she says match.com doesn't scan its members, and match.com says it isn't responsible for the actions of one sick individual. >> you run this same risk if you date somebody in person. if she met somebody or you go out on a date and he kicked her in the face and stab her, don't now how you get to sue match.com. >> and that's what match.com says. we post clearly on the web site that you date at your own risk. the woman is mary kay bettman, and she claims her attacker attacked her and then later moved to arizona, met another woman on match.com and murdered her. it's unclear if he met the second woman on match.com but he was convicted of the second murder and later killed himself in prison. the lawsuit says because people pay for match.com, they're supposed to feel safer, but match.com says, look, the site does not do background checks but legal experts say that the lawsuit may change that. listen. >> this case, depending on how it's either settled or if there was a verdict, could change the responsibilities and obligations on these dating web sites to force them to do some sort of a curs

match.com.more relationships and more marriages than any other site. >> geraldo: one in five relationships start online. that's incredible. this is a prime time alert o. friday, this businesswoman, mother of two, filed a massive, $10 million lawsuit against match.com for setting her up with a psycho, who tried to kill her with a butcher knife while she was in the hospital, recovering from massive injuries, the same man killed an arizona woman -- he had also met on match.com. we are joined by mary kay beckman and her attorney, from las vegas. welcome, both of you. so, mary kay, what happened? you started with this fellow and then decided that -- it wasn't happening? and you give him the heave-ho, what happened? >> yes. i met the man. we went on a couple of different dates. i realized that, like you said, he wasn't the one. and had not seen or heard from him since october 7 of 2010. >> geraldo: then what happened on the night of the assault? >> he broke into my garage, on january 21, 2011. and bas

a woman finds a guy on match.com, and then he tries to kill her. now she's suing match for $10 million. could this take down the online dating business even when they say it's not, it's always about "money." ♪ all right, the top story, the new plan by republicans to balance the budget within the next ten years, what a novel idea. i would be floored except i cannot understand why it's going to take ten years to get it done. it doesn't take an economics degree from harvard to know you shouldn't spend more money than you make. here to break it down is the most fabulous, yes, in the universe, my harvard economics professor. i don't know how you live up to that, but you were my favorite professor. thank you so much for joining us today. >> that's very nice to hear. nice to be with you again. melissa: excellent. iwant to balance the budget in ten years, go to washington and help them with the math. that seems like a long time horizon to me. what do you think? >> well, it is a long time horizon, but the budget is way out of balance now. you know, five yea

a las vegas woman, she is suing match.com for almost $10 million.ome, shortly after she ended things with him. listen. >> there were ten stab wounds, eight on my physical body, two on my head, and then when the knife broke there was stomping on my head so that there was such severe brain trauma. i do not believe that online dating is a safe venue for men or women. >> again, she's suing match.com. her attorney accuses the site of failing to disclose the dangers of online dating to subscribers according to our affiliate kvvu. her attacker died in prison last year. does match.com have a defense here? >> you know, i think it does. bottom line is match.com, i'm sure, wants to be a good corporate citizen. match.com has online safety dating tips. i did look on the website and see all of that. but it also has a very good opportunity to be that corporate citizen, good corporate citizen at this point. it doesn't offer background checks. it does -- has made promises to sort of cross reference against national sex offender registries and that stems from another

she is now suing match.com for $10 million. she says it fails to warn users that online dating can be dangerous. ha! >> mary k. says she met this man wade wiley on match.com in may of 2010. months after she broke up with him he stabbed her 10 times with a butcher knife. repeatedly stomped on her head, stole her purse and left her for dead. cops later charged him for murdering another woman he met on the site. he killed himself in prison last year. now the woman filed a lawsuit saying she believes the web site should include a warning. if i can save one person from not being in a situation that they're lured into with a false sense of security or if i can save somebody from being hurt, or, you know, making a different decision with their online dating choices, that's my mission and my goal. >> shepard: and $10 million. match.com does include a list of safety tips for both online and offline interaction. it also released a statement calling the lawsuit absurd. actor burt reynolds is reportedly in intensive care at a hospital in f

a las vegas woman says man she met through match.com tried to do just that.eckman ended an eight-day relationship in 2010, she says this man returned months later in an attempt to take her life. stabbing her ten times. claims match.com doesn't do enough to warren customers there may be people on its site like this and is now suing match for $10 million. ills the dating site to blame? s to she have a case? >> i think she has a legitimate claim against the web site. this is a very extreme case and it's the kind of case that can produce results. yes, she is suing them for $10 million. what she really wants is for match.com to do a better job screening its subscribers and notifying its customers that this is possible. of course everybody assumes some risk when they join a site like this, but they should let their customers know that these kinds of extreme situations are not just possible, they're realrealist, because it happened to her. when i heard about this story, i did a little research and learned in 20:11 another woman who had been on the site was raped by

right now the popular dating web site match.com is getting ready for a big battle in court.er is suing saying the company gives users a false sense of security when they go out with people they meet on that site. mary kay beckman went out on a few dates with someone she met there, but it didn't feel right, so she called it off. well, that ridley, then went to her house and ambushed her, stabbing her, stomping her or and smashing her face with a rock. she nearly died. a month later he killed an arizona woman he also met on that site. >> he broke into my garage, and when the police arrested him, he said i was not there to hurt her, i was there to kill her. so his intent was to kill me that night. tsa a very traumatic thing for anybody to have to go through. i struggled a lot thinking why did she die and why did i live? hay don't say that one -- they don't say that one in five are part of an attempted murder or one in five are killed. they don't tell you that people are missing. god saved me that night for a reason. i should not be with here today. if i can save somebody from b

. >>> a nevada woman just looking for true love on match.com, but what she found nearly cost her her life. mary beckman is suing the dating website after she broke it off with one of her matches and he tried to kill her. she says a man she dated less than two weeks broke into her home and attacked her with a butcher knife. >> he broke into my garage and when the police arrested him, he said i was not there to hurt her. i there was to kill her and so his intent was to kill me that night. >> the nevada woman says she's not the only victim. she says her attacker killed an arizona woman he also met through match.com. >>> gatorade removed the controversial ingredient from the sports drink and get ready to pay more for postage. shawn yancy has your fox 5 top five. >> up first tonight no. 5, you complained and pepsi listened now removing the ingredient bromenateed vegetable oil from its gatorade sports drink. a petition by a mississippi teen-ager noted that has been patented as a flame retardant. the ingredient will still be used in mountain dew. no. 4, flu activity is declining in most reg

so she posed as a man on match.com.lgorithms and figured this out. this is in the "wall street journal." ladies go and look. how many pictures to put up of yourself. it's a really good idea. >> dana: so she can pose -- >> greg: she can pose as an adult man and get article published. if i pose as a teenager girl i get arrested. life is unfair. >> eric: there is a fine line between what she did and the -- >> kimberly: lisa jackson. >> eric: this is big, guys. i think this is going to be big. a lot of this. >> bob: more predators out there. >> kimberly: bob should stay off the internet. and after of skype. >> bob: one more thing is next. ♪ ♪ >> kimberly: time for one more thing. [ inaudible ] delicious biscuit. i'm in the best mood. it could do another hour. we don't have time for that. greg, one more thing. >> greg: thank you for that great information. what is in that? that kind of strength. i got a call today, speaking of, i got a call from a large company to do, of the people on "the five," i get phone call to do a pro

match.com. [laughter] >> trying to lure me in. taking a look at the forecast. ero.erms of wow for snow, z 30's.20's to lower skies will turn partly sunny for tomorrow. winds will be out to the 5-10 milest about hour. a lot of folks are ready for the redskins again. should you wear shorts? [laughter] where a hack and some gloves. it will not be -- weat a hat and some gloves. it'll be not as cold as last week. there should be some sunshine. the sun will set a little bit after 5 p.m. look at this forecast. love the snow. people will hate the next seven days. we will see temperatures in the ends and upper 50's by the and of the week. we will have these huge warm- ups. we will keep you updated.

these sorts of things can be accessed through a normal online dating site like a match.com. can say i'm interested in diapers or whatever you want to say and maybe someone will respond. >> gross. i don't care how people meet each other and if online makes that easier, that's great. manti te'o was a warning of the catfish phenomenon. if you haven't seen the movie catfish, it's gripping. go see it. what kinds of other dinners are there for online dating? >> the interesting thing about the manti te'o incident is not that it happened. it happens all the time. people fall in love with a profile and develop strong feelings based on the messaging that goes back and forth. the interesting thing about that is that there was no money involved. a lot of the scams are based on moan. the point is to extract money from someone. in this situation, i don't know if it's less sad or more sad, but more just to lure someone emotional and to embarrass them. >> this trend seems to be working out well for a lot of people. on balance, online dating has been a good thing for people making connection

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. >>> online dating service match.com slapped with a $10 million lawsuit by one of its users. a las vegas woman accusing the company of setting her up with a man who brutally attacked her. police say that attack happened back in january 2011, just a few months after the woman had broken off that relationship. police say the suspect hid in her garage and stabbed her repeatedly over their failed match. he was later arrested. a month after that in connection with a separate murder case involving a girlfriend. >>> making the bad even worse. a new study offering another big reason to limit your children's fast food intake. >> this is wild video. wrestling a shark off the beach there. very crowded. >>> it's called the super bowl of surfing. this morning it has a new champion. highlights from mavericks coming up. >>> 4:55. interesting story. scientists found a new link between eating fast food and some of the most common chronic illnesses in kids. a new study of 500,000 children in 50 different countries links fast food to worsening symptoms of asthma, hayfever and eczema. researcher

>> it is 4:54, a las vegas woman is suing match.com after a man she met on the site attacked her sayinged to disclose the dangers of online dating. he stabbed and beat her after she ended things after eight days. the man is sick and twisted but had no known criminal record. they call the lawsuit of $10 million absurd. she agreed to screen for sex offenders after a california woman was sexually assaulted by a man she met on the web site. >> wear to put pieces of the berlin wall is dividing mountain view leaders. the city received two large sections of the wall as a donation. they are on display in an office park. the plan was to put the sections in one of three city parks. some have called the sections "large pieces of ugly she meant," professorring -- preferring flowers or trees. >> a possibility is here at city hall in our big plaza. a lot of people come through here, we have big events. >> after a meeting city council members voted for staff to come up with more options. >> the san francisco 49ers are headed to the super bowl in case you have not heard. while a lost focus is on kaeper

las vegas woman is suing match.com after man that she met on the dating web site attacked her.he says match failed to disclose the dangers of on line daiingt. man stabbed and beat her when she ended things with him after 8 days. match says the man is sick and twisted but had no known criminal record and calls the 10 million dollar lawsuit absurd. just last year match agreed to screen for sex offenders after california woman was sexually assaulted by a man that she met on the web site. >>> future of piece of world history remains in the balance tonight. big chunk of the berlin wall ended up in unusual place on the peninsula. big question now where do they go from here. that story ahead. >> also remembering the past to better the future. important history lesson for the next generation. on this martin luther king jr. holiday. >> and luring adult into save the life. amazing image of under water rescue. >> stay with [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. delicious. but say i press a few out flat... add some beef sloppy joe sauce... and cheese fold it all up and boom! i just

las vegas woman is suing match.com after man that she met on the dating web site attacked her.e says match failed to disclose the dangers of on line daiingt. man stabbed and beat her when she ended things with him after 8 days. match says the man is sick and twisted but had no known criminal record and calls the 10 million dollar lawsuit absurd. just last year match agreed to screen for sex offenders after california woman was sexually assaulted by a man that she met on the web site. >>> future of piece of world history remains in the balance tonight. big chunk of the berlin wall ended up in unusual place on the peninsula. big question now where do they go from here. that story ahead. >> also remembering the past to better the future. important history lesson for the next generati on on this martin luther king jr. holiday. >> and luring adult into save the life. amazing image of under water rescue. >> stay with us we'll >> we are still on the scene of breaking news in oakland. sky 7 hd live over the neighborhood where police are searching for 2 people suspected of shooting unde

las vegas woman is suing match.com after man that she met on the dating web site attacked her.he says match failed to disclose the dangers of on line daiingt. man stabbed and beat her when she ended things with him after 8 days. match says the man is sick and twisted but had no known criminal record and calls the 10 million dollar lawsuit absurd. just last year match agreed to screen for sex offenders after california woman was sexually assaulted by a man that she met on the web site. >>> future of piece of world history remains in the balance tonight. big chunk of the berlin wall ended up in unusual place on the peninsula. big question now where do they go from here. that story ahead. >> also remembering the past to better the future. important history lesson for the next generation. on this martin luther king jr. holiday. >> and luring adult into save the life. amazing image of under water rescue. under water rescue. >> stay with us we'll >> we are still on the scene of breaking news in oakland. sky 7 hd live over the neighborhood where police are searching for 2 people suspe

aside from maybe match.com, who is going to come along and offer this guy an endorsement with this hoaxtly right. as a company you never want to have somebody endorsing your company who has shown weakness. i think that's what has come through all of this. and so whether it's match.com, eharmony or online identity theft, those would be good companies for him. but it's going to be a difficult situation. >> let's talk about something else, another trend that's online. we see tebow'ing. now there is -- >> kaepernicking, this, the kiss of the biceps. he wants to trademark kissing his arm. it's unbelievable. >> i laughed about that and said come on. that's as arbitrary as giving a thumbs up. at least get some originality. that's been done before. i looked into it. it looks as if the guy has good intentions. camp taylor, the money that's going to be raised from the t-shirts, it will go to kid that is have congenital heart disease. >> at least there's some good there, not all ego. >> it's a little ego. >> can you do it? there you go. >>> hackers of online information is declaring war on the u.s

match.com is a competitor, yelp, linkedin you name it. it is out there at this point. they got the i ball see if they can see ad dollars. >> dating, networking moving into other territory. >>> 12 minutes after the hour. she was found safe and sound after being kidnapped right from her classroom. parents are demanding answers from the school. >> a controversial letter didn't brag about the applicant's accomplishments or top schooling what exactly did this cover letter say that made it go viral. this happy couple used capital one venture miles for their "destination wedding." double miles you can "actually" use. but with those single mile travel cards... [ bridesmaid ] blacked out... but i'm a bridesmaid. oh! "x" marks the spot she'll never sit. but i bought a dress! a toast... ...to the capital one venture card. fly any airline, any flight, anytime. double miles you can actually use. what a coincidence? what's in your wallet? [ all screaming ] watch the elbows ladies. >> quick headlines a shooting left a man and woman dead. another teenaged girl is wounded. they say he

that's why they're going down with match.com. that's why linkedin is in jeopardy. >> david, thanks a million. have a great day. take us out. >> it's the marine in laguna beach. that will do it for "power lunch." "street signs" begins right now. >>> the fiscal cliff, immigration reform, gun control, what happened to job creation? a debate on whether the white house should be doing more to put americans back to work. we're raising the roof on the debt ceiling and why a leading economist thinks this fight is scarier than the fiscal cliff, much scarier. >>> plus, facebook announces something. it has to do with search. we've got questions. hopefully our guests have answers. >>> and addicted to debt. suze orman is here on why americans old and young are in hock all the way to their hairlines, mandy. >> okay. it's the biggest of 2013 and certainly no thanks there to apple's new 11-month low. in fact, check out this from our buddy guy adami. apple has now lost the equivalent of two disneys since its record high. meantime facebook stock h

they open match.com. tyler, aisle send it back to you. be a story that certainly is parse for the rest of the day and days to come as wall street tries to decide if this is the thing that's going to take facebook to the next level. is it going to be the thing that keeps your eyes on facebook longer? maybe you'll look at an ad if you're staying on there also and also your mobile device whether you're using that, whether they'll be able to monetize that and keep this story moving forward. >> thank you so much for taking us through all of this skillfully and artfully. it makes you go yelp on some of them the way the lines were reacting to this facebook news. he rejoins us, the author of "the facebook effect" writer. david, you indicated in one of your prior remarks that what you expected here was if the local search, the graph search, didn't lead you where you wanted to, go it with us going to take you via bing to a more global webwide search and that's exactly what zuckerberg said. i guess my question for you is you seem quite enthused by t

match.com says that there is actually a big increase in the number of members between christmas and valentine'sday. that may be predictable but that may mean there are more fish in the internet sea right now. you theoretically have a better shot at finding a match. took says that relationship statuses changed more this time of the year. there you go. >> all right. >> good luck to you. >> you know what it is? they didn't want to buy gifts for their mates for christmas so they dump them and pick them back up. >> i heard that happen before. we are all cynical. >> i heard that happen. that's very cynical. >> i know. i'm sorry, sorry. >> new year, you want the fresh start. >> on the other side, you want to cuddle up. >> yes, true, you do. >> very important to have cuddl it's cold outside. >> yes. >> chance for a snow shower. >> lots of cuddling there? >> yes. >> no big deal there. there is a live shot. clouds moving in late this afternoon. should be dry for the evening hours here. so if you are headed out to, you know, moveis, that kind of things, no issues there. there is a look at the radar. we'll

. >> look at match.com. how do we -- [overlapping speakers] >> you saying it may change and evolve. >> when you go into a bar and this god forbids happens, are you going to start suing the bars? >> more obvious one. two people meet on facebook and something happened? >> absolutely. all the social media settings. you can't hold people accountable if they're giving up information. >> it was so clear what he was going of, sugar daddy. >> there are 40 million people on dating sites. >> this crosses the line. >> that's going to be hard -- i just want to know why is this one different? >> thank you, eric. i'm trying to make my case here. >> how is -- because they're specifically for hooking up -- >> for hooking up arrangements. >> they're to be held at a higher standard? >> bringing a woman to his home. he had the assault on his rap sheet. why didn't they look at that? that's what i'm saying. the federal decency communications act should not be so broad you're not vetting people. >> and allowing a criminal act to

. >> and a woman is suing match.com after she says her date tried to kill her, why she says online datingearly cost her her life at 11:00. >>> thousands of kids got an early jump on the weekend today as many school districts across the region dismissed early because of the snow. for many the call to close early came not too long after students began their school day forcing several parents to juggle their schedules. fox 5's tom fitzgerald has that story. >> reporter: at the walter johnson high school in montgomery county, maryland, the big train of students cleared out quickly and teachers soon followed suit. >> very many happy students. >> reporter: after a relatively quiet winter many folks say they headed out to work today expecting area schools would wind up with a shortened day. >> i'm always waiting for the next one to come around. so whenever it gets this cold you start to wonder. >> reporter: news started to spread just before noon when thanks to text alerts and voicemails parents wound up getting messages like this. >> public schools will close early today, january 25th, due to e

google, linkedin and yelp and match.com and the implications are hunk.ointed to bing search results along with those ads and we can certainly expect facebook to pair ads next to all search results down the line. one thing to keep in mind is that privacy will be a huge issue. can you only share -- you can only search what's been shared with you which means people are likely to tighten their privacy settings in the wake of this announcement and facebook is going to be encouraging people to review which one is going to be listed and searchable down the line. maria. >> stay right there. >> yeah. so many reasons to tighten our privacy settings on facebook. as we bring in our next two guests to make sense of facebook's graph search, a name i don't understand, if it will actually translate to be a significant source of revenue for the company. that's what we'll explore. we mentioned the stock. falling on the announcement of very heavy, heavy fowl volume. >> here is lou kerner of the social internet fund who says the graph search is the next evolutionary step fo

. >>> facebok's move that's part google, part match.com. mark zuckerberg says it's the coolest thing that facebook has done in a long time. investors didn't seem to like it. we'll find out more about it. >>> the corvette stingray is back. it's on our plaza. we are going to take a test drive. >>> then a family probably like no other. one set of identical twins who marry another set of identical twins and then one of the couples -- wait for it -- yes, had a set of identical twins themselves. confused? imagine how their neighbors feel. they all live right next door to each other. >>> and now you see it, now you don't. that is professional pick pocket apollo robbins, robbing ryan seacrest live right in front of your eyes, the gentleman thief. how he pulls off his amazing theft and it's good information. at least it can help protect you against getting rip ped off on the street. he got him. i knew he would get him. >>> this time it's the animal rights group that has to pay up, kerry sanders joins us from miami. kerry, explain it for us. >> repor

that story is straight ahead, match.com. they were hand picked to sing at president obama's inauguration, we're seeing how the big choir is preparing for the big event. that's coming up. ♪ what can we do with a brand new year, and a room that needs refreshing? we can work with a new collection of carpet that proves durable can be softer than ever. we can get for less and spread that softness even further. turns out, we can do even more than we thought we could. because this is the year of doing. more saving. more doing. he power of the home depot. ll out the new year with % off or 24 months special financing with your home depot credit card. >> time for quick headlines. strand, passengers at heathrow airports and more bad weather is expected to roll in. and the fchltf-- sec cracking down on coins, charges that it deceived buyers. the advertisements say it contained steel from ground zero, it did not. >> steve: final precipitatiopar as they gear up for the tomorrow's inaugural ceremony. >> brian: what to tune in for as we get