oster says you can tell it's a scam. >> this is from sam.wiseman@uni- postdam.de. this is not an american express e-mail. >> if you have any doubt whatsoever, don't open it. >> reporter: better business bureau president says another big scam this holiday season is a social media sensation called the secret sister gift exchange. >> you get an e-mail saying here's a list with certain people listed number 1, number 2, for instance, and they will they will send it to the number 1 person on the list. move number 2 up to number 1 and put yourself as number 2. >> reporter: as your name moves up the list, the promise is you'll receive dozens of gift cards, but consumer advocates warn it's a pyramid scam. >> bottom line, these are losing propositions. >> reporter: another losing proposition this time of year, says the bbb, unsolicited offers for seasonal work. at many companies, even ups and amazon. >> it's not a job. >> reporter: it's a scam and the goal is to get you to pay an application fee, even a uniform fee if you accept the offer. experts say tis the season for bogu

people if you want to watch them live, the group will be performing in independence tomorrow and at the oster regent theater saturday and sunday. let's go to storm track seven chief meteorologist mark schnackenberg for

ages holiday theater show "a brazilian 2wins christmas" in independence on december 18 and at the oster regent theatre on december 19 and 20. the band has humble beginnings started in the slums of brazil. twin brothers walter and wagner grew up playing classical music on violins thhr father made by hand. in 2007, national public radio featured the twins in an interview about music from the ghetto. the brothers were then invited to the us to perform for the world food prize event in des moines, iowa. on the spot, the prrsident of the university of northern iowa offered them full ssholarships toothe collge's music program - quite a challenge, as twin could speak a word of english. fast forrard eight years and the group is now touring the country, winning music competitions, and playing for thousands of people while spreading their messag of happiness. the show will include all holiday music and also incorporate many theatrical elements to create a dazzling holiday experience for the whole family. music isn't the only element design, musical features, costumes, live actors and, what holida

visit joining us today on the kwwl news at noon are representatives from the oster regent theatre, cedar falls' community theatre. here to speak on the upcoming mary poppins production at the theatre are the production's director: liane nichols as well as the two leads of the production, in marjorie gast (playing mary poppins) and tom reburn (playing bert). the cedar falls community theatre recently announced a cast of 26 actors for the family friendly musical mary poppins to be produced december 4, 5, samantha harrelson shares the story today of one youngster who's spending the season looking for ways to give back... here's more... jacob studer is a second grader -- a businessman... "billings best hiking sticks, that dollars i will give it to a thing that needs it like the poor, cancer, even pet shelter -- you know like the pets that are in danger and that don't have home." his first cause -- the yellowstone boys and girls ranch program at his school. "we got to talking one day and the program helps students at the school who need counseling. the money jacob raised will go to help them

oh, boy. ...leftover honey, then you take the bottom of your osterizer blender, and when you put it,t fits right on to all mason jars. carla: oh! hello! what? get out of here. now... what? [ cheers and applause ] now, what you do is, you have a bunch of these jars lying around the house. you have your -- you put in different liquors, and your friends go around and say, "i'd like a little cranberry sauce here," or, "i'd like a little jalapeÑos," or something like that. you take it off like that... and you build it. ...and i have made frothy, delightful... oh. ...successfully interesting cocktails. salute to you, my friend. and hello, symon. [ cheers and applause ] -clinton: that looks good. -carla: that looks so good. ooh. i do not know, in all my years, how i never knew that the mason jar fit on the blender. you know, symon, there's a lot that we all have to learn about life. there is. much from each other. and i think that if there's enough time for each of us just to listen to each other over the holiday season, we will all find some grain of some new truth. i agree 100%, batali. b

we're tracking a storm system to move in for the a lucky family uncovers rare, one-ooa-kind movie osters from the 19-20's and 30's that were stashed away for decades... now -- they're worth hundreded of thousands oo dollars... megan pringle has the story this morning... robert basta knows that after 38 years of renovating homes. "i always find something war ii." it used to be common to put nnspaper under flooring. "some people think it was to keep down the draft" these possrs are now his favorite find... now safely secured at an auction house "these posters are one-of-a- kind, never-before-seen, pieces of hollywood history." 17 rare hollywood golden age posters with starr tarzan poster could sell for as much as 80- grand. helping them out. they found the posters and texted this to him." so whatever he gets from the auction -- his sons will get a cut. is it enough to ride e f anymore i'm going to pen up my own sushi restaurant. it allows it's certainly enough for hollywood ending. basta ended up selling the posters for that big payday at auction... the organizers of next year's olympic ga

or tax cuts can help the economy recover and that in return reduces and to be honest we were less osteritythe federal stimulus that we got in 2009 was ton a significant offset by the contraction of state and local level. a lot of spending is state and local level. that was offsetting for state and local level. >> host: in the reagan years when the economy began to come back and job growth, part was fueled by job growth from state and local levels and federal levels. since awful recession which we've had growth for 60 consecutive months since the auto rescue, but we've had a drag on that so there are fewer and fewer with the obama administration there are fewer government jobs which you used head-wins. you were doing anything you could on the monetary level and congress wasn't. let me use your words. economic spending could replace public spending. interest rates already near zero, the economy certainly needed fiscal help in government spending, tax cuts to promote private spending or both. the wall street journal, the fall of 2008, the wall street journal that i effectively endorsed obama

but right now general oster and everybody else can't send in a battalion, a company if he feels he needs it in baghdad, is that correct? >> congressman, if i could quickly respond. i view my responsibility to identify to the president, the secretary, what the commanders need. i will not be at all inhibited by bringing those recommendations forward to the president and the secretary regardless of what the force management levels or the numbers may have been articulated in the past. i will not feel at all constrained in bringing forward recommendations for additional capabilities if that's what it takes to defeat the enemy. >> the way you put that is exactly correct. it's additional capabilities. it's not numbers. if you need capabilities for combat search and rescue and fly from kuwait to western iraq is not a reasonable time if you have to rescue a downed pilot. it seems to me, chairman of joint chiefs, that needs to be recommended. if you don't think so, i'm a little bit surprised. from what i hear is there is a sense on the ground they need some more capabilities. so, please, please, p

joining us live from melbourne is alan oster. great to see you. hike,s the first one in nearly a decade out of the way now. where do we go from here? they were backed into a corner to raise rates last week. what about next year? have three rate rises, another one in march and the other in the second quarter and another in the third quarter. we are more cautious than the market. sayingely, what we are is the fed has given a vote of confidence in the u.s. economy. we think as you go forward from it will be data dependent. we are pretty relaxed that they will have growth rates around 2.5% and unemployment will come down. as that happens, you will get wage pressure and finally, some inflation. that is basically fairly optimistic in some ways. yvonne: pretty optimistic for the u.s. economy. your outlook for the australian economy seems like we will see continued pressure. you revised down your gdp forecast as well as iron ore. we saw a rebound of iron ore. will it get worse before it gets better? will not improve. we have long-term forecasts of about $