the rules prevent businesses to use machines to make robocalls. >>> sales figures from the iphone 5. it hit shelves during the weekend. it became impossible to find one if stores, people lined up days in advance for the sale that started friday. it's faster and lighter, has bigger screen. the one feature it's getting slammed is apple's new app application. >> there is a little bit of disappointment when we saw kinks in it. there are blogs pushing out problems here and there, across the globe. >> apple moved away from the operating system for maps and now rolled out their own. users say it steers them if the wrong direction at the wrong places, that's no good. apple says it's work tong app to make it bet -- working on the app to make it better. >>> a baby panda's death at the zoo. linda so has the latest. >> reporter: preliminary findings are due out today. the doctors examined the baby to determine how it died. staffers found the dead panda after hearing the mother's distressed calls. the cub was not breathing and it's heart stopped. cpr was performed. there are no signs of wounds or

they are saying the so-called robocall ropes since 2010.asically tele marketers are out smarting the federal government. they use a technique making it look like the calls are coming from another phone number. the robocalls have become a bigger problem in recent years. >>> leigh glaser is here to tell you what is in store for your workweek. >> cooler temperatures for monday and tuesday, and then we will rebound a little as we head toward the latter part of the workweek. slow going with low clouds and fog. could obscure some visibility especially near the coast and the bay. the high definition rooftop cam is showing the clouds starting to move in over the financial district and live dopler 7hd has a nice handle on this. some are high clouds as well, but you can see the fog bank sitting just off the coast. westerly winds are picking up. cooler air directions, so all of this will slowly move inland overnight tonight. over toward gilroy and hollister is reporting overcast conditions and even throughout the salinas valley. keep that in mind if y

they are saying the so-called robocall ropes since 2010.asically tele marketers are out smarting the federal government. they use a technique making it look like the calls are coming from another phone number. the robocalls have become a bigger problem in recent years. >>> leigh glaser is here to tell you what is in store for your workweek. >> cooler temperatures for monday and tuesday, and then we will rebound a little as we head toward the latter part of the workweek. slow going with low clouds and fog. could obscure some visibility especially near the coast and the bay. the high definition rooftop cam is showing the clouds starting to move in over the financial district and live dopler 7hd has a nice handle on this. some are high clouds as well, but you can see the fog bank sitting just off the coast. westerly winds are picking up. cooler air directions, so all of this will slowly move inland inland over toward gilroy and hollister is reporting overcast conditions and even throughout the salinas valley. keep that in mind if you have earl

robocalls are seriously hard to stop. >>guest: absolutely. i will tell you it is tied to the current economic situation. as times get bad you try and find more ways to make money. there are three ways: purely illegal means. influence means that are less than ethical. and purely legitimate means. unfortunately we are seeing the outpouring of affects from things that are illegal or unethical such as identity theft, or selling you thinks you do not need. >>shepard: if you are on the "do not call" list, or you get calls do you not want, what do do you? >>guest: i tried -- use your local service provider and let it go to voice mail but do not press one or ask for more information. i tested this a couple of times to ask to be removed, it does not work. they ignore it. they could operate outside the boundaries of our lawsuit and could be coming from a foreign country. they do not care. most legitimate companies do care but a last these guys because of the internet, and to get your i.d., they will call from anywhere. you cannot stop it. >>shepard: be

a lot of people have been getting robocalls on their phones.didn't opt in, the campaigns can be charged $16,000 worth of fines for every single call. according to the fcc which oversees the wireless airwaves. maybe there's an opportunity to make some money there. but both sides have been guilty of this in states like ohio where there's been either anti calls against the other candidate or pro calls in favor of your candidate. i don't know, i like getting calls from the president or the first lady. so flattering. >> what a joy not to live in a battleground state. not to get the robocalls or be inundated with those tv ads. >> agreed. >> michelle, great to see you. >>> who says new yorkers are rude? the rudest countries were ranked for travelers. germany came in at number four. then the uk. russia is number two. and where locals were voted the least friendly to local tourists, i don't get this, france. >>> time for the your business entrepreneur of the week. joshua davis knows the frustration of looking for funding. after being turned down by mult

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truth should matter but undeterred paul ryan and mitt romney are doubling down on a lie here's a robocall their campaign is ready running echoing the same lie in fact expanding on it with other lies take a listen. it was a message from romney. to go bomb care the same health care. free obama is raiding. medicare program. makers raising taxes on families making less than one hundred twenty dollars. here come. the romney ryan plan to or many. of them that. this goal was that's a lie the ryan romney plan will end medicare as we know it for the next generation will turn into about your program but expect this lie to be told again and again and again until november which raises a question can we trust a campaign this trying to win the white house on a big fat lie here and so that is brian darling senior fellow at the heritage foundation brian welcome back the things around me on how many times we're going to hear this medicare a lot. well it's not a line i mean. if you look at them if you look at the ryan budget that does not reflect in the ryan much the ryan kenyan freeman soon to run why he'

the problem is new figures show robocall complaints are up about 225% in the last two years arks coringedhe associated press. the ftc says the do not call list is doing its job. though, it says more telemarketers are getting through because they're getting better at masking their phone numbers. >>> now to a sign of the times and the change of advises from travel experts about booking this year's winter vacation compared with last year. act now or you could end up paying the price. we get more now from nbc's michelle franzen. >> reporter: emily is already planning her get abouts aways this fall. the lifestyle blogger is used to searching for the best deals, but this year she has noticed a change when it comes to hotels. >> what i'm finding universally is that they're just really expensive, and they're more expensive than i remember them being in the last few years. >> reporter: she's right. for the first time in five years travellers are paying more on average for their hotel rooms. globally prices rose 4% the first half of this year. they were up 5% in north america. signs, experts say, t

the problem is new figures show robocall complaints are up about 225% in the last two years arks coringedhe associated press. the ftc says the do not call list is doing its job. though, it says more telemarketers are getting through because they're getting better at masking their phone numbers. >>> now to a sign of the times and the change of advises from travel experts about booking this year's winter vacation compared with last year. act now or you could end up paying the price. we get more now from nbc's michelle franzen. >> reporter: emily is already planning her get abouts aways this fall. the lifestyle blogger is used to searching for the best deals, but this year she has noticed a change when it comes to hotels. >> what i'm finding universally is that they're just really expensive, and they're more expensive than i remember them being in the last few years. >> reporter: she's right. for the first time in five years travellers are paying more on average for their hotel rooms. globally prices rose 4% the first half of this year. they were up 5% in north america. signs, experts say, t

most complaints are about robocalls, where a recording tries to sell you a product like credit cards and lower interest rates. these calls are cheap to make, hard to trace, and illegal. telemarketing companies are supposed to check the "do not call" list every month. but some either ignore the list or don't check it. you can get your phone service provider to block your number, but it may charge you a fee. the the senior class pranks are discouraged but not at one school the senior class at point loma high-school in california put this contraption on the campus ... the principle was actually placedeased... still to come this midday .... tom skilling has your full forecast. think you can't get great auto insurance coverage and a great rate? think again! mary switched to allstate got an agent, and saved $326.00 on her car insurance. john switched, got an agent and saved $263.00! drivers who switched to allstate saved an average of $375 a year on car insurance. and allstate will send you two bonus checks a year every year you stay accident free with our safe driving bonus. when i switch

. >> you make calls to campaign supporters, make robocalls. >> they eventies advertise in the sky. >>eady for the message, then n mittromney.com/ticket. >> the football stadium seats about 80,000 people. only problem, romney had 8,000 in the crowd. >> it's ritter's job to make that doesn't happen. >> six really talented advance people on the ground for five days. >> we're painting part of the backdrop that you see from the riser. finish that late in the night. >> campaigns obsess about every sign, every camera angle. >> you have to see the campaigns through the lens of a camera. if you can't do that, it gets left on field. >> we'll take cameras in there, set them up on our risers that we set for the press, look at it, make sure the angles are right. >> behind that group of people is romney/ryan. >> signs are always in the perfect position for the television cameras or still photographers to pick them up. >> because of how cameras work, we have something here like 40, 50-foot banners cover buildings and get in a tight shot. >> it's the first thing he walks past that people say as he ma

the biggest complaint is robocalls from credit card services. some are questioning how effective that national registry really is. telemarketers are supposed to check that list at least every 31 days for numbers that they can't call. >>> if you want the new iphone 5, looks like you might need to get in line now. tech analysts say there could be record long lines for the newest apple phone. some are expecting longer lines than when the iphone original was released in 2007. people are already lining up outside some apple stores, including the flagship store in manhattan. the company expects to sell 6 million to 12 million phones just this weekend. >> if you can afford a $600 phone, how can you afford to stand in line for five days and not go to work and buy the phone? >> i don't know where these folks get the disposable income and the free time. you don't think they would go together. >> maybe they have so much income, they can hire someone to wait in line for them and buy it for them. >> and there's always mommy and daddy. i'm just saying. >>> yo

sounds banal but is something that is a real difference than something you see in direct mail or on a robocaller repeat a message to somebody at the door. what is interesting this year is that the quality of web advertising is improving, and partly because ads can be targeted at the individual level either by mobile phones or over web browsers. so online advertising is starting to become a fusion of the best of direct mail where you can talk to an individual voter and know that you you reached them and all the sort of richness of video and audio. i think we're sort of seeing a convergence online of the two different traditions. it might allow people to get off conventional tv. people are consuming stuff online because you can be far more knowledgeable about who you talk to. >> sasha, i ask you specific ally to make based on what you learn about campaigns run, maybe decode a little bit of romney's strategy. something jumps out at me. they're running on this broad, nonspecific economic message. if you don't like how things are, vote out the incumbent. he's doing things that we don't normally ass

what's more, huge sums, not only for ads but for get-out-the-vote efforts like mailings and robocalls are going into house and senate races in the fight to control congress. altogether, three billion dollars in campaign cash have been raised so far, and a projected $6 billion by the election, less than seven weeks away. it's not just that we're being hit by swarms of ads thicker than locusts. what's truly frightening is that we don't know who's really paying for them. president barack obama: i'm pledging to cut the deficit -- >>> romney's worth $200 million. >>> the president's doing a mediocre job. >>> governor romney cares about big business. >>> real job growth cut the debt. >>> i had no healthcare. >>> -- to the highest corporate bidders -- >>> if you're a super pac, empowered by the supreme court's citizens united decision to take unlimited donations, you're supposed to make your donors public. and you're not supposed to coordinate your efforts with the candidate. but there are ways to get around both requirements and to hide those campaign mega-dollars. instead of calling yourse

stuff, all the robocalls and mailings, the things that tell people if you vote in the primary you don'tto vote. or giving people the wrong address of where to go vote or the wrong day or time to go vote. so it's not -- i completely agree, it's not over and i don't think we can discount the power these zbis still have. >> final question, does this type finally give us clear evidence of who is really leading the divisiveness as far as this presidential campaign is concerned? jay carney earlier today saying this president involved himself in saving the auto industry not because the people who had jobs were going to vote for him but because he serves all americans. >> that's right. hopefully it does that. remember, mitt romney represents the way that some people actually feel, the one percenters feel this way, people in the republican party feel this way sometimes, and what this proves to us and it's a sad day in american politics if this is the case, it proves to us in some ways that it's easier for people to vote against something than it is for them to vote for something. so it's easier

asking for people to send us examples of this sort of thing, and that if they get targeted mailings, robocalls, what are they seeing in their inboxes that gets sent to them, but he is right. they do not send these things to reporters. it is not like they are putting it on a television station, where it can be monitored, and we can see every ad that they put on, but there is a huge potential for flying under the radar, and telling targeted groups of voters the things that are not true. i do not know that it is going on. i assume it is going on to some degree. how great of a degree, i do not know. limited success. if anyone who is listening has seen something like this, let us know. one of the challenges, too, my experience in covering these sorts of things for a long time is that these tend to flood in in the last few weeks. the money gets spent on these big postcards. your inbox just fills up with these things in the last weeks of the election, and that makes it very difficult for us to parse through these things and do any sort of pushback before the election, but we would like to do it, and

we have said hey, if you get a robocall, if you see an out of whatever and get a little bit of feedbackout of that, but it has not yielded a great response we would like. but i think outsourcing is probably the answer to that. >> i would endorse that. we at factcheck.org launched this year something we call spin detectors which is promoted a little box on the homepage. we been actively asking our visitors, readers, subscribers to send us examples of this sort of thing so they get targeted mailings, so they get robocall's, so they get live calls from boiler rooms of people reading from scripts at what are they seeing in their inboxes that gives enough to them? we, too, have had limited success from this, but bill is right. the big challenge is they don't send this stuff to reporters. and it's not like they're putting it on television station where it can be monitored and where we can see every ad that goes up. we are pretty good on screening the tv ads, but there is a huge potential for flying under the radar, and telling targeted groups of voters things that are not true. i don't know t

can do that anymore because of my physical condition, which i told i'm happy to do billboards and robocall'sand videos, whatever it is. i don't think i want to get in a situation where i need hospitalization, and i have my own hospital. that i go to. so that's where we are. >> congressman, i it lay, within the last year or so, did an event with eric cantor, who is with the 92nd street, heavily jewish audience, it was packed. i didn't know there were this many jewish republicans. i don't know if they were all jewish republicans, but the place was packed. in this discussion one of the things he said, very surprising to me that more jewish americans don't support republican candidates, precisely because of our feelings about israel and a number of issues that are important to the jewish community. which i thought, he was genuinely baffled that look, i don't see how anyone can think that the democratic party is a superior defender of israel than republicans. is that another reason why you might say in this election there might be more movement among jews for republicans than we otherwise would h

a robocall poll done with a different methodology that tends to lean a little more republican.a. now they show a five-point lead. the most important thing is that they're moving in the same direction. this bounce could fade. we're going to find out. we're going to have an nbc/"wall street journal" poll next week. but the indication now, guys, is that president obama has actually succeeded in those conventions at opening up a margin and we know from history that it's difficult for challengers to erase margins that open up in september. the debates are an opportunity for mitt romney to do that. that may be his last big opportunity, guys. >> why do we think that's happened, john? >> reporter: i think the reason it happened was republicans had some setbacks at their convention. clint eastwood. that sort of thing. secondly, the fact that the democrats had their convention immediately after the republicans let them step on romney's bounce. he did get an initial bounce of a couple of points. then you have the democratic convention. spectacular performances by michelle obama and bill c

asking for people to send us examples of this sort of thing, and that if they get targeted mailings, robocalls, what are they seeing in their inboxes that gets sent to them, but he is right. they do not send these things to reporters. it is not like they are putting it on a television station, where it can be monitored, and we can see every ad that they put on, but there is a huge potential for flying under the radar, and telling targeted groups of voters the things that are not true. i do not know that it is going on. i assume it is going on to some degree. how great of a degree, i do not know. limited success. if anyone who is listening has seen something like this, let us know. one of the challenges, too, my experience in covering these sorts of things for a long time is that these tend to flood in in the last few weeks. the money gets spent on these big postcards. your inbox just fills up with these things in the last weeks of the election, and that makes it very difficult for us to parse through these things and do any sort of pushback before the election, but we would like to do it, and

the most common complaint -- those prerecorded pitches called robocalls. iphone says while most reorders for the iphone 5 will be delivered on friday, but demand was greater than supply, so some will not be delivered until october. the company did not say how many were sold. the iphone 5 is dinner, taller -- thinner, taller, and has a better screen. >> a 10% chance of getting pregnant. the national zoo's panda is finally a mother. she gave birth overnight. this is the 24-hour panda cam. they can hear the cub, but they have not spotted a get. it is likely that she will not emerge from heard 10 as she takes care of her new baby. she has no idea if the new club is a male or female. >> what a great day. we have a new panda cub. fantastic. as you know, going back to the tapes, we believe 10:46, that is when we believe the birth occurred. i got a call. we have not seen me -- the cub yet. we believe we have one cub. >> beekeepers began to prepare for the birth when they saw the panda -- the keepers began to prepare for the birthplace of the panda licking and crad