the specialist will be unceremoniously dumped from united medicare network january 1st with little explanationut it in a letter. >> amending your agreement referenced above to discontinue your participation in the medicare advantage network. this amendment does not require your signature. >> reporter: but the doctor thinks united is trimming physicians from its network because, under obamacare, it's harder to drop patients. >> let those high-cost patients move out of the united health care medicare advantage plan over to anthem or humana and let those poor suckers, so to speak, pick up the cost. >> reporter: the decision left jodi and her 94-year-old husband, nick, facing a tough choice. do they stay with united and find new doctors or try to keep their doctors by finding a new insurance plan? >> dr. mitch has been my doctor for 20 years. no one knows me better than he does and it's silly not to continue to go with him. >> reporter: jodi went shopping. >> this was expensive, this was expensive the. >> reporter: plan she bought is going to cost her much more. any sense how much more that will e

transplants are managed in the united states by the united network for organ sharing which has highly codified rules and regulations to allocate in the united states. so, the answer to your question is yes, we absolutely would have received a heart if he you were not the vice president. feeding -- being vice president in a state suffered no advantage and in fact he waited 20 months for a hard. but the vice president hasn't said or what we say in the book is when he finally made the decision to go for the transplant he privately said i'm going to wait my turn for this. i said i understand that sir of course and he did. >> the 20 months was twice as long as the average weight. another question. >> thank you. mr. vice president, during your tenure in office do you feel that enough information was disseminated about your health to the public and more pertinent i think do you have any thoughts about the way such information should be handled in the future for the president and vice president? i believe, i can't think of another instance where as much information is provided on a regular ba

transplants are managed in the united states by the united network for organ sharing which has highly codified rules and regulations to allocate in the united states. so, the answer to your question is yes, we absolutely would have received a heart if he you were not the vice president. feeding -- being vice president in a state suffered no advantage and in fact he waited 20 months for a hard. but the vice president hasn't said or what we say in the book is when he finally made the decision to go for the transplant he privately said i'm going to wait my turn for this. i said i understand that sir of course and he did. >> the 20 months was twice as long as the average weight. another question. >> thank you. mr. vice president, during your tenure in office do you feel that enough information was disseminated about your health to the public and more pertinent i think do you have any thoughts about the way such information should be handled in the future for the president and vice president? i believe, i can't think of another instance where as much information is provided on a regular ba

the united network for organ sharing plans to come up with new policies over the next few months. >>>l street's going for its 51st record high of the year. >> marlie hall of cbsmoneywatch.com is with us with a look at this morning's early trading. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the stock market continues its upward trend as the year winds down. invests are waiting to see what kind of market conditions the new year will bring. the markets opened about 15 minutes ago. dow up 31. nasdaq up about 1. amazon.com had its best holiday shopping season in history. on cyber monday over 36 million items were ordered from the site worldwide leading to record-breaking sales of 426 items every second. more than a million users became amazon prime members during the third week of december. the online retail giant also said it sold more conditionedles and ereaders than ever this holiday season, more kindles and ereaders. >>> you have heard of smartphones and smart cards. there are smart appliances. lg plans to debut its home chat service designed to let users text with their appliances. for

transplants are managed in the united states by the united network for organ sharing, which has very highly codified rules and regulations how organs are allocated in the united states. so, the answer your question is, yes, he absolutely would have received a heart if he were not the vice president. being vice president of the united states offered no advantage, and in fact he waited 20 months for a heart. and what the vice president hasn't said but what we say in the book, is when he finally made the decision to go for transplant, he privately said, jon, i don't want any -- i'm going to wait my turn for this. i said, i understand that, sir, and of course. and he did. >> is the 20 months -- actually twice as long as the average wait. another question. >> thank you. mr. vice president, during your tenure in office, do you feel that enough information was disseminated about your health to the public, and more pertinent, i think, do you have any thoughts about the way such information should be handled in the future for the president and vice president? >> i believe -- i can't think of a

and trying to nd coordinate things, once we have on tch and that's all based unos -- the that united network for organ sharing. get all of the criteria. they have the recipient, they have the donor, the match based type and the severity of illness. when we get there, we verify all primarily, ngs, three things, the blood type, to make sure it's compatible with on the pient we have other side. we lso want to make sure have proper consent. every state has a different rule regarding that. we we want to make sure document it and verify that there is, in fact, brain death. there, who -- t who removes the heart from the chest? >> our team does. yes. so myself and then my assistants. >> in the hospital? >> yes, yes, sir. do with the o you heart? >> we pack it on ice. we preserve it with -- with the arrests the heart. that does is slows down the and the eschemia. preserves the blood and heart as much as possible. arrests the , heart, slows the metabolism down, most importantly, we cool it. when we do that, the metabolic rate slows down. once you remove the organ from body, it starts to die. so until

their part is trying to make amens and e-mailing those affected and citing a fall in fedex and united states network and offering to refund shipping costs and provide $20 gift card to some customers with the bulk being delivered today or tomorrow but absolutely by this weekend. >> thank you, nick. that are get is responding to new claims hackers who hit target scold encrypted bank pins that could have been compromised because j.p. morgan chase put limits on the money taken out of accounts. the company said that they would offer free credit monitoring for a year to everyone impacted. >> the after christmas sales start today and deals will be good. many stores or opening early for the blockbuster sales and door buster sales and they hope the customer whose have returns will leave with a new purchase. kohl's hope at 5:00 a.m., and macy's at 8:00, trying to clear out inventory left behind by lackluster holiday sales. our reporter will have a report for you from the east bay at the top of the hour. >> if you have something to return or you want to take advantage of the after christmas sales, here is a li

have a match and that's all based on sort of the criteria that unos establishes, unos is the united networkor organ sharing. they establish all of these criteria and we have a recipient on the list, and they have the donor as a match based on the blood type and, you know, severity of illness. and when we get there, we verify all of the things, primarily three things. the blood type, to make sure that it's going to be compatible with the recipient that we have on the other side. we want to make sure that we also have proper consent and every state has a different kind of, you know, rule regarding that. and then we also want to make sure that we document and, you know, verify that there is in fact brain death, you know. >> and then when you get there, who removes the heart from the chest? >> our team does. yes, so myself and then my assistants. >> was it in a hospital. >> yes. yes, sir. >> and what do you do with the heart? >> we pack it on ice. we preserve it with the fluid that arrests the heart. and what that does is it slows down the metabolism and the ischemia. the ischemia is the lack o

now, the new airline will feature 6,700 daily flights and a global network to rival giants like united airlines and delta. but will it be a good things for travellers? >> reporter: in an industry where bigger is being touted as being better, the new american airlines is promising great service and competitive air fares now that it has merged with u.s. airways to form the world's largest airline. >> nothing about this transaction will affect the air prices, as we discussed in the past we're putting these two together. >> reporter: american now has the size and network to compete with united and delta. in fact, that trio of airlines, along with southwest, will now fly almost 90% of the commercial flights in the u.s. each has gone through a merger in recent years, raising concerns about whether bigger really is better for fliers. >> but in the absence, in this particular combination, this wouldn't be anybody to challenge the deltas and united. now, if you roll back the clock and say united never happened and delta never happened, so now you got six instead of three there probably would ha

therefore, getting rid of the patient. >> united concedes it is reducing the size of its network, butrequest. in a statement to cnn, united said -- many health plans are making changes to their networks to improve quality and keep health insurance affordable. they are necessary to meet rising quality standards in an era of medicare funding cuts. the trade group argues that it's a direct result of obamacare. lawmakers included $200 billion in cuts to the medicare advantage program, and a new tax on health insurers. >> washington can't cut in tax the medicare advantage program this much and not expect seniors in the programs to be harmed. >> reporter: even though jody was able to find a plan that included dr. mitch, she is still going to lose two other doctors. >> we're walking away from people that we've known and trusted, counted on for over ten years, and that's hard. >> now, wolf, the doctor tells me that the vast majority of his patients who are affected by united's decision have followed jody's footsteps and got another insurer so they can continue seeing him. it's no wonner why.

as a distribution network and united states. they can leverage and use some of the european luxury. it is all about european luxury that americans are buying. >> john, thank you so much. >> let's move onto to get some other company news. that's go to a banking story now. attention in major sale at hsbc or a spinoff. according to major reports they may sell a stake in their retail and commercial banking a public offering. caroline hyde joins us now with the details. caroline, how much is this going to be worth? >> you're right, up to 20 billion pounds. there are talks in "the financial times" that it could be sold at 30% stake. ages bc talking to investors and discussing it in formally at the board level. hsbc talking to investors. mentioned is all about the university academic john vickers. he has given overall recommendations why the independent commission on banking should separate their investment banking units from the retail banking units, from the areas where you offer deposits to consumers, we offer small business loans. that should be separated off third it is all part of ma

remember some of the biggest networks in the united states. you've got cnn, tbs, it tnt, cartoon network. so this is a valuable group of networks and i don't see any problems with this. our distributors are finding this valuable and that's why they're signing up. remember the other thing, video on demand is most important advance in tv. it's important to everyone. happening on the internet, happening on your living room. we have the biggest grant of video on demand rights for all of our networks of any network group. so that's another reason why we're making this a better deal. >> this is important to the growth of the company, something investors have seized on over the last year, one reason your stock has done well. you remain confident you can continue to extract those increases. you've been talking about double-digit increases. >> it's going to work out for them too. they're going to make more money. >> you mentioned on demand and interesting comments in your presentation moments ago. video on demand rights are now ubiquito ubiquitous, all

so in today, in the networks in the united states of america, over 80% of them are private networks whichns the nsa does not monitor them. there is no wholesale monitoring. they're not reading your e-mails. they're not listening to your phone calls. that's simply not happening. >> warner: the europeans are extremely up set with the snowden revelations about the degree to which they're being surveiled. >> right. well, first of all, the hypocrisy in this debate has been shocking to me from our european allies. as i often said it's good to remind ourselves that espionage is a french word, after all. and so when you look at the intelligence services of our allies in the european union, they are alive and well and aggressive. and some notion that the information that we have been collecting over time hasn't benefitted our allies is just simply not true. some 54 different attacks thwarted just by our business record metadata collection. and another program that-- program that we use to collect information has been shared with our allies and stopped terrorist attacks in germany. >> warner: and y

this is a camera system that i found somewhere in the united states that is using another internet ash network phase -- network interface. i can control this over the internet using a browser. i can pan around and spy on the girl at the front desk and i can look around the room and a lobby. so i did. there is a cool tool you can put into chrome. it will tell you some small details about the website you are visiting, the the city is in, whether it is scary or not, it things like that. you can validate where this thing lives. in this case it is an newberry port, massachusetts. panning the camera over to the logo on the front door which laughably says security integrators. using that information and their city, i was able to find out on google where they are and this is as close as google maps would let me get to them. this was done with a browser. i use nothing but google chrome to do this. no special tools, just playing on the internet. you can take it up a notch and do some simple social engineering. it is amazing when you can do and this was not me, but these were sent to me. it is amazing wh

united states households. the company owns television stayings from seattle to d.c., portland oregon to portlands maine. they also have network affiliates in new orleans, minneapolis, dallas, houston, tampa, denver and the list goes on. that means when newsbreaks anywhere in the united states, our gannett news crews will be there. gannett is now the largest independent station group of major network affiliates in the top 25 markets around the country. >>> retailers are hoping that many of you waited until today to buy your christmas gifts. holiday sales are down for the third week after a strong start to the season. sales at u.s. stores fell 3.1% compared with the same week last year. a weekend ice storm may have contributed to the decline. many stores will remain open until the afternoon for all those last-minute shoppers. >>> sales prices at ski resorts, though, are having a lot more success. the aspen skiing company says this holiday season it will charge its highest price ever for a single day lift ticket. getting to the top of the mountain will set you back a cool $124. resort officials say the early ski conditions are t

sky news, our network in the united kingdom is report canning from the scene. a lot of head injuries but the good news is those who were trapped inside the theater have all been freed and the london fire brigade is now reporting a curious -- it happened at a curious incident of the dog in the nighttime, the name of the play. at any rate, here's what authorities have been saying. saying that police had been called at 8:15. at it thought hat 700 people were in this -- it's thought that hundred people were in this theater and at it thought between 20 to 40 were injured. our network sky news is reporting more like 65. live from the spokesman on the scene, all casualties who were trapped have been freed. i want to show you the inside of the theater. it seats 745. there were 700 people in there and as the witnessed describe it, people were on this end of the theater and saw people stan up and you heard a creaking noise. so it was slowly collapsing. i've heard people who were witnessed to it and they said everyone was helping everybody else, never any mass panic, and

united states. onare seeing data traffic our wireline networks increase at the rate of 40% per year. it is wireline networks that connect all forms of communication, whether they originate in the wireline environment or a wireless environment. yeah, i would say america's future is a wireline future. >> the future of the communications industry with u.s. telecom had walter mccormick, monday on "the communicators" on 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> the editor of the london- based newspaper "the guardian" testified before the british home affairs committee earlier this week. he defended his newspaper's decision to publish surveillance piles clicked by former nsa contractor edward snowden. this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> can i call the committee to order? i welcome our witness to today's session, alan rusbridger, the editor of "the guardian." mr. rusbridger, you are giving evidence as part of the committee's inquiry into counterterrorism. thank you very much for coming here this afternoon. can i refer all those present to the register of members? can i ask other members to declare a

in new york we have about 2100 physicians eliminated from united health medicare advantage provider network and it's expected to impact about 8,000 of new york seniors. this is a business decision made by a private company in the cms is prohibited to say that in hearing itearing and the arrangs between private health insurance plans and health care providers, but i do hope cms will use the authority that it has to ensure adequate provider networks are in place for all plans to help ensure beneficiaries have access to healthcare services. let me ask you if the physicians are no longer part of a specific medicare advantage network what suggestions would you offer them? my understanding is more than 90% of physicians are willing to accept patients under the traditional program so it's moving to the traditional medicare option for them right now. >> moving back to the original medicare is an option for them or moving to another medicare advantage plan it's our understanding most of those physicians and hospitals or other providers that have been dropped from united or other managed care network

in new york, we have about 2100 physicians eliminate from united health medicare advantage providing network and its expected impact about 8000 of new york seniors. this was a business decision made by a private company and dcms everybody by law to say that from anything in the payment arrangements between private health insurance plans and health care provided. but i do see them as we use the authority it has to which are adequate provided networks are this all medicare advantage plans 12 ensure beneficiaries havofaccess to health care serv. so let me ask you, since they are no longer part of the specific medicare advantage network, what suggestions would you offer them. my understanding is more than 90% of physicians in america are willing to accept new patients under the traditional medicare program. so it's moving to traditional medicare an option for them right now? >> moving back to the original medicare is an option right now are moving to another medicare advantage plan. it's orange than most of those positions and most of the hospitals or other providers that have been dropped from

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it is the offshoot of a company that controls about 60% of the gas pipeline networks in the united states down to new mexico. they come in to work one day a year ago and they discover that all of their code has been taken. they conclude is taken by some of chinese origin. all that was stolen was the software that tells how to turn off gas valves. if you are in a conflict with united states,, it might be useful to have the coding to turn off the gas to 60% of the country. where does that fit into this aspect? >> the word cyber weapons is often used in that context. what are cyber weapons?" let's imagine that the only big example we have. imagine a projectile. you would have generic bomber -- vulnerabilities. generic vulnerabilities. it affected 100,000 computers but assume one of your laptops were affected, you would not even notice because this was developed for their industrial control systems. these are highly specific systems for many reasons. so-called legacy systems. mostly unique components. stuxnet was a one-shot device. the payload was one short which that is means -- as one of th

family, levinson was involved in a number of missions targeting iran's nuclear supply network but working for a rogue unitthe cia, not cleared for such assignments. >> they weren't authorized within the cia to do that. but he was so productive, they had a hard time not doing it. >> reporter: when levinson got caught on his last trip to meet a source on the iranian island of kish in 2007, mcgee says the cia lied to his family and congress about his role. >> rather than acknowledge what they had done and try to save bob's life, they denied him. >> reporter: mcgee says the cia has since apologized and paid $2.5 million to levinson's family with three cia employees forced out. the last time his family had proof he was alive was in this video three years ago. >> 33 years of service. >> reporter: since then the family says the u.s. has done not enough to get his release. >> please help me. >> reporter: levinson's family says it has decided to reveal all in hopes it will put more pressure on the u.s. to push for his release. figuring the iranians already know he was working for the cia. >> endlessly complicated,

and you know what it does is, it gives american and us airways a formidable network to really compete with delta and united also means that they're not going to add a lot of supply to grow that network on their own. and so it keeps the capacity, the discipline in the industry in play, and most of these airlines, especially larger airlines, they're using the discipline to push through fare increases when there are rises in cost and maintain profitability. we should see an industry that's profitable through a business cycle now whereas historically one that's made losses, and this is going to help them improve their balance sheet and invest in the business and be positive for consumers as well as the airlines. cheryl: one of the biggest profit drivers for these companies has been the extra fees that they have added on to the consumer; baggage fees, food fees, you know, changing a flight used to be $30, now it's $100. do the airlines, is it a concern for you that they could reach a breaking point with the consumer where they begin to alienate the domestic traveler, the leisure traveler? not the business trave

compare pretty unfavorably to many other major cities in the united states, really the exact opposite of where we want to be. and our bicycle network, and despite the great growth is some what fragmented and we have portions that are very friendly and attractive and others that are much less so. and we do have because we are a very geographically small area, we have a fixed amount of right-of-way to play with. and there are absolutely trade offs, that we have to, and we make it every day and we will continue to have to make as growth comes to the city. as part of this strategic plan the board of directors did adopt a goal to try to really directly speak to the call from the transit first policy. and that was to shift the role from 39 percent to 50 percent of all trips during the 6-year period of the plan. so that this would be really the first time that we are trying to move the needle on that policy of the city that was enacted 40 years ago. further context is that there are other policies that guide the work that we do beyond the transit first policy. and i think that the director made reference to the better streets plan, and i

united states. we're seeing data traffic on our wire line networks increase at the rate of 40% per year, and it's wire line networks that connect all forms of communication whether they originate in a wire line environment or a wireless environment. so, yeah, i would say america's future is a wire line future. >> host: joining our discussion is howard buskirk of "communications daily" where he serves as executive senior editor. >> you've already talked about the move to broadband, and one of the things the fcc is looking at is ip transmission. do you feel to date the fcc is moving quickly enough in that area? i think there have been some concerns about that process taking a little bit long. >> guest: well, i applaud the commission for establishing the transition task force. i think it's extremely important that we have a managed transition to ip. the commission and the department of commerce worked very well together in this transitioning us from an analog world to a digital world when it came to broadcasting. you all will require it wasn't so long ago that folks were very worried about having to get

united states. we are seeing data traffic on our wireline networks increase at the rate of 40% per year in its wireline networks that connect all forms of communication whether they originate in the wireline environment of the wireless environment so yeah i would say america's future is a wireline future. >> host: joining our discussion is howard buskirk's "communications daily". >> guest: you have party been talking about the move to broadband and one of the things the fcc is looking at his ip transition. do you feel today the fcc is moving quickly enough in the area? i think there've been concerns about the process taking a little bit long. >> guest: i applied the task force. i think it's extremely important that we have a managed transition to ip. the commission and the department of commerce worked very well together and transitioning us from an analog world to a digital world. you wall were required it wasn't long ago the folks were worried about having to get rid of their analog television sets and how it was managed in a way that was done with a hiccup. the broadband transitiotransitio n from th

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they buy from their network and united erings how is how areng from this and patients and doctors suffering from this? >> we see this in a lot of the country. the big game before has been negotiation between hospitals insurers for rates. and the doctors have kind of been in the middle. but now what we're seeing more nd more is that hospitals or insurers are basically aligning with doctors practices because primary sourcehe of business. i think what's unfortunate for patients in the end with these of arrangements is that almost these big monopolies in some parts of the have tremendous control over price and how medicine is practiced, you know, order more tests, get referred to this guy in our group rather than this other guy who may be cheaper and better on outside. one group i hear a lot from eople who are really, really distressed are primary care this big ers who in kind of commodification of lotthcare they don't have a of market power. they're really struggling they have no bargaining power. they have to take whatever rates t