the manufacturer has supported us with mastercard on the installation of this mastercard- enabled chargingtion. i want to introduce our mayor of san francisco, governor elect -- lieutenant governor-elect, gavin newsom. >> it is always great to see so many people at an event like this. i am proud of all of your work and effort to get us to this point. this is really a long-term commitment that we have made in san francisco to address our greenhouse gas emissions, to change the way we consume energy. i have said this for many years because i believe it is true. it will be cities like san francisco that will determine our future, as it relates to global climate change. at the end of the day, the total emissions in this world is the sum total of local commissions. the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions are occurring in cities, like san francisco. unless we can right that wrong, unless we can get our arms around it, we are not going to turn the tide. cities like san francisco are demonstrating how to actually get things done. we are demonstrating the capacity to actually move the ball an

i especially want to thank mastercard. mastercard has seen we need the convenience of their credit card in order to get these things easy to operate. and very secure. part of the reason we are going with these credit cards is so that you do not have to worry. i have people at coulomb who are trained to keep your secret secret. there are rooms in my company that i am not allowed to go anymore because i am not approved. it will make it easy for you so that you can be part of the solution. we have been extremely fortunate. we have to thank the mayor for the weather. we are thankful to be in san francisco after all these years. thank you. [applause] >> we are going to get a few words now from mastercard. kathleen is the business leader of the u.s. emerging team, director for mastercard, and she will tell you about the weather in new york. >> we much prefer this sunshine. thank you all and good afternoon. on behalf of mastercard, we are excited that coulomb technologies and their charge points have joined hundreds of thousands

two big household names mastercard and visa, taken down today on the web in an electronic war that has to do with wikileaks and its secretive founder who tonight remains in jail. >>> flashpoint. violence has erupted in haiti on top of all the suffering there. tonight, american airlines has stopped all flights. we'll hear from our own ann curry, who is there. >>> her legacy after a life of so much suffering. we look at what elizabeth edwards left behind to other women who are facing and fighting cancer. >>> 30 years later after that awful night here in new york. unheard until now, john lennon tonight in his own words. >>> and some very bad news tonight ant another music legend, aretha franklin. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. >>> good evening. it doesn't seem quite real, but the world is in the midst of a >>> good evening. it doesn't seem quite real, but the world is in the midst of a kind of electronic war. the mysterious man who runs wikileaks and keeps his secrets in a military bunker is tonight in a london jail and today for

the manufacturer has supported us with mastercard on the installation of this mastercard- enabled charging station. i want to introduce our mayor of san francisco, governor elect -- lieutenant governor-elect, gavin newsom. >> it is always great to see so many people at an event like this. i am proud of all of your work and effort to get us to this point. this is really a long-term commitment that we have made in san francisco to address our greenhouse gas emissions, to change the way we

hackers say they brought down the website of mastercard. the corporate site had experienced heavy traffic, but they said there was no impact on transactions. others said that their payment portal was unavailable for some hours. another on-line into deep explains why it stopped dealing with wikileaks. >> they wrote a letter. seeing any activity with wikileaks was deemed illegal in the united states. >> last week, it was the wikileaks site that was under attack. now the same tactic is being used against the company's -- the companies that have decided to stop working with the controversial site. bbc news. >> more on that later in the program. authorities are saying of delays in an overcrowded prison in broke out resident has admitted that the conditions in the prison were completely inhumane and has promised reform. we have this report. >> early morning and the tragedy in the san miguel present starts to unfold. frantic shouts from inmates and relatives outside. there are several tense hours and these people are waiting outside the prison gat

both mastercard and visa's corporate websites were down today, but not by choice. supporters of the controversial website wikileaks claimed responsibility for a series of cyber attacks. >> suzanne: tom, hackers flooded the sites with traffic, overwhelming servers and shutting them down. the attacks came after mastercard and visa both stopped processing donations to wikileaks. >> tom: other organizations that pulled support for wikileaks were also targeted. so, what can businesses do to protect themselves from similar attacks? erika miller reports. >> reporter: floods and hurricanes aren't the only disasters businesses need to consider. there are also potential man- made calamities, like cyber attacks. people who tried to connect to mastercard's corporate website couldn't for much of today. visa's corporate site was also targeted this afternoon. no credit card sales were affected, but internet security expert raj goel says there's an important lesson here. >> no firm is too big, or too small, to be victimized. >> you may not be a direct target of an attack, but you

. >>> mastercard may be the latest victim of hackers supporting wikileaks.igner attack shutting down the credit card company's website today. supporters of wikileaks are claiming responsibility. they say they launched the attack because mastercard is refusing to process donations and payment to wikileaks. however, people with mastercard credit cards have not been affected by the cyberattack. >>> is a soldier accused of leaking classified information to wikileaks a hero? that's what the berkeley city council is trying to decide. they are considering whether or not to declare their support for army private bradley manning. the council will vote next tuesday on a resolution that calls him a hero and says he should be freed from jail. >>> coming up, the new teen drug trend has some kids raiding kitchen cabinets. plus, lost john lennon tapes for the first time hearing what the former beatle was thinking just days before he died. >>> well, today pretty much a washout so far. we still have some rain showers moving into the bay area. coming up, we'll take a look at

. >>> meantime, wicky leaks reporters are waging a cyber war targeting visa and mastercard. hackers say they launched attacks on mastercard, visa, and others who have acted against the website. mastercard says hackers tied up its site after it blocked donations to the website. >>> the storm starting to sneak out of the north bay, but stale raining down in the south bay. bill martin has been tracking this thing all afternoon long. >> it started off in the north bay this morning, we had light showers for the morch commute, and that slowed things down. and now the showers are spreading south. there's the live radar sweep, some sprinkles and drizzles around santa rosea. most of us received rainfall at least at this hour a quarter inch to a half-inch. you see what we have here, and i mentioned this earlier, any time you get rain like this, this isn't heavy flooding rain, it's just rain, and the wipers are on probably on the lowest setting. what you get is you get bad traffic in the heart of the afternoon commute, and that's where we are. bad traffic because of this rain. the rain

besides visa and mastercard, a string of american companies include being amazon.com and pay pal have also cut ties to the organization amid intense government pressure. >> the u.s. government basically wrote a letter saying that the wikileaks activity were deemed illegal in the united states. >> reporter: wikileaks sparked a wrirld outrage -- worldwide outrage after publishing hundreds of thousands of secret u.s. documents. assange is currently in a london jail, fighting extradition to sweden over a sex crimes case. but u.s. officials are also looking into whether he can be prosecuted for other charges like espionage. still that isn't stopping his organization. wikileaks plans to keep publishing classified documents, only a fraction of which have been released so far. cbs news, washington. >>> it is 4:38. this morning the u.s. senate is expected to vote on a bill aimed at giving young illegal immigrants a chance at citizenship. rallies were held yesterday at the house -- as the house passed the dream act. it's geared toward foreign-born youngsters who are illegally brought to the u.s

paralyzing sites for visa and mastercard, and just tonight, new words from the hackers what it means for your credit card. >>> and the new'iest headlines from the nixon tapes this week. he takes on the italians, theire, and jews, hear for yourself. >>> good evening. on this saturday, it was two years ago tonight bernie madoff was under arrest and we would learn of his epic swindle, cheating investors out of tens of billions. this morning, two years to the day, we learned his oldest son mark madoff hanged himself. brian ross has been on the story from the beginning and he's back tonight. what a turn. >> it was his life of privilege and luxury that ended two years ago today. and this morning, bernie mado ' madoff's son apparently timed i hihis suicide to the minute and hour of the anniversary. police found the body in madoff's manhattan apartment. his 2-year-old son in a different room. >> he was found hanging from a pipe in the living room. >> authorities said he sent an e-mail to his wife saying take care of our son. his wife became concerned that he was suicidal. >> mr. madoff's fat

in to them through mastercard. >> reporter: today, we couldn't reach mastercard's site on the web.is believed to be under internet attack from wikileak supporters. visa has stopped any payments to wikileaks, as well. in poulsen's view, it's all worked to the benefit of julian assange. >> it's no coincidence that assange set up hosting with amazon, a u.s. company, a very, very mainstream company. he did that knowing that there was a very good chance amazon would shut him down and that that would generate controversy and discussion. that would lead to more support, financial support and moral support. so, basically, he set up... he set up the u.s. when he chose amazon for his hosting. and now, people who aren't necessarily devoted to assange's brand of radical transparency but are devoted to free speech are supporters of wikileaks. wikileaks was never in danger of being pulled off the web, but by trying it-- and trying it in such a clumsy way-- now it is only more popular than ever. >> reporter: the attempts to attack wikileaks' content will ultimately fail, poulsen says, because onc

it includes credit card giants visa, mastercard and paypal. sarah palin's site was also hit. the attacks began tuesday after a british judge denied bail to wikileaks founder julian assange. in a swedish extradition case, the mischief appears tied to a hacker group called anonymous, whose members have been critical of government and big corporations. >>> the city of berkeley is proposing a resolution that would declare the suspected wikileaks source a hero. private first class bradley manning is suspected of leaking classified information to the wikileaks website. while the federal government calls manning a criminal, the author of the resolution calls manning a patriot who deserves a medal. >> things that have come out including "collateral murder" show americans committing war crimes and nobody is prosecuting the war criminals. >> these things weaken america's position and it makes america look weak to people who are not necessarily open to negotiations. they think in terms of strength and weakness. >> a city commission has already approved the resolution. the city council w

. >>> sarah palin, mastercard, swedish prosecutors, what do they all have in common? well, apparently they've all been the target of hackers, making a show of support for the website wikileaks in what's being called "operation payback." kurt gregory reports. >> reporter: the websites of mastercard and visa came under cyber attack along with pay pal and a swiss bank. the four organizations all stopped processing donations to wikileaks after the united states criticized the website's release of sensitive diplomatic communiques. >> technology allows people to amass enough power that they can go up against a major corporation. >> reporter: the credit card's websites were both inaccessible to online customers for parts of the day. the attackers? activists who call themselves anonymous, essentially flooded the websites with armies of computers, an effort to knock the websites off line. a tweak prompted the on websites calling for hackers to fire their weapons. >> if these hackers are clever, they can't be found. >> the latest salvo in the cyber war came from outspoken conse

paypal, visa, and mastercard have ended their relationship with the wikileaks. hackers from a group calling themselves operation paybacks a broad down -- say they brought down mastercard. others reported that the web payment service was not available for some hours. another on-line payment service explained why it has stopped dealing with wikileaks. >> the u.s. government wrote a letter saying that the wikileaks activity was deemed illegal in the u.s. and as a result, our policy group had to make the decision of suspending the account. >> it was the wikileaks site which was under attack last week from unknown hackers bombarding it with so much traffic, its owners had to move it elsewhere. the same tactic is being used against the companies which have decided to stop working with the site. another phase in what some are calling the world's first info war. >> the latest batch of u.s. diplomatic cables disclosed focuses on u.s. news of china's involvement in africa. our world affairs correspondent told me how significant they are. >> it is an caps' leading what ame

mastercard dropped 10% to a three-month low. meantime, discover financial services, which runs a different type of card network, fell 3%. quarterly profits improved, but its loan balance fell, pushing down revenues. as you're checking your list twice, check out energizer holdings, the battery maker. shares saw a pop in price and volume-- a 6% rally on twice its average pace. back in october is when the stock was at its most recent 52- week high. on the merger front, one company is taking its name out of consideration for a buyout-- hair salon chain regis. shares fell 12%, back to just above where it was trading in august when the company started looking for strategic alternatives-- in other words, a buyer. one place there is more belief of a buyout is with clothing retailer aeropostale. "the new york post" reports it has hired an investment bank, and that management wants it to remain as a public company. shares jumped 8%. finally, some big rallies in the casino business, specifically those with operations in macao, china. one o

. >> eric, this morning visa joined mastercard in blocking paymts to the controversial website. the move chokes off two more important funding avenue for wikileaks which relies heavily on individual donations to fund operations. now another setback fo the website, the founder is behind bars. flanked by a sea of reporters, founder julian assange turned himself in in london. the 39-year-old faces extradition to sweden where he faces rape and molestation. he forced the judge to deny bail fearing assange would go back into hiding. robert gat welcomed the news of the arrest. >> sounds like good news to me. >> as sang says the charges are retribution for the diplomatic cables his website released. >> it puts people's lis in danger, threate our national security, and undermis our efforts to work with other countries solve shared problems. >> assange has written to enact a so-called doomsy plan if the site is shut down or there's a legal turn that wikileaks doesn't like the plan would relee a set of secret documents. meanwhile funding to the website is becoming increasingl difficult as

suint a visa or mastercard that is something totally different. a legal action going they can stop transactions in their authority if for is a violation of local law. if i have a bookie operation of these it does not have to make those bats. you can't shut which leaks down but you can squeeze some of these is that no more because they're violating the law. >> thank you very much will see you next friday. salsa? ♪ [ female announcer ] the cleaner the counter, the smoother the counter. with bounty you can be confident you'll get your counter clean. in this lab test, one sheet of bounty leaves this surface 3x cleaner than the bargain brand. ♪ big mess? bring it. super absorbent, super durable, super clean. bounty. the clean picker upper. and for huge value, try bounty huge roll. the next generation of television service? at&t u-verse tv. tv like you've never seen before at a really great price. switch to at&t now to get u-verse tv starting at just $39 a month for six months, dvr included. or get up to $300 in promotion cards with a qualifying u-verse

we know visa, mastercard, pay pal and others are instruments of u.s. foreign policy it's not something we knew before. i'm calling for the world to protect my work and people from these illegal and immoral attacks." the latter part of the statement refers to operation payback in which online activists calls themselves anonymous crashed websites of mastercard and visa after those organizations cut business ties with wikileaks. assange's mother in interviews expressed gratitude as well as obvious concern. >> i told him how people all over the world in all sorts of countries were standing up with placards and screaming out for his freedom and justice. every time the news goes on i'm so glued to it, is he okay? these massive forces have decided they're going to stop him and not play by the rules. >> assange's harshest critics in this country called him a terrorist with the rest of the media sometimes being character iced as criminally complisit. asaupg's journalist is a cyber attack and added this. >> regardless of whether or not you think this really does

. >> eric this morning visa joined mastercard in blocking payments to the controversial website. the move chokes off two more important funding avenues for wikileaks which relies heavily on individual donations to fund operations. now another setback for the website, the founder is behind bars. flanked by a sea of reporters, founder julian assange turned himself in in london. the 39-year-old faces extradition to sweden where he faces rape and molestation. he forced the judge to deny bail fearing assange would go back into hiding. robert gates welcomed the news of the arrest. >> sounds like good news to me. >> as sang says the charges are retribution for the diplomatic cables his website released. >> it puts people's lives in danger threatens our national security and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems. >> assange has written to enact a so-called doomsday plan if the site is shut down or there's a legal turn that wikileaks doesn't like. the plan would release a set of secret documents. meanwhile funding to the website is becoming increasin

leaks has drawn the anger of some supporters they say staged a cyber attack on pay pal visa and mastercard asking why the companies are willing to accept a business of recognized extremist groups but not the whistleblower or his guy nature takes a look at. the u.s. government has presented no charges against giuliana songs but the absence of solid accusations did not stop american government officials from reportedly putting pressure at the highest level to cut off weekly leaks money supply the senior executive of america's money transfer giant pay pal said the state department had weakened the company cleaning the online whistleblower who was involved in illegal activities so pay pal along with master card and the sap no longer example cash donations for the controversial website it's the. thread this has some impact on national security and you say that in the united states everybody. you know what's their patents and they do what they're told. and so i think that it's a misconception in some cases that people think that the u.s. is purely a money driven society it's not the government h

mastercard and visa got up running again. but right now it looks like mastercard is down again, robin. wikileaks supporters promising more attacks. >> yes, they have been promising that. let's go back to assange himself. what's the latest with his situation now? >> reporter: well, i've spoken with his lawyers. they're going to meet with him later today, and they're planning to appeal the bail decision next week, on december 14th. i've also spoken with people who have been in touch with assange himself. they say he's calm. he's holding up well. and, robin, he believes he'll win. >> a very confident man. all right, jim sciutto in london, thanks. >> okay, robin, thanks. >>> facebook's mark zuckerberg has joined an elite new club, pledging to give most of his money to charity. following the example of bill gates and warren buffett, he says there's so much that needs to be done and that it's best to start now. and bianna, you've been following this whole movement. and zuckerberg was joined by 17. >> 17 total but zuckerberg is maki

mastercard says consumer spending just 5.5% from november to christmas. to more than $584 billion. that's the biggest increase since 2007. clothing sales led the way with jewelry, and luxury goods also making a strong comeback compared to the past couple of years. >>> and at&t is adding more hot spots. the company is set to announce today it's expanding wi-fi access in new york and introducing it in san francisco. these new hot zones are different from what you might be used to, because they cover public outdoor spaces, and are clustered together, instead of being confined to a hotel, coffee shop or airport. at&t's smartphone and broadband subscribers can use the zones for free, and usage doesn't count towards monthly data limits. >>> and meantime, apple users could see more cyber attacks this year. a new report from the anti-virus firm mcafee forecasts a huge jump in the number of viruses and hacks that plague window pc users. apple historically has been spared most of those attacks. >>> and brace yourself for $5 gasoline. that's right. the former president of shell oil predicts g

wiki leaks declared cyber war against companies they see as obstructing the anti-secrecy website mastercard visa and pay power all came under attack after they stopped taking donations for wiki leaks and as the swiss bank account of its founder julian assange was frozen he has been arrested in britain and is awaiting extradition to sweden where he's accused of sex crimes meanwhile i was going into camp found out the firms have cut off working links appear to have happened would have been happy to take twenty from outspoken hate groups among their clients. the u.s. government has presented no charges against julian a song but that hasn't stopped government officials from reportedly putting pressure at the highest level to cut off weiqi leaks money supply a senior executive of america's money transfer giant pay pal said the state department had written to the company claiming the online whistleblower was involved in illegal activities so pay pal along with massive carted viso are no longer accepting cash donations for the controversial website it's the. threat of this impact on national secur

wires staged a cyber war on financial giants mastercard visa and pay pal all came under attack when they stopped taking donations for wiki leaks meanwhile authorities got an agency on discovered the firms are happily accepting payments for hate groups. the u.s. government has presented no charges against julian a song but that hasn't stopped government officials from reportedly putting pressure at the highest level to cut off weiqi leaks money supply a senior executive of america's money transfer giant pay pal said the state department had written to the company claiming the online whistleblower was involved in illegal activities so pay pal along with massive card and b. so are no longer accepting cash donations for the controversial website but it's the threat of this has some impact on national security and when you say that in the united states everybody. you know what's their parents and they do what they're told. and so i think that it's a misconception in some cases that people think that the u.s. is purely a money driven society it's not the government has certain parag it is part

. >>> we have just learned the payment processor for wikileaks is planning to sue visa and mastercard. both companies have stopped donations to the website. a spokesman said he wants the case heard in london where visa europe is based. he calls it ridiculous to think that wikileaks has done anything criminal. >>> it is 6:05. let's check weather and traffic. tracy, so should we keep the umbrella handy at least for today? >> oh, yeah you need the umbrella a nice hat and probably some decent rain boots because we are yet again looking at a whole lot of standing water out there especially in the north bay where it has been coming down the longest. so let's move in. the green showing the light rainfall from guerneville down to novato down into mill valley. and also well out into the fairfield area. we'll continue to move down a bit and initially it was just a north bay and now we are seeing other parts of the bay area picking up light rainfall moving into san francisco and oakland. and down along the peninsula here the half moon bay area redwood city and also palo alto looking at light rai

the topless, mastercard.heir headquarters in new york city eight knowledge base service disruption. after they refused to process wikileaks donations. they posted a web site of twitter claiming responsibility other targets of the sec, a tall, the banking arm of the swiss postal service. in ousting firm in new hampshire all have severed relations with wikileaks under pressure from the u.s. government. after the arrest of the founder julien of hackers also shut down the site of the sweetest prosecutor's office and the law firm representing one of the woman who's accused him of sexual assault. >> julian assange is due back in court next tuesday that's when he will be asked if he will voluntarily go back to sweden, if he refuses the be another hearing to determine if you will be sent back. will take a break, as we do let's check at side this is a live look at the sell side waldegrave 101 in the north bank little foggy at there, you will deal with that as you drive to work sprinkle start coming down. we'll be righ

the government shows its influence and you see that you know major companies like these are like mastercard you see amazon dropping wiki leaks and suddenly you know the at the same time you see all these mirror sites swiftly popping up you see the hacking attacks it definitely shows you like i said that the hacker spirit is alive and well or do they have the upper hand for now. well i think that it's going to be a back and forth but the u.s. government is finding it very very hard to rein in the internet the internet is so robust that the u.s. government can't keep up with it and there are now thousands of mirrors sorry it's an antiwar dot com has a site wiki leaks study antiwar dot com that will direct people to the nearest and most robust and up to date wiki leaks mirror now you say that antiwar dot com doesn't necessarily support the hacking of these websites but you must be in support of wiki leaks right i mean you guys have boycotted amazon. absolutely and we are boycotting amazon and we have condemned master card pay pal. and we do think that people should protest to these organizatio

>> well, student loans and mastercard. ( laughs ) let me tell you something. the first time i bought food on mastercard, that's when i knew-- "oh, when the pathmark went on the credit card," i said, "you know what? you're in debt. >> "i'm in trouble." >> yeah, like, "you're in debt." and then the... and then... >> that's a major reality... that's when you know you're in trouble. >> yeah, especially when you're doing it in coney island and the person in front of you is using their welfare card. >> yeah, there you go. >> and you say, "you know what? i don't think there's much of a difference here." ( laughs ) >> yeah, that's... i don't know. >> we're both using the... some type of system to get by. >> that's right. >> narrator: do you owe a lot of money? >> i would say i owe about $80,000. >> whoa. >> between my car, the mastercard... the two cards... >> $80,000? >> and the student loan. yeah. yeah, $25,000, $15,000, and $40,000. $80,000. >> wow. how do you plan on paying that back? >> uh... how does any... >> and you went to school for theology so, hmm? >> well

, on their cards -- visa and mastercard, on their cars.t would require substantial operational changes. greater merchant routing choice may promote market discipline and discourage networks from setting high interchange fees. the proposed rule prohibits issuers and networks from prohibiting network choice. such as issuer or networks rules that require a particular network when multiple networks are available. the statute requires the board to establish final interchange fee standards, as well as rules prohibiting circumvention or evasion no later than april 21, 2011. these rules take effect three months later on july 21. the board must issue final rules that prohibit network exclusivity arrangements and routing no later than july 21, 2011, but the statute does not establish an effective date for these rules. the draft federal register notice requests comments on the lead time required. the amount of lead time required will likely depend on the approach of the board adopts in its final rule. my colleagues and i would be happy to answer any