patty: filing for social security online, 9 out of 10 experts agree, it's groovier than a brooklyn hot dog! cathy: or a crepe suzette! ♪ when cousins are two of a kind! ♪

it's about when we die and how our social security number goes online. because of -- ancestry.com won't display the numbers of the newly dead. the move came after a group of four senators wrote to the website asking them to stop it. they said they will protect numbers of those who have died over the past decade and the numbers they do post will be behind a pay wall for members only. >> all right. out there tonight we have just seen clouds increasing at times, had a couple of stray showers pass just north of maryland through southeast pennsylvania earlier tonight, up toward lancaster . none of that toward us, temperatures have been holding mild under a partly to mortally mostly cloudy sky. the hour by hour in to the 50s. chance for a rain shower, more on that and a look to the weekend coming up. >> all right. do you know jose? you want to tonight. the 79-year-old won the one million dollar powerball game. he bought it at post road liqo, r on revolution street. his wife said you won 200 and he said no it's got to be worth more. daughter checked the website

won't filing for social security benefits online be confusing? patty: george, it's simple and easy, and you can do it in your pajamas from the comfort of your own home! george: oh, my! patty: you've navigated through asteroid belts, right? george: oh sure, plenty of times. patty: compared to that, navigating socialsecurity.gov is a snap! george: really? patty: it's so easy, even kirk could do it. >>erica: the morning and welcome back to the kron4 morning news. for the most part it is a chilly and caught it starts to the morning.--chilean cloudy start to the morning. we have widespread fraud earlier this morning. mostly in the afternoon the temperatures are sitting in the low to mid '50's. in the overnight hours we will have mostly cloudy conditions with tear it is back down to the 40's and 30's. take a look at the numbers right outside the door. you will certainly want to bundle up, ticket that places like fairfield hovering in the upper 20s. we do see the very frigid temperatures in the north bay, but everywhere south of the golden gate bridges

. >>> back in october, we told you about how the feds released social security numbers after you die. those numbers are available online but not anymore, at least not on one major source. joce sterman is here to explain why. >> those valuable numbers are part of databases putting you at risk for identity thefts. weeks after the investigation one popular website as locked them down. ancestry.com is one place you can track down numbers, but now the company, accord topping its website, has moved it behind a pay wall for members and taken another big step to protect oift -- oat -- identity theft for the dead. as we explained in september, it has been a key tool for identity thieves to steal personal information. days after our investigation, senator bill nelson of florida met with the social security add help strags to immediately -- administration to immediately stop. joce sterman, abc2 news. >> greatk. >>> police in anne arundel county need your help. this man is accused of making two fake wire transferred at the sun trust bank. he used a customer's i.d. and a fake i.d. with the customer's information. if you know this m

party dot com is exactly what you need here's what else is waiting for you online social networking is reaching some pretty help secure places you wouldn't believe it but now the christmas tree in central kiev in ukraine has its own twitter account why you'll find the answer online plus. during the holiday and taal it is norad the north american aerospace defense command is on a mission to make sure all those christmas gifts reach their hopeful destinations by keeping santa under close surveillance. five seventeen now thank you for joining us violence comes just days after u.s. troops said goodbye to iraq nine years after the invasion began over one hundred thousand iraqi civilians and thousands of american soldiers lost their lives in the war that cost america a trillion dollars now many iraqis say the war was a mistake and they are sending that message very clearly to u.s. leaders our correspondent sean thomas reports. packing up to head home it may be easy to overlook the total costs of war at least one hundred fourteen thousand iraqi civilians killed as well as one hundred thousand american soldiers millions displ

news investigation revealed that the government release social security numbers after you die and throws numbers are available to all of us online. the popular website ancestry.com as moved it -- has moved to behind pay walls. some believe an sees ri website -- ancestry has been a key tool for identity thieves to steam personal identification. >>> let's take a look at news around the nation. theres -- there was an elevator accident on manhattan's east side. the elevator fell at least two floors. >>> an investigation into the death of a student at florida a&m, led to fraud. letters were sent to the head of the board and the state of the university system. the fdle spokesman said it will would be handled separately from robert cham pan's death. he died november 19th. police believe hazing was the blame. >>> here's a smash and grab like you've never soon. while driving in reverse, the suspect slams through the door and goes on a shopping spree. on his way out, he gets stuck. the suspect finally gets his wheels free, makes off with less than $1,000 in clothes but damage to the store was about $80,000. the suspect was later caught. >

social media to recruit supporters. homeland security committee will meet this afternoon to help prevent online recruiting techniques for purpose of terrorism. specifically, they're targeting lone wolf jihadists who are inspired by propaganda. members of congress also trying to fand ways to shut down websites that advocate jihad or holy war against western nations. >>> kid whose stayed home to see the new update are probably doing their homework instead. scott mcgrew explains why. >> microsoft was supposed to roll out an update on its kinect system that would allow to you do more than just play games, like they're doing here. it would allow you to manipulate media, tell your x-box to play a certain movie or wave your hand and change a channel. microsoft tweeted there would be a delay but we don't know exactly how long that delay will be. >>> from x-box to xxx. instead of dot com, you can get a website at dot xxx. you'll notice we're not showing you any video right now. i think you can understand why. the idea is sites with naughty content can voluntarily sign up for the domain and easier for those types to be filtered s

social security. as i described the fund is not repaid for two or three presidential terms. and i sent out an online poll to my constituents, 400,000 of them, and said do you think that we should do this in this way? and the answer was we don't. that we strongly support contributions to social security. and for me, there's a long-term goal here which is right now we are in a deficit crisis with a debt crisis raging in europe. the short-term borrowing needs of the united states are accelerated by this legislation. when you underfund social security by 250 billion, that means that the u.s. government for a temporary time is going to be borrowing even faster. and given the collapse of greek debt, spanish debt, italian debt, portuguese debt, irish debt, the congress should not be passing legislation that accelerates u.s. borrowing. >> so you're willing to violate the pledge -- >> this was a temporary gimmick tax holiday that was imposed only one year ago. and i think the bottom line is as a fiscal conservative, i think the government should be smaller. but i support social security. and therefore, if yo

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social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what do you mean? cathy: it's so much easier to log onto socialsecurity.gov and file online.ty: what if i need to know how much money i'll be getting? cathy: online. patty: what if our address changes? cathy: online. patty: what if i want medicare too? cathy: online. patty: so, how did you get so darn smart anyway? cathy: online! ♪ when cousins are two of a kind! ♪ >> when there is this a children's theater, it is a good theater. it is a good theater, you would like it, even if it is for children. that is what i think. i feel like it is both a story for kids and for much older people. it is both about being a young child and letting a toy or a friend, and it is also about what it means to get old. ♪ >> in 1986, my son was two, and i decided i would like to go over the story of the velveteen rabbit, mind you i had never read it myself as a child. i only heard it as a mother. my first-time hearing it was a bedtime story recording. it was through that that i found the theme and determined how it was going to produce this story. it was through listening to it. when a first mated,

social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what do you mean? cathy: it's so much easier to log onto socialsecurity.gov and file online.i need to know how much money i'll be getting? cathy: online. patty: what if our address changes? cathy: online. patty: what if i want medicare too? cathy: online. patty: so, how did you get so darn smart anyway? cathy: online! ♪ when cousins are >> so good morning and welcome mr. mayor, mr. council general. everybody. it's great to see such a great crowd here for what for us is an extremely important event. my name is ed reiskin. i'm the transportation director here in san francisco and very pleased to welcome you all here this morning for what we expect will be a very lively and productive couple of days here in san francisco. the san francisco m.t.a. is the agency that's charged with implementing the city's transit first policy, which is about getting people out of their cars and into more sustainable modes of transportation, such as bikes, such as walking and transit in our great muni system. as someone who myself gets around the city often by bike, and i do that by choice, but mor

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jen says the larger issue is whether it the social security rate will ever be returned to 6.2%. major garrett has a piece available online at the nationaljournal.com. he summarizes it this way. here is what he says could have been -- falling prey to the temptation to use savings from overseas contingency operations. or number four, senate democrats get in and house republicans stick to their guns and harry reid relents, or #five the house backs down as house republicans gave entirely in past the two-month tax cut extension next week. the probability of that is 5%. you can read more from his piece on line at nationa ljournal.com. richard joins us from maryland. caller: i have a couple of questions about the e-mail you just read about there being a funded program. i want to reiterate it is not a funding program, it is the spending program. also i have a question about congress with the legislation they have been passing with the patriot act that takes away all of our freedoms. that is probably why congress approval rating is so low. thank you. host: thank you. more from the house yesterday and john was from the atlanta, ga

social security. jim has this point. host: well, major garrett of "the national journal," has a piece online where he summarizes it five waysfirst of all, asking the question "who blinks first"? "#3, more gimmicks." "house republicans and democrats fall prey to the gimmicks of using savings from overseas contingency operations. the rockets in afghanistan built into the budget baseline." "#4, house republicans give in." "#5, the house backs down as republicans caved entirely and passed to the extension next week's, the probable -- extension next week -- and pass the extension next week, the probable -- probability of that being 5%." good morning. caller: the e-mail the you just read about -- excuse me -- about it being a funding problem, i wanted to reiterate that it is not a funding problem, it is a spending problem. the legislation that congress has been passing with the national defense authorization act and patriot act that takes away our freedom, that is probably why the congressional approval rating is so low. host: thank you, richard. more from john lewis in atlanta, georgia. caller: what is happening here today is sh

an online privacy advocacy group is warning social media users what might be the wrong things to say. a watchdog says homeland securityng "collapse, infection and outbreak." if you use the words the dhs might monitor online activity and share its information with governments and law enforcement so be careful what you tweet. >>> sinead o'connor ended her 16-day marriage to her fourth husband. o connor says the marriage went sour just three hours after their las vegas wedding and that herridge had become unhappy with their relationship. >>> this ranked up hundreds of hits on youtube. could this be a bad omen for this couple. >> speak now or forever hold your piece. [ eysiren ] prf turns out the tornado siren that interrupted the vows may have been good luck. the bride posted the video tuesday saying she had just given birth to a baby. so somebody's got the alarm. it is now 8:05, back to matt and sarah in a outside. >> like the universe is speaking to you. >> al is taking time off. stephanie abrams from the weather channel has the forecast. >> we've had three inches of buffalo. you want the snow or don't want the snow? >

online poll saying, and the word came back 80% no. i think the american people get it. they support social securitye'll be gone for a month of those. so one month we'll be gone for the christmas break so we have one month to come back and fight this fight again and we could have stayed here and done it. >> gentlemen, i hope despite being willing to work and stay a little longer, i hope you enjoy your recess. >>> let's go now to fact or fiction on the senate payroll tax extension. the republican candidates who just had their final debate before the iowa caucuses. it's time for today's edition of fact or fiction. joining me is david hawkings. david, good morning. >> hi, alex. >> fact or fiction, rick perry was correct when he said that ronald reagan did not create the 11th commandment. >> that's correct. he got it from the chairman of the california republican party back in the mid-1960s back when ronald reagan was a governor. everybody sees it in reagan's mouth now. >> literally iran is within just months of being able to obtain that weapon and ron paul said they have no evidence of that. so fact or

online at the c-span2 library. the house is coming in next to debate the bill which would extend the social security tax cut and force the president to approve a controversial international oil pipeline, the keystone xl oil pipeline. it blocks a pay cut from medicare doctors and give them a 1% and increase. the bill is paid for by cutting parts of the health care law pleasing federal worker pay, increasing charges by fannie mae and freddie mac, among other provisions. the house also has seven other bills for debate today. the senate is debating two measures to amend the constitution to require a balanced budget. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. eternal god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. on this day, we ask your blessing on the men an women, citizens all, whose votes have populated this people's house. -- house. each member of this house has been given the sacred duty of representing them. this is a season of hope for many in our nation, for some religious hope, for some, celebratory hope, for others, hope

social security... patty: no check. go direct! george: that's right, patty. a few weeks ago, i went online to godirect.org to sign up for direct deposit. it's easy to do, and i got my cash at warp speed! patty: wow, it's fast and easy! i'll sign up right now to make sure i'm prepared for our next mission!

social security paperwork. cathy: why would you do that? patty: what do you mean? cathy: it's so much easier to log onto socialsecurity.gov and file online.ty: what if i need to know how much money i'll be getting? cathy: online. patty: what if our address changes? cathy: online. patty: what if i want medicare too? cathy: online. patty: so, how did you get so darn smart anyway? cathy: online! ♪ when cousins are two of a kind! ♪ >> hello. you're watching the show that explores san francisco's love affair with food. there are at least 18 farmers markets in san francisco alone, providing fresh and affordable to year-round. this is a great resource that does not break the bank. to show just how easy it can be to do just that, we have come up with something called the farmers' market challenge. we find someone who loves to cook, give them $20, and challenge them to create a delicious meal from ingredients found right here in the farmer's market. who did we find for today's challenge? >> today with regard to made a pot greater thanchapino. >> you only have $20 to spend. >> i know peter it is going to be tough, but i think i can do it. it is a s