melissa frances will return tomorrow. i'm adam shapiro. thank you for joining us. have of wonderful monday evening. it "the willis report" is next. ♪ gerri: hello, everybody. i'm gerri willis. tonight on "the willis report", more than five months after hurricane sandy, homeowners still don't have their insurance claims settled. a special investigation. also, an entire community sucked into a giant ponzi scheme. we will tell you how so many smart people lost some much money. and with the stock market in record highs is it too late to apply? we are on the case next on "the willis report." ♪ gerri: all that and more coming up. first, our top story, more than five months after hurricane sandy destroyed tens of thousands of homes along the east coast, some homeowners still have not had their insurance claims settled. many are now discovering that the real nightmare of sandy was not a hurricane but the mountain of red tape they are now fighting in its aftermath. in a moment we will go -- we will hear from one homeowner who has been waiting months. his story is a lesson f

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melissa frances on how the i.r.s. may use the net to anytime more dough from you. >> this is just like people who call in sick to work and then post pictures of themselves at the beach having a drink on facebook and we're upset when the boss sees it. the i.r.s. is taking to facebook. this is according to a privacy expert to says this tax season the i.r.s. will mine data on facebook and social media looking for quotes like my new this and that. you buy a new car and post the picture but you're behind on tax payments. these are things the i.r.s. would look for. these reports took off like fire on the internet and people are not very happy about this idea. listen. >> it's an invasion of pryce privacy. >> that's horrible. >> i have facebook, nobody should be involved. >> why should the government snoop if you cheat on your taxes on people like common day people. >> the u.s. government has gone mad. >> scandalous. >> i do not have facebook nor twitter and that's one of the reasons why. >> stay out of my facebook, stay out

huge i am melissa frances put congress working at breakneck speed coming together in a bipartisan efforthe airport, florida department of transportation inspector general joins us on how long it will take to go back to normal. lori: hospital readmission, there's an air one for that. the ceo of health recovery solutions joins us. melissa: despite the problems carnival has been having this year the cruise ship industry is seeing big returns. lori: the most expensive cup of coffee ever. tim cook, more than doubling overnight. how much it will set you back to have that cup of coffee with him cook this hour and get you updated on the markets as we do every 15 minutes, our first trip to the stock exchange this hour to check in with nicole petallides, stopped a little changed right now all on that softer than expected d e p raise. >> we have gone back and forth mostly red but look at the dow certainly giving it ago today. up in positive territory, you see the dow about four points

melissa a. franc. have got some breaking news on morgan stanley along with ratings from s&p and moody's. adam shapiro brings it all to us. >> reporter: you remember there was the settlement on friday with the plaintiffs who were suing the firms over bad ratings. well, according to "the wall reet journal," that settlement of the two suits is actually going to cost $225 million. s&p and moody's are going to be paying that. and "the wall street journal" also reported that s&p, moody's as well as morgan stanley each paid 75 million to settle those lawsuits. the payout was kept confidential by the three firms. the plaintiffs, there were 14 in all, they were led by the ab -- abu dhabi investment firm. of but the news right now is suits are going to cost $225e million to sett on friday. the amount had not been disclosed. melissa? melissa: all right. adam, thank you for bringing that to us. gold's price slump puts the mining industry on the rocks. a top executive says gold is set for a trn around, but one of o

sometimes we will hear from france is said to my mom almost aborted my friend. she was on the table or she may debarment. melissa is really interesting. she is in the book. she had about as terrible a child as you can imagine growing up with a father who was physically and emotionally abusive. many times we hear folks say, well, we should have abortion because it's better to be dead than to be abused. she had a terrible, terrible childhood. she routinely her father said she should of been aborted a record three others, three other siblings because she was a girl like them. as she watched at the very young age her father puncher mother and beat her to the point of miscarriage for other sibling. she remembers bng trapped in her hall closet for hours at the time. heard that locker and. but she also remembers when she went to high school and she went to a catholic as cool. so one day there was a speaker that talked about abortion. and she always heard about abortion because a dad said that she was she would have been aborted, but she did not know what it meant. at that point she started a process life group despite

melissa: maybe they weren't really trying to get money, they were trying to blow up the gas station. moving on, have you heard of france the president confirmed a huge tax on salaries more than a million euro applies to the soccer club. the football league is crying foul saying they will lose their best players while the government will lose their best taayers. >> before dennis goes nuts, i agree with you on this. i do. 75%, come on. not in euros, this is nuts. >> the new approach from a french president said we're going to throw out anything over 66%. he ended up saying individual millionaire will not have to pay it, the employer will have to pay it, so he soccer team will have to pay it. before simpler to cut the employees salary. >> soccer players travel. they will all go to england. they're all coming here and playing lame united states soccer. melissa: aren't soccer players pretty cute? here's another sports one. dallas mavericks owner mark cuban said he is considering drafting this girl. 6'8" all-american player. the ncaa leader in blocked shots. the second-leading scorer in women's college basketball. history. d

france or elsewhere, those people turn to terrorist actions. there is no reason why we should think in america we're different, the same threat has beennny migrating here. melissab you laughed at backpack thing, you know somewhere along the way there will be an attack to backpacks, maybe you limit them going to public events. or something? >> i think that answer easy answer to that is the level of security needs to become -- commensurate with the risk. do we have level of security to match that particular security threat. i think that is how we have to do it, but i shook my head, congress sometimes scares me, because you know they take a case like this, and say, no backpacks, especially those with bottled water in them, mike baker, you can't do that. there is a law against that. that is what frightens me. melissa: there could be a law against backpacks, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> up next on "money line," wall on money, on wall street, we'll tell you biggest mistake made out hoo there are you making them. what you can look forward to in the market, more money after this. [ ale announcer ] ou are a business pro. governor of getting it done. you kn