. >> reporter: at first, ivy sommer could support her family on the interest from her bank accounts. but when rates started falling a few years ago, that income stream dried up. >> i was just afraid that i would run out of money. >> reporter: across america, investors are nervous about the weak u.s. economy and crisis in europe, so they are putting their money in savings accounts and bond funds. unfortunately, that strategy also carries risk. >> at this point, if you are keeping your money in the bank or in cds, there is no way that you can live on it or keep pace with inflation. >> reporter: financial planner cary carbonaro has been helping ivy sommer and others boost the income from their investments. banks are paying next to nothing on cds, money market, and checking accounts, often less than half of 1% a year. and then you have to factor in the bite of taxes and inflation. >> what are you getting? you are actually losing at least 2% to 2.5% to almost 3% a year! >> reporter: so carbonaro recommends avoiding long-term treasuries. instead, put together a portfolio with a wide variet

. >> after dropping the first game of their series with the rockies the national scott sommer unwelcomingesmond is withdrawing from the all-star game with a strained oblique. that did not seem to bother him today. bottom of the second was scoreless until he had a hard liner to right center. he may not be in the game but he is proving why he got the nod. one-zero nationals. espinoza comes home. the nationals are leading 4-1 in the seventh. leave it to the williams sisters. they come back stronger than ever when the odds are against them. serena williams did something a 31-year-old woman that has not done since 1998. she blasts a serf to take the first set 6-1. she had 17 aces today. a record 102 for the tournament. she is dealing with a respiratory infection. no side effects there. surreal false to the ground in amazement. -- serena falls to the ground in amazement. well deserved. fifth wimbledon title. >> i just think of all of those moments having two injuries and getting blood clots and being on my couch never wanting to get up because i was so depressed. i was like, i cannot take any m

josh richman, political reporter for bay area news group and lauren sommer. kqed quest source. lauren, is this a new idea? >> this is not a new idea. what the governor proposed was a major water infrastructure project for the sacramento and san juaquin delta. it is not that far off what he proposed. since then, the water battles have been going. the reason for that is the delta is hugely important to the california water supply. water from there goes hundreds of miles in the state. it goes to southern california, it goes to silicon valley, and it goes to central valley farms. what happened in the last ten years is a major ecological crash in the delta. endangered salmon. the biologists point to the water. they are powerful. they reverse the flow of the river. what has happened is there are rules in place to slow the pumping during certain times of year. that has not been a popular decision, obviously, with farmers in the state. there has been lawsuits. now the governor is proposing this new project. what it would be is a pair of 35-mile tunnels that go from north to south in th

christina sommers this survey. she was asking students about the holocaust. others have written on this subject but they take a look at the niol association of ho. f udts tosay ha problem trying to be judgmental. was it wrong what the germans did? what i don't understand is if you ma a judgment not to jumental that is a dgment. at iaudenll that inttbuioly must matter because if you have innocent people who are dead -- if we can't convince young people that there are certain acts white the intentional want innd te anf nnn plreths t has come down, the only way i can explain it, in a ciology class, i was talking abo snu fis e th s c p cranes and someone thought it was funny. let me ask you something. at one time i said one of the students was black, your people were rarded as chattel, not n begs. e second in command to hitler in prison asked him about 1971 ho could you kill all these issues? he said i didn't hate them. he didn't hate . deonedm. s atordoes. it depersonalizes. they are no longer carry human beings. if you get a angry at somody you valida their hum

now the technology exists to do that surveillance sommers more powerfully than they could back in thes of informants and less of what -- lithuania. -- in lithuania. i don't think the problem at the moment is that the government is getting into the affairs of private citizens unfairly. i have not heard about that yet but the potential for that exists. if it exists, we have to watch out for that. host: right outside this building on top of a stoplight is a camera mounted and i suspect a lot of these cameras are not easily seen by some walking along the street. guest: is it looking at you, pedfro? >> it is pointed the other way. guest: the person who did the research moved to washington, d.c. and over the course of the time she was researching the story, she got two traffic tickets from traffic cameras in our neighborhood. it could be that she is a careless driver. if so, shame on her. is the researcher -- if the researcher has been caught twice, it shows a certain penetration. host: houston, texas again on our independent line -- your city is listed number two on this list. caller: i no