like that happens, you have to step up and don't. it was my job to step up and be the snapper. obviously, i didn't do a good job on the first one. it was a field goal. i don't know. i'm a professional. i should get it done. >> i'm excited. you know, i try to take advantage of every opportunity i get. it went well. unbelievable play. the majority of it is on him. he did a really good job. >> they both said the balls they were long snapping on the field in the game were a lot slicker than the ones they were practicing with because of how cold it was. the balls get slicker. i'm john clark. we'll have more after sunday night football tonight. we'll be right back. scalpel. i have no idea what i'm doing. i'm just a tv doctor. i never went to college. (scream) i don't do blood. but now, thanks to cigna, i can do more than just look th

the emergency third string long snapper tray burton did okay, he did a good job, birds made that field goal. john dorenbos played in his 167th straight game matching the record for most consecutive games played but he won't be able to break the record now. we'll tell you who else is lost for the season at 6:20. the eagles have really been depleted because of injuries. i'm john clark, see you then. >> john, thanks. >>> pope francis turns 80 next week. >> how about a pair of glasses media from a 1600-year-old olive street branch? a couple is making the glasses at their workshop in croatia, they were inspired after they made another pair of wooden glasses for a friend who said they were so good, even the pope could wear them. the couple will personally give the glasses to the pope on wednesday, very cool. >>> the 2017 golden globe nominations are out. >> "la la land" is the one to beat, the romantic musical racking up several nominations. another contender, coming of age tale "moonlight," followed by "manchester by the sea" with five nominations. watch as jimmy fallon hosts the 2017 golden globe awa

john dorenbos was hurt in the second half. he left the game with the wrist injury and later had surgery. the brent celek filled in un successfully followed by tray burton. after dorenbos, well, he is on the shelf. >> he is done for the season. he is one of the leaders of the team, so he is definite the liz going to be missed. we will have to bring in some guys today, tomorrow, work out some guys, and try to get a long snapper in here. >> dorenbos was just one of four players, seriously injured yesterday, wendell smallwood, jaylen watkins and math the math tobin feeling the pain today. later in sports how one player is playing the role of santa claus? do you see what we did there. we gave you depressing news. >> yes. >> now we will tell you something fun at the end. >> i was hoping dorenbos would make the pain disappear but it doesn't work. >> the magic thing. >> yeah. >> that is a shame. >> i feel for him. >> thanks, buddy, appreciate it. >>> coming up on "eyewitness news" awards season is almost here, we will go live to hollywood to talk about the the golden globe nominations, who is in, and who is out. >>> flu is on the rise why you should get your s

burton serves as our senior fellow in our thomas a. rowe stoolt for economic policy studies and he will lead the rest of this discussion. david? >> thanks, john. it's my pleasure to introduce three high quality panelists, i've asked them to each speak for about ten minutes and then we'll have a question and answer session and a discussion. we're going to go first with jason, then steve, then dan mitchell. jason is a senior research fellow at the mercades center at george university and teaches economics at johns hopkins, at virginia tech and jompbltown if i remember correctly. he is former acting director at the social security administration and chief economist there served in the joint economic community as an economist and working in tax policy and entitlements. steve enton say senior fellow at the tax foundation he went to the university of chicago as did i but steve unlike me actually learned something while he was there he served in the reagan treasury, was at the institute for research and economics of taxation for many years and after norm trade died serve as et cetera president. he is an extremely fine tax economist and he and his co