flushed everything like a dead goldfish reads one internal usis e-mail.ed to the company who said these allegations relate to a small group of individuals over a specific time period and are ichb consistent with the strong service record we earned since insnepgs 1996. since first learning of the allegations nearly two years ago we acted decisively to reinforce processes and management. usis is owned by a company called alltegty, mostly owned by provs den equity partners, sue. >> eamon javers in washington, thaum, eamon. appreciate it. >>> today's power house takes us to the city by the bay. how far can your money take you in beautiful san francisco? we'll show ya. back here on the east coast -- is a segment of the high-end real estate market taking a breather? robert frank following that story. >> hey, sue. could be sales in the hachten, scorching last year. now prices are falling. inventories rising. we'll show you what's selling and what's not and what you can get for $11 million, coming up after the break. tte or au lait? cozy or cool? "meow" or "woof"

but have you heard of an "usie?" it's a growing trend to tell you about this morning the "usie is essentially a group selfie or someone takes a picture of themselves with other people in the shot. is pretty much a selifie with accessories whether that's another person and that whenever. och a lot about rage over the fact that a lot of 49ers plans can't buy tickets to the game on the seahawks' website up places like nfl ticket exchange or some of you will be able to get a ticket but it will cost you. the latest " is around $400 for standing room in the upper end zone. seats on the 50 airlines start at around $1,000 and you'll have to big-judge dig deep if you on luxury box seats will set you back $70,500. and and they're going to want to stay with kron4 for sports night live on thursday night. gary radnich is your host. we will preview the nfc championship game between the 49ers and the seahawks. our own at j.r. stone will provide live coverage from century link filled in seattle. it sports night live thursday night a

usis did a background check on the gunman in louisiana year's washington navy yard shooting.nowden is answering questions online in a live chat. this is happening a week after the president said he wanted the government to stop storing america's phone record, but in the same speech president obama says snowden's links did put our country in danger. >> what are we wi missing. >> the whole thing started ten minutes late and we have been hoping for a video but this is a q & a session with texted questions. the group holding this is also raising money for a snowden defense fun, and we can't tell you whether snowden is writing the answers but that's the claim on face value. the first question was whether the u.s. democracy can recover from the damage of the national security agency spying. snowed response was, quote, what makes our country long is our system of values. we can correct the laws some hold senior officials responsible for abusive programs. we're waiting for some kind of response to the president's reforms and these allegations that in fact edward snowden might have ha

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security contractor that did edward snowden's clearance for the nsa with fraud, saying that contractor, usis failed to do the required background checks 40% of the time, brian. >> andrea mitchell in our d.c. news room starting us off tonight. andrea, thanks. >>> the weather continues to make news across our country tonight in the form of this latest blast of frigid air covering a large part of the nation. bringing dangerous and now deadly conditions. we want to get the very latest tonight from nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer who is here in new york. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. nearly half the country right now is under some sort of windchill warning or advisory. and this extreme cold is causing very hazardous travel conditions that have already turned deadly in places. >> you are looking down at an absolutely horrible accident. >> reporter: in indiana this afternoon, a multivehicle accident that shut down a major highway near michigan city. the crash involved 15 semis, and first responders are still searching through the wreckage. low visibility paralyzed drivers. after a

they're usie ining p.e.t. scans technology. the imaging from p.e.t. tells you what area of the body is heating up. we want to know if the plaque is heating up in your coronary arteries. if the plaque ruptures, that's when you have a heart attack. this may be important in the next year or two, to tell us, hey, we know you have coronary artery disease, but you're getting ready to have a heart attack. you better get seen by your cardiologist now, you better get in now. >> or aneurysm? >> this is not meant for aneurysm. you'll get a c.a.t. scan for this. this p.e.t. scan study is promising. but i'm not sure it will change the way we practice. it's only about 80 patients in the study. it was accurate in about 90%. we still have a long way to go for p.e.t. scan to come in this field. we use p.e.t. scan in our field for kidney cancers, and 50/50 can guess whether there's a cancer in the body. for bone imaging it would work. >> what does it show that a c.a.t. scan doesn't? >> they're seeing where the aggregate of the cells, sometimes with this kind of plaque

we'll be looking at the apple numbers and what they tell us about the future of this usiness.ve a company that is changing nature of the way we construct our big skyscrapers. it is an eclectic show. we'll cover it all. back to you. >> here are some of the companies "on the move" this morning. in talks to build advanced manufacturing facilities. oxconn is the maker of apple iphones. than profit more doubled. they are focusing on cutting costs. they had warned they would not meet the goal for 2014 profits. and stock files last eight ooksprment -- eight weeks. let's get back to that siemens story. the first full quarter under the new c.e.o. of that business. hans nichols is in berlin with details. >> we saw orders beat. revenues missed. revenues down 3%. orders up 9%. almost a forward looking story. some of the drag on the first full term -- first full quarter as c.e.o. had to do with currency. uite a bit of fluctuation. strong euro dampening sales. it looks like the stock is up a little bit, under 1%, trading this morning, last time i checked and we have here, moving forward in

tweet yes or no usi using #crossfire. we'll give you the results when we get back from this break. >>> we are back with senators joe manchin and john hoeven. now it's time for the final question. first to you. senator, you got a number of responses coming tomorrow from the republicans. you've got congresswoman kathy mcmorse rogers giving the official republican response and senator mike lee. he's giving the tea party response and senator rand paul giving the rand paul response. which one of them speaks for you? >> we're a big-tent party. we need a president that's going to commit to work with congress, face the challenges and meet the challenges that this country needs dealt with, not go off on his own. so we'll look for him to work with us to get the job done. >> but isn't this a mess, come on? isn't this a mess? three responses from your party. >> we are allowed the diversity of opinion. >> that's a shopping mall. >> debate gets us to good results. >> you guys used to like the big tent idea. put you on the spot for a se

in the senate announcing it will take up a lot of unfinished usiness.y are taking the nominations for the next chairman of the federal reserve. and the white house reigniting the gun control debateas it seemingly intended to do. by issuing two new executive actions. it clarifies who is prohibited from having a gun because of mental health issues. in the second allows leewor people with mental health issues to the federal background check system. in the obama administration has so far failed to prove her past the gun contol agenda. in an immigrant from mexico can practice in the state of california. and sergio garcia arrived illegally and then graduated from law school and passed the california bar exam. and he now believes that other states will follow the california league. >> i know florida is facing the same issue. and i really think that they were leading us to act. >> the ruling in his favor came just a day after a new california law went into effect allowing qualified applicants and to the state bar and new laws allowing illegal immigrants to obta

. >> sees trouble to get coverage and it was no easy thing usi a navigator and working very hard at tryingand sign up. and now you don't know how you have coverage not. so how unusual is this? >> the obama administration is saying that they're only 13,000 people are so they're in the the situation. but insance executives consecutive saves almost five to 10% of people in about 2 million people. actually little more than that now. we are talking about these people potentially. gerri: so how well do the did the webse work for you? >> i didn't actually work the website myself. i rked it through this navigator. and we did choose a plan and i selected it and it gave me a letter saying that i had signed up. gerri: but they never cash or check? >> no. and that is what i was getting to before. when they finally told me that they received my application, i was told to send a check, which i did on december 21. and as of 4:30 p.m., at the bank said that the check has not been cached. gerri: i think a lot of people that are saying that i did the right thing. where is the coverage? >> yes, it's a huge p

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doj says usis cheated the government out of millions of dollars by using a system designed to approvedidates quickly and without going through the proper review process. the company says it is cooperating with the government's investigation and that oversight has been improved. >>> a student at the university of north carolina at greensboro arrested for trying to use counterfeit money apparently did not read the fine print, but somebody else did. the bills looked pretty convincing until you looked closely at the signature circled here. in the place reserved for the treasury secretary the first name on the bill is mo and the last name money. the woman was taken into custody and nearly $13,000 worth of fake money was seized. finally russian hotels are getting a crash course in customer service as part of olympic preparations. the olympic hospitality workshops are teaching hotel workers how to smile at strangers, maintain eye contact and deal with difficulty people. those hotels could be welcoming guests and athletes dressed in the new usa uniforms released today. reaction to the ralph l

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bermudas and caymans or luxembourg would be another, more just financial centers where there is no real usiness activity, there is usually just letter box companies. makes he fourth point he is it was sullivan had in 2010 pieced together from public apple had t understated its reported profits to hide the fact it was paying a than 2% on its overseas profits shine being the apple's tax avoidance schemes. these companies have tax avoidance schemes? and is that un-american? well, let me mention a little bit about apple. garage and look through the annual reports they ere not on the radar because sort of the first thing you look at is their effective tax rate to 30% which is pretty high for a multinational in their position. -- and of course many years ago apple was not doing so well a subject of an issue of tax policy. discovered just looking through the data is that even though they had a 25% rate not -- in were short, they were reporting a than they liability were actually paying. there's nothing wrong with this. t is good accounting because they were being very conservative but it sort of hid f

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. >> moore, moore, more, consolidation and acquisitions, revamping and redoing of retail ,usinesses, new ideas coming in multichannel retailing -- i can go on and on. >> over the weekend, i had to go to the makeup department at barney's and the money they put in -- all of them are spending millions on bricks and mortar. why are they doing that if amazon is winning? >> consumers love this. you ladies would know very well -- between shoes and makeup, >> weight, are we tapped out? is the female consumer tapped out and will men be contributing more to the growth story especially domestically and even on the cosmetic front? at our ceo dinner last night, i was sitting next to a famous retail executive and she has 250 pairs of shoes in her closet. that is in her new york home. that sounds like emelda marcos. how does online compete with amazon and we will talk about this. >> online will keep taking share. amazon is a juggernaut but if you're talking about fashion or a home, these are categories that does not quite work. >> you say amazon is boring and you are cool? >> i like that. >> amazon

those houses seem to be looking at raising the minimum wage, incentivizing childcare for .usinesses, equal pay .horing up women what would that do for you? what would that do for your population? do you think the political will is there? are we on the brink of being able to successfully push these public policy initiatives? tomorrow, president obama is convening a white house summit on college opportunity. i will be participating and not as well. one of the things that will be talked about is how to increase access for students because we know education is transformational. i ran into an old friend last night when i was checking into the hotel. this is a woman who grew up in the south bronx. she is an attorney at a very significant law firm in the city , a partner in that law firms. her story is repeated over and over again when people have access. tell grants, or investing in student -- pell grants, investing in student loans, i think it is criminal that we are charging the interest rates that we are charging on student loans. .hat is so shortsighted >> it puts us at a dadvantage in

is that good or bad for american usiness? is that something that is going to be more inclusive of u.s. business or are we seeing the cultivation of national champions in china to the continued exclusion, not entirely but to the continued exclusion of a lot of involvement from the us, this anti-monopoly law to hammer foreign businesses is reminiscent of the problems that american businesses have. it doesn't feel like the situation is changing there much. >> well, the goal has to be to open markets and to have market forces determine the answer to the question that you are asking. if there are artificial barriers in place, then it's not really letting market forces work. i think we'll get some tests pretty soon. when we had our strategic and economic dialogue last summer, we had a set of important agreements come out of it. i was very pleased that china moved on opening a shanghai free trade zone. they altered a policy of presuming industries were closed to foreign trade to presuming they are open unless individually closed. we

it's a growing trend to tell you about this morning it's called the the "usie" and it's putting the selfieretty much a selfie with accessories whether that's another person to enter whenever. everybody's been having fun sending them of their "usee's"para and for the 49ers game. new this morning. you may get mad when people use their phones or text while and a movie but in this case a 71 year-old man actually shot somebody in a florida movie theater for testing. take a look in new video we have of the man who is accused of doing it. his name is curtis reeves and you know what? he's actually a retired police officer. he was watching the previous at a theater in wesley chapel north of tampa of when he was asked another man to stop. the two got into an argument and a shot was fired. the 43 year-old man who was taxing later died at a hospital. his wife was also injured in the shooting. it governor chris christie will be tackling some big controversies, when he delivers new jersey's state of the state address this afternoon. facemany people consider christie a potential frontrunner for a run at