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poppy harlow joins us from new york. who is this convenience for? >> that is yet to be seen. but it's a lead story. we're already seeing a lot of outraged backlash in twitter sphere, et cetera. they're saying starting january 15th they'll issue a $2 fee. those making a one-time payment using a credit card or debit card. there's a plethora of exceptions. you can use electronic check, auto pay, mail in your check and you will not have to pay a fee. if you pay with a one-time credit card, you'll have to pay a fear. here's what verizon is saying to their 91 million customers. it will allow us to continue to support the single-bill payment options and designed to address costs incurred by us for only those customers who choose to make single bill payments. what does that make you think about? it makes me think of bank of america. i want to read you some of the comments i'm getting on twitter, facebook, cnn money. this is ridiculous. never have heard of paying to pay. i think this is going to be a lesson for verizon. one says, i'll mail my check in. a stamp is less than a fee, cand

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. >>> next on reporter roulette, poppy harlow in new york is talking taxes with jay-z. pop poppy? >> i know, not the combination you would think of, brooke. this happened yet. you see the press conference that jay-z held in new york. he's announced he'll headline two shows at carnegie hall, the first hip-hop show there. it's all about scholarships for kids to go to college, something he didn't do. when we sat down to talk about that, we then moved on to talk about politics and taxes. and i asked him, should rich people like yourself pay more in taxes, like obama's asking them to do. take a look. >> me personally, i wouldn't mind paying more taxes, if it went to the things that really mattered, if it went to education, people in poverty, and you know if it went to the right things. i wouldn't mind. i think it should be more -- it should be clearly defined, you know. clearly defined where all of the money is being allocated. because you can understand paying so much for taxes and then things not improving, you're, like, where is everything going to? that's why i'm saying -- >> so yo

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poppy harlow has a look at what's coming up in business news. pop poppy? >> thanks so much. upcoming week on wall street will bring reports on manufacturing, the service sector, consumer sentiment and foreclosures and, of course, europe will continue to be a major focus as treasury secretary timothy geithner travels across the continent, he will meet with euro zone leaders to discuss efforts to resolve the debt crisis there. football fans listen up, on tuesday you will be able to buy stock, that's right stock, in the green bay packers for $250 a share. it's the fifth stock offering in the packers' 92-year history. the pack is the only publicly traded nfl team. we'll keep on top of all of it for you on cnn money. back to you. >>> all right. thanks so much. checking our top stories right now. iran state media reporting an unmanned american spy plane has been shot down. state television citing military sources as saying the u.s. drone was seized after minimum damage. nato released a statement saying they lost contact with an unmanned aircraft a few days ago and that may be what

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you look at the world differently. >> poppy harlow joins us live.'t imagine what grade gpa i would have gotten if i tried to major in engineering. >> me, too. >> so you got to wonder. these students, it takes longer to graduate in engineering. they see their friends getting higher gpss with less work. i moan how do you buck that trend? >> you know, i don't know if you do other than telling these kids that this is where the jobs are right now. not only a job but a really good paying job. it is a trend i saw in my very close friends in college. they were -- some were dropping out of engineering out of the sciences because they were getting half the gpa other people were getting with double the work. it is interesting, the associate dean at city college told me on this shoot, you know, there are a lot easier ways to get bachelor's degrees and then the dean at columbia said what we need right now -- this really stuck with me -- we need a sputnik moment. just like in the '60s when there was a big push into the hard sciences. there was a national drive. w

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poppy harlow talked about it and critical choices facing leaders. >> all this comes down to a visionor what they want the euro-zone to look like. second, they must agree on credible and durable circuit breakers. and finally they must get buy-in so there is a lot of things they are working on and it's critical they deliver in time for the december 9th summit. >> now, you have been for months now hinting at coordinated action, and it's the only way to get the euro-zone out of it. what we saw it skyrocketing was a temporary band-aid in terms of what's happening right now in europe, ecb president has been hinting that if euro-zone leaders take the necessary actions, the ecb will step up what it's doing. is that the right approach and do you have confidence we'll see what we need to from the ecb. >> it's the right sequence so first european governments must move and provide enough assurances for them to go all-in. i stress it has to be all-in which is another way of saying the ecb must use its balance sheet as a bridge but has to be a bridge to somewhere and if we get these two actions th

poppy harlow explains. >> reporter: the park is nearly all cleared out. an office right off of wall street. you walk in, you get a name tag like this. is this occupy headquarters? is. >> not at all. this is one of our offices. because we don't have the park, we are spreading out our resources so we can have people join us where we can continue to work and continue to plan. >> show us around. >> this is some of our working space. you can see lots of occupiers working here. we have some offices our info hub to help people who were staying in the park who are now homeless. as every office needs, we have our copy machine. >> right in manhattan. this isn't cheap. how are you guys paying for this? >> we are not. it is donations. our office furniture was donated. our food is still donated. our water's donated. >> this really stands out to me -- we'll walk in here -- what the media is saying about the movement today. they're posting all the stuff that we, the media, are putting out there. you're keeping an eye on us. >> of course. >> is it a more professional mov

poppy harlow joining us now live.you had a blast. >> reporter: i certainly did. the most unique assignment i have ever been on. this is surprising, right? this is a small business that who would have ever thought you could do this. they're charging $500 a pop. they had a bachelor party there. people surprising their fathers for their 50th and 60th birthdays. and those tanks pretty indestructible. eventually the costs will be covered. i have to tell you a mildly terrifying story. >> how much is it for each person who wants to partake? $500 a pop. what we saw is a lot of families who come with one driver. the driver pays and rest the family rides in the back of the tank and they don't have to pay. see that car i'm crushing, $500 more if you want to crush a car. >> my goodness. whatever float's one's boat, huh? now we know. bomby harlow what gets you revved up. thanks so much. >> reporter: exactly. >>> a major develople in the long island serial killer case. police may have found a purse, clothing and a cell phone of one

i don't know why i have to go through this. >> well, poppy harlow joins us now from new york.alk to us a little bit more about, you know, what is happening to drive families to this. >> it's a great question, because these two families are just examples of what's happening across america to so many different families. i spoke to dozens of them on the phone and out in field who couldn't share their story on camera. they couldn't go that far. what's happening, it seems, it wages. if they still have a job, they're either making less on their wages have been stagnant for a long time. the cost of living in this country keeps going up. the cost of food, the cost of energy, the cost of rent, if they've lost their home. it keeps getting higher. they just can't keep up. if they've lost their job like the mothers in that story, and they've run out of unemployment benefits, there is no more help out there for them. they have literally hit the end of their loprope and ended up i situations they never expected they'd be in. >> and poppy, it struck me in watching that piece, that if some wh

cnn money's poppy harlow takes you on an exclusive tour. >> reporter: zuccotti park is nearly all clearedved to places that you probably wouldn't expect including an office right off of wall street. >> you walk in. you get a name tag like this. is this occupy headquarters? >> not at all. this is one of our offices. because we don't have zuccotti park. >> yeah. >> we are spreading out our resources so we can have people join us. working groups can continue to work and plan. >> reporter: show usa round. >> this is some of our working space. you can see lots of occupiers working here. we have some offices. our info hub. it's a help to people who were staying in the park who are now homeless. >> reporter: a copy machine, fax. >> we have our copy machine as every office needs. >> right in manhattan isn't cheap. how are you guys paying for this? >> we are not. it's donations. our furniture was donated. our food still donated. our water is donated. >> reporter: this really stands out to me. we'll walk in here. what print media is saying about the movement today so they're posting all of this stu

. >>> i'm poppy harlow in new york.including the latest manufacturing and trade numbers and a look at consumer centiment in the midst of the holiday shopping season. also the most recent realty track foreclosure numbers come out. europe will continue to be a major focus as treasury secretary tim geithner travels across the continent. he'll meet with eurozone leaders to discuss possible efforts to resolve the debt crise this. we'll track it for you all week on cnn money. >>> i'm "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer. we're going to have the latest in the kim kardashian divorce war. so will kim grant her ex an annulment? also braxton family values stars will be sharing secrets from their superstar family and their reality show with me. make sure you catch "showbiz tonight" scllly at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on cnn. >>> what's the latest on the weather? >> we're watching two systems that will be affecting a lot of the country here. we'll start with one you've been dealing with all weekend long. that's the floodmaker from t

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cnn money's poppy harlow takes you on an exclusive tour. >> reporter: zuccotti park is nearly all cleareds moved to places that you probably wouldn't expect including an office right off of wall street. >> you walk in. you get a name tag like this. is this occupy headquarters? >> not at all. this is one of our offices. because we don't have zuccotti park. >> yeah. >> we are spreading out our resources so we can have people join us. working groups can continue to work and plan. >> reporter: show usa round. >> this is some of our working space. you can see lots of occupiers working here. we have some offices. our info hub. to help people who were staying in the park who are now homeless. >> reporter: a copy machine, fax. >> as every office needs, we have our copy machine as every office needs. >> right in manhattan isn't cheap. how are you guys paying for this? >> we are not. it's donations. our furniture was donated. our food still donated. our water is donated. >> reporter: this really stands out to me. we'll walk in here. what print media is saying about the movement today so they're pos

i'm so jealous. >> sounds like a job for poppy harlow. >> just another day at the office.st going let you watch this story. you can see exactly what went down. take a look. meet larry. a 120,000-pound battle tank. that's destroyed. here you can drive it and crush almost anything you want. i found larry about an hour south of may hometown. >> we are in the drive a tank world headquarters in kasota, minnesota. >> reporter: don't you know. marie and her son tony own seven tanks. for 500 buck as pop people get the ride of their life. >> we imported them in pairs. we have two and then got two more and two more. >> we had an very many banker from saudi arabia stop by. i had a group of engineers come, all around the world. one from india, china. >> reporter: these puppies are all bricks. 60 to 80 grand a pop. turns out you can't buy american tanks. >> you have to be a thinker to have these. it is not like just anybody can go out and buy them and make them run and keep them running. >> reporter: you have to take a safety class before getting behind the wheel. >> you are here to dr

poppy harlow with a cnn exclusive. >> zuccotti park is nearly all cleared out, but "occupy" has movede right off of wall street. >> you walk in and you get a name tag like this. >> is this "occupy" headquarters? >> not at all. this is one of our offices. because we don't have zuccotti park, we are spreading out our resources so we can have people join us. working groups can continue to work and continue to plan. >> show us around. >> this is some of our working spaces. you can see lots of occupiers working here. wehave some offices, info hub to help people who were staying in the park that are now homeless. >> copy machine, fax. >> as everything office needs, we have a copy machine. >> how are you guys paying for this? >> we are not, it's donations. our office furniture was donated and our food still donated and our waters donated. >> this stands out to me. we walk in here. what print media is saying about the movement today. so, they're posting all the stuff that we, the media, are putting out there. you're keeping an eye on us. >> of course. >> is it a more professional movement now

poppy harlow has the story. >> reporter: wall street 80 years ago. who was there? irvin kahn.905. >> reporter: hi rang the opening bell at the new york stock exchange on his 100 birthday. that was six years ago. how has wall street changed during your life? >> well when i got to the street it was much more a rich man's game. not that i was rich, but i mean, it was designed for banks, for insurance companies or railroads, public utilities. it's no longer a rich man's business. it's a business for everybody. >> reporter: do you still watch the stock market very closely every day? >> well, i have the bloomberg, which is right here. i don't watch it, because i'm not a trader. >> reporter: you're a value investor? >> right, and i stick to the 29 stocks that i hold. >> reporter: who is your idol, irving? >> van graham. >> reporter: that's warren buffett's idol, too. >> and a lot of other people. i wish they could do what he did. >> he works every day. >> reporter: what do you think is the reason for your father's longevity? >> the fact he has an office to go to and a job, and respon

our poppy harlow is here to explain. >> because it's incredibly hard and kids feel ill-prepared.e, that's what we found out. i interview so many ceos. why aren't you hiring? >> we are. we need scientists and mathematicians. why wanted to find out why more kids aren't getting train ford these really high-paying jobs. take a look. >> reporter: these machines are moving more than dirt. they're moving jobs, too. and entry-level engineers here rake in $65,000 a year. companies from caterpillar to kugel aoog google are on the hu engineers. you were an engineering major. then what? >> i was struggling in the program. so i decided to study something different and right now i'm majoring in public relation advertising. >> reporter: here at this city college in new york, only 35% of students who enter the engineering school graduate as engineers. with 9% unemployment and companies desperate to hire engineers, you'd think undergrads would be lining up to major in the sciences. but few are, and many who do are quitting them. >> i needed to raise my gpa to stay in the school and that's what i

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poppy harlow take us inside it's manufacturing power house straight ahead.>> i'm a chef based out of atlanta. probably clock 130 miles just this year. a chef with many restaurants here's in the southeast. you may know me from "top chef." a day in the life, traveling. one of the thing i have to pack, knives. like my life saber, if you will. grade headphones. even if not listening to music, i can pretend. no one usually will bother you. i like to drink carbonated water. that's my thing. this is a gadget that carbonates your own water. if you're a modern chef like myself i travel with many miscellaneous white powders. important to label them. everyone understand what they are. and the most important is hair product. of course. i have a wife and two young daughters bp the way we state of in touch is on iphones usually. kind of neat. what did you think about the hair. enables us to feel like we're together, even though we're thousands of miles apart. thanks for hanging out and spending time. i'll see you at one of my restaurants soon or an airport near you. [ mal