tonight the south bay blue star moms tell us that they have had $3,000 stollen from them. the south bay blue star mom had already heard about the scam that left customers from lucky grocery stores wondering where their money went, but it was too late. we made purchases that week before for care package item. >> reporter: the supplies came from this lucky's in fremont, one of the affected grocery stores. lucky had put customers on alert, but not soon enough for the president of the lucky chapter. she says she they filed a police report and told that debit/credit card machines self- checkout lanes were tampered with and she says her group is now without the thousands of dollars that they saved. on hold for now, holiday purchases for troop overseas. >> it's disgusting. this money is for our is deploy deployed troop and veteran. >> reporter: she says today alone her girls spent a faux hundred dollars out of possibility to help with an already scheduled event. >> there is no money in our account, and we have to wait until there is a full police investigation and so ninanything

. >> and stollen before. >> hitler and the ayatollah comani were chosen as person of the year by "time magazine so i put the protest movement in the same category. >> "time" magazine had a different drichings escription of why they chose the protester as person of the year. "no one could have known that when a fruit venn tor set himself on fire in a public square, it would create protests that would topple dictators and start a global wave of dissent. ""time" named four runner-ups, from wisconsin congressman paul ryan, the man who wants to kill medicare, medicaid and social security, the guy who won't raise taxes on the wealthiest americans. in other words, one of the very reasons why folks have been out protesting in the streets. "time" called ryan the most influential american politician this year. got to give the guy some credit. there he is. just squeaking past kate middleton for the honor. joining me now is protester, activist and freelance journalist jesse lagreca. >> how you doing, ed? >> what do you make of comments from the people on the other network describing protesters? >>

stollen and many of his successors. mugabi.rious, physical harm to their other human beings. beyond that, yes, we all are a mix of good and bad. in gingrich's case, there's an unusually heavy preponderance, i think, of the bad qualities. it's interesting. he and romney, i mean, if this is the republican nomination battle now, it does not speak well for being a man of principle. between the two of them, they have changed positions more often than a lot of people change shirts. and they will each accuse the other of doing that. the difference is this. going which throughout his career, particularly when he was here, added to that a willingness to savage other people. he left tattered reputations behind and got tip o'neill furious because he used to stand, as you know, in the well of the house at the time when the tv cameras only showed the speaker and didn't show there was nobody there and he would say to empty seats, i say you democrats are traitors and if you don't agree with me, stand up and say so. have the courage to say so.