so if that is the case, who gets that nickel? >> that nickel goes -- when the blue cart gets taken from the ecology trucks and taken down to what is called pier 96, the sorting facility. all of that material is weighed as a group and ecology files a report to the state and gets that money back. >> i see. >> and actually that money is that dollar value is included in the garbage rates. i am with one of the staff that helps set the garbage rates and we evaluate the flow of money, including that money. so that is included in the calculation. >> so the rest of them would get it back in a different form? >> yes. >> okay. do you have -- what? >> much of it is diverted. >> yes. so was there any study done of how many families actually will take the bottles back to the retailer to get nickels back or most of them would just put it in the recycled bin? >> we don't have any deep data on that. the simplest thing is as i mentioned there is about $17 million, $18 million a year and about two-thirds of that goes to recyclers in the form of cas

it's a 1913 liberty head nickel.years old, the nickel has quite a back story too. there were not supposed to be any liberty heads in 1913. the buffalo head nickel came out. at the end of 1912. a guy at the philadelphia mint illegally produced five liberty heads and dated them 1913. the historians believe he waited until t

nickel -- a nickel is the same as five pennies; there are 20 nickels in one dollar. so we have: cost, dollar quarter, dime and nickel watch out for them in today's show. ♪ (screaming) gilda! grab a disguise. francine said i'm allowed to help you, but only for a couple of hours. i'll take what i can get. so here's the deal as you know, today is the day of the spooky summer soiree. the coolest costume party ever! last year, i was a ferret. well today, you can be anything you want to be, because i bought all the costumes at haunted hank's discount costume store. annie, didn't that cost a lot of money? yes, it cost quite a bit of money i had some help from my uncle, but this is important. gilda...answer this question. who is the most fabulous dresser in town? you, annie everybody knows that. thank you, i think so too. but every year, every single year, hector and his little pals have the best costumes at the costume party. and everybody loves them and nobody notices me. well, that is going to change! yeah! how? this year, they're all dressing up as animals dressed up as

same with the v nickel, and a v nickel can be worth a lot of money.e purchased an 1885 before for about $400. you want to look for the 1916 and 1921 coin, the markings goig to be on the back. and it can sell up to $400. pennies are good too right now. we have pennies that are bringing in a little more. because pennies are no longer made with 100 percent copper. the pennies are starting from $304 and go up to a thousand dollars, that's just for pennies. not a millionaire yet? new to coin collecting? no problem says jim castarec. normally, what i do is i bring up my old chain. i just throw it in a little box. then jim goes to the experts. as it turns out, it's kind of valuable. how much is a piece? two to three cents a piece. no big taken out today but the face value of jim's coin was $3 and he sold it for ten bucks. this could buy me lunch. so if you do find any coins you think are worth something should you sell it or should you hold onto it? of course, rare items, they're going to increase in the value if you wait, but ten years it will go up only a

and the government can big banks nickel-and-diming people in need. why did it cards are being given to benefit recipients and how much it costs you coming up. ♪ at a dry cleaner, we replaced people with a machine. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally. making the big romantic gesture. that's powerful. verizon. get a droid razr m by motorola in pink for $49.99. ♪ gerri: okay. this is a critical knew report to you need to hear about, shedding light on the way states are literally bilking unemployed americans by forcing them to pay fees. what they're doing to my next guest says, is saving a few bucks for government while raiding the benefits for the rest of us. joining me now, president of consumer education for smart credit. uni have been down the road on this topic, and new details to they got this-the cars now being used by the government to deliver benefits. and the sneaky thing that happens to these f

no liberty head nickels back then.the end of 1912, a guy in philadelphia at the mint illegally made five liberty head nickels and dated them 1913. historians believed he waited until the statute of limit takes pass and sold them in 1962. this one made to a woman in salem, virginia and now it's going on the auction block. >> very cool. it's 5:57. we're staying on top of major breaking news on the pelt way. a serious crash. only one lane getting by. >> live pictures from the scene, a tractor-trailer, a fire truck and >>> if you are just waking up or about to head out the door, take a look at this scene. you're looking live at the beltway

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that was a nickel better than expected. as well as a nickel better than the same period last year. still, the company faces some supersized challenges. erika miller reports. >> reporter: it may seem surprising, but europe is actually mcdonald's top market, accounting for nearly half of the company'revenues. but the region's economic problems are taking a toll on mcdonald's bottom line, as fewer europeans dine out. >> the european economy is something that is going to take a long time to recover. so, i wouldn't look with great expectation to europe. maybe its decent this quarter. but i don't think it's something that's going that's going to be a big driver over the next couple of years. >> reporter: operating income in europe slipped 1% last year, compared to a 2% gain in the u.s. the asia pacific, middle east and african category did the best. but the weak global economy is only part of the problem. the fast food giant is facing tougher competition from traditional fast food rivals. and, in the u.s., more and more people are dining at fast casual chains like chipotle and panera. >>

again, this is a nickel.here's only -- there are only five of its kind in the entire world. >> millions, unreal. >>> give yourself extra time this morning when going to work. some of the roads will be underwater and you'll probably see blockages out there and people having to be diverted around. abc2 news linda so is out there live onrushing yesterday. what are you -- york road. who are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: we're here along york road where you can meets chumleigh. you can see the water flooded the street out here and all through past that intersection. and here along york road, this state highway truck is actually monitoring the situation here. has the lane down to one road. directing traffic because of the high water. one thing to keep in mind this morning as you're heading out for work or school that some area roads will look like this. all that rain last night flooded out some areas. we did put a call out to several dispatch centers throughout the area. they tell us this is the situation a

and they nickel and dime you. we've gone over it, the whole nickel and dime aspect. park a bunch of planes, higher fees. cram in the chairs, higher fees, it's awful, but it is what it is, but means that everyone watching the show be prepared to pay higher fees. >> neil: is that the case? >> absolutely, but suck it up. it's not public transportation, it's the airline's business. >> and there's a heartless streak in you. >> she's right on this one. >> the remaining airlines that we have left to stay healthy. >> neil: you make boo boo to look like the pope. >> raise fares and i want planes to be less full. >> neil: and pilots. >> we will have pilots if the airlines are healthy they will be able to pay them a nice salary and be a profession that people want to enter in the coming years. >> neil: right now, gasperino, they don't want to answer. >> is there an american business that you admire, an american -- you beat up on-- beat up on banks, hate green energy, you hate the airlines. >> neil: i hate you. i hate you. >> you hate the energy, too, charlie. >> and decided to

what's the cost and how much better are lithium than nickel cadmium? the camera i'm speaking into has a lithium ion batte battery. cell phones have them. the question is, can the -- the nickel cadmium produce the same kind of juice to actuate the brakes and actuate what used to be hydraulics. maybe you can't do that easily. i'm not an engineer. but there's a significant difference between those two batteries and what they can do. >> if you can't replace -- if it comes down to where you decide you need do something other than a lithium, you can't do nickel cad me sum? you're not sure you can do it that way? >> i thought airbus was using nickel or using a different type of lithium. >> talking about the hydraulic systems. >> it's the application for the battery. you may not be able to do it easily. they had a couple of hundred pounds to the airplane. but the compartment that's in, maybe it won't take a nickel cadmium. any number of issues may come into play. may be the specific battery itself, not the technology it uses that may number question. >> haven'

there will be a time, i'm tting you a nickel. they lose this nickel bet, the next bed is a quarter because there will be a time when there is absolutely happens we get downgraded. the dollar goes to, you know, through the floor and inflation through the roof. as the crisis we need, and that is almost inevitable in my mind. neil: i'm not happy. i want to thank you both. in the meantime, you're going to need a doctor. trying to organize more nurses when they strike. you're stuck. and i'm saying stick to. really. neil: all right. well, i think i'm bleeding year. well, you can buzz saw you ant. she in coming. ch'in even there. she's on strike. the largest nurses' union just hooked up with the big health care union. let's just say, if my next guest , tea partier extraordinaire and post extraordinary is right this is going to make you sick. if you're in a hospital right now depending on a nurse who will be joining this union, you're going to be dead. not that bad, but it could be. >> can you imagine what happens if they did go on strik

. >> i bet you a nickel it does have an effect.e dollar, this one doesn't have an effect, the next one, and i think this country needs a crisis. i think the crisis will be the dollar becomes trash and inflatioheads up in a dramatic way. and that will get everyone's attention. we are not going to come together in my opinion unless we have inflation and inflation big time. that will happen -- neil: people have short memories . i wonder whether people remember inflationary time and how painful that is because we cannot keep dodging the reaper. >> and that's the point. i agree. i think that we really need to of fall down on skinner knees and ally feel the pain because nobody is paying attention. until they feel that pain which is inflation that nobody knows because it was 30-35 years ago, no one's going to pay attention. he's absolutely right and i agree with them. neil: the market's doing what they're doing. guys like you who know what the score in the skinny is. it is gog day today. >> no one wants to look good what is happening, and

this 1913 liberty head nickel is one of only five known to exist. the u.s.lly switched to the buffalo head nickel that year but a worker at the mint is suspected of illegally making a handful of the old design open his own. later, it was found in a car wreck that killed the owner and it was thrown it to a closet. four siblings split the money. >> breweries on opposite sides of the country have a wager on the super bowl game. it involves san francisco-based anchor brewing and flying dog brewery in frederick, maryland which favors the ravens and anchor is going with the 49ers. the loser will pour the other brewery beer in a tap room for one week. and that is not all. the tear guides have to be decked out in the winner's super bowl champion gear for a week. >> wonder what the beer will take like? on monday. >> we have problems on 101 in the south bay. >> getting more serious. sue? >> we have a sig-alert. a big rig hit the guardrail north 101 in sunnyvale near fair oaks and it took out 50' section of the rail and ruptured a fuel tank so we have a fuel spill. one

check it out. 1913 liberty head nickel . one of only five known to exist. they were made by mistake in 1912 when a mint worker put 1912 instead of 1913 on the coin. the siblings found their rare coin in their mother's closet when she passed away. been on display at a colorado museum. go up for auction in chicago in april. imagine finding that. >> that would be fantastic. >> i haven't found anything like that. >> i'm going to go look when i go home. >> the dare devil tightrope walker who walked across niagra falls is at it again. >> he's a famous circus performer and holds 6 world records. he's going to walk on a wire 200 feet above a busy highway in florida this time without a safety harness. last summer he was forced to wear a harness. but this time he will not have a safety belt. due to start at 10:30 if the weather cooperates. >> is it just in your stunts? >> the whole family has done it and several of his family members have lost their lives doing this. i don't like it. >> american soldiers sacrifice more than we can ever imagine. their families, their

we're already nickeled and dimed to death, and we're going to be nickeled and dimed more. >> i'm a freet guy, and i believe individual stores have a right to charge me three dollars for coffee if they want to, but the consumer can say if you charge me extra, i'll take my business elsewhere. gerri: thumbs up or down for the fee? both of you, see your thumbs. nobody likes it. nobody libs -- likes it. >> i have a different finger i want to use, but i'm not allow to. gerri: they are not fans, and neither am i. the last thing we need is another fee. nobody wants to see a surcharge on the credit card bill, and you guys weighed in with heated responses. here's an e-mail from chris. he says 4% on top of what ever you pay by using your credit card? we are already getting squeezed by higher food prices k an now it's 4% more to use the credit card? what economy is it? nickeling and squeezing every penny from the consumer. i'm thumbs down and want to use the other finger to the retailers, actually, times two. in terms of a class action lawsuit settlement, it's spelled out clearly that retailers who

we are already getting nickel-and-dimed to death, and we are about to get even worse.entially, the fee that the market had -- merchant has to pay to exit the credit card, cone -- commonly called a slight fee, in the past they have not been able to charge a line-item extra cost to the consumer to cover that. starting this sunday will be allowed to. that is the bad news. they have already baked in that she in the price of the merchandise the you're buying. so now not only unable to charge a fee on top of what you're already purchasing, but essentially paying the fee to times over, and those of us to pay cash are really getting screwed because we're still paying the fee for people using credit cards. gerri: i want to show people some of the details. sunday, storms have to inform customers if you're an online merchant as well. debit and prepaid cards are exempt and that top limit is 4%. to you. i cannot imagine that this is a good time for americans to face yet another fee. >> as he said, we are getting nickel-and-dimed to death. a lot of consumers are trying to live check

. >> what you spend on doctors, the price of supple is worth every nickel, every nickel. >> i started to experience a lot of back pain for the first time in my life when i, when i hit about 40 and it just got worse and worse with the more and more yard work i would do. after just probably about a week or two of drinking the supple, i'd come in from the yard and i'd expect to start to feel pain and there wouldn't be any. and the longer i drank the supple, the longer i could actually stay out in the yard. and i have no pain now. i can garden 8 hours, 2 days in a row and, and i really don't have any pain. >> i cannot recommend something that i do, really do not believe in. and there is nothing better than supple. >> if you're watching right now and you'd like some more information on how to get supple. it's a delicious drink for complete pain relief that really works. if you have joint pain, back pain, bone pain, muscle pain, overall weakness or fatigue, arthritis, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or even fibromyalgia, this is a product that i highly recommend you try. pick up the ph

not a nickel has been voted. a lot of the republicans seem very reluctant to vote any money, and certainly enough. $60 billion is the necessity has been very well documented by governors christie. >> so the politics of this pretty inconvenient. with the backdrop of too much spending in washington and the republicans trying to fight the president on the most recent fiscal cliff, this was just pretty inconvenient and they didn't give a damn about the people. i mean, that's my read on it. what about yours? >> i think that is true to some extent. but it's even worse because they had to separate the bill into two bills, $27 billion, and hopefully $33 billion extra on the assumption that most of the republicans wouldn't vote for the full amount that we need. that has never been the case where you nickel and dime people in desperate straits because of a natural disaster before. >> will there be enough votes for this? will you get the votes to get the $60 billion in aid to do right by these americans? >> i think the vote

noise and that's going to have on rehearsal and recording functions >> thank you tim collin and david nickel. >> good afternoon tim collin. our members be looked at this project last year and i have to say it embodies everything we approve of in urban development but in particular we're excited particularly excited because this is the cities first step in hopefully, will be many more projects to come before you called student housing something patrick showed you earlier w in short seventy. we hope this is track attention and it will

and i think that, it is important, whatever you do, you don't need any nickel and dime advice from me, but focus on the nickel and dimes and how much we're spending and where that money is coming from or not coming from, how do you do that? >> i think a lot of young people are outraged right now, looking at occupy wall street, how upset people are, so that outrage is there that apathy. neil: their rage is built on anger, that they a government not doing enough for them, how do you counter that, look you should not ask what the government can do for you, how do you address that? >> we're hoping to bring a lot of young folks in who understand we're trying to empower them, hear their voice, and share our point of view of what solutions should be. so, yeah they have outrage, but the thing is, they don't know the solution, they don't know how to fix the problem. we're hoping to provide some examples of solutions. >> that is one thing we'll do in the show, neil we'll look at next generation, entrepreneurs, and start up businesses and talk about those impediments of them starts the business

noise and that's going to have on rehearsal and recording functions >> thank you tim collin and david nickel. >> good afternoon tim collin. our members be looked at this project last year and i have to say it embodies everything we approve of in urban development but in particular we're excited particularly excited because this is the cities first step in hopefully, will be many more projects to come before you called student housing something patrick showed you earlier was in short seventy. we hope this is track attention and it will help move forward for other projects. it is to get more students out of larger units and into the smaller units in the city. particularly i want to thank you the planning staff that did on this. a few of you have been there through the wool process. please move this forward >> thank you. >> good afternoon commissioners my name is david i'm with the college of the arts. where a 1 hundred and 6-year-old institution founded during the earthquake. the lack of affordable student housing in the city is impacting the ability of san francisco colleges to attract the be

noise and that's going to have on rehearsal and recording functions >> thank you tim collin and david nickel. >> good afternoon tim collin. our members be looked at this project last year and i have to say it embodies everything we approve of in

it costs a quarter to send a first class valentine's day in 1990, a dime in 1975, a nickel in 1967.people don't know the cost of first class stamps for a pretty simple reason, they don't use them. >> the younger generation being used to the internet and send everything electronically. >> i don't mail that often, i pay my bills online. >> a self stick stamp just doesn't hold a candle to wi-fi, 57% of 18 to 34-year-olds pay all or most of their bills on line. and there are e cards and e-mail and facebook, itself. if people can send your pictures every ---it all adds up or in the case of the post office, it all subtracts. first class mail volume has dropped -- christmas packages and junk mail, but it's no longer enough. >> to get back to long-term financial stability, the postal service needs to reduce costs by $22.5 billion by the year 2016.

nickel back must be thrilled to be in there with lice. this is my favorite question. a real question they asked. what do you have a higher opinion of, congress or gonorrhea? 53% said congress, 18% said undecided. so there you go. you're almost twice as popular as an std, congress. now, congress is doing a bad job, there's no doubt about that. but it got me thinking, how much do people really know about what they're complaining about? we sent a camera on to hollywood boulevard today to ask people what i think are two very good questions. >> what is your name and where are you from? >> mike, i'm from rome, georgia. >> how do you think congress is doing? >> horrible. >> and who are your congressmen? >> i've got them written down, i know that. >> how do you think congress is doing? >> [ bleep ]. >> and who are you congressmen? >> i don't know. >> who are your congressmen? >> um, well, i know susan -- what is susan's last name? >> who is your congressman? >> some girl. >> how do you think congress is doing? >> awful. >> who are your congressmen? >> uh -- honestly, i don't

let's see, would you rather be getting a root canal listen together rock band nickel back, or dealinges or would you rather be talking to a member of congress? there was a survey released by public policy polling that found that those first four all received higher favorability ratings than congress. but don't feel too bad for congress because according to ppp, congress does have higher ratings than the kardashians, north korea and meth labs. so with us now is one person we like better the kardashian welcome back to "the war room." we like you a lot more than the kardashians. you have a choice. out of those things that are polled between a root canal congress, brussels sprouts nickel back, a meth lab, north korea, kardashians, what would you rather spend time in half. >> cut them in half, drizzle them with oil. >> jennifer: you like brussels sprouts. >> they are in season. >> jennifer: are you telling me you would rather be with brussels sprouts than kim kardashian. >> bruceelbrussels sprouts with kim kardashian. >> jennifer: the congress approval rating is in the dumps and it's amazi

. >> he played nickel last week. he hasn't played nickel in nine weeks, ten weeks. he was awesome. two hits on the quarterback a couple knock-ones, for two months, to go in and play, you know, that shows you -- the guys didn't complain about it, just did it, did a nice job. >> i was young and dumb, and since then, i've matured and now understand the game, understand the concepts, just a lot more than i did when i was in seattle. >> wilson is following in his father's footsteps. tim wilson played eight seasons for the houston oilser. he died from a heart attack. josh sells thoughts of his dad are never too far away from him, especially at this time. >> it's always good to know he's looking down smiling. you want to make everyone around you proud. knowing that i'm going and plays hard, doing the best that i can, i know he would be a proud father, just like one day, my future son, i wanted to look at him and be proud of him, no matter, good or bad, just know he's. >> he hopes to one day tell his son of one time going against a former team on the playoffs. >> i think the only thing bet